Sacred Heart College - Gradatim Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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Gradatim CALENDAR 1940-1941 SEPTEMBER: 1 1 — Registration of freshmen. 12 — Upper classmen return. 13 — Class begins. 14 — Trip to Kings Mountain. 15 — Inaugural Mass at Belmont Abbey Cathedral. 20 — Introductory Dance given by Sophomores for Freshmen. 24 — Mercy Day — holiday. OCTOBER: 14 — The day the Sophomores have been living for — the beginning of Rat Week. What fun we had at the Rats ' expense! 18 — Rat Court and Rat Dance. 22 — -Catholic Woman ' s Club sponsored a Square Dance at the Community House. 23 — A moving picture A Hundred Men and a Girl in honor of Mother Raphael ' s Feast Day. 24 — Reverend Mother Raphael ' s Feast Day— holiday. 29 — Halloween party spooks, witches, fun. NOVEMBER: 1 — All Saints ' Day — -holiday. 2 — Catholic Conference in Charleston, S. C. Peggy Maginn and Virginia Hiott represented Sacred Heart. 3 — Combined Choir sang at the Dedication Mass of the Church in Salisbury, N. C. 4 — Mid-term exams begin. 8 — Exams over — movie in the auditorium. 17 — Thanksgiving Holidays begin. 31 — Holiday is over — classes resume, DECEMBER: 2 — Amateur Show sponsored by Freshmen. Maude Part rick and Dorothy Hogan won the prize for dancing. 1 — First basketball game of the season — Sacred Heart beat Belmont High. 15 — The Piedmont Prom at the Abbey — the music was swell and there was a full moon. 18 — Annual Christmas Concert by Glee Club. Bridie Madden was soloist. 20 — Christmas Holidays begin. JANUARY: 6 — Christmas holidays . . . time does fly! 1 5 — Flu epidemic . . . school closes. 20 — Classes resume . . . All things come to an end. even a flu epidemic. 21 — Students hear Don Cossack Choir — special feature of Gastonia Concert Co-operative Association. 25 — School paper organized. Louise Bowen elected Editor; Betty Georgi. Associate Editor. 27 — Semester exams begin. FEBRUARY: I — Exams over. Basketball game with Wingate. Sacred Heart loses to the Blue and Gold. 6 — Students attend a concert by Westminster Singers at Winthrop College. 7 — Lecture in college auditorium by Mr. John Valentine, baritone and world traveler, 12 — Basketball game with Belmont. Sacred Heart victorious 13 — Stage show, Funzapopin in college auditorium. 21 — Mitchell defeats Sacred Heart Basketball Team. Page Tioenty-fvur

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CLASS HISTORY Two years together— two years filled with friendships and earnest endeavor, years that once seemed to stretch away and beyond the possibility of realization, but which, now that they have come to an end. seem to have glided swiftly and quietly and earnestly into the stream of our other years — such is the time element of our Class History. In September 39 twenty-four of us. representatives of four southern states — Florida. South Carolina. North Carolina, and Tennessee — entered Sacred Heart. Through the trials and diffi- culties that beset our way during our first year Patricia Riley. Virginia Brookshire. and Miriam Cameron led us on to victory. In the traditional manner of older sisters, the Sophomores, guided us through this new life. They began by giving us an Introductory Dance at which we met all the eligible bache- lors. But to prove their authority and to shatter whatever illusions they had given us they originated Rat Week. ' a week of torment and misery, a week spent in suffering the indig- nities imposed upon us. in hiding away from our tormentors and in enduring the pangs of homesickness. Then to present our disgrace to the public, our big sisters very graciously al- lowed us to attend the dance that put an end to Rat Week . The Christmas holidays passed. Night after night we spent in feverish cramming, while our hair lost its curl and fingernails ceased to be. The end of this week brought welcome relief and we began to eat again. With spring in the air and exams far behind we made the most of opportunity and gave a Leap Year Dance. That night the girls really showed the boys some points in the fine art of being escorts. To show the Sophomores that we harbored no ill feelings for their treatment of us in October and that we really appreciated their sisterly advice given throughout the year we entertained them with the traditional Junior-Senior Banquet. The year ended on June 6. We kissed our Sister Sophomores good-bye. then left to enjoy