St Marys High School - Gael Yearbook (Manhasset, NY)

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along with new student Sandy Fellows many of us dotted the campus ln blue blazers and gray sklrts Daily our lme progressed highlighted by a talk from Won lgnor A lp and perlodlc assemblies During one of tladltlonal Happy Blrthday s to Sister Franclta the POD and Latm classes found them elves Hghtlng a n imature Clvll War ln song BAIND OF GOLD The SCIIIOIS took Judy Hawkms song lyrics literally at the Rmg Ceremony Feelmg the gold set blue stone circling our fingers we all whlstled happy tunes But the rings werent the only cause for happiness The presentat1on of band cheermg and choir sweaters the boys sport night the spring play semor day field day and Rye Beach all gave us fulther cause for joy LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT Th fact that yery l1ttle bit helps was proven at JVIIQCIOII Day Ten and twenty cents chances added up and the day brou ht a record profit of S1235 4-2 and a big rise in our lme Janet and Bob also put their pencils to work as col lege boards and scholarship tests placed most of us IH colleges many at reduced costs THE SAINTS ROCK AND ROLL Our lllle rocked straight to the top w1th all the dances of semor year We attended the Halloween and the repetition of Junior Years uccessful Father Daughter Dance and as the Alumni and the Sodallty presented thelr eyenmgs of fun TEENAGE PRAYFR The boys and girls had their respective retreats answering the mandate to Come aside and rest a whllc The scheduled first night of the girls retreat offered llttle rest however for we found ourselves nowbound at school and spent a sleepless fun filled night at the homes of Manhasset girls AFTER SCHOOL Hours after the final bell found organization mem bers dlllgently working under semor officers Judy Hawkins and Bill Lefller edlted the MAGINIFICAT Pat Dunne and Danny McNamara presided over So dalnty meetings an l school law breakers found time to admire our cl'1 sroom s walls under the capable guld ance of Jane Kramer and Bob DeCan1o s staff of Stu dent Councllors SHAKI- RATTLF AIND ROLL Talent shows exhibited slngtng and dancing capa ldlllll s and the jazz band of the senior boys And as I they challenged th rest of the school to offer compar able talents the semor girls challenged the lower class men to a basketball tournament The result proved us unsurpassed in entertainment and athletlcs KEEP IT GAY A trip to West Point gave us a triple treat Not only dld we see the famous campus and a football game but searching eyes also picked the Princess of Monaco from the crowd West Polnt was succeeded by a visit to the Naval Academy at Annapohs during a hllarlous fun filled trip to Washlngton Galety galore presented ltself to the whole school as the seniors produced a mock verslon of the Mouse keteers and a chorus lme of Perfect Young Ladies PICNIC In the comfortable atmosphere of early summer the girls found fun in the first St Mary s Senior Picnic Amid shade trees and picnic tables we sang ate played games and finally came home a happy well fed con tented and sleepy bunch A WHITE SPORT COAT AND PINK CARNATION The evening of May IO 1951 saw the lme of our graph traverse the Pacific where IU formal attire we whirled anud the blossoming trees and flowering foun talns of exotic Japan Approprlately our semor prom the grand finale to a series of fun filled high school dances was termed Sayonara Hours of dancing and breakfast parties were brought to a reluctant close wlth refreshing swims on a warm Saturday after noon GRADUATION DAY When tears farewells and dlpl0IYlaS mlngled with warm June weather and promises to write our deep blue lme soared to infinity for 1ts closing entry Four years had reached their long awalted cllmax and with bitter sweet sentlments we left St Marys to future classes and generations GONE Today as you follow this unchangeable lme of our accomplishments and Inlstakes we are gone and St Mary s IS but a monument of our past We are drawing 202 individual lines on a new but common graph of all that monument exemplifies And though wlth passing years these lines will grow farther and farther apart the bonds which unite them on one graph can never be broken for there will alwavs be times when we will look back to our Alma Mater to her standards her faculty our former classmates there will always be times of TCIHIHISCCDCC when we ll have fond happy VIOMENTS TO REMEMBER Japanese for farewell The ltymg mmd feeds not on memories we must look to the future uncertain mevltable eternal 'I . 5 X 3 - . 