Sacred Heart College - Gradatim Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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PROPHECY Now that Graduation time is here e wonder about the coming years: So into the crystal ball we look. And find our future an open book. Peggv Angelo will be a fashion designer: Creations like hers there will be none finer. Patsy Ballard a stenographer will be. Til some young man says Marry me. Helen Ba.xlev will haye a great name; She will go down in the I lall of Fame. They ' ll let all the conyicts out of jail Just to hear Lillian Kotasek play the scale. Betty McGerrigle— that cute, little lass. Will probably teach an English class. Phyllis Xaughton, adorable dream, ill have a husband on whom she will beam. Kathleen Neilson so friendly and fair Has for golfing a remarkable flair. A lary Powers who has nothing to fear ill make social work her career. Ernestine Russell will be a model known all over town But she will look her loveliest in a wedding gown. Man, - Catherine Thilmont what will she be : It remains for the future— just wait and see! After all this I might be a poet For I have talent, and didn ' t even know it! Lillian Kotasek Page Twenty-three I 4

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CLASS HISTORY It doesn ' t seem that it is two years since we began our college work, so even though we do not realize as yet that youth fades, we have more than a hunch that time has a habit of flying. During our first year Lillian Kotasek was elected our president; Kathleen Neilson, our secretary; and Therese Hedrick, our treasurer. The days were filled with studies and the week-ends bright with the respite that comes, fortunately, to all good workers. Of course, we had Rat Week— an event which the sophomores enjoyed heartily, but which we, the victims, would gladly have foregone. This time of torment, however, ended with much fun and enjoyment for all. The Introductory Dance, first big social affair of the year, proved very enjoyable to everyone. Later came pep meetings and bon fires at the Abbey, followed by dances afterwards. Soon the Christmas Formal was here, and after this the Yuletide vacation was upon us. But gay times are wont to disappear speedily, and before we knew it, we were back at school, preparing vigorously for the day of reckoning that was inevitable, the semester exams. But there were other festivities at hand, and soon we were enjoying the Valentine Party. The May Festival was very successful, Becky Holton making the very lovelies queen. As June rolled around the sophomores yvere not the only ones excited. We gave them a banquet in Charlotte; and of course, fell heir to some of the good times. We yvere lonely at parting with our good friends, the sophomores, but we were eager for home again, so there was a great deal of joy mixed with the sadness. Again it was September. Back to the routine of school days we hurried, reorganizing our class. This time Mary Catherine Thilmont was elected president; Kathleen Neilson, vice-president; Ernestine Russell, secretary; and Patsy Ballard, treasurer. The Relief Campaign for students in Europe, for which the Christmas Dance was scheduled, was a huge success. Kathleen Neilson was chosen to be the 1948 May Queen, as well as editor-in-chief of the Gradatim. As we realized the days were passing rapidly, we became more eager to garner more happy memories; and event, joyous and exciting, succeeded event. The freshmen gave us a most delicious banquet and helped a great deal towards making our year replete with joy and happiness. Graduation time came— time to bid farewell to our friends and the school so dear to us— time for the door of the future to open, disclosing the vistas about which we wonder so much. Ernestine Russell Page Twenty-two

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■.. « - LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT Having given the matter much deep thought and minute consideration, we, the Graduating Class of Sacred Heart Junior College, do aver that the following is our Last Will and Testament; and we declare that all other such documents drawn up bv us are perfectly useless both to ourselves and others, and will do no one any good whatsoever to peruse. Article I To the Faculty we leave our sincere loyalty and gratitude, our love and admiration, and the remembrance— lest thev forget— of our undivided at- tention during classes. Article II I, Phyllis Naughton, leave to anyone who needs it my appreciation of a good time and my love for the little stray idle moments. With the world the way it is this bequest should be valued. To the Sacred Heart girls of the future, I, Ernestine Russell, do bequeath my boy friends of State College. It looks as though they ' ll need them, and I can manage only one at a time. I, Peggy Angelo, do will and bequeath my place in the Shorthand Class to anyone who wants it. If she needs any help, let me know. To Lillian Applewhite I, Patsy Ballard, leave my love for the Home Economics Class, After all, what the country needs is good cooking, after the ingredients are secured. To Marguerite George I, Helen Baxley, do leave my blonde hair. Take good care of it, Marguerite, I may need it back. I, Lillian Kotasek, do will to Ann Connell, if she ' ll have it, my stao line of Abbey boys. May she take as good care of them as I did! To my sister, Margaret, I, Betty McGerrigle, leave my peace (No, I didn ' t write PIECE !) of mind and freedom of speech. Just to keep it in the family. I, Kathleen Neilson, do will and bequeath my LUCK— that commodity that is said to be peculiar to the Irish— to whomsoever gets the editorship of Grauatim next year. To my roommate, Dot Shelton, I, Mary Powers, do will and bequeath my powers of application and industry that she may in her spare moments, if the desire possess her, set fire to the Catawba. Mary C. Thilmont Page Twenty four