Shrine of the Little Flower High School - Theresian Yearbook (Royal Oak, MI)

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Rejflectd the plencfor of the padt styled Butterfly Ball. Huge butterfiies swung from the ceiling forming a canopy of gay color. As this was Father Coughlin's and the Shrine's jubilee year, the school presented a pageant which portrayed their twenty-five years of service to the Church. The year came to an end with graduation pre- cecded by a trip, once again to Walled Lake, and sponsored by the underclassmen while we eagerly anticipated our own commencement. Now after due preparation and anxiety, we have finally reached the coveted goal, senior year. Naturally we are proud, and as we look back through the pages of our high school days, we are a little sentimental, too. We began our seniority in 1951 with literally loads of activities. Our rings, which we had ordered in june, arrived in September and now our fingers were graced with the shining gold crest of L.F.H.S. The rings were blessed and pre- sented by Father Coughlin in a ceremony held in our Chapel. With this, we were officially recog- nized as seniors. Royally is the word to describe the way we were treated these first few days. We were even allowed to shed our unibags and dress up for our class breakfast which was held in the caf- eteria. Soon the football season was well under way and we all looked forward to a huge bonfire and pep rally, with a dance following the game. Need we mention that somebody anticipated the bon- fire and we had to build it again? Will we ever forget our magazine subscrip- tion drive? Don't look now, but the seniors lost. Our penalty was to decorate the gym for the magazine dance, called The Mardi Gras and held in February. Little did they know that we love to decorate the hall for such festive occa- sions. Of course we had to clean up, too-but why go into that? Think of the fine new RCA movie projector, Web-Cor tape recorder, slide film projector and cabinet which we purchased for the school, through the drive. just before Thanksgiving we had our Home- coming Ball for the Alumni. We dispensed with the usual turkey and pumpkin decorations and de- cided on the rustic theme. Waxed bottles, logs and a wishing well complemented our camou- fiaged basketball nets as we danced and chatted with everyone. In May we gave our pride and joy the operetta, Meet Arizona, with seniors in most of the lead- ing parts. We have hidden talent-or so they say. We also had hidden sore muscles before re- hearsals were over. But we were good troupers for the show must go on and it certainly did. By this time., our first sodality was well under way and proving to be quite a success. Solemn reception, a special retreat and installation of offi- cers were big events, but the crowning result of the sodalists, work was the two days set aside for studying our future careers. Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief, richman, poor- man, beggarman, thief. Career day left us baffled! There were so many fields to choose from and so many interesting speakers, our minds were in a dither. Engineering, teaching, radio, and journal- ism were all represented, and one day was de- voted to the religious life and lay apostolate. After these inspiring talks we were left to decide into which category we belonged. We are so grateful to the school and the many men and women who came to the Shrine on these days to give us pointers on how we can be successful, too. This concluded one of the most exciting and busiest years of our school life. We are leaving as a class memorial an outdoor statue of St. Therese which will hold the center spot of the front campus. Here she will continue to help future Shrine students along her Little Way to perfection. Her spirit we take with us, grateful to have been a part of her special family here at Shrine, hopeful that we shall all join you once again in her heavenly family.

