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

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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., . . . . , . ,.

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But our happlness was shortlned for at thls poxnt a note of sadness crept rnto our hearts We lost a xalued and beloxed comrade Wrlllam Daley Wrth heayy h arts we qunetly trax eled on untrl we heard the gay srngrng voxces Allons enfant de la Patrle we had reached Brxttany and Alsace The gay frolrcsome larancors lnphthearted and rrresponsrble yet beneath the surface there exrsted a true and warm loyalty It vs as here that we learned the apprecratron of the fine and the beautiful Watchrnt, the colorful parade pass by we Caught a glrmpse of S1ster Marretta head proprretress of Brrttany who had been appolnted to talce our shrp farther down the coast As the vunds on the vsater became stronger they soon carrred our three masted schooner out of the whrte capped wax es Here the journey proxed rough our crew was drsabled the work hard and rest lnfrequent But at the damn of a new day the heaxy vshlte clouds parted the heay ens and exposed a world of blrssful joy so blue so peaceful portant yet rt proxed to be the home of Napoleon Welllngton PllSL1LlSlx1 the greatest men of tnme Crcero Catxllne Rousseau Dante all remote yet yneldmg, to the demands of our company But our journey IS comrnf., to a close The mate has rugged another satl and under the new and expert guxdance of Sr Lawrence Marne we start on the homeward trlp Much has been done qualxtres panned quantltles lost 1 storehouse of knowledge refurnlshed and repanred It shall prepare us for our other Journey out of thls llfe rnto the new Wrth the ada ent of physrcrsts and hnstorlans we leaxe our ports of call only to return om .lay far away Softly the shadows fall as the Blue Bird wnth her crew of srxty two slowly sarls beyond the horxzon The sun IS settlng as perhaps will our future ln es set coura gcously radnantly and trustmgly LUCILLE XVARDELL lk IW' J X, l ZA f all 9 -W -.5 its . . ' t ' , l I . Q M l. - L C l Tl 'T Y K K U K. . , . 1 I , l Y 4 4 V l , . ' ' ' 1 T ,al ' 't . 'Q . . ' ' ' . , . . Y , A A Y, . . . , M 'I . 't t , 1 l 1 5' H ' Q V l ' s 7 9 V Q Y . C v K . V ll , . . .- The Ca tain drew near the s ot of earth seen in the distance-so tin and umm- l P P Y X yj v . Y , . Y y V., G WY? . .N . . . . are , , , i y f S ' ' 1 Y Q I . . ' ' 1 . t ' ' ' , t ' . ' 4 ' 1 4 A . H- , A A T2 ' 7 , Ay! ' l, v. . t I I . .Q L , . Y V K V y 0 s e f . ' f . td .1 4 4 U l H I I - I 7 - v K I V. 'Q I as 56 5