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

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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

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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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Grade II— Grade XII While from others with us in’44 we have parted, We'll be the same as we Started, Just traveling along, singing a Song, Side by side. St. Bernard’s all through the 27 years of its ex- istence has fostered devotion to our Blessed Mother. This is as it should be for it is rightfully said of our patron, St. Bernard, that no other writer of the first thousand years of the Church had such an ardent love for the Mother of God and wrote so beautifully of her. How well Ricky, Robert, Jackie, and Rosemary remember that day back in ’44 when radiantly white in First Holy Communion attire, they were attendants to the May Queen (Margaret Mary Mullahy) who later placed her crown on Mary’s head and her flow- ers at her feet! Clockwise: Robert Flynn, Richard O'Connor, John Rourke, Rose- mary Laino.