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

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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.

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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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As the date set for the second annual Language Fair was November 14, no time was lost in preparing for this event. Soon many of us were tripping the light fantastic in Spanish or French dances, or singing native songs, or acting in some skit, such as the death scene from Don Quixote. Hours were spent in making costumes, projects, and in the build- ing of a French village or Spanish pueblo. French pastries were also made and served by pupils. While soph boys were going out for cross country or football, girls were trying to put into practice the proper etiquette instructions set forth in a series of talks and illustrations by Miss Mary Curtin.