St Patrick High School - Celtic Cross Yearbook (Elizabeth, NJ)

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CLASS WILL We the Class of 44 upon departung through the portals of St Patruck s do ordaun thus last wull and testament to confer on our successors our most treasured possessuons To Suster lnezuta we le1ve our suncere vvushes for 1 rlelughtful und prosperous aclmunustratuon To Suster Alexune our moderao w offer cur m ny tha1k 1nl h artfelt appre uatuon f r guudung us through our Senuor year To the Faculty we leave our genu ne gratutude for conductung us through four years of studues and truals wh ch otherwuse we could not have conquered We also leave to them pe1ce and tranquulluty durung our absence Dot Brower leaves to Lucul e Chrustoft all the rubbung that wull go her vv1y un beung the smallest un the room james Byrnes bequeaths hus popular hafr style to jake Ahe1rn 'The Brush! Mane Hayes leaves her lovely naturally curly haur to Euleen Cul espue and Tullue DOluvera Eluzabeth Correua wulls her commercual talents to Ann Svaauk and Dolores Lakasky john Svachak the Beau Brummel wulls hus tutle to Bully Ard 1nd Henry McCeeh1n Ray Bopf and Tony lacov no leave theur crown of captauncy of the basketball team to whoever proves most competent rv Smuth wulls tn Helen Va R t th a k g r els u um boys ur Seuvt e M rgaret Flynn leaves her wullung cooperatuon to Auda Correua Marue Cullugan and Fr1nces Buzus john Culltgan leaves hus love ot a snooze darung classes to john Clark and Albert Nuchol ames Mahoney leaves those corny jokes to j hn C1llupo ard joseph Klucunukas Mane Mu kowutz wulls her lust of excuses for beung absent from classes to Margaret Barnes Euleen Burk and Betty Crampp wull theur places on the Cheerung Squad to the two most competent of clneerune the boy to Vuctory john Hayes Edna Mart n us shuppung Ann Cornell and Catherune Voelker her love for the Navy Ruta Hayes wulls her good humor and hearty l1ugh to Dot Palkovuchs ean Anderson and jean Connelly bequeath to Muldred Lynch 1nd Eleanor McMahon an ever lastung fruendshup ohn Fay leaves hus skull at b :ng the class clown to W1lt Kelly 1nd Cul Frank Monuca Logan leaves that seat un the back of the room to M ry N chol who also loves heat Ruta Brundley leaves that whole ome guggue whuch c1n always be Pea d throuvhoat the room to Dot Trowbrudge Dolly Mullen bequeaths to Pat Qutgley her alarm cock M y t t f l un gettung her t school on tume ohn Rugby and ake Hynes wull the r ev r new da1cung steps ta oe Laccuete'luo and Ruchue Cullugan Honey Dwyer bequeaths her dancung abuluty to Dott e Svachak and Cha lotte Lac uet llu The quuet and shy manner of Te esa Petrone coud ony b n erut cl by tone other than Marguerute Munet and Therese O Su 'u 1 Ponce Leona d bequeaths hus tutle of D ddy Long L. gs to Boots McKeown Babe Clark leaves her appetute for 1 good oke to Dot Petrovuc and Annabelle Foley Tommy Kel y th Casanova leaves h s x ay wuth he women to Rod Kenny and joe Haggerty Tony La Feram wulls to Stanley Stroz hus reputatuon of b ung tlce 1 t one to catch on to a joke Dot Burns leaves her happy go lucky aur to Mary Shannon Flo ence Ke ly and Ro e McKeOwn ames Devlun leaves hus cares and worrues of the scnool to no on for who would want them jean Hangarter wulls to Clara Moxley al the skull that goes un makung partues successful Herbert Budrecku wulls hus remarkabe hobbues to jnnn St n on and o ph Mah r un th hop that they wull full theur le sure ttme To all the und rclasses we the Senuors l ave PERIOD Thus wull sugned and sealed on the twenty tutth day of February un the year ore thousand nune hundred and forty tour wull go unto ettect as soon as we depart Wutness THE CREMLINS ol9 . K . . C U C V . . I ' ., 1 r, e ' 3 r s L . e C' LJ 1 ' . C ,, . . , , Q . . , . . , , I .. . . . . C K V Ma , ' ' .S - ,un .el e kn c of receuvino t ink tn fro '1 ' 'ci E . . . . Y , . K , ' j ' e . ' ' . .C . . , 4 . , - U f s f. Edward McMahon leaves his interest in airplanes and desure to fly to Willuam Atflerbach and l ' I - j ' 3' . . C ' . . . I S , , . C T D ' . a i no au ' o ' ' ' r C' e . ' r ' l 'f 'a ' c - ' '. -.L 1. ' ' a u e ' . ' C Q , f , e , 1 1 c , L , ' e , lu, ' , - - ' , r l 3 j ' e, t F' l ' , . . K, . A , I M A . A A s L. ., ,c e L , , e , e ....,.. ,

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Kneel freshman' Dont those Senuors know any other words? These and sumular thoughts raced through our green Freshman munds durung those furst hectuc weeks un 9A But even unutuatuon has uts good pounts We the wude eyed furst graders of uust a few years before were un hugh school' Would wonders never cease' Then came Algebra our pet hate durung our Freshman year But the huge success of both the annual play That s That and the Freshman dance helped us to regaun our dampened spuruts Class Day was sornethung to be remem bered forever because of the wonderful sungung of the Freshman members of the Clee Club Then came dreaded exams Would we ever be Sophomores? Somehow or other we came through and un Sept mber returned to school no longer awe unspured by the mughty u9l Senuors Two years ago a score of excuted young grammar school graduates scarnpered up the staurs of St Patruck Hugh to a furst year classroom We sat un awe as our teachers explaunecl to us the basuc udeas of our hugh school educatuon After the thrull of our furst sux weeks had worn off came the excutement of unutuatuon Slowly but surely exams were creepung up on us and before we knew ut they were gone and we were duvung unto a new project the play That s That whuch was the maun event of the year A respute of two months Back we came un September as Sophomores Thus tume the world seemed to be ours New fruendshups were made and old ones made stronger as the classes were broken up by chouce of some to follow the classucal and others the commercual courses Great events socual and scholastuc followed un successuon .Will 'lu 6 o2l ut H u . . u 4 u - u , . u . v . u ut v uv . . , v u A - ut u vu . - v u V . e .. u ' - -