Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School - McAulian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Day Hack The juniors seem to be enjoying the year- book. These are some of our helpful seniors getting a freshman's reaction to her first day at McAuley. forts. Studies will be hard this year, but being accepted into the social group at school fwe can go to dancesj will help. Uniforms will not be bad this year because we have the Mercy Shield. juniors! It's almost hard to believe we finally made it. After that first day in the gym, we knew that junior year held great things for us. Strange as it may sound, we couldn't wait for the day when we would don our new black uniforms, the sign of an upperclass- man. From now on, we would be preparing for the most important year of all. One of these prepara- tions is the privilege of wearing our senior class rings. Most of all, we realized that McAuley is not just any school but a very important one because it is ours. A hush fell over the crowdg familiar names were readg our homerooms and teachers made known to us. Our most important year at McAuley was under way. As the year commenced, the privileges that be- long to the seniors also were inaugurated. We wanted to help the underclassmen in every way we could. Our Big Sister program was already started. The senior privilege of monitoring was yet to begin. We wanted to help because these girls would soon be taking our places. The most important realization was that this year was our last, and we were determined to make it our best.

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Did you say A or B wing? ,flflcflzzly . . . .Hr You canlt imagine how it feelslf Unless you remember being a Freshmanj. We followed the sounds of voices and found ourselves in the gym. As we were begin- ning to make friends, a shrill clang sent us scattering to our chairs. Between the Student Council Officers' speeches and Sister Mary Ignace's confident reading of the homeroom lists, we knew everything was going to be fine . . . Wfe Freshmen were frightened at the thought of this big school, but we were never without our trusty Stu- dent Handbooks. Wfhen a bewildered Freshie wandered into a Sophomore class, she summoned up all her cour- age and stumbled out midst the murmurs of . . . poor kid' '...' 'bennies' '... and . . . We couldn't have been like that! fKnowing full well that they werej. Being Sophomores, we knew our way around, which was a change from last year. There was still that feeling of excitement as we sat waiting to hear our names called. After the first day, we realized that this year was going to be the best. The Sophs fas we fondly call ourselves? are feeling great because we are now ''upper-underclassmenf' We feel that the upperclassmen are beginning to view us in a different light fcould it be my new eye-shadow ?j. Our unofficial duty was to guide the Freshies along the right path, but the Big Sister program put a damper on our ef- I even know how to work my locker this year!

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