St Marys High School - Marianite Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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s CLASS PROPIIE Y It is June I962. The weather is warm and beautiful. I have a very special appointment. On this day, a great event, the first reunion of the class of 1952, is to take place. Ten years have passed very quickly and today the friends and pals of the Class of '52 are to meet once more. I left my office early because I have to meet Dr. Robert Jacques, Head Surgeon of Harrington Memorial Hospital and Nurse Maureen Powers, now Superintendent of Nurses at that hospital. Ah! Here they are! Now we shall drive to the Publick House in Sturbridge for our reunion. We hope all our classmates will attend, although some live very far away. As we reach the lobby we find there waiting for us, Robert Fitts, now Director of Fish and Game for the State of Massachusetts. He says he had hoped we would arrive early. As we are checking our final arrangements, Reverend Father Costello, Director of Youth Guidance in Worcester County, arrives with Reverend Father Murtough, Pastor of a new church in Southbridge. As we greet them, we see Joyce Muir, owner of the largest Stationery Store in Springfield, coming in with Lieutenant Lucia Gregoire, who is now stationed at a California Naval Base. Our reunion is starting well. As we are wondering about the others we hear excitement at the entrance. We go to investigate and find that Concert Violinist Robert Allard is the cause of all the commotion. He has cancelled his concert appointment at Boston Symphony Hall to attend this reunion. We are delighted to see him. As we sart to enter the Pineapple Room to talk of old times, in walks Geraldine Budgick, now an Instructor of Dental Technicians at the University of Pennsylvania. Here comes Mary lozzo in the cutest, flashi:st, fastest Hot Rod on the continent. She has driven directly from Denver, Colorado. We are wondering where Amadio Ricci can be. It is almost time for our banquet and we hope he will not disappoint us. We decide to look once more toward the lobby before we take our places at table. Here he comes. He tells us he has a few friends with him. We learn he has actually brought his own band wiQh him from the Copley Plaza in New York. What a surprise this is! l29l

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Now we are ready to welcome our special guest, Father Smith, who is coming now. He has his curate with him. While he is saying grace, our thoughts go back to all our former teachers at St. Mary's who cannot be with us tonight. Amadio Ricci with his band and Robert Allard with his violin play the most wonderful selections we have ever heard. This evening we shall never forget, because it reminds us of the gratitude we have in our hearts for the privilege that was ours in being sent by our parents to St. Mary's where we received a thorough, Catholic education. We plan for our next reunion to take place in '72, Together we say a little prayer asking God to bless St. Mary's-its priests- its Sisters of St. Joseph-our parents, our relatives and our friends. l21l At l4-tri