St Marys College - Dove Castellan Yearbook (St Marys City, MD)

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1048 Clje Castellan SIE iSIa«iil»l«{iSSiSl§ THE FACULTY MISS LOUISE ROTHA. Acting President, February-June STUDENT COUNCIL AND COURT

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{Etje Castellan 1948 Editorial Dear Graduates, Now, you have attained the goal you have sought so long to reach. Now, most of you are going to sec the world as you have never seen it before. Each of your paths will part — paths that have converged for awhile at St. Mary ' s. Each and everyone of you is leaving something behind you; each and everyone of you is taking something with you. Your times at St. Mary ' s have been good times; your friends have been numerous and true. You have spoken at times thoughtlessly; you have acted at times unjustly; you have thought at times wrongly; but as you graduate only the good and happy memories will go with you and only lovely and true thoughts will remain behind. You will leave with tears in your eyes, perhaps, but joy and cherished years will be kept in your hearts. These years have formed the foundation for your lives — strong firm foundations. To you, graduates, we wish the best of materials and masons to fashion your lives to their finish. We hail you, one and all, as St. Mary ' s Daughters and as the graduates of 1948. Your Editor I Vl ' iSS eJLouise so irt ■ rppointcd retina Present S. W. 3. S. Miss Louise K. Rotha, Registrar, Counselor, and friend to all, has been appointed acting president by the Board of Trustees in the absence of Miss France. Miss Rotha was born in Waynesville, North Carolina, where she still spends her vacations. She first attended Women ' s College of North Carolina where she obtained her A.B. Degree. Following this she studied at the University of Chicago where she received a Master of Science Degree. At New York University, she did an additional year of graduate study. Since that time, she has taught science in various schools in the South. Between periods of teaching she has done research at both Cornell and Duke Medical Schools. Miss Rotha has been with us at St. Mary ' s for five years and during her stay, she has done a bit of everything. As faculty advisor of the Student-Faculty Government, we find her fair and square, and as registrar always helpful. As a teacher, she is hard but considered tops, by all; last, but not least — we find her a dear and trusted friend.

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Wfye Castellan 1948 Senior ( laM r4hf ft or V Long years ago — 1943 to be exact — Gloria Cawood arrived at the portals of St. Mary ' s Female Seminary as a Sub-Freshman and unknowingly began what is now our present Senior Class. Coming as Freshmen the following year were Jo Boner, Babs Ross, Betty Bald- win, and Betty Critzer. Thus, the five of them struggled faithfully through the years, being joined by Marcie Prince as a Sophomore, until they finally reached that eventful day when at long last they could claim the title of Senior. As Freshmen. Shirley Moore presided as president of the class and Mrs. Manson. class advisor; while our Sophomore year brought forth many outstanding events with Mrs. Zimmerman, the Dean, as class advisor and president, Margaret Showell. The biggest project of that year was the Senior-Sophomore bazaar, and Oh! — the food I naturally the Sophomores were in charge of the food committee). Then at Christmas those who were here will never forget the Christmas banquet. Remember Jamie as Santa Claus? And then there was the prize for presenting the best skit; and don ' t forge: The Hamburger King which won first place in the Speech Arts contest. To the Shenandoah Valley Apple Festival went Peggy Marshall, and as Queen of the May, the Sophs triumphed with Ann Mumma wearing the crown. Thus, the year passed swiftly, and it was time for the Athletic Association banquet (where, inci- dentally, the Sophomores once again came in first place with their centerpiece for the table). Our little sextet was now looking forward to their third year and the real beginnings of our own Senior Class. They were now big college girls. September — and were they glad they were old girls. They well remembered their own bewilderment their first year, and were in full sympathy with the rest of us as poor wandering Juniors. It was the pajama party that really broke the ice, and it wasn ' t long before all were acquainted. The old six of the class took it upon themselves to initiate the new members into the class, and they certainly did a thorough job of it (they ' ll never forget it either). Everyone hiked (and I mean hiked) to Pine Bar for the annual A. A. picnic. Fun was had by all. hut were we glad to crawl into bed by that time. By now we felt a little more at ease and as though we really belonged at S.M.S. Handbook test and memorizing the rules took up about the next two weeks of our time. Then came class elections: President, Iris Rawls; Vice-president, Mary Jane Shepard; Treasurer. Minnetta Lowery; Secretary, Babs Ross. Our own Jo Boner began her career as Secretary of the Student Council, which was to point to even higher honors. Council members elected were : Elaine Leach, Pat Anthony, and Mary Jane Shepard, while Betty Baldwin represented our class as a perma- nent court member. In the lives of our never erring Juniors, sports played a great part; and one of our greatest triumphs of the yeai in that line was our victory over the Seniors in that great fall sport. Hockey. We boasted four phys. ed. majors — Pat Anthony, Vivian Gabler, Milly Martin, and Betty Critzer. On the A. A. Board were Babs Ross, Secretar y; Iris Rawls, Elaine Leach, Mary Jane Shepard, Judy Turner, and Jo Boner. In the newspaper field, Shirley Moore did an excellent and thorough job in editing the Signal News. We had all heard about the U.S.O. over at the Naval Base, but we had never dreamed of it as being a place so nice as we found it to be upon our first eventful visit. During the tall our class presented a very novel idea in the form of Art King ' s Daughters. The idea was pro- ducing great masterpices in forms of shadows. No, the pictures weren ' t actually supposed to be moving — ask Shep and Andy about that. Then came the day — the day to leave for the long weekend. Ah! It sure was good to see home again. Will you ever lorget the big commotion caused by the taking of the diphtheria shots? For days on end we all compared arms with red spots. It served as good diversion, anyway. Christmas at last and along with it. a million and one things to do. At the Pageant, Pat Anthony portrayed the very beautiful and spiritual Virgin Mary. Before we knew it vacation was over, and we were back at school once more slaving away on — EXAMS! We lound that many of our classmates had skill in that great sport, basketball. Libby Davis and Pat An- thony were representatives on the varsity team and played in many of our outside games. That surely was some team. In February the school celebrated Miss France ' s birth- day in the form of a banquet dinner. A few privileged characters (those born in February) had the honor of sitting at Miss France ' s table and cutting their own piece of cake before everyone else. We really showed our talent in the Junior-Freshman production of Little Women . . . Betty Baldwin as Amy, Lee Park as Sulk. and Shirley Moore as Marmee all presented an unfor- gettable performance; due greatly to the outstanding and excellent direction of Miss Wool ridge, who unfor- tunately was unable to see her own efforts under the footlights because of a sudden and serious illness. With the aid of Miss Short, our Phys. Ed. teacher, the crew and the cast courageously took over the task of making the play a big success — and it was truly that. There was not only a lot of work, but also oodles of fun while doing it. We mustn ' t leave out our curtain puller — none other than the famous Miss Boner. A truly mem- orable occasion. Later in the spring Betty Baldwin and Lee Park par- ticipated in the Speech Arts Contest with the reading of poems. Then came May Day with the presentation of Rumplestiltskin in modern dance. Betty Baldwin and Milly Martin assisted in the choregraphy of the dances under the direction of Miss Short. Betty por- trayed the character of Rumplestiltskin, Milly was