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the cold shoulder so we were all sent home From then on everybody was Ed s best friend Came the Valentine Dance Hearts and Howers changed the transformed gym 1nto a floating val entme as we danced to dreamy music Then would come Monday and all week we were all kept busy trying to dodge the Student Council members and pass exams So by the time the weekends rolled around we were ready and rarin for a good fast basketball game Soon the crocuses were peeping their tiny noses up into the fresh spring air and we were sure that summer was on its way Our field day went off with a bang' Our freshmen girls walked I P yard dash We had left our mark with the first year teachers and now we were movmg on to our second year to confirm our athletic ability and good sportsmanship After treating the seniors to a day at Walled Lake vye bade our graduates Good Luck at class night and added a few melodies to our reper toire A two months yacatnon hen stared us in the face ust think' Soon we would be full fledged sophomores' The great day arriyed at last md we began our sophomore year with Mass in honor of the Holy Ghost in our new Chapel a building all by itself unique in the history of high schools As rremulous sophomores we entered our classes vyrth a promise of more work and less play Our girls still showed who was boss on the basketball floor md to hold our reputation we Radiance of the Avredent CLASS HISTORY Shrine of the Little Flower High School for Girls. Out came paint and brushes and the for Girls was no more, for the Knights had invaded the hallowed halls of good 'ole L.F.H.S. As we dodged in and out of falling plaster and hanging canvas, we became accustomed to our new surroundings and to the new extension to our building which was under way And we looked forward to the fact that we would be the first co ed graduating class We re the freshman fine n dandy fine n dandy freshmen we Rodgers 8: Hart didn t have any thing on us cause we spent our first couple of weeks producing songs and hmericks about our peppy class We wanted to make ourselves known and we surely did By the time initiation rolled around the senior udge had something against each and every one of us and our knees quaked as we ascended the stage steps to face an un merciful jury We were charged with contamm ating semor air by breathing' And there were many other charges equally heinous Thus we learned our first lesson A lowly freshman can not win Three cheers for the Shrine Hi furnace One dav it failed' Remember that? Izverybody got carried away the trophy for the girls West Side CY O championship Because 1951 was the Silver ubilee of the L1ttle Flowers canonization the parrshs project was the Cantata In our movie The Life of Saint Therese a number of sophomores proudly took part Truly we were prouder than ever that ours was the first church in the whole world to be dedicated to her Among other dramatic presentations was the big sophomore pep rally and talent show which gaye most of us a chance to show off a bit I guess we all had a bad case of S0ph0mOflIlS An exceptionally fine time was had by all at and sponsored by the Dramatics Club Remember the big red hearts and nosegays7 With our hard earned class dues and hopes for a good time we took the seniors of 50 to Walled Lake for a day of fun This escapade was just the calm before the storm of exams Then came summer At long last we had passed the half way mark and we believed that some day fyust one more year in factj with a little more work and the help of St Therese our patroness we would be graduates too Our boys achieyed the goal of intramural basketball championships while the girls came ln second Of course THE eyent of the year was the jun1orSenlor Prom in May All was excitement and secrecy for weeks ahead When the big night arriy ed we Proudly presented a beautiful sunken garden Callas gymj to our seniors appropriately I I .. 2 I , Y Y, ' I 9 ' ' ' Y , 1 5 i ' .sl ll ' ' s , .I i . u . - ' YI .i....-.... , . . . . . , ' n 1 u , u . , u ' 7 awa' with all the h0rl01'S CXCE I one-the 100 the Valentine dance tagged Opus in Pastels 1 1 Y ' y Y ' ' ' . V . ' - y ' 3 J. ,,,, . 2 s . . I 'v I . I, K . , i i A i . - I , . 'V . I . A ' . 2 - - ' , ' Z '

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Biology students do some extra research cxammlng the skeleton of a cat ab Rev Father Staucker CSSp says gooclby to Wxllns Stephens an front of school after gxvmg a talk and show mg movles on the African mlsstons of the Holy Ghost Fathers and Shrmc students come from twenty five cllfferent parishes of the Archdiocese At left Thomas Reed a senior clraftmg student adds fimshlng touches to a map depicting the locatlon of these various parishes The Shrine organist and cholrmaster Stanislaw Dc-gorskx conducts smgnng classes durmg the noon acuvm penods In 1946 Mr Degorskn came to this country from his natne Poland where he had successively served xn the Polish army and then In the Polnsh underground as lxalson offncer be tween the Umted States and Poland He IS well known on the concert stages of Europe and was gy mnastlc champion of Poland Besides this abun dance of musxcal and athleuc Rblllly Mr Degorskl IS an able lmguxst and possesses a thorough knowl edge of scxence math and the lxterary arts 0 V Tffil' Q 'fl' 'it y 2 ' ' 5 . ' in Y . Q . . N 'Q' ' V1 'M , , l ' Y Q M 4 'ju if ' V. ' a SIKA 'novs I 'la. v'5,'N ' 5 xlxuivl f O . ' , . . . ' ' ' ' Vs 'f JN