our well-earned rest. The end of three months found us back at school with only four members missing and one new member added. We were now twenty-one strong. Virginia Brookshire, Betty Holton. and Louise Bowen were elected to lead our class to its final goal. It took us some time to realize that we were no longer mere freshmen but in reality the Senior Class of the college. Once we awoke to this fact we lost no time in seeing that every one else in the school recognized us as such. That the Freshmen should miss none of the opportunities afforded us we held the In- troductory Dance; and. not forgetting the misery of Rat Week. we enjoyed watching the lowly Freshmen squirm under our none- too- gentle ministrations. Like us, however, they had their consolation — a dance in the college gymnasium. Christmas vacation, exams. Spring holidays, all passed in due course. Again we were planning for the annual Turnabout Dance, and again we showed the boys the ideal way of escorting. Our Junior-Senior, our last big event in our college course, was truly memorable. Then came Class Day when graduates and lower classmen in billowy white and pastel evening dresses made a picture the loveliest of the year, as they swirled and swished across the lawn and along the bridal wreath drive. At last came June 4th and with it all the pomp and circumstance of graduation, all the joys of home-going, and all the sadness of leave-taking from friends kind and true. So ends our Class History. Short in truth it is; yet how replete with memories, memories we shall love to cherish of all that made worthwhile two memorable years at Sacred Heart. Page Ttvenlythree 1941

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MARCH: 1 — The first issue of Sacred Heart Echoes comes out. 5 — Selects staff for Annual. Dorothy Spain, Editor-in-Chief; Virginia Brookshire. Business Manager, Glee Club sings at Southern Association of Music in Charlotte Armory. 8 — Woman ' s Athletic Association organized. Maude Partrick. president: Mary Kather- ine Kabas, secretary: Betty Georgia treasurer. ] 1 — Students attend concert by Jasca Hiefetz in Gastonia. 14 — College Sophomores sponsor Macbeth, presented by Belmont High School English class. 17 — St. Patrick ' s Day — holiday. 19 — Meynell Literary Society gives a tea for Teasdale Club. Teasdale Club entertains Meynell Society with a program on the life and works of Sara Teasdale, 21 — St, Benedict ' s Day. Choir sings Solemn High Mass in the Abbey Cathedral. 28 — Students attend Ballet Russe at Charlotte Armory. APRIL: 1 — Students interview Patiy Berg, champion woman golfer of the day. 3 — Students enjoy Carolina Night in Charlotte Armory. 4 — Annual piano recital. Students delight audience with their skillful performance. 9 — Holiday time again — Easter vacation begins. 15 — Classes resume. 25 — Glee Club makes its first tour of the season to Columbia. S. C. MAY: 2 — College Sophomores sponsor Turnabout dance. Lots of fun seeing the girls doing all the escorting. 5 — Lawn Party sponsored by high school Seniors. Marvelous success, financially as well as socially. 6-8 — Annual retreat conducted by Reverend Father John. O.S.F., Lenoir. N, C. 9 — Play Day carried out on theme of ' A Day on the Ranch ' . Awards given winning team. Refreshments served to all participants. 12 — Athletic banquet, Awards given outstanding athletes of school year. 13 — Glee Club sings at concert sponsored by Kiwanls Club in Belmont High School auditorium 14 — High School Junior-Senior banquet. Glee Club sings at graduation exercises of the Mercy Hospital nurses. 15 — Woman ' s Athletic Association sponsors informal dance at Belmont Community House. 16 — Musicale in college auditorium Edith Morrow, pianist; Bridie Madden and Betty Logan, vocalists. 19 — Freshmen sponsor Fashion Show. 20 — College Junior-Senior banquet, followed by theater party. 22 — Ascension Thursday. Picnic at Lake Lure. 23 — Freshmen Sponsor Tea Dance. 27 — Final exams begin. 30 — Class Day exercises and May Crowning. JUNE: 1 — Baccalaureate Mass in Abbey Cathedral. Sermon delivered by Monsignor O ' Brien, of Charleston, S. C. 2 — Glee Club gives final concert in Abbey auditorium, 3 — Annual Faculty Breakfast for the graduates, 4 — Graduation exercises in college auditorium. Right Reverend Abbot Vincent Taylor presides. Reverend W, Sullivan O ' Byrne, Wilmington. North Carolina, addresses the graduates. Page Twenty-five 1941