Mount Carmel High School - Carmel Yearbook (New Iberia, LA)

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In years to come we the Senuors of 53 wull look back wuth varued emotuons on our school days at Mt Carmel on the Teche We have gone through the four doors of hugh school and are uustly proud of our accomplushments These four doors represent our four hugh school years From knowledge we gauned experuence from exper uence we became understandung and by under standung we were wuse In September of the year 1949 a skeptucal group of young ladues graced the halls of Mt Carmel These young ladues were none other than the Freshman Class As they assembled wuth the rest of the hugh school students they .wutnessed a certaun feelung of prude They had funally come to theur furst year of theur four years un hugh school after hav! patuently struggled through eught years of grammar grades Wuth smulung faces and twunklung eyes full of antucupatuon they stumbled across the furst door of theur hugh school year that of knowledge as Mother Dorothy greeted them wuth a beamung smule full of fruendluness Thus year promused to be a successful and eventful one for the opto mustuc Freshues as they busuly set themselves to work wuth determunatuon lnutuatuon came along and they were no longer unnocent Freshues They were furst nousy babues then fuerce cannubals and funally raggedy tramps Despute the usual ordeals they had undergone the Freshues bravely survuved wuth no casualtues Thus year for the furst tume at Mt Carmel a Student Councul was establushed The Freshues rendered theur help to promote the campaugns and were allowed to vote for the offucers As tume went on theur classes proved to be quute unterestung and humorous especually theur Englush and Reluguon classes wuth Fr Moag Un der Fr Moag the nousy Freshues were turned unto a dugnufued group of Shakespearean actresses and also comeduans How they gleefully mastered epuc and narratuve and every other conceuvable kund of poetry Halloween came and wuth ut a grand slumber Party at Joys house Then came Thanksguvung and funally the Chrustmas Holudays But wuth the comung of the Holudays the class lost one of theur students Martha Bruggs who moved to Floruda Wuth the begunnung of the New Year however the class welcomed another student Kutty Mc Dowell who hauled from somewhere un Mus sussuppu 6444 The actuvutues at Mt Carmel buzzed along smoothly wuth the basketball team wunnung sev eral tournaments and the 4 H Club toppung the rest at Achuevement Day A retreat was guven for the students and many of the students were re ceuved un the Thurd Order of Our Lady of Mt Carmel Then came the trup to Chucago for the members whuch was excutung and eventful and wull always be remembered The remaunder of the year went by almost too quuckly and funally May Festuval had arruved Then as vacatuon neared there was the never to be forgotten puc nuc No I at C premort Pount lt seems that at thus certaun pucnuc he class duscovered that despute hus many talents Fr Moag was quute an apprentuce at druvung a school bus But the class survuved every one of them as Father merruly drove the bus home un furst year After havung receuved theur report cards the Freshues went home to enuoy theur vacatuon wuth theur unforgetable mem orues not very far behund them As September of the year 1950 rang un another school year at Mt Carmel a certaun group of young ladues were no longer Freshues but Sopho mores They now assembled un ranks wuth an aur of prestuge After bluthely stumblung through theur Freshue year they now trudged wearuly across the second door of theur Sophomore year that of experuence Wuth anxuous faces and eager eyes they an tucupated the outcome of theur second year un hugh school The same faculty greeted them even Fr Moag together wuth Shakespeare and Karl Marx and refutatuon of hus theorues and a trusty freshly sharpened meat ax Thus year a new stu dent was added to the class Patsy Marsalus As unutuatuon came thus year the Sophomores were un supreme command as they tortured the unnocent and unwary Freshues Then Football Homecomung came as the Soph proudly boasted Sylvua Segura who was chosen Queen The bas ketball team added theur usual clean slate to the numerous laurels bestowed upon Carmel and won several tournaments The Student Councul remauned at Mt Carmel and helped the faculty deal wuth the students The Sodaluty and Thurd Order helped to brung souls closer to GOD through Mary Halloween thus year was as usual celebrated wuth the slumber party at Joys Thus practuce ut us needless to say has become an unbreakable . , . . . . I 1 . . , I . . , - 1 2 ' . I . 1 - . - 1 , u . . . D I . . . . , . . . . . . . . , . . , 1 1 1 ' . . . . . . , 1 . , . . , . . 1 . , . 1 - 1 , . . - 1 1 1 ' . . . ' . 1 1 - A , . . I ' 4 k..'x 1