Mary Louis Academy - Crusader Yearbook (Jamaica, NY)

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'time out to tell us that several prominent elections were won last week by T. M. L. A. Alumnae members . . . that of the Most Reckless Mail Truck Driver of New York City by Beatrice Schmitt, Miss Pickle Queen of l957 by Agnes Wagner and the Most Valuable Drummer in the Philharmonic by Loretta Trefcer. She also stated that Maureen Pugh, first member of the Class of '47 to be married, is the mother of two boys and Maureen Kathleen and that Virginia Hay and Ellen Finnigan are the talk of New York this season . . . the former as the rightful successor to Pietro Yon and the latter as the author of a book on well-tested advice to teen-agers entitled The Faculty and You. After chatting for a while, we were led by Edith Pinnegar, graduate nurse, to a neat little room occupied by Anna Vitola, editor of Ladies' Home Jour- nal. Fidgeting as usual, she informed us that Joan Hartmann and Jean Henneburg are now employed by the U. N. as Spanish secretaries. Soon she turned on her portable radio and we heard Ellen Dwyer, art teacher and lec- turer, discuss Vera Power's painting, The Snowflake. Barbara Barrett, John Power's latest discovery, was her guest for the evening. Following this inter- esting program was a news broadcast which dealt chiefly with the educational problem. We learned that Joan Tarsney, President of the Board of Education, was trying to get an Anti-Homework Bill through the legislature. This pro- gressive measure, affirmed the commentator, provides severe penalties for teachers who undermine a pupil's morale by assigning written homework. Violently opposing this bill is Mary Cahill, head of the Teachers Union. As we were about to bid Anna goodbye, Joan Donoghue, who is now the owner of a stylish dress shop, and Marie Louise Seltzer, who runs a fashion store on 57th Street, came in to say hello, Before we left, Joan told us that Dolores Gerard had recently won the American National Mathematics Award. On the way upstairs to the cafeteria, we met Mary Toner, the newly elected President of R. H. Macy, Inc., and Maureen Collins, President of the Garment Workers' Union of New York City. They informed us that T. M. L. A.'s grads are well represented in the field of modern sports by Agnes Krug who is now head football coach of Notre Dame. They had also heard from Agnes Meehan and Catherine Drew who had ingeniously passed their Civil Service Exams . . . the former as a matron in a Women's Penitentiary and the latter as Gate-keeper at Beth lsrael. At the door of the cafeteria, Maureen Tansey, whose four sons are future Brooklyn Dodger material, was discussing life in Hollywood with Rosemary Dunn, stand-in for Peggy Ann Garner. At one of the tables, Grace McCann, former buyer for Loeser's, was going over her wedding plans with Carmelia Pesiri who had just celebrated her anniversary. Joan Lardner, who was at a near-by table, told us Cris Akin, noted critic of modern art, is planning to take an apartment in Greenwich Village. Then, as we left the hospital we felt hopeful that in the near future we would once again meet these girls with whom we had spent so many happy moments. DOLORES MAHER LEONORE MCALONEN GRACE MCCANN MAUREEN REID si-,S

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rendition of Robert E. Lee. We learned that the patients in the hospital included Dodger bat-boy Phyl Droesch, who was hit by one of Pete Reiser's fly balls, and Janet Konop, international tennis star. Then they wheeled in on a stretcher poor suffering Virginia Mexal who was being comforted by her faithful secretary Marilyn Lynch. This was Ginny's third accident but she has not as yet learned to be careful while motorcycling, In a little while Abi- gail Bartenburger, head of the Spanish Department in Fordham University, dropped in with her efficient secretary, Mary Becht, and informed us that they had just seen Margaret Houde, who now maintains a spaghetti and meat-ball establishment on Fifth Avenue. lThey say she specializes in bread sticks.l Soon Dr. Catherine Carrissimo came in and told us that she had received con- tributions from a very mysterious foreign countess-a Countess de la Daly- whose social secretary is Paula Tierney, from the eminent conductor of Phil- harmonic, Dr. Lucretia Kramer, and from Mrs. Vanderbilt Astor, the former Mary McGuire. Dr. Carrissimo also imparted to us knowledge of Mrs. Astor's penthouse gathering. Her guest list included Joan Jahn, President of Bunga- low Bar, lnc., Dorothy Carroll, wealthy industrialist and owner of an extensive hot-doglconcession in Moscow, the former Laura Mae Eller, now wife of the senator from old Kentuck, Suhl, Catherine Burnickel, now President of the Chicago Chapter of The Mary Louis Academy, and Melany Yackanish, promi- nent social worker, At this party, notes about military life were exchanged among the wife of the Commandant at Annapolis, the former Anne Russell, the wife of the Commandant at West Point, the former Coaina Gartlan and the former Joan Millette who is now happily married to a marine major. Before leaving for the children's ward, we greeted Sally Gleason, famous New York buyer, who was peacefully convalescing from a very serious acci- dent. However, Our Gal Sal is doing nicely under the capable care of nurses Bernadette Keck and Madeline Montgomery. The three former T. M. L. A. students were discussing Professor lsabel Dotto's rise to fame. Why, back in school days, no one would ever have guessed that in ten short years lsabel would be the renowned discoverer of ninety-two new isotopes. Passing through the corridor we met Mary Mediavilla, psychiatrist, who was recently appointed to the hospital staff. She gave us wonderful news about Mary Haid, famous business tycoon, and Janet Miller who had married Pat in l9'5l and had just been elected Model American Mother. Mary had also received word from members of the Alumnae in different parts of the world. We learned that the firm of Schmitt and Sposato, Meteorologists, has opened up offices in Yunan, China, Margaret O'Dwyer is now head librarian in Walla Walla, Washington, Kathy Roe is operating a diamond mine in South Africa, and that lris Higgins is happily married to a wealthy ranch owner in Arizona. Upon entering the children's ward we were greeted by Enes Morrello, supervisor of the Twentieth Street Kindergarten, who had come to call on one of the children injured in an auto accident. She was accompaniedlby her assistants Marguerite Boyle and Joan Drake, the author of Don't Let Your Children Rule You! Buy Them- Puppies lnstead! Eileen Elmer and Jean Somers, noted child psychiatrists, were working laboriously trying to find a 'cure for a young patient who had contracted a mental disease. Jean took 50

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