St Patrick High School - Aquinan Yearbook (Walla Walla, WA)

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And that year came much too soon Aye, there s the rubel to quote, not Shalcespeare, but Gene l.ehn Ready or not, after settlIng our longtIme InItIatIon score on the present poor FreshIes, wIth the help of SIster Eugema we learned to tell tales wIth Chaucers PIlgrIms, to enjoy Maurlce Evans wondrous abIlIty as Hamlet on recordIngs that IS, and to adopt the Churchs attItudes toward world problems ID a newly decorated class room Clean, attractIve walls and lIght floors helped us over the darlc spots So dId Jean Dacres Class Presldent WIth the InspIratIon of the nearness of the Blessed Sacrament to our very classroom we early entered upon a soul satIsfyIng retreat preached by Father Gordon Toner, SJ ur Pastor Father Callanan and SIster Mary PhIlothea, the new SuperIor of St Vmcent Academy and successor to Snster Mary as prIncIpal arranged thIs great pfIVIleQe for us It dId much to set the tenor of our SenIor year We lIlced the close paclced program and, very much the hour of tallc at noon June WalIser entered from Mac HI travelln each day wIth Charles Loosveldt after the latter s return from a SGVIOUS operatIon In Portland here was not one of us who dId not admIre Charles wonderful patIence and solId good humor durIng those horrIble months of cast wearIng Re member the lIttle whIte stool and how It got you up the forbIdden front walk? No return could have been harled wIth more dellght than was Chuclc s ln two years he had made hImself a necessary and unforgettable part of all that St Pat s means Spolcane saw several of us for the October Sodallty rally That same month almost the entIre student body notIced that the floor of the ArcadIa IS much better for slcatIng than for srttung Our bazaar dance and homeroom ChrIstmas party were a couple more successes SImone Aubert launched us on our mumps outIngs Don Cochran and Arnold Stokes rated very respect ably In the PepsI Cola Scholarshlp tests Joe MCAllISf6F brought hIs dally apple ffhe Ore gonlan to hIs teacher and Tommy Cosgrove fInally seemed In for lceeps By ChrIstmas tIme a few of us were flashIng our ProvIdence AlumnI DIDS wIth theIr 48 guards January showed us Carol Kennedy s slcIll at organIzIng ICG slcatlng aunts and Tollgate frequently lcnew the presence of many senIor boys and gIrls on slcIs The fIrst CBUEEN AQUlNAN campalgn found Dolores Bennett, Kathleen McAllIster, and Helen pugllese the elected can dldates Flu Interfered wIth the MardI Gras and several other actIvItIes, but at least we got measured for caps and gowns and ordered our beautIful class rIngs February saw Pat Brum bach, a transfer from O Dea In Seattle, ImmedIately at home wIth us maybe because he s Pat and we re lrIsh He, VVItl'1lAUClFIe Jaros, a P G brought our homeroom number up to 35 because Jane Ann Cuascon, also a PC: , resIded most of the day In the mUSIC department Bernard Elmenhurst returned refreshed from a trIp to hIs homeland Kansas Easter tIme not only meant more choIr sIngIng both at St Patrlclc and St FFGDCIS churches, but the post lenten season started us off on the tradItIonal round of actIvItIes that only SenIors lcnow and would not llghtly forego ln Aprll we had roles IH the annual school play Ever SIDCG Eve and In the panel dIscussIon on labor and mana ement durlng the DCCW deanery meetIng here Tree Day saw our sapplIng, the scarlet oa planted on the lawn at S V A among those of classes of the past quarter ofa century May brought the processIon and crown Ing IH honor of Our Lady,the JunIor SenIor Prom attended wlth great delIght, the Sophomore Senlor brealcfast so perfectly QIVSD, the lceen, outdoor enjoyment of the Freshman SenIor pIcnIc, the exclusIveness of SenIor Day, Class Day wIth Its presentatIon ofour memorlal, the pedestal and record cabInet, and our staged farewells, at all of whlch our red and whIte colors flashed amId decoratIons of red roses And near the end of the fun came the SGFIOUSDGSS and the revel atIons of the SenIor Day of l2ecollectIon, an InnovatIon at St Pat s that should stIclc, the dIgnIty and the aspIratIons attendant upon Baccalaureate Sunday and admIttance Into the St Vmcent Academy St Patnclc Hugh School AlumnI ASSOCIOfIOD Stella Daltoso was one of the few SSHIOFS who fInIshed wIth a perfect attendance record GraduatIon day wIth Its last Mass when the Class of 48 would for the last tIme be entIrely assembled before the Blessed Sacrament brIngs a measure of realIzatIon as to the past, a prayer for strength for the future No more can we expect the close guIdance of our pnests and our SIsters Llfe opens up before us wIth new meanIng and our hearts well wIth gratItude for what we have been QIVSD and thIs tIme our farewells are not staged Joanne Jansen 44 , ,- . . I .. . . I I I . . . I . . , . - . . CD , I . , . . ' , . . . , . I . . . v , - I . . . . . . I . . . . I 1 , . . . . ., I ' . , u H ' , . . . . -I . 'I . . . . . Z, . . . , . . v . .

