St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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Strange as it seemed, we had reached almost to the half-way mark in our St, Sebas- tian careers and that fact was brought home to us graphically by Commencement Week of I9-17. To inaugurate the festivities, a Year's llnd Party was held at the School on Sunday night and the banquet was followed by a showing of Take me out to the XVigwam and the awarding of sports letters and jackets, Some of us attended the Senior Prom at the Woodltind Golf Club the following night, but rain intervened to cancel the Fathers' and Sons' Day Red-Blue game on Tuesday, Wedimesclay brought the traditional Senior outing at the New Ocean House in Swampscott, while Thursday found the whole School attending the Solemn Baccalaureate Mass celebrated by Mon- signor Mclnnis at the Cenacle Convent. That evening we repaired to the Hotel Bradford in Boston to enjoy Leo Litwin's popular concert numbers and the remarkable singing of Miss Alice Farnsworth. The culmination of the week's activities was reached on Friday morning when the Graduation Exercises were held at the Archbishop's Residence, Not long before, Monsignor Wriglit had been named Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and we were proud to have the Bishop-lllect presiding over the ceremonies, Salutatory and Valedictory addresses were delivered by john Cremmen and john Kirk before Bishop Wriglit gave his impressive and stirring charge to St, Sebastian's third graduating class. After the awarding of diplomas, the presiding prelate celebrated Solemn Benediction assisted by Monsignor Mclnnis and Father Flanigan. As we congratulated the graduates before departing from the scene, we realized that we had been privileged in having their friendship for two years and that they had had an inspirational influence upon our prep school life. Witli the Summer ahead we parted from each other in high spirits with mutual promises to see you at Scituate and look you up at Falmouth. SCIENCE CLUB Sealed: Ryan, R. Collupy, Kett, Father Harrington, Burke, Hefler, Baker. Slmldings Bonica, Benjamin, Flanagan, Santora, McKenna. -l 75 1-1

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1 I i l STAMP AND COIN CLUB Sfrllllffligf Connor. O'Bryan, Father Flanigan, McCarthy, deVicq. KllL'L'ffl1g.' Wfeber, Demeo. On March 16th, the Hockey-Basketball banquet took place in the School refectory and the members of both squads were presented with sterling silver medals of St. Sebas- tian in addition to the customary athletic awards, For his years of devoted service to our athletes, Dr. Gibbons, Billy's father, received a Varsity letter while Tom I-lartnett's dad was honored with a St, Sebastian medal for his rescue of Father Flanigan and our marooned cagers during the winter's worst blizzard. Wfhile we were not present at it, the Hrst Alumni Communion Mass and Breakfast was held at the School on April 13th and the principal speaker of the occasion was Monsignor Wright who took for his subject The Privileges and Responsibilities of Higher Education. About this time, the Spring athletic program came into its own, and the School fielded teams in Tennis and Golf as well as Baseball, With Father Aubut coaching the netmen and Father Hannigan piloting the golfers, the respective teams turned in credit- able performances, breaking about even in their interscholastic matches. Hardly anyone at St. Sebastian's could bring himself to be optimistic over the Baseball prospect, because a long illness and convalescence had deprived us of the services of Bob McNabb and the team was to face the most diiifcult schedule ever attempted, However, despite the gloomy forecast, it was not long before we realized that we had a star southpaw in Andy Mc- Auliffe who reached a new peak by fanning 24 batters in the St. Johns Prep game, The fielding of the Red and Black left much to be desired in many contests, so the Arrows had to be content with a -1 and 9 record, even though our members Billy Gibbons, Fish Collupy, Bob Kelly and Fran Kett were in their trying all the time, 74 1-1

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