St Mary of the Assumption High School - Assumpta Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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forensic battle with the girls from Mission I-ligh.We were defeated at home but only by a close two-to-one decision. Our aflir- mative team journeyed to Roxbury and returned after bowing to the negative team from Mission. Two weeks later we met the girls from Our Lady's High School, Newton. We were successful with two victories. In order to choose the highest ranking debater in our school, our aflirmative and negative teams met one evening in Decem- ber to debate our same League topic. Yvonne McGarry was awarded the Cardi- nal O'Connell Gold Medal for Excellence in Debating. Faye Gallimore, a close second, was given honorable mention. Twenty-one schools participated on the diocesan semihnals for girl orators. Our ASSUMPTA representative, Yvonne McGar- ry, was one ofthe three finalists selected at the Sacred Heart, Malden contest. The gen- eral topic of the representatives was Our Land and Our Laffy. At the final symposium held at Mt. Saint Joseph Academy our contestant spoke exceptionally well. Her subject was Mmjylund, Our Lunfyfr Dorm' and Stzrzrrzmfjv. MARGARET MCGOURTY MARGARET P. McGOURTY C.IfL1'll1:lf 0'Co11r1elf Msdu!-Di0re.rt111 Cliwzzpirm 2,' PVIQK Norfaflt CUINICT American Legion Cllflftiff 4,' .Ypmkcr Norfolk County Aznerirarlqatiofl Mrftirig 4g Speaker Brookline Legion Perm Meeting 4: Firrt E.r.fqv-Elkr' Patriotic E.r.rq'y Cautrrf 4,' Czlpfclfll Nr, Dfbrlfflllz Tram, Fir.rt Gust! Gmart Przqv Zilfi ri' ravi 'WW ga

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YVONNE C. McGARRY Cunfimlf 0'C0lli1FH Melia! ---' Debutiiigj S'r1nif11a,'i.r! um! Ff11.1!z.rr in Diaremfl 0r11tnrir11lCantz'.rt,'Omliwl, Maryland, Our Lady's Dower and Sanctuary, Cupmin Ajinmztizve Dcbizting Tmm. Girls' Debating Team Early in October the girls' debating teams assembled to begin preparation for the discussion of this year's topic, Re- solved: That the several states should take steps to insure the accuracy and fairness of all newspaper reports. This fall, the society welcomed three new speakers to the school team, Rena l-loran '41, Madeline Tarpey '42, and Claire Kelly '43. Our veterans were Yvonne McGarry '41, Faye Gallimore '41 and Margaret McGourty '41. On Sunday afternoon, November 17, our first public debate of the season was held. Our opponents were the girls from St. Columbkille's High. After a very lively discussion our afiirmative team surrendered the decision to the visitors. We were ably represented by Claire Kelly, Madeline Tarpey, Yvonne McGarry QCapt.D, and Dorothy Duston, alternate. Over in Brigh- ton, however, a different result took place when our negative team took the laurels from their opponents. Our Victorious mem- bers were Faye Gallimore, Rena Horan, Margaret McGourty CCapt.D, and Florence Ryan, alternate. The following week we engaged in a

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Maryland OUR LADY'S DOWER AND SANCTUARY Oration delivered for Diacemn Omtoricdl Conte.rtJ.' .remijimzlr at Malden Sacred Heart High .Yclmalj finals at Mount St. jorepla Amdengy. What is the significance of Maryland as Our Lady's Dower and the Land of Sanctu- ary? When the first English came to these shores, sailing under the Italian Cabots, England was, in her own conception, Our Lady's special realm, Our Lady's Dower. When an Englishman in fifteen hundred made his written testament, he began it true to English custom, First, I bequeath my soul to God Almighty and to Our Holy Lady Saint Mary, and to all the fair com- pany of heaven. But before English had come to these shores, really to settle these shores, all this had changed. No longer did England touch the skies where Our Lady ruled. Yet this change seemed destined to make the English Colonies on the other side of the Atlantic, Our Lady's Dower, by transporting here all those who wished to belong to Our Lady. The landing of the pilgrims of New Eng- land has been the theme of many a story. The very rock on which their feet were first planted is consecrated in the estima- tion of their descendants, and its relics are enshrined as objects of holy regard. They were free men in search of freedom, they found it, and transmitted it to their poster- ity. Yet, Whilst we would avoid all con- trasts, and forget the stern spirit of the Puritan, we can turn with exultation, to the pilgrims of Maryland as the founders of religious liberty in the new world. They erected the first altar to it on this contin- ent and the fires first kindled on it as- cended to heaven amid the blessings of the savage Should the memory of such a 48 people pass away from their descendants, as an idle dream? There was established a Marial Colony, Maryland, by Lord Baltimore and his sons. The first land we came to, we called St. Clement's Island, says Father White. It was here that the pilgrims of Maryland first landed. Father White continues, On the day of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, in the year 1634, we celebrated Mass for the first time on the island. This had never been done before in this part of the world. After we had com- pleted the sacrifice, we took on our shoul- ders a great cross, which we had hewn out of a tree. We then erected a trophy to Christ the Saviour, humbly reciting on our bended knee, the litanies of the Holy Cross. Then, the Ark and the Dove had arrived in Chesapeake Bay, which the Spaniards had dedicated to the Mother of God, a hundred years before. It was then that the colony was given a name, it was Maryland, Our Lady's American Dower. Officially the name was to have been a compliment to Henrietta Maria, Queen of England. Thus, says Bancroft, the Catholics took possession of the little place and re- ligious liberty obtained a home in the little village which bore the name, Saint Mary's. While the colonist of New England plowed his field with his musket on his back, or was aroused from his slumber by the hideous war whoop to find his dwell- ing in flames, the settler of Saint Mary's