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CLASS HISTORY Was the sky unduly dark and cloudy that September morning? To everyone else it may have been a bright and shiny day, but not to us tots of the Class of 48 A black hooded figure lead us through an echoing hall into a room that changed our vvay of life The fenced in feeling those four walls of the primary room gave us had no dampning effect on Tom Niebergall Sister invited him to sit on her lop and be a good little boy when he was showing too much knowledge of the process of flirting Luckily Father Austen knocked just then and Tom dis appeared through the window Richie Lee because of his extreme youth, almost didn t get in What might have been his fate as to schooling had he not glibly rattled off the exact number of big and little bones the human frame possesses is hara to say Such prodigious learning makes his eighth grade habit of memorizing whole encyclopedia pages entitled Famous Lees of America more readily understood Une day our joyous second grade had a party in the park Refreshments stuffed figs rolled in powdered sugar Kay McAllister took her usual little afternoon walk School in the afternoon? Why7D but the figs kept the class from looking her up that one time September 'I944 saw 49 of us being put through the rigors of the first all week initiation at St Pat s High We suffered, but trlumphantly, sand our homeroom teacher, Sister Augustinus Nesta Basta winner of the ple eating contest without getting a bit of juice on her new jacketj, Alice Faro, Philip Hermann, Doris Manuel, and Evelyn Yeager were agog at life at St Pat s Plenty rugged at seemed but they persevered Eileen Golden and Tom Niebergall won the grand prize for bazaar ticket selling whereby each became STO richer Our five pagan babies, the part we played In war bond and stamp drives, our race with the Seniors for the Loyalty Cup lost by only a slight margin, Mary Munns speech award our thoroughly enjoyed picnic honoring the Seniors at Kooskooskle, and our generous gift of library books to the school will long remain in our memories The inspirational retreat that year was preached by Father Hooyber, CS C of Portland Richard Lee was our able Frosh President Une high light of the year was the publication of the first AQLIINAN and the lowest of the low lights was he pl As Sophomores with Sister Dolorosa our homeroom teacher, we struggled all year to win first place in various snapshot contests for a bigger and better AQUINAN Mary Munns as president organized with us an exciting skating party and the elite Senior Sophomore break fast Neta Applegate, Joanne Jansen, and Charles Loosveldt came to add their spice to our numbers Our old friend Pat Maher thought St Pat s looked pretty good again Phil Hermann and Richie Lee placed in the speech contest and Helen Pugliese, Eileen Cwolden, and Patty Walker made one of the perkiest little cheer teams that we have known Helen and Pat Maher were two thirds of the next years cheer team, too, helping the lrish to their good records Carma Brown was baptized in the spring and great was our rejoicing with her in her deep happiness That was the year, too, that Deloris Arnold had the feminine lead in WHAT A LIFE Active in Sodality work, for Catholic press Month we staged our original CATHOLIC LITERATURE ON TRIAL by way of a class assembly We left a table to our homeroom for the statue of Our Lady Our Junior year brought Sister Elenita hamburger sales Burton Van Dyke and his green Ch sler, another skating party and some of the best raffles and sales ever held around here l ctober we participated in the Living Rosary at the Academy shrine The Junior Senior Prom was super duper The Loyalty Cup will forever bear our numerals as a result of our rating first in the all classes assembly with HERE SHE COMES THERE SHE GOES Two new activities engaged our attention The lrish Report over KUJ with Pat Maher as MC was ably supported by Arnold Stokes, Class Prexy Richie Lee, Philip Hermann, and Mary Munns Listen ing in Mondays at 615 P M became a fascunatin habit The event of the year toward which we all bent