St Francis Xavier Academy - Xavier Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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EDITORIAL STAFF MARY GERTRUDE LOUGHRAN Editor-In-Chief Elirabeth Catherine McCarthy j Elizabeth de Chantal Daley Associate Editors Florence Josephine Garvey ) Class Motto: ituUa palma sine Laboix Class Colors: Black and Gold OFFICIAL CLASS OF 1909 SAINT XAVIER’S ACADEMY Catherine Josephine Gilbane, President Catherine Teresa McKitchen, Vice President Helen Gertrude Mahoney, Secretary Francis Euphrasia Cooper, Treasurer

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holiday. It is not unusual for a class to dramatize successfully a little sketch ; but it reflects considerable extra credit when that class reviews the literature of “Amateur Dramas” selects those well suited to the particular talent of the members of the class and assigns just the right role to each girl. Our elocution teacher, Miss Dodge, let us do all our own planning, knowing that we should thereby gain some power of initiative. She was delighted with the results. That is why we were pleased with ourselves because Miss Dodge never gives any praise that is not merited. Have we been guilty of the blindness of confusing the virtue with the fault, as we accused others of doing in our first lines? We hope not, because even in our short experience which has been wholly in the school-room, we know that there is much truth in the lines of the Rubaiyat, “A little talk awhile of me and thee There was—and then no more of thee and me.” That is why we have made people talk enough about us while we’re here so as to compensate for the silence which may follow. The last part of May brings two events to which we eagerly look forward all the year : the first, you have all witnessed, the appearance of our edition of “The Xavier”; the second is our reception into the Alumnae at their annual banquet on Decoration Day. It is pleasant to be a pupil of Saint Xavier’s, but it is much more so to be. an alumna. That’s the way it seemed to us the night this year they flattered us by inviting us to give them “The Rainbow Kimona.” Do ou wish to know something of the night ? Our bishop was there and all the members present went up and talked to him after the entertainment. This itself was a treat which was a cause of envy to us. Then they had another kind of a treat which was served from prettily decorated tables, and we liked that, too. The Alumnae Association meets four times a year and the hall is crowded with graduates of former years who come joyfully to reunite in the halls of their Alma Mater, to discuss a little business, to be entertained in some delightful way that their president, with her board, devises, and finally to talk over their tea cups. We only had a passing view of it all, that night in March, but we know we shall be delighted to join an organization which means so much to each individual member and which benefits and helps by its existence our dear Alma Mater, Saint Xavier’s Academy.

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REVEREND FATHER DOWLING Our Friend and Benefactor