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

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Class Annals FRESHMAN YEAR .just as Ruskin had his seven lamps of architecture, so have the seniors of 1941 their seven pillars of history, the founda- tions on which the erection of our char- acters rest. Let us go novv, in retrospect to the time when the staunch and sturdy pillars of today were just beginning to be fashioned. What do we see? A group of happy, eager boys and girls are walking slowly, yes, even reverently, towards the sacred walls of St. Mary's. Day by day, the new Freshmen are becoming more ac- customed to their dignihed surroundings. Day by day, their Freshman pride seems to be diminishing, and in its place we hnd a most lovable humility, the first step toward strengthening their spiritual life. This particular morning, election of officers took place within the Freshmen classes. The upperclassmen gazed approvingly on On with the game! Q 76 our selections: joseph Walsh, President, Dorothy Duston, Vice-President, Ruth Holland, Secretary, while the trouble- some task of being Class Treasurer was assigned to Vincent Quealy. Under their capable leadership the Freshman Class prepared to demonstrate to the school an exceptional ability in all fields. Dorothy Duston displayed her power very excellently in the spelling bee, when she returned from Faneuil Hall as the Champion Freshman Speller of the Diocese. All St. Mary's assembled to proclaim her a true heroine. Up, up, goes the pride of our class, but this is a truly justifiable pride in the achievements of our classmates. Betty Cassidy won a gold medal for excellence in oratory, with Faye Gallimore and Rena Horan running a close second and third. We were well represented by our boys too, for Vincent Quealy was awarded second prize in the boys' oratorical contest. Now we are really proving to those upperclass- men just what the Class of '41 can do! In June, the Band and Bugle Corps won the Cardinal O'Connell Trophy for the third successive year. Happy days as Freshmen closed in June leaving the Class of 1941 with an enviable list of orators, artists, musicians, and the successful presentation of a one-act play under the direction of the teachers from Emerson College. The seven pillars of history were slowly rising. At the end of our first year we had placed the foundation of our high school history in religion, by our courses and Sodality Conferences, in the fine arts, by music, painting and draw- ing, in public speaking, by debate and oratory, in athletics, by promising repre- sentatives in the four major sports for boys and girls, and finally in drill and a practical knowledge of the music for Band, Bugle and Drum Corps.

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Photography Committee December 1940 Yearbook Pictures are in order January 1941 75

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SOPHOMORE YEAR Summer days passed at the beach or the country and then we were answering the drummers' call to assembly once more. The enthusiastic second-year students assembled for their all-important polls which counted high forjohn Stuart, Presi- dentg Margaret McGourty, Vice-President, Ruth Holland, Secretary, and joseph johnson, Treasurer. Leaders and classmen alike were ready for a year of intellectual and social activity. We made our initial appearances at Father McCarthy's lectures on Goodnerr, the first of a series of three courses. The Sodality Conferences began in September and were centered about the general topic There Three. The boys had already reported for foot- ball practice, and they were submitting to the daily grind for the school team under banners of blue and gold. The pillar of history that we made in oratory and debating was hrmly grounded even though the material was only second- year quality. The December Oratorical Contest The Chrirrmn Home included four members of 1941: Vincent Quealy, Patrick Kelly, Brendan Coffey and James Madden. Faye Gallimore and Margaret McGourty were on the girls' debating teams which took divisional honors and later the Diocesan trophy on January 22, 1939. There were four speakers on the boys' divisional championship debating team as well, John Donovan, Brendan Coffey, James Madden and Vincent Quealy. Bren- dan surprised some of his colleagues in the Prize Debate when he won the Gold Medal, a sort of foreshadowing of his later vic- tories for the same honor as a Junior and in Oratory as a Senior. Faye Gallimore, Mildred Coakley, Vir- ginia White, Christine Coleman, Mildred D'Argenio, Mary Burke, Patrick Kelly, Vincent Quealy, John Donovan, Gerard Donovan and Maurice Meade were among 77 the talented members of the Assumpta Ensemble playing at debates and gradua- tion exercises. Sophomore classes closed and we found ourselves hostesses to the Seniors for their Communion Breakfast or we were gather- ing daisies out in the country for the daisy chain. We saw our sister class graduated. JUNIOR YEAR Fast, fleeting months of summer passed and we were once more returning to St. Mary's this time to assume the new dig- nity of being called ' Juniors. We mounted the steps already assuming the dignity of upperclassmen. A call from the football coach revealed that john Donovan, Thomas Flanagan, James Hartnett, james Madden, John Cur- ry, Joseph Curry and james Burns were all adding to the strength of the football team. Among the Girls' Basketball players we recall Yvonne McGarry and Helen Melville as important assets to a record- breaking team. Gratorical Winners Donovan Madden