every effort was the CANTlCLE 0 THE YEARS occasioned by the centennial of Catholicism un Walla Walla Valley What angels pioneers, lndians cowboys, and chorlsters we did prove to bel ln the Spanish assembly, La enorita Lulsita Pansy Spohn otherwise demonstrated that a fan can be a handy little gadget on which to pin one s unmemorized lines A statue of Our Lady In the Junior room bears our year plaque We helped elect Richie Lee our next year s leader of the student body and after bidding a tear stained farewell to the Class of 47, we took up our tasks of manning the citys food canning establishments to earn some cash for our Senior year . . , . Billy Hunt pinned down under a section of lockers outside 'IT7 to the tune of a feeble HHelp, n 3 . . . . . . l . - . '

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CLASS PROPHECY Just two and a half years slnce graduatron day In May 1948 Without going too far afield we learn that NETA APPLEGATE after prolonged experience In and around Martin Field put on the our show of the century yesterday Only a few of us have wandered far from the land of many waters but SIMONE AUBERT goes hither and yon pltchnng straight wlns for the Bug League Soft ballers Constantly cleaning atomuc dust from her cozy llttle Richland traller house us DOLORES BENNETT At the top of the bug band lust IS CHARLES LOOS VELDT S Washboard Hot Shots with GENE LEHN flgurlng as the only flrst sax on roller slcates PATTY WALKER has long ago shifted from the ruler to the yard stlclc as prefect of dlsclpllne at Pasco Hugh Number please? Yes the telephone company IS blessed with JUNE WAL ISERS musical voice The Vlllage Blaclcsmlth and a strong and mighty man IS he IS BILL HUNT The CCD CCOSGROVE COCHRAN DACRESD Truclclng Lines slogan IS We push pull or shove anythlng CARMA BROWN In her blaclc ballerina IS flufflng around at the Red Apple wanting on her constant customer JOE McALl.lS'l'ER the best thang In dlslc joclceys before or slnce Petrnllo DORIS MANUEL DELORIS ARNOLD and EVELYN YEAGER are the boolclceepers at Furney s Boolc Store that IS when they can fund those second hand boolcs to lceep Ye Golden Glow I-lair Wave IS bemg dally and expertly given by Its orrgmator EILEEN GOLDEN beautaclan Late Again LEE has closed down his new Kennewick restau by PANSY SPQHN wnth the asslstance of the Baroness de Hueclc Having talcen a lllclng to Tollgate s slcl tow MARY MUNNS has bought the concession so she can have free rides any time she wants The famous deep sea dlvlng group NESTA BASTA STELLA DALTOSA and HELEN PUGLIESE are now going down for speclmens for S1sterEugenla s brology lab Operat Ing the best stables ID Amerlca this year BURTON VAN DYKE as talang hls horses abroad for a wan In the Olympics CAROL KENNEDY and JOANNE JANSEN are stall ansmatedly dns cusslng the pros and cons of butter vs margarnne When Carol talces one snde Joanne auto matlcally talces the other and vnce versa The new Tallc Write team BERNARD ELMENHURST and ARNOLD STOKES operate under the title of Mumble Scruble Inc the present day hope of the teaching world Present manager of laussclc Kaufman s office IS competent KAIH LEEN MCALLISTER Thus Purple Cross we ve all been hearnng about IS the result of the merger made by PHILIP I-IERMANN former head of the Red Cross and ALICE FARO former head of the Blue Cross Their two aroups are worlang an close cooperatlon PAT MAI-IER has t last enlarged has scope billboard palntlng The new Tarzan of the screen who doesnt have to swnm across crocodile mfested glades he just ambles over ns PAT BRUMBACH whale to prove that we do have a share In spnrntuallty TOM NIEBERGALL as soon to be lcnown as Father Tom of the North Dalcota lndlan Reservatlons with unlnmlted territory In which to satisfy hrs roving spurlt Pansy Spohn . . . I I . . . I I . . , , . I . . , - ' I I U . , . If I . . I . . . . . . ' I I - . I . - I . , Q . . . - rant. RlCHlEjustnever could get there. The new Friendship house in Waitsburg was established . . I . . A ' ' l I I I I . . , - . .i ' i . I 1 I ' I 1 -1 ' . U . I 7 - 1 - I I I ,, , ,. . ' v . ' Lf ' ' . a . . . - . v. . I . . , I .