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

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In 1926 the cornerstone of St. Bernard’s High School was laid. It was built as a parish high school but soon became regional with as many as seventeen parishes represented. As additional classrooms were needed, portable buildings were built, two at a time, until there were eight. When the property at the corner of Summer and Goodrich Streets was acquired, a large garage on the property was converted into a Home Economics Lab. When the addition to the school was begun, two unfinished classrooms were built in the annex between the two convents. With the completion of the new annex, all of the portables were dismantled and there were no more classes in the garage nor in the convent annex. Department Directors Sister Mary Anselm Sister Mary Borgia Sister Mary Esther Sister Mary Jean English Social Sciences Business Foreign Languages Mr. Thomas Lane Sister Mary Lorraine Sister Mary Virginia Mathematics Science Classics 13

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Dedication It is with pleasure that we dedicate our 1967 Bernardian to Sister Mary Jean, our principal. As former French teacher at SBHS, Sister is no stranger to any of us and we are sure that her new administrative position will bring her even closer to us than before. We know that she will always have the same kind, understanding, and genuinely warm personality which has been the hallmark of her years of devoted service at St. Bernard’s.

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On September 7, 1966, a total of nine hundred twenty-two boys and girls entered SBHS. Twenty-three homerooms were available to accommodate all these Bernardians under one roof and thirty-three members of the faculty were present to receive them. There had been changes and increases in the faculty so that there were new faces and names to become acquainted with — Mother Mary Carmelita, Sr. M. Consilia, Sr. M. Ellen, Sr. M. Laurita, Sr. M. Perpetua, Mr. Femmel, Mr. Lafortune, Mr. Szady, Mr. Taddeo, and Mr. Sermuksnis. Juniors, sophomores, and freshmen have six homerooms each while the seniors have five. The freshman class consisting of two hundred fifty-one, together with the identical number of sophomores, compose the largest number of students per class. The juniors rank next with two hundred twenty-eight. Mr. George Dunn Mr. Francis Lafortune Mr. Richard Lamothe Geometry Math History Mr. Thomas McGuirk Mr. Charles McManus Mr. David Szady Mr. James Taddeo Biology English Science History Humanities Math English mes Mr. Zigmas Sermuksnis Mrs. Edmund Burke Mrs. Warren Fisher Mrs. Russell Johnson Technical Drawing Secretary Secretary Cafeteria Math 14