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

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SSLIVHP Commencement Ode With .rtalwurt hedrte und the Jtdnddrd of Chriet unfurled, Fifgf youth und three brave the din of 4 throbbing world, They now mutt hueten o'er the ,rpun und bridge of life And conquerorf be in the turbulent Jeu of Jarrow und Jtrife. Bewildered men and wandering hoete .rurge ucroee the Jed, Oft driven buck and .rtunned by unbelief and ineincerity, Ofttimeer the once vuloroue chumpione of God 'J truth und doctrine, Yet even now ure bujfeted und cower before beckoning fin. Deetruction loome o'er it world with ite nutione in Jtrife, Yet Forty-One muet commence to conquer the highwaye of life Reluctant Jtill, upon u journey Jtern und wide, they muet trod- A vieion cleur before each youthful Joul, und loyulty to God . Chrietiun churity be their puefword even through dungere foreeeen Chrittiun fuith und hope tower ubove the .rmoke und gleum, And poeeeu the heurte of youthful comrades, difpelling their feurx, Let Chriet be their Guide und Conqueror down through the yeure. DOROTHY H01 A. DUSTON

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Strains of music came from St. Cecelia's Hall, and drums were beating under Mr. Hawkins' direction. Twirlers were in the gymnasium with Faye Gallimore, the 1941 Drum Major. Glee Clubs and Bugle and Drum Corps were stepping into rank. Another pillar of 1941 history was mounting high-dramatics. The Chrirtmar Cantata combined the musical and dra- matic ability of the Seniors in a very re- ligious and practical way. December also witnessed the Boys' Oratorical Contest on The Church and Peace with John Donovan and James Madden as winners. At the girls' Prize Debate, Yvonne McGarry and Faye Gallimore were the winning contestants. What was the event of January 19 and 20? The Senior musical productions-The Count and the Co-ed and The Bells of Beau- jolais featuring Margaret Barrett, Betty Cassidy, Dorothy Duston, Margaret Mc- Gourty, Yvonne McGarry, Rena Horan, John Stuart, James Madden and Patrick Kelly. Histrionic ability also appeared in the Senior one-act play The Tantrumr starring Betty Cassidy and Gerard Dono- van. The two sturdy Senior stars who helped to build our athletic history were the grid- iron heroes who made All-Catholic- James Burns and John Curry. Yvonne McGarry, captain of the Diocesan Cham- pionship Girls' Basketball Team was also named All-Catholic. After the spring vacation we bent our efforts to make history by the Senior Prom. James Madden, Prom Marshal, assisted by an able executive committee made the affair a cultural and social suc- cess. An assembly in May brought the ofhcial announcement by our Monsignor, that Faye Gallimore was Valedictorian and Patrick Kelly, Salutatorian. Firmly estab- lished now was the pillar of debating, for the boys had won the diocesan champion- ship the previous day. Monsignor and Father McCarthy gave very impressive talks to the students at this assembly. We anticipated our graduation by re- ceiving degrees at the Junior Zeppelin Informal. Rehearsals were also in order for the Musical Concert, May 25. Mildred D'Argcnio and John Stuart directed the Glee Clubs. john Donovan, John Stuart and Dorothy Duston were soloists, Mil- dred Coakley played with her sister Barbara, the Southern Six played melodies and the beautiful tableaux included Mil- dred D'Argenio, Rena Horan, Brendan Coffey and John Stuart. Violinists in The Dream of the Shepherdetr were Faye Galli- more and Virginia White. Under the beautiful sky of that same day we marched in honor of Our Blessed Lady to her Crowning Ceremony. Mildred Leader was May Queen and Margaret McGourty her attendant. The pillars of 1941 history had been erected high. Inscribed aloft upon the pillars of religion was Goodnert, Dircipline and Knowledge. Commencement Week would bring Class Day, the Senior Ban- quet, Recollection Day, Communion Breakfast, Graduation, and as Alumni for a day, the Senior Picnic at Salisbury and Ye Cock and Kettle Inn. The pillars of the 1941 history remain, monuments of love and devotion to St. Mary's. MARGARET MCGOURTY 1941 QSUYHPTP

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Ivy Oration Within the shadow of the cross-crowned church where dwells our Leader and our great Exemplar, Christ-we gather to pay our tribute of tender affection and sincere gratitude to our beloved Alma Mater. In our expressions of praise today, we wish to symbolize our token of esteem and reverence in this little ivy plant-a fitting symbol of our aspirations to all that is highest and best in life. As this frail green vine will grow and flourish into a thing of beauty, revealing the love- liness of God's own handiwork, so will our souls, carefully moulded and guided in these formative years of training in Saint Mary's High School, grow strong and beautiful in time to come. And just as through sleet and rain and cutting wind, the sturdy little ivy will survive, so will our powers of mind and body withstand the cruel blasts of worldly ambition and the attacks of unptincipled men and women whom we shall meet along the road of life. In this war-torn world of today, may we be a power for good, a comfort to those in distress, may we remain calm and con- fident in the face of trial and danger, and may we be possessed of firmness of will and strength of character when the test will come,-as come it must,-to each and every one of us in the Class of 1941. 81 As the tiny sprig of tender green ivy grows to larger proportions, covering the age-old oak or the unlovely and crumbling edifice with its rich green mantle, so may our lives, nurtured here with fine Catholic principles, make beautiful a world of decadence and ugliness because of the sor- did deeds of men. Today we pledge our loyalty to Saint Mary's-to her teachings, to the ideals set before us each day-lofty ideals of noble living, steadfastness in faith, and courage in the face of duty. We have learned daily the lessons of sanctity, and of purposeful living, we have been kept all through our school days, close, very close to the Heart of Christ, Christ the All-Beautiful. May we in the ever changing years that are to come, cling to our Master and Friend, may we treasure the lessons we have learned from the devoted Priests and Sisters, and as we gaze, perhaps with tear- ful eye, into the future, veiled as it is from us now, may we remember the little ivy plant symbolizing today our best hopes, our promises,-fidelity to the good, the true and the beautiful in life-fidelity to our country and to God. MARGARET BARRETT