St Clare High School - Je Me Souviens Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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JE MIS SOUVIENSH Vly dear frlends lf a1r messages haye already become boresome to Amerlcan grrls sea messages I hope sttll retam therr popularlty And when they are penned by one attached to such a recluse as a mollusk therr value must be helghtened No wonder you thank me aloof from all the mterests of th1s modern world after you have been tramed to call one of my kxnsmen by the very veord the Latlns used for secret CLAM Besldes the fact that sxaety to seventy feet of water lsolate me from you mortals IS hkely to brmg upon me the surname of hermxt May thls message rectxfy your oprmon Do vou conslder vourselt fortunate to hear from me You should for besleged as l am a full month every year I lgnore how long my lrfe here below vylll be Indeed dlyers come from aboye slmnlar to Nl3Zl ralders and just prck me up Better than bemg bombed you say Perhaps Yet scores of relatlves have left me thxs way t1ll l feel abaneloned rn thus drstant Persxan Gulf Vwfonder 1n whose laands I ll fall One of mv ancestors you lenove IS sald to have adorned Cleopatra herself lye heard folks extol the qualltles of my yellow sister but belng eolor bllnd l regret to say l do not know my own shade Beheve lf or not the world as well as l rgnored even my nature t1ll l consented to be examlned by Mr Tavermer l-le reported thus a nacreous secretlon produced wrthxn the shell of certam blvalye mollusles Expertmentmg on me he and certam assoclate sclentrsts m thelr desire to merease productlon found an artrficral uay of brmglng about my formatxon. But, the Chinese had already beat them to it witla fairly good results. -.,?+4 L,

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JE VIE SOUVIENS 'nge who ln her long ltfe hld aceumulwted wlnt she c1lled wealth She wts known as one ofthe ktndest women tn her communtty Wlmeneyer she learned of tllness eyen though the netghbors were not her frlends she was always ready to lend a hand ThlS l1ttle w htte hatred womm had aecumulated a wealth of loye of respect and of gratttude by servtce I belteye that ts the finest success a woman can achleye DORIS Ctmmaox 41 It was the fourteenth of September Ind I had the good fortune to be promoted It was not on a day that was very cheerful tt was one of those grey days that leave one w1th an awful feelmg of dtscouragement and defeat I was gotng Into a class wtth br1ght gtrls who spoke French fluently and there I was a poor dumb Ir1sh glrl strugglmg wtth the tntrtcactes of the French language What a day that was Every g1rl tn the room so I 1mag1ned w as starlng at me I felt ltke a shlp at sea sendtng an S O S After a month wftth these gtrls I felt at home and now at the end ofa year I can say I am pretty good at speiktng French lust you watt and see I ll be 1s proflctent as you gtrls yet AIICI BRADH 41 And I used to thmk Jewel was worthy of h1s name but now I thmk such as my Angora cat Yes there are cats more dtrty looktng such 1s those that roam tn the cellars of the grocery stores 'I here are cats far la71er such as that of M1551 tttlepuss But there ts no cat who ean stand longer tn your back yard howlmg a blue streak tn the mtddle of the ntght Nor IS there any other c1t you would luke to glye away so often as ours Cewstfwct Colt -11 As I look back on the days when I was a chlld I find that tt dtd not take much to make me happy Only the fact that I was to recelye a gtft made me bubble oyer wtth joy I can remember how deltghted I was on my slxth btrthday when I was gtyen a ltght blue crepe de chme dress wlth plnk bows Today w hen I thtnk of that I laugh and say How foollsh to thmk that clothes matter Now clothes are constdered secondary tn my ltfe Vv'hat re1lly makes me hippy I5 to do somethtng for others whether tt be brothers or ststers classmttes or frtends ll does not mtke my eltfferenee To be eon tent we must contrtbute somethxng of ourselyes I SA XNRI Nfl I-ll I l Y I K I I ' X 1 x S H ' D i ' i I I l . Y l !Y! H 3 I . . I 1 1 v1 1 1, 11 1 1 I1 1 L r v 1 v 1 . ' ' 1 v ' 1- ' 1 y L + L 1 1 ' Y! 1 A i I H .1 V3 L . 'I 1 L -IVE. V 1 C L 1 H X 1 5 V 11 ' Q 3 3 1 v 1 1 y' 11 ' ' 1 1 1 1 , , 1 , 3 3 . ' AA 5 v. 3 ' 3 V A li' I 1 I3 v I i I , X 5 . 7 I 1 . Jewel 1S the most hateful cat tn our netghborhooel. I here are cats far blgger, Y I 1 B 1 H I . I C I 3 X 5 J V 3 F 3 H H L . c A ' 1 1 1 I 1 1 ' 1 1 1 l I I ! I I I I ' 1 I 5 6 ' 1 I Yi V Y 1 1 If 'S Y, 7 Y 1 J. Y A V1 . I H I 'J . 1 7 r . v ' ' ' . . ': ' ' , 1 , , . 1 1 , , , 1 1g 1 1 L '- 1 ' l 1 A y 1 1 ' 1 1 - ' , ,. '1 - ' 11 1 1 I 1 1 -1 S 1 - 4 3 vu I 1 1 l 1 Yi' 'I'11lR1' 1A ' for '41 - +1 7 1+ -

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