Notre Dame Academy - Tryst Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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ff ii it if Perfection was the goal of Seniors Kathryn Lawrence and Linda Taylor, who directed the choreography for the festival. Demonstrating the correct arm position for a folk dance, during an llaster week rehearsal, Kathy and Linda glance back at jo Ann Appell and Patricia Cannon. pring festival honors To Diary Immaculate, on the hundredth anni- versary of her appearance to Bernadette at Lourdes, we dedicate our l958 Spring Festivalf' On April 28, with a cast of 172, singers, dancers. narrators, and personnel of the tableaux, Notre Dame girls strove to honor Our Lady during her centenary year. VVearing illarian-blue choral gowns, the Glee Club opened the first section of the program with selections of nineteenth-century French music. Blending with the tuneful melodies, dancers whirled with practised perfection through typical French court and follc dances. From the gay and sprightly nineteenth century world, the scene shifted to the world of lllary. In a series of tableaux portraying Our Lady's protec- tive care of men, Paris, La Salette, Lourdes, Port- main, and Pellevoisin retold their story. As the Glee Club began the glorious Alleluia chorus, the spotlight focused on a candlelight proces- sion of pilgrims gathering before the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes to honor their immaculate lVIother during her jubilee year of grace. Sur le pont d'Avignon l'on y danse, l'on y Kleeb, Beverly Shibel, Joyce Judson and danse . . . Dainty demoiselles of France, Kathy Schmid smile as Julie Miller steps Mary Ellen O'Connor, Janice Shihel, Judy our for her Solo, Martha Melvin performs for Our Lady a graceful solo ballet interpreting the Ave Nlaria. ilfg..

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of harmon to the stars The magic of recording captures the sparkle and gaiuty of last ycar's spring festival, A Winter Fantasy. S, Wfitson, M. lance, D. Nlarino fprcsidentj, NI, XY'illi.im-., KI. Price, XX, Ray, N, Campo, C. Lallnhan, lf. Benton: and llJClUV'J llolland. NI. l-alley, Nl. t,.ill.igl1er, Nl. Carroll, A, Leone, Nl. Xlagnctti, l. Spauls, NI. XY'illi.ams. I Beginning their musical journey through the year, the Glee Club sang for the Gonzaga-Notre Dame student Mass each Friday. ln December, Christmas carols formed the back- ground music for the Nativity Tableaux in the school audi- torium and at St. Aloysius Church. One of the many high- lights in the display of school activities, the Glee Club re- ceived hearty applause from the eighth-graders who attended the Kay Street Open House. Accepting the invitation to sing at the Vocation Sym- posium, the group selected America Our Heritage and March of the Toys from their repertoire. In the Spring, as the eyes of all the Christian world turned toward Lourdes, Our Lady's Academy joined in the commemoration of the Centennial by making the story of Bernadette this year's Spring Festival theme. Delightful selections of French music sung by the Glee Club composed the Prologue. Gounod's '1Ave Maria was one of the numbers of the Finale. Under the patient, inspiring training of Sister Gertrude Cecilia, the girls attained that perfection of tone quality, shading, and interpretation which has become characteristic of the Glee Club. Choristers again received distinctions at the National Music Festival at Catholic University in April. As melodic strains floated down from the choir loft in Trinity's Chapel on Graduation Day, the exciting activities of the past year became another memory for the Class of 1958. ,Va x.-1 V, AQHA , 'bx

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our Immaculate Mother Mar 'AI will be with you, Our Lady promises St. Catherine Labonte, during the troubled days of the july Revolution. Linda Taylor, Kath- leen A. Daly, Mary Peterson. Dancing the stately gavotte are lovely ladies Patricia VVoods and Barbara Phillips, with the elegant gentlemen who Pray for poor sinnersg pray for the world which is such trouble, Our Lady counsels Bernadette. Patricia VVoods and Mary Mar- garet Pignone. are their partners, Frances Overeutl and i Kathleen Bridy. 1'Springtime in Paris captured the fancy of sprightly dancers strolling through the Bois V- de Boulogne. Kathleen Healy was solo per- former for this number. 59