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

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appropriate costumes. We made a hasty trip to St. James in Orlando to make preparations for the coming convention and to elect oHicers for our dteanery. The Thanksgiving holidays highlighted our Sophomore year, as our Sodalitj' was to be host to the State Convention. Early in November, Rev. John J. Druhan, S. J., visited us to outline the plans. From then until the close of the convention we gave wholehearted attention to this important event. To display our dramatic ability, we presented llDude Ranch, a second time, at the Peninsula Club. The members of the Glee Club enjoyed the privilege of singing the traditional hymns at the Christmas Party, while others of the class took part in the tableaux commemorating Christ,s birth. The course of events was interrupted by the end-term examinations and then the activities continued as usual. The St. Valentine,s Day dance was a llbackwardh affair since it was leap year. While all continued to support the basketball games, the girls were given an opportunity to help to usher for the various social functions at the Peabody Auditorium. March, the month of St. Joseph and vocations, marked a very important event in the annals of St. Paulls. The first Vocation Day program in the diocese was held in our school. This event was on St. Patrick,s day and was attended by prieests and sisters from various parts of the State and by high school students from the neigh- boring towns. Rev. John McNulty conducted our annual Holy Week retreat. Those three days were most welcome and helped us face the end of the year with renewed spirit. The Junior-Senior Prom, held at the Peninsula Club, was the big social event after the Easter holidays. By this time, the calendar was warning us of the passing of time and it seemed that the Catholic University examinations were too soon. On the last Sunday of May, we honored Our Blessed Mother by taking part in the procession and coronation in her honor. Although the end of the year was approaching fast, we practiced diligently under Sister John Marie,s supervision and on Class Day we helped with the celebra- tion by presenting llMargie Goes Ilfoalrzm.n J UNIOR YEAR Junior Year! What delightful memories the name recalls. Now that we were upperclassmen we immediately began work in earnest with such subjects as religion, F rench, English, world history, chemistry, and for some-the commercial subjects. Since some of the boys were in the Reserves, a few of the equally patriotic girls joined the Civil Air Patrol. The Tri-Lang Club also interested the ilinguistical members of our class. On the Feast of Christ the King, the Sodality members at- tended the Central Florida Deanery meeting in Orlando. November became memorable for St. PaulTs won first place in the city-wide llVoice of Democracyh contest; many of the sodalists spent the Thanksgiving holie days at the State Convention at St. Petersburg; a Sadie Hawkins dance, complete With King and Queen and Marryinl Bureau, was sponsored; and a club, the M.O.M.,s, to encourage domestic abilities was formed. Preparlations for the feast of Christmas found us all taking a part in the presentation of the traditional story of Christ,s birth.

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diam oblato W FRESHMAN YEAR Alas! the life of high school freshmen is not quite as simple as it seems. After a summer full of plans for a carefree year ahead, we found our first few weeks in high school taken up with the introduction of many new and diHicult subjectSe religion, English, Latin, general science, algebra, and Christian democracy. But, we were not to be daunted and soon we felt that high school life might not be so bad after all and we proceeded to the election of class oflicers. Then, INITIATION! It almost disillusioned us. The thought that we would not remain freshmen forever was our one hope. At the end of this week of torment we were received oHicially into life at St. Paulls, and all feeling of uneasiness left us. Preparations, in which we now shared, included a trip with the Sodality to Orlando where plans for the State Convention in Miami were madeea Christmas pageant presented by the Glee Club to add more joy to our first Christmas holidays. We were just beginning to enjoy ourereturn to school after the vacation, when midyear examinations were upon us, dampening our high spirits. After surmounting these obstacles quite successfully, we entered into a year of social activitiesethe musi- cal selections of RubinoH and his violin thrilled us as did his praise of St. PauPs and Catholic education,-the dances, hen parties, basketball games, the cheerleaders, Wiener roast, were all events into which we entered heartily. Our interest in the religious side of high school life was shown by the attendance of some of our class at the Reception of the Sisters of St. Joseph in St. Augustine. All of us enjoyed the Retreat given during Holy Week by Father William Fitz- patrick of Orlando. In April and May our time and thoughts were given to such important events as the Prom at the Princess Issena, an Ascension Thursday outing, sponsored in part, by our class and which has since become a tradition; reception into the Sodality of the Children of Mary and the May Procession, the final examinations, Class Day with our presentation of The Merchant of Venice, and the F reshman awards. SOPHOMORE YEAR September 1951 found us a more self-confident group as we returned to school. Quickly we adapted ourselves to the work of our second year by struggling through Latin translations, geometric propositions, and life history of the amoeba. October-The various organizations were well under way and we showed our usual enthusiasm. We supported the Crinoline Days, Dance by appearing in

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After we returned from the holidays, we had as our guests, Mother M. Geraldine, O. P., Mother General of the Dominican Sisters who staff our school. Mothefs companion was Sister M. Hildegarde, Novice Mistress. Again mid-terrn examinations came and went. After this we gave our attention to the Pelican, which we had the privilege of editing. Who will forget the interest and curiosity aroused by the new feature article lKPelican Pete ? At about this same time, too, the Holy Name Society began to take an active interest in our recreational facilities and there soon developed the St. Paulys Recreational Center. This organization has done laudible work as the continuance of KlOpen Housel, and other activities prove. Now for the great thrill of our Junior Year-the receiving of our class ringSh emblems of all that St. PauYs means to us and expects from us as loyal followers of her standards. The beginning of Lent found us zealously following the admonitions of Father Ferron and Father Cavanaugh, Redemptorists who gave the Mission. During Holy Week, Father Rodimer of Catholic University gave us an annual retreat which thoroughly refreshed us spiritually and the Easter holidays proved very happy ones. For days in March we had toiled at collecting and marking clothes for the rummage sale, which was a great financial success. Now we proceeded with great plans and preparations for the greatest social event on our calendar the PROM, which we held on April 17th at the Palmetto Club. Quickly the events of the next few weeks, although all very important, took place. There were the inevitable Catholic University examinations, the annual outing, the May Procession, the arrival of the yearbook, graduation and another year was gone. SENIOR YEAR It was hard to believe that we were actually Seniors when we returned to school in September. Strange that we did not seem to enjoy the exalted position as much as we had expected. Maybe we were already feeling lonesome because this was to be our last year. We welcomed Sister Alphonsus as our new Senior home room teacher and under her supervision we lost no time in getting down to the business of school work. Our subjects, with the exception of American history and science, were continued from our Junior year and that made us feel we were walking on familiar ground. Before September passed, we elected our Class oHicers, reorganized NOpen House activities, resumed the weekly Sodality meetings to which Public School members were now invited, and did plenty of homework. It was important that the Freshmen should recognize our superiority and should know that we llruled the roost,,, so earl;r in October we proceeded to the important work of initiation. We took the Freshmen in hand for a few days but climaxed it all with a good-will party in the school hall. With so many added duties as seniors, we gave full charge of the Pelican, after the October issue, to the Juniors. October also brought with it a change in the system of report cards, so we experienced another of those fateful days. However, the Hallowelen Costume Party did much to lighten our spirits. -