St Angela Hall Academy - Veritas Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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KATHLEEN MARGARET LA TOURETTE President of June Class Daily snacks before French . . . dimples . . . slim . . . My brother ----- , . . . corny jokes . . . punctual letter writer??? . . . dreamy dancer . . . G.A. co-chairman . . . m sterious lans . . . Y P

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Forty Years of Blackboards If you have ever seen a cloud settle gently on the roof of St. Angela Hall, you may be sure it was chalk dust from forty years of Writing and erasing . . . forty years of parsing, of declining, of diagramming and of graphing . . . a memorial to the efforts of devoted teachers who taught, and of more or less reluctant students who learned, by Writing on a blackboard. If the blackboard could speak, how much it could tell us about the temperaments of the girls who dug or scratched, pounded or scrawled, on its silent surface. It felt the steady motion of a bold script or a timid backhand, and long after an eraser had rubbed the legend out, or a wet cloth washed it clean, it preserved the little secrets confided to it. The blackboard in its forty years stared at many bored faces. It watched as weary eyes dropped and heads nodded. It even caught the glances of despair not intended for teachers' eyes . . . but it said nothing. We, the Class of 1946, are of the confirmed opinion that no class has even given the blackboards of St. Angela Hall more abuse than we have, nor can any group claim a higher record than we do for the amount of chalk dust raised to Heaven. The blackboard is more than another fixture in the classroom, it is one of the factors that help to define the very being of a school. If it has learned our secrets, we trust it not to reveal them to our successors, and for the aid it has lent us and the somber face it has presented to our problems, we give to our blackboards a kind of parting benediction. May God bless them for the service they have rendered, and may their future work at St. Angela Hall continue to prosper the cause of Catholic education! -TERESA WELSH.

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0 MARGARET FRANCES ABBATEMARCO lnfectious giggle . . . matchrnaker . . . VVanna die laughing . . . class story teller . . Kiddies!!! . . , chatterbox . . . rapid departure at three . . . impersonator . . . laughs at her own jokes . . . partial to Marines. -6- -A-4 LZQGXJ O VIRGINIA ROSE AVERILL Class nightingale . . . President of Glee Club . . . strawberry blonde . . . Legion of Mary . . . extra large class ring . . . letters from john . . . Ham and cheese on rye . . . May Queen. .Y , i -