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

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TENA : = = g y : : $ s : : 3 : In the cast of “Keep Your Halo Straight” were Claudia Bilotta, Katherine Carroll, James Halligan, Donald Norman- din, Michael Robillard, Mary Sango, Debra Siart, and Sandra Sullivan. Receiving awards in the Science Fair of ‘68 were Denise Boivin, Sandra Cormier, Denise Fredette, Ellen Gilman, Emma Hatstat, Gail LaCouture, Sharon LaFleur, and Mari- anne McCue. In the intramurals, Martin Murphy was high frosh with 18 points. The girls placed three teams in competition in their intramurals. Gail Bedard, Susan Owen, Karen Sova, and Paula Stone were chosen to take the place of senior cheerleaders. We contributed to the enthusiastic response given to the first language fair at SBHS with its plays, skits, and dances of French and Spanish students. At the awards assembly in June, Richard Lussier merited a letter in baseball; Brian Finneron and Thomas Nikitas in track. June the month of roses was also the month of final exams taken as the temperature and sunshine announced that summer and the end of our first high school year were just around the corner.

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Call back frosh yesterday, bid time return! Freshman year began with a swirl of new impressions. . . new faces, new experiences, new friendships, new resolutions .. . sense of strangeness died with the fall of autumn leaves... spring saw things beginning to pop . . . our water pistol fights . final exams with summer’s approach . . . the end of a great first year. Measured for blazers made the 232 of us newcomers feel that we were on the road to being accepted as real high school students at SBHS. We were not eligible for the Worcester Diocesan Speech Festival but many of us did try out for the interclass play. Francis Arsenault, John Hazell, and Craig Martin turned out for the cross-country track team. We also had our own frosh football and later our basketball team. Richard Chartrand, assistant manager of the varsity team played an important role in getting our gridsters on to the field. Christmas came early to SBHS with a new classroom Sony Super Television, the first video-recorder in the area. Costumed freshmen assisted the seniors at their “Old New England Christmas” dance. John Hazell was our pride and joy on the J.V. basketball team. We shared in the congratulations accorded our hoop- sters in winning the North Central Massachusetts Conference championship. 4 mer i an nat tae

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Sophomore year...a transitional period ....the time when we were most reckless and very much alive ...now we knew the score... well equipped with that carefree confidence which characterizes sophs everywhere ...our collective identity really began to emerge... reached its fullness in our first big all-school project . . . the Sophomore Bar-B-Q. Vacation weeks passed quickly and our sophomore year was now before us. Enrollment figures totaled 891 encompassed in twenty-five homerooms. Although our soph class of two hundred nine was the smallest of the four we felt that what we lacked in numbers was amply made up for in quality.