St Catherines School - Quair Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Hi. ,Af-H ' 1 St. Cettberme J VIRGINIA RANDOLPH ELLETT, Headmistress Emerita LOUISA DEB. BACOT BRACKETT, INSTRUCTORS H ead m istress In Order of Their Appointment LOUISA COLEMAN BLAIR ELIZABETH MANN CHAMBERLAYNE MARY CRAIK MORRIS KATE MASON BROWN MARIE TALIAEERRO MARGARET MCVEY IOSEPHINE PAYNE MILLER MARY ARCHER RANDOLPH DOROTHY HOOD REBECCA CRAIGHILL MARY ALLEN MCCUE ELIZABETH FRANZ MARGARET ADAMS CHREITZBERC KATHERINE HOLMAN EDITH CRAIG VIRGINIA D. Cox LOUISE HAYNESWORTH MURRAY MELITA KNOWLES ELLENA MORGAN WALKER MARY ARCHER RANDOLPH ART AND MUSI ELLEN GUIGON REBECCA DAINGERFIELD GORDON KATHERINE BRANCH CAPERS ANNIE REINHARDT JAMES CAMILLE BAUDOT IAMES ALICE FRANKLIN WATKINS VAN GREENLEAE LUCY DURHAM IEANNETTE CARTER GEORGE TAYLOR DOUGLAS ALMA SALLEY MILDRED NOBLE MARGUERITE ZUMBACH LILLIAN GOUCI-IER X r . , NANCY DAVIDSON neu.. JJ ' M MARIAN WEST EM BLANTON MOLLY FLEET MARY DENMEAD RUFFIN FANNY W. STAUFFER MARY ARCHER TALCOTT HENRIETTA DAVIDSON ANN HOLMAN , IEAN BRAY C FLORENCE RICHARDSON MARGARET OWEN ELEANOR BURRUSS BARBARA N. BENNETT EXECUTIVE AND HOUSE STAFF HANNAH FAIRFAX WASHINGTON, Head of Resident Department LENA WILLS ANNE C. REVERCOMB EMMA C. FISHER IDA M. ANDERSON ELLA S. PILKINTON ELLA D. MUNCE ALICE W. WOOLFOLK IANET D. BLANTON SARA W. FAULKNER MARY I-I. SISSON, R. N. SOPHIE CARTER WASHINGTON FRANCIS H. IMIAZARD, R. N. GERTRUDE DUVALL BELLA C. CARRINGTON, R. N. HARRIET COOKE ANNA A. MURTLAND OTIE E. MCCUE MARY TAYLOR REYNOLDS

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Editorial HE days pass quickly, and we seldom look back into the past and review what we have done. That is why we need something that will help us, when we have left St. Catherine's, to remember the life we have led here. For the purpose of refresh- ing these memories we have our Quair, by which we can retrace, clockwise, the years we have spent here. Long agojime moving hands of the clock brought the year that we were to go to school for the nrst time, and we entered the Lower School, full of happy expectancy. Now, when we read the poems that the Lower School has contributed to this book, we remember that we too wrote of brownies and fairies and were thrilled by the first spring flowers we found and brought proudly to school. The pictures of the playground bring to our minds the hard games we played and the make-believe families that we were members of. Each day the world showed us new wonders, and our future seemed bright with excitement and adventure. As the years passed, and we grew a little older, we entered the Middle School. Here we learned of responsibility for ourselves and others. Our days were filled with classes, games, and school activities. We felt that we were active members of the School, and we gave eagerly of our abundant spirit. We had our own booths for the Spring Festival, and we worked hard in the rehearsals for the operettas. Realization came that each one of us is a person, and each must be responsible for herself. We watched older girls and their ways. We were learning what it is to grow up. We found ourselves in the Upper School. People now absorbed our attention. We began to realize how much pleasure and knowledge comes from companionship. We found that our minds can be enlarged by conversation, that our lives can be enriched by sharing experiences. In carrying on our student government, we have had to face some of the problems which always arise when people live closely together. In working with the League, we have learned to regard ourselves not as so many separate individuals but as responsible members of a whole, which is the School, and the League has turned our eyes ahead to the task of becoming responsible members of society. As the hands of the clock bring our days at St. Catherinels to an end, we realize that we have come to a new beginning. We have as a background all that we have learned through books, through the people we have known, and through the responsibilities that we have shouldered. Our future is not vague as it was in the Lower School, nor extremely personal as it was in the Middle School, but clear and full, lighted by the goals toward which St. Catherineis has taught us to strive. We leave to the School this Quair, a partial record of what we have all done together this year. We leave too our hope and expectation that each class that follows us will have even more memories to carry away of days which have brought pleasure and gain to them and to St. Catherine's School.