St Michaels High School - Michaelian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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CLASS l-IISTGRIES Freshmen 304 What a day September 6th In our memory ut wull never due Twas the day of our enrollment Into dear St Muchael s Hugh The udea ot acqu untancc Wa a ple sure none to beat Wuth the dearest upperclassmcn No one els would dare competc But the day lnutuatnon Wearung dutferent types ot clothes Wuth a paur cf unluke stockungs a cloth s pun on the nose Then how fast the days went by Catchung up a but wuth studues Structly speakung ut was all brass t cks Then came our turst General Assembly That udea seemed a thrull But whule standung on the stage Down our spune r n a chull Soon our halt year came to an end And of course that spelled Exam Memoruzung all the answers We must admut we ve been n a am aruthmetuc we bungled up the numbers The outcome of Latun and Polush wc ll nct state Scuentusts would all tall unto sh ck lt they but read cur answers Oh what a fate Wuth thus sumple remunuscung We are ready to do or due r we re proud to bu. thc trcshmcn Ot dear St Muchacl s Hugh Page Twenty tour Freshmen 301 Excutement ran hugh on a September day un l944 when we the Freshmen became green horns of St Mlchael s Hugh Seeung the Senuors make such solucutous preparatuons for our unutuatuon ut was not dutfucult to become acquaunted wuth them However after passung our test wuth flyung colors we had other duftucultues to encounter such as fundung our respectuve classes takung the correct books for the rught peruod and the honor system to cope wuth As weeks went by we gradually learned to understand the routune of hugh school lute whuch duffered consuderably from that of our grammar school days The treasured events whuch wull remaun un our memorues are-lnutuatlon varuous druves socuals and our FIRST REPORT CARD Sweet memorues of the tume we were ofteued a one way walk wuth the pruncupal ot the school Lookung at the past we c n only express ourselves un the followung quotation Aum at perfectuon In every who aum at ut and persevere wull come much nearer to ut than those whose lazuness and despondency make them guve ut up as unattaunable Freshmen 303 Twas un September nuneteen hundred and tortytour That we walked through St Muchael s door And as treshues green as grass We w ndered from class to class lt was after our unutuatucn That we found a sense ot coordunatuon And as all thungs come to pass We were Freshmen now alas Then we performed wuth aguluty The tasks we thought an umpossubuluty' And as thus year comes to an end We realuze what a lovely school we attend u l V I u f ' H - u - ' - , a 1 I I I A I F s a ' ' , e , 3 ,I . , . + F F I ' '. . . . . . . u , u u h A Or e - . - . I E Learning just what the freshman lacksg thing: in most things it is unattainable. However, they , . E . I . u u . l 1 , ' I l 5 5 A ' 41 1 . , - 1 I u ' pc I f. . , , , ' I ,

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In the Library Silence Reigns, Guidance is given and Education Attained! group of sophomores doing research w und ' S ter Fides, the Iibrari