St Johns Villa Academy - Precursor Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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Senior Week opens November with seniors m caps and gowns enroute to the Rmg Ceremony Confronted with the tank of meeting mid Jan nary deadlines, uni editors spend Christmas holidays with the yearbook dummy September means back to school!!! The rain cannot dampen the spirits of the Seniors, who after a lon ' g vacation are ready to get back to work. October and an outdoor Fatima group provide the ideal atmosphere for Barbara Jefferson and Frances Marino who with the other Se ' mors spent a weekend retreat at St. Joseph's Villa, Peapack, New Jersey. 2.15 I, ' r . ' ff? 3 G 1 : , -fi- . . V 1 wsu .

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Three sailors, from the Flying Dutchman, an operetta presented by the Dramatic Club, happily pose for us before they go on. SENIORS-1954 There's no such thing as a vacation for a senior. Not for the class of '54, at least. Even during the summer months we met to plan the Precursor and, with it, the activities of our final year. September brought, as it always has, the inauguration of school clubs. It was a little different. Now we were seniors- respected, happy, and privileged, and a little sad, for these would be the last months at our beloved Alma Mater, The Silver Anniversary of Sr. Veron- ica, our Principal, and Sr. Innocence, Ju- nior class moderator, presented the ini- tial occasion for our singing of Pietro Yon's three part arrangement of Mass of the Angels. Another occurred at St. Joseph's Villa, Peapack, New Jersey, any In the middle of an unusually hot summer s refreshing dip is always welcome. Such seems to be the opinion of these St. John's Sodalists who are spending a day at Gladstone. The close of summer means back to school but Dolores Msstronsrdo seeks to extend her vscstion as long ss possible. .EJY The pause that refreshes. Time out between those horrid June finals. where, under the direction of Father Francis Drolet, SJ., we made the Hrst closed retreat ever participated in by Aca- demy students as a group. Autumn, we discovered, was well taken up with the appointment of marshalls, the innauguration of schoiol clubs, fhigh- lighted, for us, by the election of our classmates as oihcersl, and the first as- sembly, during which the Senior minute- men presented lVlilne's Ugly Duckling. Crowning the memories of those happy days will always be Senior Week-Mass and Communion breakfast, reception of rings, Class Night, and finally, our day as teachers. Enjoyable holidays made the winter months pass quickly, and Spring found the Seniors seriously preparing for grad- uation. Colleges and careers had been carefully chosen, yet we felt that fond recollections of our high school years would remain with us always'-a tribute to St, john's.

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The Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a flghting unit in the tremendous battle of bringing souls to Jesus through Mary. Our Sodality moderated by Sister In- nocence has grown to be the largest of school clubs. On December 8, our new members were admitted into the Sodality at an impressive ceremony in the school Chapel, followed by a Communion Breakfast prepared by the officers. Among the many practices are a general Communion on the first Friday of the month and the reciting of the Little Ofhce of the Blessed Virgin. Each month, a special project is suggested and immediate preparation is made to see that every Sodalist does her part purpose of that particular activity. The sponsors a Christmas party, the October Devotion. The Sodalists' offer all their Mary in the hope that they may love more devoutly. to carry out the Sodality usually rosary and May undertakings to and honor Her 7? 2 . ,zu J Adelaide Bates, Sodality Prefect, displays the Sodality Emblem, Ad Jesum per Mariamf' Under this standard the school soclality is led on to spiritual and temporal goals. Slllllllll III llllll lAIlY i 5. at 'Ya -we ,. ll v , v k.