Magnificat High School - Magnifier Yearbook (Rocky River, OH)

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“Turn from sin and live the Gospel,” says Sr. Cheryl as she places ashes on the forehead of Karen Borisa ’86. Ash Wednesday prayer services were created this year for the purpose of focusing on the symbolism of the ashes. Photo by A. Sheridan. Initiation as an upperclassman is recognized with the ring Jenny St. John ’85 receives from Sr. Carol Anne. Fr. Roch¬ ester celebrated the Junior Class Day Mass. Photo by A. Sheridan. Beyond the Silver Rainbow, Cathy Nieberding ’86 and John Martin dance at Cathy’s first Magnifi¬ cat semi-formal. John, a freshman at the Un¬ iversity of Dayton, at¬ tended sophomore dance with Cathy on March 10. Photo by Dawn Tarka. OPENING 5

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ENING 1984 was a coming of age for many. It was as blue a year as “Never Been This Blue” initially implies. For the first time students saw public announcements of Ameri¬ can soldiers killed during time of service. On October 24, the government released the names of the 182 marines killed in an explo¬ sion at their barracks near the Beirut airport. Channel 25 rolled the first two initials and last names of the casualties followed by their hometowns something like the foot¬ ball scores kids were used to watch¬ ing rolled on the 6:00 news. Only now the background picture was a single marine in fatigues against the backdrop of Beirut and the music was a respectful, but deafening silence. Three months later, when the Bei¬ rut toll was officially 241, another killing shocked students throughout the area. The death of a St. Edward High School teacher hit a little too close to home for some. For one day at Magnificat, each bunch of special intentions at the beginning of classes included 1500 guys down on Detroit Road trying to comprehend the mur¬ der of a well-liked teacher. Then a month later prayers were uttered for Stephanie Kadar, a suicide victim who had received a Magnificat diploma just seven months before. All of a sudden, allegedly “shel¬ tered” girls were forced to grow up ju st a little bit. s

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Life was certainly more for a Magnificat student than sitting in a classroom from 8:15 to 3:07 five days a week. Life was even more than extra-curriculars once a week. The element that gave Magnificat its vitality was that life was diverse for each student. Each girl had her own special qual¬ ities, talents, and abilities. It was when these individual characteristics were pooled together that the per¬ sonality of Magnificat was molded and formed. Much of the blueprint of this unique personality was planned. Graduation gradually acquired increasing prominence in the minds of 234 Mags girls. Long-anticipated dances and proms put the girls in the guys’ shoes. And they knew it was coming — the typical trembling and trepidation in asking a guy a month in advance of the big night. Some knew straight from the start that guys would be a necessary element in piecing together various activities, Guys and Dolls being a case in point. A basic characteristic of Magnificat’s personality was sponta¬ neity. Consequently, that blueprint came to be marked by all those unpredicted incidents that made life unique at Mags. Even a trip to Washington, D.C. was not without its surprises. And a five-week-long trip to Fantasy Island broke virtually ev¬ ery record on the books, while 6 STUDENT LIFE DIVISION