Marymount Secondary School - Hiamead Yearbook (Tarrytown, NY)

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The Children of Mary HE Senior year of Academic life brings with it the realization of many long- cherished dreams and ardently desired privileges, but none so precious or dear to the heart of every true Marymount girl as the blue ribbon and silver medal which de- note admission into the Sodality of the Children of Mary. The beautiful feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady on the eighth of December, is the traditional day of Reception. In the quiet hours of early morning, Holy Mass is celebrated with all due solemnity. The Butler Memorial Chapel, aglow with the radiance of a myriad tall, tapering candles, and filled with the fragrant scent of late autumn flowers, opens wide the majestic iron-wrought gates of its narthex for the procession of happy Aspirants. It is not until evening, however, that the ceremony proper takes place. At that hour when stars begin to peep through the early December twilight, the chapel is once more a scene of reverent rejoicing, and as the privileged students, upon whom so great an honour is about to be bestowed, kneel to place their lilies in the golden vase at the foot of the altar, the organ peals forth ia triumphant praise. Once more has Mary opened wide her mantle of blue to take within its protecting folds her consecrated children. Once more does her Divine Son, during the Solemn Benediction which follows, raise His Sacred Hand to bless. And so the day comes to a close-a glorious close in the presence of Jesus Himself. Father Doumas, S.J., officiated this year and preached a memorable sermon. The blue ribbons and medals are but symbols of that great honour and privilege-to be Mary's own children, and we who have received them pray that we may ever be worthy of all they stand for-the purity of Mary's love. PATRICIA KENNEDY, '37, l Sixty-se van r 3.

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The Poetry Club NAUGURATED by the class of '36, the Cxford Poetry Club activities have been carried on with great enthusiasm by the Seniors of '37, whose efforts to produce original poetry met with well-deserved success. The fundamental objective of the club is to encourage students to take a deeper and more intimate interest in the great poetical works of the past and present, and also to become themselves more eflicient in the intrinsically beautiful :IFE of versifica- tion. Many contributions of original verse were submitted by members, to be repro- duced in this Hiamcad. XVC are particularly attached to the title of our club because of its signification. The very word Oxford summons up before the mind's eye a glorious galaxy of the literary masters of centuries. We have become familiar with the various colleges, and many of us are anticipating the happy day when we too shall walk in the venerable quadrangle of Oriel, hear the great bell that rings out the curfew from Tom Tower, and wander at leisure through the meadows of Christ Church. Our favourite college however. is Magdalen. I-Iow we should love to be there on May-Day morning, when the students from the top of the tower sing a Latin hymn to the Trinity, and afterwards several secular tunes according to custom, and perhaps more eagerly would we join their ranks as later they hie to I-linksey and other country villages for breakfast! Thus, even though they be shrouded as yet in the mists of imagination, the famous spires of the grand old English University city have directed our gaze to the higher ideals of man-ideals that have escaped from individual souls of exquisite beauty, and taken their flight through the world in song and verse. . We of '37 have sincerely enjoyed our year of membership, for it has made us truly appreciate and love the music of words. JANE FLYNN, '37, Sixty-six

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N Le Cercle Francais IJARMI tous les cercles de l'Academie il y en a un qui tient la meillure place dans nos ames - le cercle francais. Notre soif de cette belle langue ne se contente pas cl'une connaissance livresque et grammatieale, nous voulons aussi nous exprimer facile- ment en francais. Parler le francais couramment n'est plus une tentative audacieuse pour la jeune fille americaine el'aujourd'hui, mais c'est un besoin quasi obligatoire que le rapprochement intime des eleux pays necessite. Les reunions clu Cercle Francais nous offrent l'occasion de nous exercer dans l'art de la conversation. Ces reunions qui ont lieu tous les quinze jours sont des veritables foyers cl'activite. Apres la lecture des minutes par la Secretaire, nous lisons avec beaucoup cl'inter6t le Petit Journal a l'aicle duquel nous nous transportons a travers le beau pays de France. Nous passons en revue les aventures vivantes de la Guerre de Cent Ans et dont on celebre le sixieme centcnaire cette annee. Parfois nous nous renelons a la Comedie Francaise pour y admirer les beaux sentiments cl'un heros cornelien. Nous penetrons meme clans le Sanctuaire des Academieiens pour ecouter le discours d'un nouvcl elu ct en entendre les applaudissements. En un mot, toutes ces societes sont evoquees devant nos yeux. ' Puis nous revenons aux temps modcrnes. Cette annee, nous avons suivi les grands preparatifs pour l'Exposition des Arts et des Techniques de Paris. Aussi nous avons fait l'agreable trajet cle Paris ai Lonclres par le nouveau systeme de wagon-lit qui vicnt d'6tre inaugure depuis octobre. Quancl nous avons epuise tous les sujets de conversation, nous faisons la solution des mots croises ou nous jouons in des jeux clestines a enriclair notre vocabulairc. Bien souvent, nous chantons des vieilles chansons franeaises, tant pour perfectionner notre diction que pour nous amuser. Ainsi les seances se sueeedent et le temps s'ecoule tres agre- nblement, mais beaucoup trop vite. Nous voudrions rester clans cette ambiance ou nous acquerons d'une maniere si divertissante une connaissance pratique de cette langue que nous mmons tant' ANTOINETTE COFF, '37. Si.x'fy-eigbf