Mount de Sales High School - Salesian Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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2 di } - : Sister Mary +n Barragan, Mr. Christopher Rouse Mrs. Connie Thuente R.S.M. ister Mary Michelle Carroll, Sister eM. arr Dr. James L. Cassidy Mrs. Jan Manning Monsignor Marvin LeFrois Mr. Gerald Brenner IP VM Mr. Dan Dunwody Sister M. Jogues Smith, R.S.M. Mr. Robert P. Porter Sister Lourdes Sheehan, Mr. David Zuver, Chairman Mr. Chester Pierce Reverend William H. Hurdle

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Board of Trustees The Board of Trustees of Mount de Sales Academy, Inc. is the policy-making body which sets the direction of our school and helps us to meet the challenges of the future. They provide the leadership which makes possible the many recent changes and i mprovements that have enhanced the quality of our education. We are grateful for their efforts on our behalf. a — . 2s! si The Mount de Sales Board of Trustees (bottom row): Mr. Christopher Rouse, Mrs. Connie Thuente, Sister Mary Fidelis Barragan, R.S.M. (president), Sister Mary Michelle Carroll, R.S.M., Mr. David Zuver (Chairman). Middle row: Mr. Robert Porter, Sister Lourdes Sheehan, R.S.M.. Sister M. Jogues Smith, R.S.M., Mrs. Jan Manning, Dr. James Cassidy, Mr. Gerald Brenner. Top row: Mr. Chester Pierce. Not pictured above or at right: Sister Virginia Ross, C.S.J., and Ms. Maureen Walker

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Dear Seniors: 1968 - the year many of you were born - was the year that | returned to Macon as a teacher. The MDS | remembered from my high school days was quite different from the campus of the late sixties! No longer was de Sales an all - white, all - girls school with an all religious faculty. Somewhere during the years of my absence, someone with great wisdom had met the challenge to change to aco - ed, racially mixed student body, with lay men and women teaching side by side with the sisters. (Those first lay teachers must have had tremen- dous challenges to gain the respect and profes- sional acceptance of both students and parents!) How truly blessed we all are because of the foresight and courage of those who struggled with the problems of the sixties and seventies! Now, 1986 - the year of the 110th graduating class of Mt. de Sales! You, too, have seen and met some significant challenges. During these past four years, | have particularly noticed the changes in the dress code. (You coped with the ‘‘ins’’ and “outs” of the tailored look with great aplomb.) And, you got to class on time without the aid of bells, and to Hamlet Hall in spite of the rain and the mismatched stepping stones! You mastered the computer language; began a varsity soccer team, won the first girls’ state championship in softball; revived the debate team; eliminated the need for ‘‘pink slips’’; started a Pep Club and Band; and, “‘. . . since brevity is the soul of wit, | will be brief!’’ (| am not sure that you mastered Shakespeare, but you did give it a good try!) The list could go on and on. The challenges were there and you met them. Now is the time for you to get ‘back to the future.’’ During these school years, even though you are the NOW generation, you have been living in the past. Your history classes, no matter how contemporary; your literature courses, no matter how modern; your math and science curriculum, no matter how new — are always old. By the time you come to study even the most recent subjects which education can offer, they are already dated. So, you must quickly get BACK TO THE FUTURE — get on with your lives. Yet, in a very real sense, ‘‘... we are a part of all that we have met.’ (Tennyson) The friends, the faculty, the ‘Happy Days,”’ the fun nights, are all a part of our past now, the past which we can remember together. MDS can say of you, as we can say to one another: “‘l will not forget you ... | have carved you on the palm of my hand.” (Isaiah 49:15) MDS was given, and it met a challenge of the past; the Class of 1986 has met their challenges of the present; all of us must meet and conquer the challenges that lie ahead in the future. The ultimate test of how successful we all are in the great challenge called life will come in the far, far distant future. St. Augustine once said, ‘‘O Beauty even ancient, ever new ... Our hearts are ever restless until they rest in You.’’ So, be determined to meet the challenges life may bring to each of you with the same enthusiasm, the same faith, hope and love that you exhibited here at MDS. You are special, and you are loved! 20 Faculty