St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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ceedings for our contribution to the line-up was considerable. Two Freshmen were among the six Red and Black skaters who took the ice against St. Mary's of Wal- tham and hence we cheered every movement of Ed Phillips and jack Slattery to the echo. While our icemen went down to defeat on that occasion, they more than atoned for that failure in later appearances as Jack Mulhern and Ed Phillips led them to third place in the final League standing. Apart from the interest provid- ed by the games, it was wonderful to note how the contests worked magic in ob- taining parental permission to venture forth on Saturday nights. At the conclu- sion of the season we were quick to vote the ice venture a complete success and we hoped that Hockey would be a permanent feature of the sports cycle on the Hill. Meanwhile, the Christmas vacation had come and gone, to be remembered especially for the Christmas party which preceded it. We learned that this too had become a tradition of the School and we more than enjoyed the banquet and the varied entertainment that followed. On that occasion, Varsity and J.V. athlet- ic rewards were distributed and we were thrilled to have our prowess so publicly noted. We were quite impressed also by the importance of the juniors when it was announced that they were permitted to hold the first St. Sebastian prom under the able direction of Charlie McCarron. All in all, the year would have been en- tirely a succession of pleasant surprises had it not been for the death of His Emi- nence William Cardinal O'Connell in early Spring. As students of the last educa- tional institution he had established, we felt deeply affected as we assisted at the Requiem Mass for the repose of his soul in our School Chapel. To end the year on a memorable note, we had the experience of playing j.V. Baseball under Fr. Flanigan. From workouts that began in the gym cage we passed to the outdoor diamond as soon as weather permitted. Daily practice and insistent coaching eventually molded together a nine that took on strong compe- tition in the weeks of the scholastic year that remained. As moundsmen on that aggregation we had Dick Griffin and john Gallagher who turned in creditable performances despite the fact that their support was a bit on the porous side. Of- fensively, our attack was led by Ed Quirk, Bill O'Leary, and Bob Bullock against competition provided by teams like the Mission High J.V.'s and St. joseph's Acad- emy of Wellesley. While the defeats exceeded the number of victories, that fact was lost sight of as we watched the Varsity pile up seven wins in eleven starts, the season's highlight being jimmy Collins' bid for a no-hitter against Browne and Nichols. To close the academic year we attended the Year's End Party at which awards for scholastic excellence were announced and Baseball letters were distributed. We were particularly pleased when Dick GrifHn's attainment of a scholarship for the year ahead was revealed by the Headmaster. Thus the first chapter of our St. Sebastian career drew to a close most pleasantly, marked by the compilation of a treasury of memories which we hoped would be increased in the three years ahead of us. After the rest and relaxation of the Summer months, we were rather resigned to a return to School routine and we speculated interestedly as to what St. Sebas- tian's would be like with a full complement of classes from Seniors to Freshmen. We were not quite prepared, however, to find the Chapel just about filled with students as we filed in for the Mass of the Holy Ghost on the opening day. Once

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'47 AIDS CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION Seniors: Kehoe, Kirk, Horrigan, Shannon work with Mr. Gilchrist of the N. C. W. C. I WANT TO SEE THE FOLLOWING AFTER DINNER The Headmaster reads a proscriprion list in the refectory

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FIRST FRIDAY MASS Father Flanigan blesses the Seniors at the end of their private Mass in the sacristy. again we were impressed by the insistent advice of Fr. Mclnnis as he addressed us in the Chapel and outlined our responsibilities as students of a College Preparatory School. As we wended our way to our second-floor classrooms, we found new lads accompanying us, and the realization that our group of the previous year had been added to, came as a bit of a shock. When the desks were assigned in the A and B Sophomore sections, we learned names that soon would be glibly familiar to our tongues as their owners became part and parcel of our everyday lives. It was not long before new members like John Boles, Bruce Campbell, jim Caulfield, Lar- ry Cazale, joe Ford, Ollie Hennigan, Larry MacKenzie, Bob McNabb, jack Nawn, Frank O'Donoghue and Dick Tonner were absorbed into our ranks with such thoroughness that we ceased to think of them as newcomers. We were sur- prised also to find some of the familiar faces of our Freshman classmates missing at the start of this second School year, but they were a small minority whose ab- sence was compensated for by the influx of new Sophomores. In the dining hall we had an opportunity to assume an assured air as we took our places and scrutinized the newcomers who had succeeded us as Freshmen. The presence of another row of tables prepared us for the fact that they outnumbered us by being fifty strong. Soon, some math-minded soul pointed out that the stu- 1