Sacred Heart College - Gradatim Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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G R A D A T I M Cletus Wacchtcr, step forward. For some time after your graduation from a school of design, you will act as a model in exclusive clothing establishments. Later you will work hard upon original designs. After much labor, they will be successful. You will make trips to Paris regularly for new ideas. In a few years you will have the center of fashion removed from Paris to New York. Your sweetest triumph will be a portrait of yourself hung in the recreation room of Sacred Heart Academy and a statue raised to you in Louisville. Kentucky. Hazel Wells, step forward. Thou art last and yet shalt be first. ' Ere long the world will lose its attraction for you and you shall heed the Divine Call. Yours will not be the task of soothing the suffering. Nay, the world will know you not through your hidden life. The closed doors of the Carmelite Convent will swing open at your touch. Yours will be a joyous life, holding communion only with your Spouse, spea king only to Him from the depths of that warm, courageous heart of yours. Truly thou art last and yet shalt be first. The witches fade from view and naught is left but our own thoughts. Was it a dream? Maybe not. Maybe . . . Oh! Cui bono? MARGARETTA GOLLNER. Prophetess. Bridge Club Left to Right: Cletus Waechter, Theresa Montksanti, Harriett Bush, Mary Louise MiNOBE, Alma Parker, Josephine Thomas, Margaret Middleton, Beverley Fox, Mildred Harris, Sarah Sanders, ROSLYN KraVITCH, FRANCES AnCELO, Jfl.IA HARRIS, OlIVE I I E N ESSE K , BETTY ChADWHK, Page Sixteen r)

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% I n % 1 1 I 8 A D AT I M Senior Class Prophecy Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Thus the witches of Macbeth greet us as we pass from our childhood schooldays and stand at the threshold of our new life Half-eager, half fearful, we strain to catch a glimpse of the unknown future Humbly we ask them. Give us a scant hint of out future. Good- naturedly, not as we knew them of old. they agreed, and accordingly, began once more to stir their gruel and mutter their charm Harriett Bush, step forward. Your future life will be marked by the care and rule of a beautiful and spacious home in California. Your husband, a naval officer, will be famous and you will share his fame. Every luxury and happiness will be yours. Estelle Cuddy, step forward Your services will be in demand at all important literary circles, libraries will be dedicated to you. schools will bear your name. All these will be the gifts of an America, proud of you for your literary talent. You will publish book after book, but your greatest fame will lie in your biological essays. Elizabeth Diggle. step forward. The future holds great happiness with little of sorrow for you. For many years you will be seen and heard of at all the brilliant social events. There you will shine as a star. In time you will wed a university professor and aid him in his work. Margaretta Gollncr. step forward. Your new life will find you situated in a small town of North Carolina. People will come from far and near to sec your famous ' Yo -Yo quilts ' Not many years hence you will have a shop of Yo-Yo quilters ' all your own. Mildred Harris, step forward. You, too. will be a social ' woman. After a college course you will travel to New York, where you will offer your services as a social worker. For some years you will labor at this t3sk and. there vou will be chosen as a lecturer. In this capacity you will speak of your experiences in every city in the United States. Sarah Sanders, step forward. For you we sec a renowned hospital. As its superintendent, you will march through its cool halls on your tours of inspection, with your stiffly starched uniform crackling as you walk. You will make a name and place for yourself in the annals of the great. In your efforts to relieve suffering humanity, you will, one day. discover a powerful serum which will save the lives of many. Jessie Tatum. step forward. Before you arc books, papers, pencils, and more books. Y ' ou will devote yourself to the uplifting and educating of young minds. Beginning as a kindergarten teacher you will advance until you arc the owner and directress of a school of your own. In this school you will gather about you the most famous teachers of your time. The world will be astounded at your radical methods of teaching. Marjorie Venning, step forward. The future world will hear and marvel at your secre- tarial work. You will set new records in speed typing, shorthand, and accuracy in bookkeeping- Business men will plead for your services. You will be surpassed by none in efficiency. Page Fifteen % i i w r M

