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

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Don’t Take My Penny was our first three-act play. Sharon LaFleur was Penny with movie-star aspirations. Her very busy father and mother were Peter McGrath and Denise Fredette. Emma Hatstat was her attractive sister and Stephen LeBlanc, her farm-minded brother. Her lovable grandmother was Marianne McCue. Penny’s loyal girl friend was Gail Brassard; her resourceful boy friend, David Normandin; his pal with ideas, John Crotty. Roxanne Cote was a maid with a purpose. John Carpenter was a publicity man; Michael O’Leary, a young author; and John Carignan, a French designer. Ellen Gilman, Cheryl O’Donnell, and Ann Pelletier were models.

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Mayor William G. Flynn proclaimed March 25, as St. Bernard’s High School Day throughout the city. This was done to honor our bas- ketball team for capturing the N.C.M.C. championship and the District HI Crown. The latter was won with but fourteen seconds left in the game when soph Jack Ha- zell calmly walked to the foul line and with the poise of a pro, sank the two free throws, giving us the victory over St. John’s. We followed our team to the Boston Garden and saw them defeat Braintree but go down to undefeated Catholic Memorial. But school spirit still lingered as we sang our school songs all the way to the buses and home. ied

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In the Winter Carnival, the sophomores copped first place honors with their construc- tion of two turtles made from the snow accumulation of some forty inches at the Bowl. At the record hop which concluded the all-day affair, the class was presented with a first-class trophy. An afternoon of games, fun, and refresh- ments was well planned by the fourteen pupils elected from soph homerooms under the direction of Mr. McGuirk and Deborah Raboin and Paul Chapdelaine. This first big venture of June 15 as a class helped to bring us closer together and made us realize that our strength and success depended upon how well we worked together. How we sweated and fretted to make the Sophomore Bar-B-Q of “69 the biggest and best! The Math and Science Fair of March 17 achieved a different look with its new format tending to utilize in-depth research and com- petent and articulate oral presentation, rather than the old way of posters, charts, and projects with not so much scientific skill exerted in many cases. For this change indivi- dual classrooms were used instead of the cu stomary arrangement in the gym. 13