Sacred Heart High School - Vine Leaves Yearbook (Vineland, NJ)

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Lessee Mother Carey’s Chickens OTHER CAREY’S CHICKENS is a Comedy from the book of the same title by Kate Douglas Wiggin. During Captain Carey’s voyages across the Atlantic, his atten- tion was called to several species of web-footed oceanic birds found at great distances from land; these untamed little wanderers were known as “stormy petrels”; stormy, because they were seen when the weather portended danger to the ship; and petrel, which means “little Peter”, in allusion to St. Peter’s walking on the sea, as these birds often seem to do. Their more interesting name, among those who sail the trade routes of the world, is “Mother Carey’s Chickens”; this. Captain Carey thought, was an appropriate name for his little family who, he hoped, would breast the storms of life, warn those in danger, and lx? guides in the voyage to eternity. In an article written by Reverend H. Joseph Bluett, S.J., he says, “Mother Carey” is but the anglicizing of the Latin Mater Cara (Mother Dear), and is none other than the Blessed Virgin, Christ’s own Immaculate Mother, to whom sailors sang when Europe’s men of the sea were all Catholics, when the Blessed Mother of God was as close to every sea faring man as the sea spray glistening in the sun. “Many young men of America who would never, in more peaceful times, have come to know “Mother Carey’s Chickens” are now making their acquaint- ance in days when the mid-ocean is grim with the dangers of war. When, far from land, they see the little birds, they will probably be glad to know whose name is hidden beneath that enigmatic “Mother Carey”. “In that name they can hear the voice of other sea faring men reminding them, across the centuries, of her who is ‘our tainted nature’s solitary lx ast, purer than foam on central ocean tossed,’ and who is still to-day, as in centuries gone bv, mankind’s STAR OF THE SEA.’ And their hearts can lift with renewed hope as they think of her care for those who face the ocean’s dangers. In her eyes, as in her Son’s, they are of more value than many sparrows, or many petrels!” “Mother Carey’s Chickens cannot but remind the Catholic soldier or sailor or nurse, who now meets them for the first time in their mid-ocean home, that the roots of his blessed faith are as deep in history as the mighty deeps over which he sails.”

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CAST OF CHARACTERS ' Ossian Popham Gilbert Carey Nancy Carey Mother Carey Kathleen Carey Eileen Carey Cousin An Chadwick Julia Carey Mrs. Ossian Popham Lallie Joy Popham Ralph Thurston Cyril Lord .... Henry Lord, Ph.D. Tom Hamilton • © o o o Ivan A. Cosimi Richard N. Ca li Kathleen A. Fleming Benedicta D. Schad Bernice M. Scrivani Cecelia Greene Rosemarie Dezutti Mary Jane Rossi Maria Raffo Dolores Dlppolito L. Karl Koering Val A. Perri Paul P. Walsh William J. Martin SYNOPSIS OF PLAY Time:—The Present Place:—The Yellow House in Beulah, N. . Act I:—Dining Room in the Yellow House. Act II, Scene 1: Living Room on a Mat afternoon. Act II ,Scene II:—Same as Scene , some hours later. Act III: Ram of the Yellow House, turned into a Reception Hall. Late on a June Afternoon.

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Just Imagine Ralph Capece Richard Carli Ivan Cosimi Thomas Grookett Karl Koering Nicholas Lera Charles Lera William Martin Lawrence Nightlinger Albert Orlandini Valentine Perri Thomas Riggio Paul Walsh Louis Vit Margaret Buckley Anita Cardarel Rose Marie Dezutti Dolores DIppolito Helen Duggan Jane Dilazzera Clare Fleming Kathleen Fleming Mary Ellen Hughes Maria Raffo Mary Jane Rossi Benedicta Schad Joan Schneider Bernice Scrivani Rita Shockley without a teddy-bear bain vt minus his rubbers on a rainy day not doing the light fantastic coming to school on time disliking blondes never laughing not helping him to laugh forgetting Benedicta with his homework done playing classical music too tired to argue loud and boisterous leaving school without his books ringing the bell a minute later forgetting her New York accent without Kay or Clare having the same “Hairdo” twice never day-dreaming suffering from obesity sitting still neglecting Tommy canceling her Bayonne trips losing her speed in typing unwilling to help minus Joan or Jane undesirous of success refusing to entertain without her irresistible charm making noise