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HAWK EYE Many of the more observant members of the class noted the effects a closed retreat had on the semors we speculated on the future Nnck Eagan was termed Moose Eye from a com DIIIHUOII of has 220 pounds the popular song Hawk Eye and lns wmnmg of S6 O00 for trap shootmg DOMANI As June once more presented ltself a class of edu cated sophomores dug sun tan oll plcmc baskets and bathlng su1t out of storage all to return wlth dark ened skm D0lll3I1l OVER AND OVER AGAIN Agam we made memorles of vacation homes to return to St Mary s hallowed Halls ln sllghtly dlffer ent attlre The new pxlnclpal Mother Paul Joseph made a hlt by ellmlnatmg St0CklIlgS from the umform She also added berets saddle shoes and whlte socks TRIPLE CUFFED' Thls tune Concetta Clordano and John McDonald were glyen sky blue penells to fill IH the third quad rant of our graph WELL NOW DIG THIS Scholastlcally Jumor year was somewhat a rellef but m the extra currlcular sem we found tune flllmg enjoyment We f.0YItI'1lIl1ICd to St Mary s first representatlon ln the Cathollc FOYCIISIC League and Slster Immaculata found capable actresses Betsy Hu h and Mary Ann Rellly ln our numbers as she produced Tlme Out For Clngex Cheerleaders Mfary Ann Rellly Patty Relth Della Manno Mary Jane 0 Malley Kathy Altken Merry Donnelly Shella Butterfield Jane Kramer Judy Car yey and Lynn Olmstead and Basketball players Jlm KIIIICY Blll Butler Dlck Celke and Ray Burke were appointed and Father Hoffman showed us a good tlme at the LIFLUS We added to thls parties of our own one of whlch made Manhasset Hall taboo terrltory and brought a downward slant to an otherwlse I'lSlIlg lme ROUND AND ROUND New members Rosemary Rafferty Loretta Wasselle Carolyn Corrado and Marte Maema jolned us ln thc first Roller Skatm Patry to help make lt a bOOIl1lIlg success Addmg to the pleasant Mhlfl of Junlor year was the Mmstrel Show and a mldmght trlp to Mary wood Itallan denotmg future 0 Desplte our seemmg SOCIHI year the class represerl tatlon on the honor roll kept our lme hlgh and push mg It even hlgher was our partlclpatlon ln Chemlstry Club the assembly wlth Mrs Klllalea and Joan Studya Wlnfllllg the speech contest ROCK AND ROLL WALT? The first Father Daughter Dance was held at St Marys As the two generatlons mlxed one learned the Peabody and the other dlSLOYCf6d the Jltterbug The experlment was 0l1ISt3IlCllIIgly successful Another first ln the danclng veln was the 1n1t1at1on of Modern Danclng 1n place of ballet and gym Though most students found th1s frlgld It must have been another successful experunent for It remalned a part of St Mary s currlculum AIN T THAT A SHAME Our llne started to tllt downward as Jane Kramer our representative at the Valentme ueen s Court was taken S1Ck but It resumed its upward course as Nancy Mlller became a vt ry capable substltute Fxeld Day found our class defeated by our lllustrlous predecessors but saw Mary Lou Maloney and Kathy Dwyer jump 1nto first place PIIZCS WITH THESE HANDS Hands sore from decoratmg a prom 1n romantlc New Orleans and weary from filllng ln uncertaln an swers on practlce college boards clung ey er so tlghtly to thelr seats on Rye Beach rldes The roller coasters found Cappy Meyer saymg her rosary and the dlVC bomb left Jane Kramer a llttle pale but we had a great tlme and returned home the gayest sleepy crowd llll agmable THE WAYWARD WIND June breezes blew 1n the call of sand dunes salty a1r and ocean vlews It was Wlth such temptmg beacons that we left school and th1s tlme drove to our last summer of carefree dCStlIIatl0IlS Some of us however attended the Summer School of Cathollc A1 tron and others spent tlme at Notre Dame attendmg the C S M C natlonal conventlon ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD Wlth the dCtCI'IHll'I3l10l1 of freshmen the confidence of sophomores and the EClllC3I10ll of JUIIIOTS we Elgalll walked the halls of St Mary s feelmg a new sense of prlde and lmportance We gaye Janet 'VIusso and B0l1 DeCan1o the deep blue pCIICIlS of true St Marylte and they embarked upon the completlon of our graph Senlor Year started wlth another change by Mother Paul Joseph Our ravy umforms were scnappcd allll - . . 4 . a - - , . . 7 L. n ' , as v as ' ' ' as , y 1: . . . I' , ' ' ' ' V L - L 1 a Y . . ' 9 . B Y . L - . - , ' . . ' '95 1 - as - - 77 - . . . , . Y . . 7, v . . V . - , L . J . -L , , , . ' ' , 9 . . . 7 . . . . . , , , . , , Q , , A f x 4 A get 1 x 1 L xW Q n s . , . 5 . -Q . . 7 ' r T 7 7 , ' its 3, n 0 . . . I . ' 7 . n u 1 . ' . . . . 9 J ' - ' ' I 7 . n o I I 1 I ' r , ' , ., ' ,'. . ' l Y I 4 D 4 Y, - 1 Y V A 7. 4 I v 1 Y . - . Y S . . . H . - - ,av ' 7 . v Y . . L. . , , 1 7, Y , ' V ' e ,, A , 2 7 5 Q: 1 2 s , ' ' ' ' 1 1 - 7 2 Y - 9 9 . . s. . i . 7 , n V L 1 1 L A ' , ' ' L. L L ' , , , , , . . . 1- - - V . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . x l I L. f , I V ' . . J . . . , I , 9 - ' I ' ' 1 ' , , I L , V . U v . . , , Y x K U . ' 1 I . v . . . . s v Q . L L - - . y . . . Y- . I ,yt - . 1 , ' k - K .-. A

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