Mount St Charles Academy - Excelsior Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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,di we l 8fLU I'lQ6! fo in your class: Bonald Crepeau, William Frew, and Paul Guerard. Your contribution towards sports is not to be forgotten. Many of the games mond and the rink were due to you. The future stars seem to come from the Sophomore class. You are the backbone of our sports fcr the next two years. In hockey you have given us C. Paquin and M. Lebrun. ln Football such stars as E. Chapdelaine and V. Cameron. In Basketball, E. Wiltz and D. Ducharme displayed their capabili- ties as future stars. Baseball also has other luminaries. By your wonderful co-operation you helped maintain for yourselves a high respect. You have followed the Acad- The sophomores deserve credit for their fine accomplishments both in studies and in extra-curricular activities, and in the Wonderful cooperation which they displayed throughout the year, thus making the 1950-l95l school year a very memorable one. You, the Sophomores, will be taking the third step towards your goal very shortly. You have come here untrained as Freshmen and we are sure that you will graduate well disciplined. Cog- nizant of spiritual values on your ar- rival, you will leave as we, the sen- iors, with moral convictions, with def- inite ethical principles. By attention to your teachers' lectures and compliance to their discipline, you have sought to repay their efforts. We are proud to boast of your intellectual developments and in doing so we proudly present those who have achieved first honors emy's rulings perfectly. You have mas- tered almost everything that you have undertaken. Some of you have made plans concerning the future and we know that if you bear the steadying in- fluence of discipline, mental, physical, and spiritual, instilled in your young souls by our devoted teachers, you shall succeed in whatever undertakings you will choose in the long voyage called life . Good luck to all of you! won on the gridiron, the court, the dia-

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.14 ri F H we were conhvfen There is rarely to be found a more interesting aggregation of youngsters than a group of freshmen entering high school. The impressions you receive on opening day are as varied as are the schools represented Whose students usually band together. Apart from a general snooping around to get better acquainted with the school's facilities, attitudes range from the very shy and retiring student to the prospective bully. The Whole gamut of childish patterns mingle on that day and foreshadow the checkered state of our modern society. All of these freshmen are anxious to get things rolling, and the first few Weeks in the classroom literally buzz with activity. When however the gloss of novelty fades off, life takes on quite another aspect. The daily grind of homeworlcs and recitations, and the added burden of Weekly quizzes really bring things to a crisis. Gradually the heterogeneous elements' integrate into one solid knot of boys Whose main am- bition is to live up to the best expec- tations of their parents and teachers. f