St Agnes High School - Palm Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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various activities . . . Juniors of last year presided at the punch bowl on May Day. Here Sharon Schoener serves El- len McNamee and her mother while Reva McMahon and Betty Schwind stand ready to pass punch and sandwiches. The fruit of a Science Club Held trip, members Donna Elliott, Lorraine Shortino, Jean Shortino, Ann Levandoski, and Rose Mary O'Brien sample the grapes at the N. Y. State Experimental Station at Geneva. 35 Roberta Masseau and Joan Pereira check over the gift packages prepared to send abroad through the American Red Cross.

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to plag a part m Beth Lang passes sweets to her mother at the May Day re- ception for mothers. Sitting with them are Greg Lang and Peggy Wahle's mother. High school life gives us th e opportunity to do many other things than learn from textbooks, lt lets us be Big Sisters to the Freshmen at the annual Welcome party, participants in civic enterprises like the Read-Think-Vote Campaign, contributors to deserving organizations like the American Red Cross, Members of filed trips sponsored b the Scie Cl ' Y nce ub and hostesses to our mothers on May Day. Freshmen and 34 A prize-winning scrapbook in the Gannett Read-Think and Vote Campaign was compiled by these Juniors Ellen McNamee and -.loan Klehr isittingt, Mar- garet Gervais and Peggy Wahle fstandingl. Sophomores mingle at the wel- coming party for first year students. Here they pause to say Grace before beginning to eat.

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i Lady, forgive me, I am a thief. I stole your amuletl con- fesses Barshan, the Egyptian merchant iJoan Cariolal to Oc- tavia lJoan Pereiral. . . . or tell again the wondrous storu . . . Rough Roman soldiers, harassed travelers, a sharp- tongued mistress of the inn, a crafty merchant not above cheating his customers, an undersized little Greek slave girl and a haughty Patrician Roman matron-all helped to make STAR SONG, presented by the Junior class as their Christmas play a memorable dramatic venture. None of these people in the play had any idea that a great and holy event was taking place that night the travelers' child was born in the cow shed of the inn, yet into the life of each one of them came a subtle and im- proving change. When the cow-shed doors are thrown open the lovely young mother fMary Ellen 0'Connelll and her husband Joseph fEllen McNameel fbehind herl are seen surrounded by shepherds Bette Gantert, Marilyn Adams, Antoinette Cavicchioli and Juanita Merkel. Amfhf XX 1 X ar. 5 gX --'E' fill Siti lDolores Onoratol personal slave to Octavia, directs the slave bearers 1Marilyn Van Curran and Mary Joyce Sheehanl in the placing of the painted chests and bundles. 36