St Catherines School - Quair Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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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.

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Eumaeru SUZANNE BELDING IXINLEIIAM, BIASSACHUSETTS One Year The only way to have a friend is to be one. Hockey Squad. '395 St. Catherines Choir, '39q Sports Editor of Board of Publications, '39g Senior Play, '.'59. Betty Sue came to St. Catherine's as a new girl in the senior class, but her winning smile and friendly ways soon made her one of us. In no time at all she knew all the Seniors and had made loads of friends. That beautiful red hair and those blue eyes, that sparkle so when she laughs, are all part of Betty Sue's personality. Her hockey game cer- tainly helped the Squad end a grand undefeated SCHSUH. Nothing more need be said about her scholastic abilities when we know that she is planning to enter Vassar next fall! VVe certainly couldn't have a better sports editor for the Scrap Basket. for she is both capable and interested in athletics. Knowing Betty Sue as we do, we feel sure she will he a welcome addition to any group she joins. CIATHARINE VVILLSON ADAMs Ricunozvn. VIRGINIA Ten Years jest and youthful jollityf' Christmas Play, '36g Integrity Committee, '37g Pirates of Penzance, '37g Safety Patrol. H385 Fire Chief, '39g Class Hostess, '39g Senior Play, 39. WNe all burst into laughter when she is addressed as Catharine. for to us she has always been known as Kitty fand don't forget the extra 1 in VVillson7. Kitty has the rare ability of remaining in a good humor when everything seems to be going wrong. Many have been the times we have been calmed by her gentle disposition and thrown into convulsions by her witty sayings. At any time one of us may be heard to say, Oh, Kitty won't mind, and, as is expected, she doesn't. Although Kitty appears not to have a care in the world---that is, except when she's looking for her glassesfashe studies hard and often pops out with the right answer when no one else knows it. She has a contagious smile without the usual sickly grin, and it is no wonder. with those perfect teeth! When she laughs, truly the world laughs with her. Kitty goes merrily along her way and yet contributes greatly to our good times with her gentleness and pleasing personality.