St Nicholas of Tolentine High School - Tolentia Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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A S Z WD 85 i XQW ll TO MOTHER A wonderful maryelous Gift of God Who placed you on this earth I wonder lf Angels greeted you At your bygone b1rth9 I thlnlx God must naye thought of Sprmg As he fashloned you that day Ior your soft patlent manner Mother dear Is lllte the first brrght day ln May And I-Ie mlght haye thought of Summer Ior Summer IS wrse and calm And your actrons seem to be gunded By a hldden Angels psalm But again perhaps He thought of the Pall Ior as I glance at your half and eyes I seem to recall the rrchest colors Of October trees and slues He mnght haye considered Wlnter Izmhodyxng strength and skill Ior rn all the trxals you conquered And I ltnovs you alvsays Mill That s vshy Im certaxn Mother That you were sent from aboye So I think Cod for the greatest glft 'Ihe glft of your ovsn dear loye EILIILN MAUREEN BURKARD 38 wa X IN o ll ll PII .Q Y H e ' ' s M ' ' ' ' ' I yy f I ' I I Q? A Ay , , 0 . r K r , .Q f U - lil Q '. ' ' . Iwi , I f Y , Q llllm Y y I I I 11:31 f ' ,xml , , V A f 'A

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I v -+5 'UB-V Ga me A 3 ll I llll ll CLASS HISTORY OUR PORTS OF CALL S THE sun slovnly rose ID the bnght hued sky we set sall on our four year trlp of adventure and knowledge Our shlp the Blue Brrd has a sturdy crew of some nrnety odd boys and grrls some capable of great wonders others of normal capacrty but all mtent on a success course For our captarn we haxe been gryen a most worthy and well loved person Sr Danrel who IS to gurde us on our first crulse Sarlrng slowly along the waters we came at last to the land wherexn Algebra and Crucs dwelt We stopped and as our captarn Sr Daniel lowered the plank the crew trmldly adxanced towards shore The Algebranc master upon our meetmg, related lo us the 1ntr1ns1c and unappreclatnye lrfe he led xgnored and dlsllked by many Although not wrshrng to hurt hrm we too as a whole found ourselves trying ln varn to penetrate hrs thoughts Mr Crvrcs on the other hand proyed to be an mterestrng and frrendly man explannrng wrllrngly the drlfrcultres of our now rulmg world Moxmg farther dovsn the rn r bank vle soon encountered the land of the Romans crude heartless men fighting and bartermg therr way to an unhappy endrng Caesar mrghtrest general smallest soul a creature held 1n hugh worshrp by hrs countrymen plgans all Leayung thls LllSfL1fblUf., and yet thrrllmg country we found rt tlme to return to the Blue Bxrd and to a new captfun duslc was fallrng and as the moon brrghtly smrled on us vue holsted a second sall and resumed our journey The sun was hrgh vlhen on the follovung day we reached the rsland of Geometric designs the gally colored mosarcs hurt our eyes wrth therr brrllrancy It was the Theorem house rn the land of Plane Geometry Passrng near the rectangular door of the house we were muted by a woman clad ln flowing whrte and black vell her name Sr Angellca She descrlbed the worklngs and results of the study of Geometrys lrfe nts helpful and and mterestlng fruits Surely wrth thrs splendld recommendatron we would take thrs fair land to our hearts 7 3 ' Turnmg asrde from the mathematrcal drvrsron of this strange world we were greeted wlth open arms by the Ancient World the Greeks and Egyptrans the hreroglyphrcs the tombs the Rner Nile all so gloriously radiant and ever exlstent They seemed as jewels before our eyes 1 Nik? wg ll J llll lx-' q . . . . .1 A rf 5 . rv, f . ,, . ,, Y Y Y . . W ,,s R c s O s n - y r Aly, A '. . 7 Y '. ' XA .. 7 , . Xl .7. . T D . A y XX , , , . 0 y P Y '. . 7 . , . . ' aj f f 'rf n f 'fy H y T I . . . . ' g lffe .Q L. ' 4 ' ' . QL ' Y A A ' ' lmllnm A 2 T f S ' A as L lmgl . I. . 1 . , .y - A . i pull, . . , , L. 3,43 . iv., . . , I 5 T., . . . . , . ,.