Notre Dame High School - Shield Yearbook (West Haven, CT)

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jim Bruno and joe Pellegrino give some advice to Bob Antonerti on the art of staining one of the new kneelers made by Brother Isidore for the shrine. These three boys were responsible for the paint- ing done on the shrine. There have been many other projects in your honor this year - bulletin board displays, a special Marian bookshelf in the library, the junior Class shrine in Brother Paul's room, the city-wide Marian Year Rally held under the direction of Brother Pierre. All of these things we have gladly undertaken for you and hope that we have done them well- with sincerity and love. Please accept them, Mary, they are our Marian Year gifts to you. fwfr. 1 .K ea A special bulletin board in the library contains a weekly list of adorers. Juniors Francis Bonyai and Paul Murphy check the weekly bulletin. Every week the yob of assigning adoration periods falls on the shoulders of jack Dolan and jim Kinnane. ww

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ia? Dear Mary, You have always been the center of our devotional life at Notre Dame. Each year we honor you through our daily consecration, our rosaries before your shrine during October and the month of May. But this Marian Year we have tried to honor you in a unique way by introducing the perpetual rosary in the school. Early in the year a group of students began work on a special Marian Shrine. They cleaned and painted in tones of blue, the small room adjacent to the library. With the help of the Brothers they built a beautiful shrine for your statue. Contributions from the student body purchased rich draperies for the walls and provided for a large blue vigil light and fresh flowers to be placed there weekly. But most important, Mary, every fifteen minutes a student kneels to say the rosary in your honor. In the dim quiet of the oratory room he places A M A himself at your feet as the representative of the student body, imploring pipy graces and blessings on us all. We hope that this pleases you. .iii 2

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IN THESE YOUR HALLS Four years ago we came. From the North, the South, the East and the West, we came in out proud shyness to Notre Dame. It was strange to us then but Notre Dame has become a vital part of our everyday life. We converge at the main building overlooking the city of New Haven where most of us live. The traditional surroundings of our school on Campbell Avenue are familiar to all of us: Our Lady's statue in front of the school, the dim quiet of the Marian shrine where the rosary is perpetual, the Faculty House with the gym, the proposed Alumni Field the recently completed utility build- ing. All of us remember the Pavilion, a favorite gathering place, unfortunately destroyed by fire last year. All these things are familiar to us now and shall remain forever sacred in our memories. A gift of the first two graduating classes, the Shrine of OUR LADY, stands in front of the main building. i Situated atop Allingtown Hill, the main building commands a splendid view of greater New Haven. it YS? M N