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

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UTS 0 Remember The first toddling steps in the portables as frosh... the bewildering up-stairs and down-stairs, inside and outside days of soph year, ending with our gloriously successful Bar-B-Q ... the cozy feeling as Juniors of really belonging and being important, highlighted by our thrilling JSR... the top-of-the-world days of senior year, with more and more activities packed tight into an already well-filled day. Se pages ai Eafe 2 ea ac eg eRe

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As freshmen and sophomores, we saw the construction, step by step, of the new four-story east wing addition to the school.

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Our first steps at SBHS The class of '66 entered SBHS at an exciting period in its history when the school was being enlarged. As we passed the Summer Street side of the school campus on this first day of school, we saw the almost completed annex between the two conven ts, which would soon be used as classrooms until the addition was completed. On this September day in ’62, one hundred and ninety-eight of us entered as freshmen and were as - signed to four portable classrooms and to the Home Freshman portables 47 and 48 had a fine view of the construction work spread out Economics lab of former years. before them, until seats were rearranged and attention focused on blackboards. Because of construction work going on about us, we did not have the thrilling experience of moving from classroom to classroom every period. Gone were the days when upper classmen looked out the windows upon the freshmen down below in the portable yard, for now every window on this side had been removed and a solid brick wall substituted. Freshman debaters: Sylvia Romano, Donna Harding, Joan Sweeney, Ronald Jngemie, and Frank Bambarola. We were enthusiastic about the Diocesan Decla- mation contest, eighty-one of us taking part. In the final class elimination, these four were on top: Donna Fitzgerald James Chartrand Marilyn Poitras James Craigen Three of us made the all-school play: David Blanchette Katherine O'Connell Gregory Sango In the Christmas play were: Deanne Courtemanche Katherine O’Connell Donna Zuchowski Our five freshman class- rooms were on the quiet side of the school on Good- rich Street. 18