St Marys Commercial High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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SODALITY ACTIVITIES fContinuedl Mether's Day for the Sedality was celebrated April 18, when our Mothers came te inspect our workshop. Following the playing of Bingo and various card games, each girl served luncheon to her guest and all the Mothers registered pleasure at having their schoeldays brought back te memory. The beautiful'menth of May was dedicated wholly to Mary, our Mother. Each neon, before luncheon, we assembled to sing and pray at the shrine of Mary, before whom was a letter bex containing our devotions, was the of a group ef enthu- with coronets of and a song on their petitions and thanksgivings. Climaxing these Hay crowning. The picture presented was that siastic young girls, dressed in cool pastels, flowers on their heads, roses in their hands, lips, as they wound their way through the aisles of Old Stu Hary's to pay homage to the Queen ef the May--an eloquent tribute of the love of the Sodalists for their guardian. 'We were greeted by the statue of Our Lady, framed in pearly white, and as we passed the shrine, we offered our rose to her. O Mary, we erevrn thee with blossoms today, was our song, as the prefect, assisted by her attendants, who were dressed in long gowns, crowned Mary nQueen of May ' with a lovely floral crown. The beautiiixl ceremony was cen- cluded by the Act of Consecration and a closing hymn. -Thus we ring down the curtain on another Sedality year, and in actively participating in its activities, we have reaped countless blessings and have become spiritually prepared for future life. so

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It f X ! f qi Q it Q Av N refil l URE ff' l f E N - X 1 , x f f OUT OF THB LIFE OF SCHOOL INTO THQ SCHOOL OF LIFE Having completed our last your in school we new stand upon the threshold of a new life--vastly different from the environment we have been accustomed to during the past twelve years of our school life. It is with a feeling of regret that we leave behind us these happiest years of our lives, and yet we cannot help but feel anxious about the new life nndvvhet it holds in store for us. Without and Catholic will do much will meet in e doubt the valuable training of the Christian education we have received in our life at school, to enable us to cope with tho problems that we the school of life. May we be aided through this school of life by Kary Immaculate--Our Model--whom we have learned to love and revere here at St. Iary's.