St Bernards High School - Bernardian Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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+ sisy' , ne Our School a aria Our class of 1954 will be the 26th to gradu- ate from our present high school. Ten of us have parents who graduated from this school in the classes of 1930, °31, 32, °33, and ’34,. These seniors are: Judith Boyden, James Deery, Robert Flynn, Richard Fortin, Paul McNally, Margot Morin, Joanne O’Sulli- van, Noel Roberts, Carolyn Tocci, and Robert Whitney. September of 1953 found us with an enroll- ment of 804. Our class will be the largest ever to graduate from SBHS. This is the first year that it became necessary to have four home- rooms to take care of our 192 seniors coming from 18 different parishes.

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Margot and Judy's song hit and skit with Joe and Larry at our reception to the seniors of '53 suggested the theme Side by Side for our BERNARDIAN of 1954, as we showed then that we were a class traveling along, singing a song, sharing the load, side by side. 3