St Marys Academy - Echo Yearbook (Hoosick Falls, NY)

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4 I r r r Typewriting Class One of the nice things about high school life is the diversion from con- stant study by periods in which the stu- dents learn a lot but is not burdened with hours of homework. Such a class is our typing class. Although at times it seems to us future stengraphers and private secretaries that the inventor of the typewriter made his machine to hinder rather than help its operator by its innumerable gadgets and with little help from the covered keys, we find quite a bit of pleasure every day when we all march into the typing room for that period. The typing room is not too large but it accomodates all the students who wish to take the subject. The room is well lighted by six large windows and a skylight. Our fifteen machines, four of which were purchased last year, are well used by the 30 students who com- pose the two typing classes.

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19JO ACADEMY ECHO Class Poem To S. M. A. upon the hill the Seniors bid farewell. The joys we’ve had inside your walls are much too deep to tell. We leave our thanks, as all of us go out along our way. We’ll think of you long years from now, our own S. M. A. Each boy and girl amid our group has pleasant thoughts in mind To think of when our parting day is left far, far behind. The gay old times we’ve had inside our Alma Mater dear Will be with us when other classes still are sitting here. Studies, struggles, hopes and joys were all a part of this. We know now when leaving these things we’ll surely miss. They’re just a part of student’s life, and as the years pass by We’ll think of all these happy days, remembered till we die. The proms, the games, were quite the fun in our teen-age days, So don’t you think we’ll lose these thoughts along the worldly ways. For never shall we once forget the days upon the hill Where we all met our life-long friends, each Mary, John and Bill. So now we leave our S. M. A. upon that awaited day And each of us goes out to seek our own worldly way. But when we’ve gone we know that we will wish we could return To S. M. A., where all the things we left are standing stern. Janet Hennessey

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FIRST ROW: John Moore, Robert Morin. Rogor White, Norman Oliver. Thomas Davock. Leonard Liporace, James Millett. SECOND ROW: William Fleming, Manager; Wade Hayden, Robert Yavaniski. John Griffin. Eu- gene Slavin, John Hallenbeck. Thomas O'Malley. Absent: James McGuire. Coach; John Leonard. Thomas Moore. Cornelius O'Keefe. Baseball at St. Mary's Starting on their second year of or- ganized baseball, St. Mary’s had a size- able squad including all but two of the previous year’s fine team. Under the direction of Coach Jim McGuire, an old hand at high school baseball, having played on and coached several good teams, the 1950 “nine” shaped up rretty well and the outlook for a highly suc- cessful season is very bright. Starting off well, they now hold wins over Hoo- sac Prep, Berlin, North Bennington and Waterford and have a loss to St. John’s of Albany on the other side of the slate. Included in the squad are Gene Slavin, Tommy Davock, Jack Hallen- beck, Jimmy Millett, Wade Hayden, Bob Morin, Norman Oliver, Butch Yavaniski. Lenny Liporace, Tommy O’Malley, Johnny Griffin, John and Tommy Moore. Jacky Leonard, Corny O’Keefe and Roger White. The boys have “Foxy” Fleming as their hard working manager. What the team lacks in size or natural ability, it more than makes up for in their fighting spirit and determi- nation to win no matter what the odds.