Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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Shows Life At RUHS Activities Va O 9) se i x A Organizations Athletics Advertisements Index Page 246 Page 318 Page 329

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- Table of Contents Classes A Seniors Government Administration Foreword Page 132 E Page 48 Page 34 Page 12

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We Dedicate Our Shield = T In February, you, Miss Mary Gately, with » the jauntiest smile this side of County Clare, snatched the rug from under our feet and left us flat. You retired. We call this an Irish trick with trimmings. We and everybody else had come to think of you as fixed as the North Star, as tireless as Galway's tides, as uncomplaining as Paddy's anvil when the sparks fly. After all, you were forty-three-and-a half years queening it over Room Five, the mighty nerve-center of our mighty school. Perky, happy, resourceful, endlessly good-naturedly helpful, you kept us afloat and on course while you busily kept the growing archives, joshing with this person and that. But now we know that in your generous heart there were powerful yearnings to become unfixed, unbound and unburdened. But not uncommitted, Miss Mary Gately. We knowyou too well to think that. Clearly do we recall your wonderful pilgrimage to Rome in1950, the Holy Year, and your fierce addiction to pious, humane and selfless acts. You will, in all certainty, continue to be as deeply involved in mankind as you were when you regulated the heart-beat of Richmond Union High. But you will have more freedom and time, less pressure and haste in which toinvite your soul and do your deeds of goodness. For this we must sincerely and hugely rejoice. So what is there left to say, Miss Mary Gately, you Irish (once removed) flower of Richmond? That you sprang from the soil of Richmond? That you live in the house you were born in? That you graduated from RUHS in 1920? That you began running things at RUHS in 1921? That you know every- body and everything in your sprawling hometown? That you understand young people and like them immensely? That you, quite baldly, know your stuff? That for all these reasons and many more, RUHS has good reason to lament losing you, its most distinguished secretary, mentor, friend and alumna? Yes, we can say these things and one thing more. Like the Class of 1952, who had the honor and privilege of doing it before us, we too, the Class of 1965, dedicate our Shield to you.