Roxbury Memorial High School for Girls - Laurel Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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IT' I 3 ' +'-AA, DECEMBER, 1954 5 Y .P if Our scholarship play was the best We'Ve The men from our neifhborin school seen Cof course we're prejudicedl. f I- Q' added to the entertainment. Under the direction of Mrs. Whitehouse Our Christmas vacation Wouldn't have been the performance was almost professional. complete without our Mid-Winter Frollc . . . A1 A punch bowl . . . Gl21mOL11'. JANUARY THROUGH APRIL, 1955 Class rings were bougrhtg permanent members were elected for the National Honor Societyg and a Home and School Association sale was held to augment our scholarship fund. Our years at high school are drawing to a close. MAY, 1955 Our final event before graduation is here-Class Night. No pictures, alas, for we've gone to press. J UN E, 1955 Impossible though it may seem, our long walk down the aisle at Symphony Hall is almost here. From that time on, memories will be the only link connecting us with these past years. Our History Scrapbook has captured in words and pictures these mem- ories so that we may recall them and relive our happy days in years to come. HELENE FELDBERG Historian ant! now we day . .

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CTOBER1953 lt's over-our Junior Jamboree, that is. ou can judge its success bythe smiling faces f our committee. TAY, 1953 Provisional members of the National Hon- r Society were elected this month. Leader- hip . . . Scholarship . . . Service . . . Char- cter-these are the qualities on which the embers were judged. We elected oiiicers for . . . OUR SENIOR YEAR EPTEMBER, 1954 Here are the executives who will lead us hrough one of the most important stages of ur lives-our final year in high school. OVEMBER, 1954 Officers . . . and members of the Governing Council were installed. Our drive for ads for the scholarship play Take Care of My Little Girl is at its end, nd xve've broken all records.

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