St Josephs Academy - Patrins Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Seniors view their lastyearat S. . . Student Council President Roberta Winkels Bobbi St. Andrew Student Council Pres. 4, GAA Vice Pres. 3, Contact CCM 2, 3, HR Pres. 2, 3, Latin Club, first place in the i959 De La Salle Speech Tourney, magna average. Senior Class President V .Ai fgjn Mary Ann Stoffels St. Vincent Senior Class Pres., CSMC Rep. i, Student Council Rep. 2, HR Vice Pres. 3, Glee Club, Latin Club, Contact, ambition: to be a high school teacher. Here we stand, on the springboard of our past accom- plishments, nervously anticipating our future as valuable citizens. Our senior year has been an immediate prepara- tion for this so called iumping off period in our lives. Just exactly how has it helped to ready us for this im- portant step? First we might consider what kind of a base has been laid for us as adult Catholics. ln religion classes chapters from My Way of Life on God and Human Happiness, The End and the Beginning, and pamphlets on such varied subjects as the angels and atheism, were typical of our sub- ject material. Father Moudry's weekly classes on Christian marriage also played an important part in our religious curriculum. Our retreat and our all-school Masses were ex- cellent opportunities for us again to direct ourselves toward God. Academically, we have had the opportunity to choose courses which were tailor-made for our individual occu- pational plans. Those who took a college prep course finished the necessary classes for college entrance during their senior year. Girls interested in office work concen- trated on secretarial procedure and bookkeeping courses. VVhatever we wish to do after our plunge into society, we have had an excellent opportunity to prepare ourselves scholastically at St. Joseph's. And if we are to be accepted and useful in the great expanse called our future, we must also be prepared socially. Our senior year really marked the climax of social events at SJA. Besides the now traditional Silver Belle Ball, we had the thrill of being guests of honor at the Junior-Senior Prom and of having our own special Senior Prom. Planned activities like the Big-Little Sister Party showed us how much fun friendliness and helpfulness to others can be. The expanded guidance program, with its frequent guest speakers, college information, and scholastic evaluation division, was a helpful directive for us as we decided our post-high school plans. It is at the end of our senior year, then, that we straighten confidently, take our final strides forward, and spring into the future. SENIORS

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Joseph was a growing son, l 9? l a growing son and eomely to behold. Epistle, Solemnity of St. Joseph 62444, , gawk ,uf-cifcv 5446 4, A54-.0 354441, ,CZLQQ faster Zfcfse 4fffff4fs-:P is '04 fl'-f-0 0140-4741 LANL 41 -doc ,fr 2444 144454 ? 151-elislff . dia 115644 7. 1446, ai6n4.1-asffofc Que. Z 714,06 ,Zp.4,,4,, 7, 'Zl4,,4,,,,il,U ,vedAA,s-if yloo lffcfa hai .?l,,.,,-,1 gal Zwwmfmx The graduated sizes of our album pictures reflect something of each class's expanding personality. Sen- ior portraits, require long preparation-second sittings, pondering over which proof to choose-and receive prominent display. The size and the work that goes into these pictures suggest the broadening of the senior's scope, for by the time she reaches her fourth year of high school, she thinks as much about the future - planning to be one of its social workers, stenographers, or stewardesses-as she does of the present. Turn- ing back to the underclassmen's photographs, we see the gradual' development of student aims in life reflected by the gradual enlarging of the picture sizes. The freshman photographs show the Joed as one of the group, getting used to SJA along with her friends and living each day as it comes. Perhaps she looks for- ward the most to the day when she can sit in the auditorium downstairs instead of in the balcony. The in- dividual sophomore pictures show the beginnings of more independent action, but the school photogra- pher's rate of a-picture-a-minute reflects the impulsiveness of sophomore actions. Slightly larger in their dimensions, the iunior pictures express expanding responsibilities, such as organizing the Junior-Senior Prom. They represent the iunior's third step toward the realization of her next high school goal, the senior year when she will share the top-level student positions and take her place in the Senior Album.

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if 2' I Barbara Becker Barb St. Matthew CSMC Pres. 4, 3M Club, Latin Club, Glee Club, Contact, goal in life: to complete nursing school. Kathleen Ahern Kathie St. John Entre Nous Vice Pres. 3, HR Pres. 4, Physiology Club Pres. 4, Glee Club, ambition: to vvork at the U.N., magna average. Audrey Anderson Aud St. Thomas, Apostle Cecelian Club, CSMC, Contact, Regina Club, goal: to be a medi- cal secretary, memorable ex- periences: piano recitals. Annette Auer Toni Sacred Heart Entre Nous, Contact, 3M Club, CSMC, ambition: to graduate from St. Catherine's as a reg- istered nurse. Barbara Ayd Bobbi St. Thomas, Apostle AVOC Co-chairman 3, 4, Ship- ping Clerk 2, CSMC, Contact, aim in lite: to be a business man- ager, cum laude average. A . sf Lynne Bell Nativity Genesians, GAA, Contact, CSMC, NCTC, remembered as a member of the loyal stage crew. W, I 1 Nancy Benson Bens St. Rose of Lima Student Council Rep. 3, Vice Pres. 4, Contact CCM 3, 4, HR Pres. i, Cecelian Club, STMA Homecoming Queen candidate.