St Marys High School - Blue Mantle Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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tiCNOR STUDENTS wa ■gfSMt’tj gr RONT ROW:LEFT TO RIGHT:MAPALDA DE SALVIA, VALEDICTORIAN, PRANCES CULLINAN, SALUTA- TORIAN, KATHLEHT BARDSLEY. SECOND ROW: LOUISE TOSCHES, MARY COLLINS, ALICE MORONEY. THIRD ROW: EDWi i D TOALLEY, LEON OSACHUK.

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The Blue Mantle is a history of our school life. Its pur¬ pose is to enable us to preserve a record of the events which helped to make up the days spent within the walls of our Alma Mater. Perhaps in later years,a perusal of the Blue I antle v ill serve to recall old friends to draw our hearts back to the foun tain of knowledge from which we drank deeply during..the happy days of our adolescence We shall feel ourselves vifell repaid for the hours of labor given outside of school time to prepare these pages, if in the years to come our book serves to bring some pleasure to those who have been our companions along the way. V e are grateful to those who contributed material for the Blue Mantle,and to those v ho typed and printed the stencils and also to those who solicited advertisements for our Yearbook. We take this opportunity to express our gratitude especially to: Edward Whalley Ernest Lemire Dorothy Lucier Frances Cullinan Alice Moroney Charles Miller who generously sacrificed their afternoons to the arduovis .task of making the book The Senior Class

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1 N September 1934, the Class of ’39 entered the portals of St. i.Iary’s as Freshman. Our first teachers were Sis¬ ter M. Dominica and Sister M. Andrew. Because of the entire change in subjects, we found the curriculum most interesting and were we proud to be studying Lat¬ in and solving problems in Algebra. Prom the very start our class showed a keen interest in Athletics contributing to the football squad Larry Heron, Dave Lynch, and Red Eckersall. We were represented in baseball by Dave Lynch, Joe Small, Red Eckersall, Larry Heron, Bill McGrath ‘and Ernie Bouchard. In the fall St. Mary’s presented a Minstrel Show under the supervision of Father Rupprecht and directed by Mr. Edward Sullivan. This public performance called forth considerable tal¬ ent from our midst. t June came all too soon with the final examinations and the much needed rest. V fe carried away with us lasting impressions of our Freshman year and though v;e have traveled along the road to commencement we shall always hold those days dear. September l’ 35 saw a merry group of Sophomores gather¬ ing at St. Mary’s greeting old friends and meeting new ones. We noted with regret that some of those who walked with us the pre¬ ceding year had left but the gap v as more than filled by the new students. Sister M. Imelda and Sister M. Peter were our teachers this year and we found the intricacies of Lati ' n and Algebra ever Increasing.New subjects were added to those of the Freshman Class and we had few idle moments. Athletics, however, played an impor¬ tant part and we succeeded in having some good material accepted for the various sports.In football there were Red Eckersall, Dave Lynch, Larry Heron; in baseball. Red Eckersall, Dave Lynch, Bill McGrath, Larry Heron, and Ernie Bouchard; in basketball. Ripper Collins and Bill Eennedy. Although the members of the Glee Club are usually se¬ lected from the Junior and Senior Classes,we ¥ ere honored by hav¬ ing Eileen McCarthy, Greta Chapdelaine, Anna Curley, and Mary Mc¬ Kenna selected. We had the thrill this year of making our bow before the footlights producing a one-act play ”In Doubt About Daisy”. The cast included Cecelia Grant and Joseph Scannell as heads of the Turner family; Anna Curley and Charles Miller as Honor and Mac the Turner children; Mary McKenna and Stanley Gac as Kathy Berry and Herb, the farmer lad.