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

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aMr. Chester Pierce(Assistant Principal Financial Manager was the first of six brothers to graduate from MDS, in 1966. He attended Mercer University on a baseball scholarship, and earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Mercer. This is his 14th year at Mt. de Sales. In additon to his adminis- trative duties, he coaches var- sity softball and baseball, and B-team boys basketball. Mr. Michael Vullo is Director of Alumni Affairs; before he as- sumed his current responsibili- ties he taught English and Art History for several years. Mr. Vullo graduated from MDS in 1971, and durings his student years, he was active in Student Council, was a member of the National Honor Society, and was editor of the Sales Sheet, the student newspaper. Sister Mary Fidelis, R.S.M., (Principal) has been Mt. de Sales’ principal for the last 17 years. She came to MDS after serving as Princi- pal at St. Vincent’s Academy in Sa- vannah. Under her leadership, our student body has doubled in size, two new buildings have been added to our campus (Burke and De Sales Halls) and several pieces of property adjacent to the campus have been purchased. In addition to these obvious ac- complishments, Sister Fidelis is very active in the MDS Development Pro- gram, which was begun in 1978. It is this program which will insure the future of Mt. de Sales, and Sister has spent many hours and days estab- lishing this lifeline to our future. Last but not least, Sister Fidelis has been our cheerleading modera- tor during this school year!

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My dear Seniors, For twelve years now you have waited for a day in May - the day of graduation. Now, May 1987 is finally here and your years at Mt. de Sales are stretching behind you rather than before you. It is time for you to go, and your eagerness to embark upon new experiences lights up your faces and refreshes the hearts of those you leave behind. The joy with which you face the future re- flects the joy of living that has been characteristic of you since you came to Mt. de Sales. Our time together began when you walked into Burke Hall - that Freshman domain - and soon all of MDS knew, the Class of ’87 had arrived. You were the “greenest”, the loudest, the talkin- gest and at times, the rowdiest Cav- aliers of all. Still, you survived and the molding of the spirit of the Class of 1987 had begun. The years from 1983 to 1987 were like so many others - years of change: changes in government, in styles, in music, in personalities. Closest to home, though, were the changes in you during those years from Freshmen to graduating Sen- (OFS. » You are wiser now, for you have met and mastered the myths of ancient Greece, the works of Emer- son and Hemingway, the tragedies of Shakespeare. You have walked with Pythagoras, Descartes, and Eu- clid. You have peered into the mi- croscopic world of cells and into the vastness of space. You have relived and questioned the experiences of the past that have molded the pres- ent. You have dreamed of things that might be. You have known the pain of disappointments and de- feats as well as the thrill of achieve- ment and victory ... And still you have kept in your hearts the joyful spirit that is yours. You are more giving now. You have learned that “‘you give little when you give of your possessions; it is when you give of yourself that you truly give.’’ (Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet.) You have reached out your hands in so many ways. As Freshmen, you joined hands and worked toward common goals at Homecoming and Fun Night. Re- member ‘‘The Lone Cavalier’ and building the pyramid! In your Soph- omore year, your Christmas gift to us all was “The Dawn.” You and Sr. Regina put in hours of preparation in order to share a new version of a be- loved old story. As Juniors, you worked so hard to achieve a beautiful tribute to the Class of 1986 as you planned “Romance in the Orient.” When you as- sumed the role of leaders in this, your Senior year, you took upon yourselves new responsibilities and faced new challenges. Sometimes, you fell short, but you were never down and out. You continued to give of yourselves on the playing fields and in the gyms, in tourna- ments and playoffs, in Liturgy, in the re- newal of an old tradition - the Candle- light Carol Service, a magnificent tribute of gift-giving at Christmas. You were giv- ing of the spirit that is you, not always knowing that you did so... You are more loving now. You have learned to accept others, though they may be different from you. You have learned to respect the ideas and values of others. You have learned to rejoice with each other and to cry with each other; to talk to each other and to hear one another. Out of all your distinctive- ness, out of all your individual likes and dislikes, you have become a class unto yourselves. And in these bittersweet days that mark the end of your years at Mt. de Sales, you have discovered the true meaning of friendship. To be asked to write this, the last message to you, the Class of 1987, has been my joy. Our time together has been too brief, but it has been a time of learning, of sharing, of caring. And |, along with the other members of your faculty, have been witness to the flow- ering of your joyful spirit. In closing, | quote again from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: Think not that | say these things in order that you might say the one to the other, “(She) praised us well. (She) saw but the good in us.” | only spoke to you in words of that which you yourselves know in thought. | would have you remember your years at MDS as years of promises, not just memories, and this your Senior year, as a beginning, not the end. | love you all, Waa. barern

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Mr. Jim Ray is the only member of our faculty who graduated from high school in a foreign country. He finished his high school education in Madrid, Spain and returned to the U.S. to study at the University of North Carolina, where he majored in political sci- ence. Mr. Ray taught at Southwest High School for four years before coming to MDS. He also worked in the advertising industry in New York City. He holds two Master’s De- grees - one from Mercer University in Educa- tion, and another in Secondary School Coun- selling from Georgia State University. Since coming to Mt. de Sales, Mr. Ray has taught social studies and drama, and was our drama director for a number of years. He became our full-time guidance coun- sellor in 1982. Mrs. Jan Manning came to MDS in 1983 after working as an office manager and bookkeeper for 18 years. She is a native of Illinois, with three grown children and five grandchildren. Two of Mrs. Man- ning’s grandchildren are enrolled at St. Peter Claver School, and another is a student at Sacred Heart School in Warner Robins. Mrs. Manning and her husband, Bruce, are avid and accomplished eee b- bowlers; in fact, she and her daugh- ter were city champions in 1985. Mrs. Manning recalls of her high school years that she once “sweet talked my P.E. teacher into having bowling classes for six weeks.”’ Mrs. Manning is the originator of the ‘“‘Macon Teens’”’ bowlin g league and has been active in fundraising for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. A native of Macon, Mrs. Madge Knott, our librarian, graduated from A.L. Miller High School and went on to study Spanish and French at the University of Georgia, where she was frequently on the Dean’s List. She holds a Master’s De- gree in Librarianship from Emory Univer- sity and has been Librarian at Mt. de Sales since 1973. Mrs. Knott’s daughter Katherine graduated from MDS in 1976 and was Editor of the Sa esian; her youngest son Steve is also an MDS alumni, and earned letters in football and baseball. Her old- est son, Andy, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Having lived her whole life in Ma- con, Mrs. Knott has seen a lot of things and made a lot of friends. She worked with Mr. Ray at Southwest High School; also at Southwest at the time was Rever- end Joe McDaniel, a former member of the MDS faculty and the father of Krista McDaniel in our current freshman class.