St Joseph High School Nazareth Academy - Excelsior Yearbook (Victoria, TX)

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And So Begins Another Year Every year begins with the same routine — greeting old friends and making new ones, gathering materials and text books — a full and hectic first week of school. Although the places and externals may be similar to those before, they are filled with new activities, new attitudes, and newly acquired knowledge. These first weeks of the year will be recalled as Sep- tember, 1964. If you were a freshman, these first weeks were new and bewildering experiences, which gradually sharpened into focus as you became a full- fledged high school student. If you returned as a sophomore or junior, it meant a re-enactment of the year before. And if you claimed the title of senior, it meant the beginning of the last mile before the em- barkment on the sea of life. You will always remember the hectic flurry of getting settled, the earnest efforts at making friends, the few strained moments — all part of the beginning of another school year. Connie Ayo, Carol Brenner, and Pat Anderson find a minute of leisure alter class to explain a phase of the American way ot lite to Angela Tavelli, Nazareth ' s foreign exchange student from Rome, Italy. Angle spent the school year as a member of the senior class.

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p What happens to a high school student ' s time? He spends it . learning the ropes as a freshman . cheering the team on to victory . meeting to discuss activities . studying for exams . attending classes . experimenting in the laboratories . attending school functions . rehearsing for a musical or dramatic presentation . standing in the cafeteria line . fighting after-school traffic campaigning for student offices assisting at Holy Mass waiting anxiously for report cards receiving guidance from teachers preparing for graduation. These are all parts of . . . School Life.

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i Confused freshmen Barbara Wagner, Peggy Cattan, Thelma Gutierrez, Loralee Tharp, and Rae Elwonger pity Jan Lewis, who has just had the misfortune ot droppmg her books during the rush between classes. Seniors, Eddie Dischinger and Lawrence Parkan, stroll down St. Joe Lane while casually discussing those hazy.craiy, lazy days of summer that have just gone by. Throu ;li cxpcriciiLL-, ituJcnti tmd iliai iuu ag the car to school can result in various consequences. 11