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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On Saturday, September 6th, the St. Sebastian world was startled to read in the head- lines of the Barton Traveler that four of our students were missing at sea. It developed that two of our classmates, Bill Gibbons and Bob Murphy, together with Jack Boyle and Vin Greene of the Senior class had set sail for Boston from Nantucket in a leaky catboat and were unreported since leaving Provincetown the preceding afternoon. The setting in of a thick fog and the fact that they were right in the shipping lane of the Cape Cod Canal made their situation more precarious and caused them to be listed as missing. To the relief of anxious parents, relatives and friends the quartet landed at Scituate Saturday noon and found themselves celebrities whose safety had to be reported on the front pages of Sunday mornings papers. Those of us who had to be content with what we read in the papers were more than anxious to hear the whole saga from the lips of the heroes themselves and it was no hardship for us to return to St, Sebastian's when School opened on Monday, September 22nd, By now the opening day ritual was familiar enough for us to know what to expect and, when we were assigned to first floor class- rooms, we scanned the ranks of our membership for new faces. As usual there had been some additions and it was a day or so before we realized that this was our complete roster: Junior A Junior B John Baker William Brooks Jeremiah Burns Paul Burke James Clifford Paul Clogan John Cochran James Coleman Richard Collu y Ralph Donnelly Gordon Doucette John Elston Richard Finnegan William Gibbons Thomas Green George Hayes James Heller Park Hurley Richard Keelan Robert Kelly Henry Lane Gerard McCourt Robert Murphy William O'Brien Murray Regan Francis Renaud Edward Ryan John Sherry Paul Sullivan Neil Campbell Robert Cochrane Hilton Collupy David Connor Paul Corcoran Clement Dore Francis Downey Bennet Driscoll William Flanagan Reed Gomperts David Hanron Bruce Harrigan Leon Hebert Albert Hughes Robert Joyce Francis Kett Russell MacDonald Paul McDonald Robert Neville Thomas O'Shea Donald Ring Charles Sullivan As the day proceeded, we learned that the School had several new instructors to take the places of Father Cotter, who had been made Headmaster of the Cathedral High School, Father Desmond, who had been assigned to St. Clement's Preparatory Seminary, and Fathers Stocklosa, Joyce and Dacey who had returned to parochial duties. Two of the new priests, Father Harrington and Father Sylvester, were assigned to us in Chem- istry and English, while Father Barrett and Father Gilmartin were assigned to the lower classes. At the same time we learned that Father Flanigan had been appointed Assist- ant Headmaster. When we received our academic program, it did not prove to be too different from other years except in the fact that Chemistry had replaced History, Five of our stalwarts were selected to pursue the study of Greek at the feet of the Headmaster and for the rest of us it was a relief not to find ourselves named Connor, Corcoran, Kelly, Kett or McDonald, I-I 77 1.1