St Pauls High School - Veritas Yearbook (Daytona Beach, FL)

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During the senior year, our issues of the Pelican proved to be some of the best editions. Our new friend, llPelican Pete? to an already wbrthwhile publication. added a new interest and much mystery December again reminded us that another year was over. The true meaning of Christmas was shown in a tableau of the Nativity presented by the Glee Club and members of St. Paul High. The first basketball game on January 7th drew an enthusiastic crowd of St. Paul routers to the stands. The team played a good season and we came in second place. This same month, the Holy Name Society sponsored a dance, which turned out to be the beginning of St. Paulls Youth Center. Within two weeks after the dance, two new ping-pong tables were seen in the hall as well as games of checkers, cards and a chess board. Around the same time, a sewing club, The Merry Old Maids, better known as the M. 0. M35, was organized by the senior girls. This club helped to develop an interest in all types of needlework. The Holy Name Society sponsored its second dance in February which was as much a success as the first. Shortly afterwards, a coke machine and ice cream deep- freeze box brightened the hall and the eyes of St. Paulls pupils. Lent brought with it a Mission, conducted by Father Ferron, and Father Kava- naugh, both of whom gave us a great deal to think about. During the month of May, the season especially dedicated to Mary, our Mother, the annual reception into the Sodality and the Crowning took place with great dignity and devotion. i Commencementehow quickly our days at St. Paulls passed! H We are looking forward to years of usefulness, armed with the Catholic principles taught and cherished in our Alma Mater. CLASS PROPHECY IT WAS beginning to grow light, and from all weather and visibility reports, the day would be perfect for the return flight to San Francisco. As I checked over the passenger list, I recognized a name as being an old classmate of mine from St. Paulls. After we had been in the air a short time, and anxious to renew old acquaintances, I stopped at the seat of Professor Alan Hanley. Alan told me he was teaching Math at the University of Notre Dame and was returning from the midterm vacation. He was to meet Dolores Tonko in Chicago. Dolores is now head of a research laboratory there, and Alan was to take some research material to the Notre Dame Laboratory for her. My duties as hostess cut short our conversation; but upon arrival in Chicago, we met Dolores. Since I had a lay-over, we all went into the coffee shop in the Administration Building. Dolores told us she had recently heard from Frances Parsons, who is now the wife of a prominent lawyer, and the proud mother of three darling little boys. Fran told Dolores that Pat MacDonald Was now head Supervisor of Nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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In March, many of the students visited St. Augusrine to see the Reception of the Sisters 01 St. Joseph at St. joseph Academy. April brought the big night of the year, llProm Night? held at the Prihcess Issena. Shortly after this, many of us went to Ocala to attend a Sodality deanery meeting. On the way back, we visited Silver Springs as guests of the Ocala Sodality. Mayamany things occurred; the last of the midnight oil was burned studying for the Catholic Us and school exams. The crowning of the Blessed Mother, at the annual May crowning was again an inspiring occasion. On Ascension Thursday, our class inaugurated what may develop into a traditionea class picnic at DeLeon Springs. JUNIOR YEAR-l951-1952: The second half of our adventure was started; and, with the many important events planned, it promised to be the busiest half. In October 1951, a Crinoline Days Dance was held at the close of initiation. A bus full of Sodalists went to the Deanery meeting in Orlando to discuss plans for the State Sodality Convention Which was to be held in Daytona Beach. Such preparations! H We gave ourselves wholeheartedly to this enterprise and during the Thanksgiving holidays, we acted as Host Sodality to the Convention. Father John I. Dryhan, S.J., of Miami; Father Francis Curran, S.J., and Father Joseph Som- mer, S.J., of the Queens Work, St. Louis, Missouri, were great inspirations to us all and we felt the spiritual results of our labors were more than adequately rewarded. Once again, our class proved itself and our voices harmonized in the Glee Club to present the musical Dude Ranch and to sing the glories of the new-born King in the annual Christmas Pageant. As juniors, the girls had an opportunity to .show their civic inte'rest by acting as ushers at the Peabody Auditorium, where they witnessed many worthwhile musical performances. St. Patrickls Day of our Junior Year will long be a happy memory. Our school held the first Vocation Day Program in the history of the Diocese of St. Augustine. A play, depicting the Catholic growth of Florida, was presented by our school. Various religious communities had booth displays of their particular works, and the diocesan clergy gave inspirational talks on Floridals need of religious vocations. Stu- dents from Orlando and Oeala were our guests for the day. One of the greatest events of our adventurous trip through high school came with the receiving of our school rings-symbols of all that St. PauPs means to us and expects from us. Retreat, the Prom, exams, the Crowning of our Blessed Mother and graduation exercises all came in their turn to bring to an end a year that had been a busy one. SENIOR YEARe1952-1953: With a true feeling of dignity and importance, we started our senior year-the last chapter in our four year adventure in search for truth. We felt quite grown-up as we watched the poor inexperienced freshmen and secretly plotted their initiation. They, too, like the class of ,53 proved good sports, deSpite our attempts to overpower them.

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We were interrupted by the public address system, paging a Captain Mike Cham- pagne of the United States Air Force. To our great surprise, who should get up from the table in back of us but Mike himself, another of our classmates. When he returned, we invited him to sit at our table, and with four of our Class of 53 together, we began reviewing the list of names we had not already mentioned. Mike said he had seen his cousin, Billy Peshek, on his last trip to Daytona Beach. Billy is owner of the largest Chicken farm in the South. While Mike was in Daytona Beach, he also saw Eileen Wilson, now the owner of an Elite Beauty Salon there. Time was flying; and, while it would have been wonderful to talk more With my old classmates, my plane was preparing for departure. After saying goodbye and promising to write, I boarded my plane and checked in the passengers. In Chicago, we had taken on six more, and while making them comfortable, I discovered that one was none other than Pat Woolley, now the private secretary to Becil C. Ar Millee, the movie producer. Pat said Mr. Ar Millee had just produced a smash hit starring Donald O,Lone, the famous movie actor, another of our class- mates. The trip being rough, Pat and I didn,t talk any more until we reached San Francisco where we made a date for dinner that night. It seemed I had heard of, or had seen, 2111 of my class of t53eall, except one. As I was straightening up the seats, I picked up a newspaper with Tommy Larrivee,s picture on the front page. Tommy, now owner of a whole Heet of stock cars, had broken the speed record for stock cars and was among the best drivers in the racing field. Now the list was complete. What had started as just another routine transcon- tinental Hight, had turned out to -he almost a 'class reunion. With fond memories of my school days still going through my mind, I left the airport and hailed a taxi for the hotel. PATRICIA HASKINS.