St Marys Academy - Crown Yearbook (Glens Falls, NY)

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C vm ,Ma far? Dull Talr 9 Years hence when the h1stor1ans wxll cast the1r eyes back over the Crowns and examlne the records and achrevements of all the classes wh1ch have passed throu,g,h the portals of dear old S M A that one whlch wxll stand out far above all others wxll be the class of 1947 Scholast1cally we are one of the great classes of lnstory Athletlcs well we refram from boastrng All we w1ll say IS that where would St Mary s be m sports wrthout the class of 19477 We ask you Underclassmen the applause 15 only our due In that hxstorxcal year 1934 ou1 parents led us to that supposedly horrlble old place school ' But under the careful gurdance of our beloved Slster Izdwma we soon learned to love the beautlful gramte bu1ld1ng called S M A After n1ne years Cwe went to kmdergarten you knowj of readln r1t1n and r1thmet1c and several plays 1n umor Hlgh dlrected by Mlss Beatrxce Palmer Bannm we a group of young men and women fso we thoughtj were at last ready to enter the dreaded corrldors of Hrgh School out of the1r way and looked up to them wlth awe Our Freshman year was sparked by the welcome humor of dear departed Srster Eustace and Slster Barbara a new but well lxked nun When we passed 1nto the Sophomore room Slster Rose Madelme and Slster Robert Ioseph calmed down those glddy Freshmen to those resery ed Sophomores At last passlng mto our umor year under the dlrectxon of our class adv1sers Slster Rose Aurelxa and S1ster Ann Denlse we elected B111 Sulhvan eanne Ellsworth Owen Shey lm and Claire L1nehan as our class ofhcers After 1 wmter durrng whlch we were unnotlced we umors stood up and declded to make oursely es known At the first slgns of sprmg vue elected Bud Donohue and Kay Nolan chalrmen of our long awarted umor Prom Deendmg to set a precedent we chose eanne Ellsworth Ruth Conlm Mary Irvmg Cla1reL1nehan Martha Moynehan Betty Maye Kay Nolan Rose Roux and Barbara Sweeney as our lovelv Prom Attendants To the hauntmg strams of You Stepped Out of a Dream they walked down the stairs m the gym to the throne across the floor vyhere Claare Kennedy crowned Jeanne Iallsvy orth ueen of the first umor Prom U ff , as , . . . . C Y If ,D ' ' . L I 7 L L l I I, L I - L L L L . Q L . L L L L . l I -M , L I . . 7 . , . 4 . . 4 'V 4 , , l 4 4 . , i . . . 4 K - 4 . . . L , L K . , J L . . ,'. .' , , . . . . . . , . . . J I 7 . C ' L L I , L L L O 7 L . n Fearful of those horrid upperclassmen, we, the little lambsf' stepped . L L - c 7 L K 4 7 L I L L . 7 7 . ' 4 . . . ,, ' 93 QQ 7 1 7, I 1 7 . K 7 K . . . . , J . . l Y . . . V 7 . . HJ . . . , . . 3, ' ' . . J , l , 4 , 4 4 , 4 4 4 , ' 4 , 4 ' ' If Sl L L L S , 7 L 8 ' I V L , 7 1 L . ' ' . 1 ' , Q J ' .

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XVell no sooner was our Prom ox er w1th than along came Class Day It put a dent nn our pockets but we dldn t mmd because we could look for ward to our Semor year when we would be the guests of the Jumors The second week of May we went up to Brant Lake on our annual umor Semor P1cn1c Along towards the end of une we sent Bud Donohue and Lorrame Kelleher to Boys State and Gnrls State My how t1me flles Along came September and at long last we were Semors Now we would run the school But along w1th September came a new Regxme Although we dreaded lf at Hrst we were overjox ed at the wonderful rhmgs If brought us New clubs were organlzed under the guldance of M1ss Ave McGarrx better athletlc support and equlpment under the d1rect1on of Coach Beale and Father Delos plus our new Vxce Prmcnpals Mother Anna Laurentna and Father Turner and our Prmclpal Father Kelly all went together mto a new smooth runnmg school Those long awalted class electlons came up and we chose Bob Lynch Maureen O Connor 1m Cooney and eanne Ellsworth to head our class under the d1rect1on of our class advlsers S1ster Margaret Mary and Slster Euseblus B111 Sulhvan and Ann Helm chanrman of our Semor Ball helped Great Hall mto a scene of ghtterlng beauty In February Tony Fredella and Mary Irvmg were crowned Kung and ueen of our newly maugurated Wlnter Carnlval On St Patrxck s Day we were hosts to the faculty and our parents at a very successful tea Lo and behold what dld we find amongst us but a group of promnsmg poets For the HFSI t1me St Mary s entered the Nat1onal Poetry Anthology Contest and four of the gnrls Claxre Callahan eanne Phnlo Ruth Conhn and Mary Irvmg were honored Toward the end of March our class rlngs finally arrlved and were we Semors proud The Semor Play A Date Wlth Judy was a smash h1t and played to a capaclty crowd As most of our act1v1t1es begun to cease the greatest one of all graduatlon IS about to begln And now as we stand on the threshold of what IS beyond we leave as 1 legacy for classes that follow us the Splflt of fair play 1n everythmg And as a class we take that same Splflf wlth us ready to meet all obst lcles for the further glorx of dear old S M A Y . , . , . . . , . , . - . . K . . . . J L . 7 , A 3 Y . . Y , . . . . . ' . . Q 7 . 4 :Q ' an ' ' , . . . , 4 . 6 . L ly, I . t . . . G t S y . - ' l , 4 '4 4 4 , 4 I , 4 K , I. 5 - l , ' , , J - J - . u . . s t , g. . , make it a bang-up success. The theme, Night and Day, transformed the C l C ' , 5 l I. , 8 . . . , K ls l l 1 , 8 Q . . . , . ' . . ' g . , J , . . . G 6 T 8 I . t I C I L ' ' tt ' as - . , . , . . . K 8 L K I Q K - . ' . 4 3 4 4 1' 1 4 I i ' . . L l s . , 4 4 1 I. F L L , D I K I L ' I U . . ' . , . . t I ' I , . ' . 1 , Y , K 0 u u