St Dominic High School - Torch Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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QFAO !AI'OllgA ,AE y?al':l Twelve years ago, thirteen for those of us who had a year of kindergarten, in the old red brick school on Sedgwick Street, many of our class began the eventful years of their scholastic career. The world war was in pro- gress. Fathers were away in service. Mothers were busy with war work. In the process of canonization was the little Italian religious who had worked in our very neighborhood, and the original Frances Cabrini Housing Project named in her honor was soon to be a reality. But its progress meant that some of us born under the shadows of St. Dominic's spires soon saw our homes in the hands of the wreckers. Blighted though they were, those Old buildings were dear to our hearts. But that was only the heginning of change. Soon we were to leave behind us the steep, footworn stairways, the grimy, water-stained walls and splintered g floors of the old school, loved for all its dreariness. September of 1945 saw us in solemn procession down Chicago Avenue, carrying such loads as our small arms could manage, in the great removal ceremony, under the direction of Sister Mary Patrize, principal, when the John Quincy Adams grade school build- ing became our new home. It too left much to be desired in the way of cleanliness, but was a handsome building in our eyes, and the new brick convent for the Sisters, next to the school, was palatial in com- parison with the dilapidated frame structure they were leaving. Our well-loved S. M. Vincent DePaul saw us through kindergarten, second and third grades, and S. M. St. Reginald through first: fourth and fifth and sixth were with Sisters Mary Amatora, Azella and Addolorata respectivelyg seventh saw our class split between Sisters Mary Catherine Rose and lgnatius Loyola , while in eighth we were reunited under S. M. Ignatius Loyola. Entering high school, ours was the first class large enough for two rooms, so we were again divided and under the direction of Sisters Mary Conso- I lina and Ivo. Initiation, a Ha1lowe'- , en dance, candle-lighting, a St. Pat- ' l j , X rick 5 day play and fashion show, featuring boy models, then a school picnic, and our freshman year was I OVCT.