Rosary College - Yearbook (River Forest, IL)

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THE COMPLETION It was hard to believe at first, but when we stopped to realize that this was to be the last year of our formal education, it made this year different from all the others. It could have been the excitement, it could have been the thought of achievement, or it could even have been the realization of our fondest dreams; but we had to admit, perhaps with a note of sadness, that our senior year went by too quickly. On Founder's Day we donned our caps and gowns for the first time and officially carried on the Rosary tradition of opening the Senior Walk. Soon we were posing for our graduation pictures, and all agreed that the proofs were classics. Throughout the year, we were entertained by the Senior project plays, and, as always, the future schoolmarms did their practice teaching and acquired many friends in the primary grades. It seemed to us then, that the essential parts of our education had been fulfilled. We felt poised and finished. Perhaps we lacked the fine polish of experience, but we shone with a bright- ness of new paint. We hoped that time would give us the beauty that is inherent in every antique, but we felt assured that we were prepared for what time had to offer. With a final check to see that all was as it should have been, we took our comprehensive examinations. After that came College Day with the Senior- Faculty Dinner, The Junior-Senior Luncheon, our Day of Recollection, May Crowning, the Senior Dinner Dance, and Baccalaureate Sunday. The Candle and Rose ceremony brought the year to its completion, and finished our days at Rosary with a note of solemnity and beauty. Finally it arrived . . . that sad, glad day of Graduation. It had taken four years to make us college women, but we knew that our learning had just begun. We had the rest of our lives to create and to build upon the founda- tion of knowledge, truth, and beauty we had acquired at Rosary. We received our diplomas. We were on our way.