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G R A D A T I M 4 4 n w ii Dar ' s sumpin Yas, Sister, dar ' s sumpin. I ' se been ' round dis heah school now fer fo ' or five yeas. I sees chillun come an I sees em go. And ebry time one comes I says to myself: Now. Jane, sumpin s gwine to happen to dat chile She ain ' t gwine to leab heah jis lak she is now. She ' s gwine to grow. Well, any youngun ' ll do dat. She ' s gwine to study some and larn some — Well, dat ' s what she ' s been sant heah for — She ' s gwine to play some — God bless her soul, I hopes she play er lot. But all de time she ' s doin ' dem tings, dar ' s gwine to be sumpin er wurkin ' on de inside ob her. She ' s gwine to git so she kin grab holer her temper. Dat waggin ' tongue, too. will be holt. She ' ll grin all de time. Dat box her ma gwine to sen ' her. why. she ' ll jes ' nachally run round an ' gather up her frien ' s and. like a ole hen what ' s foun ' a worm, she ' ll give ' em some ob dem eats — she ' ll quit sayin ' bad tings agin ' de oder girls er de teachers. An ' she ' ll be, ebry now an ' den, a-sneakin ' into dat little chutch ober dere. Yas. Sister mam. I says to myself dat all dese tings are gwine to sho ' happen to dat chile. And ebry time I mak up my mind to watch an ' see what ' s a doin ' all dese tings. An ' I watches an ' watches; but I kaint see nuttin. ' But nuttin ' kaint do all dese tings. I knows dat. Es sho ' as I got dis broom in my han ' , it ' s sumpin, yas ' m. sumpin. When I ' se er sweepin ' dese halls, some times. I ' se jis crbout plum tuckered out a worrin ' crbout my lazy, good-fur-nuttin ' ole man. I is worrin ' lots and my heart is erbout brake, when, er long comes dat little ' un I seen cryin ' wid horn sickness here las ' week. She comes up er skippin ' an ' er grinnin ' and she ups and says. Howdy, Jane. Hab er Milky Wave. yas. take half. I ' se got plenty. An as I takes one she grins and looks lak it makes her happy jis to gib ole black me a piece ob candy. Den Bye. On her way she skips. Plum happy. Sister, how dat child has changed! Dat sumpin what ' s er ' round dese walls has sho ' been er wurkin ' on her. Dem little shoulders ez riz up. Dem legs is a movin ' faster. Dem brown eyes is er sparklin ' like de stars. Sumpin ' s doin ' it. Sumpin ' s done teached her to mine her manners. Sumpin ' s done led her to be nice to her frien ' s. Sumpin ' s made her just glad to be er livin ' ; an ' sumpin ' s made life plum glad dat such er sweet chile is alive. Sumpin. Sister, an ' I ' se curious to know. Yas ' m, I ax ' d one ob dem big gals what calls dey sefs Seniors, what it wuz aroun ' heah dat done such big wuck on de chillun. de big uns and de little uns. She kinder grins lak, an ' say: Jane, its de atmosphere ob de Cademy Atmosphere. Lordy. Sister, honey, how does de lak ob me know what dat is. So I up an ' axes her ergin an ' den she say Atmosphere means Environment. But. Sister, I gits mad: case I tinks dat gal is er callin ' me by some ob dese new fangled cuss wuds. When she sees me er gittin ' riled up. why. bless her heart, she splains dat environment is de sumpin ' I been lookin ' fer. She tells me dat it means ebry ting what is eround de chillun in de school: de dormitory; de dinin ' room; de study-hall; de gym; de play-groun ' ; de gals; de Sisters: de Chaplain: an ' what she call culture, an ' den, her eyes done git kinder dreamy lak. as she say. low and sweet — Jane, it means most of all God. who is here all de time. All dese teach us gals to know God, to serb Him de bes ' we kin all de time. An ' when we is er serbin ' ob God we is er keepin ' ob His commandments, dem Ten what God Page Seventeen y %