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

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May . . . the Blessed Mother's month . . . Spring in its full glory . . . Days full of languid sunshine . . . Homework so difficult to do . . . Snatches of poetry drifting through our minds . . . Would the summer ever come . . . May . . . Devotions in chapel in the early evening . . . Oh, Mary, We crown thee with blossoms . Would we remember in other Mays, in other years, the emotions that flooded our hearts as we chanted praise to the Mother of God? Would We remember our classmates who knelt in the chapel with us and prayed by our side? In two years, in a dozen years, where would they be? . . . Dave Perini, Tony Capo- dilupo, Iohn McNamara, Tom Foote, George Allen, A Mike Carusone . . . ,Would we ever return to kneel again in the hushed chapel and relive youths .pre-,ig Y cious moments? A A May . . . A vagrant breeze redolent with the spring- time . . . A soft night of moonlight with the spire of Xavier etched against a cloudless sky . . . A handful of stars and a heart full of dreams . . . A hectic hour on the tennis court . . . A base hit or two laps around the track . . . A walk to town on a hot Saturday afternoon . . . Track meets and baseball games and prayers at the Grotto . . . May 4, .i The Father-Son Banquet . . . The athletic awards . . . The this-is-almost-the-end sort of feeling . . . The packing of clothes and personal belongings . . . May . . . Where we were Seniors and the pre- cious hours flew by and the wide, wide world was ce11ing'ust.gt. A T -A Jef W' BASEBALL MEANT not only action on the diamond but no five o'clock study hall. Life could be wonderful at times!

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Iune . . . Iourney's End . . . Time for Goodbyes and God speed . . . We never thought it would come, this finale, this closing of a door upon old dreams . . . Sunlight Warm and golden streaming down up- on the campus . . . Undergrads heading tor Myrtle Pond . . . But We as Seniors had to sever old ties . . . Thoughts ot the Prom, of Commencement, of the ap- proaching summer, of life on a college campus . . . Let's take a last look at the corridors of Xavier, at the rooms on the third or fourth floor where We spent our final year at the Prep . . . Do you remember the day when . . . Do you remember the night when . . . Hosts of golden memories thronging the Halls of Ivy . . . Goodbye to Tony and Ioe and Dave . . . Bye-bye Nick and Paul McManus and Tom Sullivan . . . Take care of yourself, Bob Michaud, and the best of every- thing, Tom Foote . . . What will become of us any- way as the years drift by? We'll return here, of course, if not in body then in spirit. For these years, these precious years, will be relived a hundred times in retrospect . . . Iune . . . Goodbye, Brother Bertin . . . Strange how lovely and appealing the campus looks . . . And the stadium where we spent so many wonderful after- noons . . . Who would have thought that the Frosh would become a Senior . . . That tour years could go by soiswittly . . 1sThat Hello would so quickly be- come Goodbye . . . ' il ., , .1 . I, N fu jf-.-.-x' ' 'Ig' ' X . 1 X ,, A- ff?k?2if r -, V 4 I ., ,,