St Johns Preparatory School - Spire Yearbook (Danvers, MA)

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March . . . The winds of March that make my heart a dancer . . . The Science Fair dominating our campus scene . . . A mad rush to .get each project finished on time . . . Borrowing odds and ends of material from Brother Iohn or Brother Gerard . . . Hey, do you know I spent twenty bucks on this gadget? . . . Science teachers Brother Harold, Brother Thaddeus, and Mr. Mastrolia continually as- sailed by a barrage of questions . . . All the labs constantly in use . . . Science ruling all our Waking hours . . . Would we win? Would the endless hours that we spent bear fruit? Would the judges cast a kindly eye on our exhibition? March . . . The Sodality Reception . . . Becoming in a very special way Children of Mary . . . The beauty of the ceremony . . . The thrill that was ours as we dedicated ourselves to the Mother of God . . . Can- dles . . . Organ music . . . Peace of soul and a radi- ant happiness . . . March . . . The calendar month tor spring . . . St. Patrick's Day and all the Sons of Erin-Frank Ma- loney in particular-as proud as could be . . . Thoughts ot the Easter Vacation stealing into our minds . . . The track team busy in the gym every afternoon . . . The pre-spring restlessness that came to us on occasions . . . The scholastic grind and the old, old routine that had by now become part of our existence . . . March . . . The lilac bush behind the intirmary start- ing to bud . . . Pitchers and catchers warming up for the approaching baseball season . . . The long, long thoughts ,ot youth . . . The grass turning green and the days running by . . . 4, 4411- -:- L FRANK MURPHY looked on while Pete Drott showed some scientiiic know-how. WE DID OUR LAPS in the gym and waited for the arrival of springtime weather.

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IIM CABRAL STRIDES along the sunshine. April . . . Oh, to be in England-or in Da:nvers-or just anywhere at all when the breezes of spring come Whispering . . . The sharp crack of the bat . . . The activity on the tennis court cmd the good sound of feet pounding down the track . . . The most beau- tiful of the seasons at the Prep . . . The time for poetry and a letter from the girl friend back home . . . The time for a dozen and one dreams and the constant fight against that delicious laziness that we modems call spring fever but the ancients called dementia vernalis-spring madness . . . April on the Prep campus . . . Loafing in the sun at lunch time . . . The days getting longer and the spring 'sunsets something to watch from the big study hall irrrxavier . . . The raucous shout of Mr. Masirolia from theklliaseball field . . . Brother Iohn Chrysostom lziusilyffdirectxing the workmen as the lawns and hedgesf4getTal'spring Cleaning . . . Spring-as gay 'Y0'1J,fl1 itself. Spring?- 4f7:'i' A son'g'?i1ffhe corridors of Time . . . crew cuts and sore arms and the frantic balls and baseball gloves . . . ,and the sudden glory of nature's re- A stroll down to Myrtle Pond just to was warming up . . . The ancient game of eggs in the Quad . . . The butfnever the realization of shorter class . . . Talk of jobs we hoped to get for the summer . . . That wonderful, Wonderful , . .P . Paschal music and Easter joy and baseball and track and tennis into one . . . Springtime rain . . . The that the end of another school up in the distance . . . Unrest and outside World, but a contentment Within that only April could bring . . . 2