Ursuline Academy - Traces Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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A HOBBY THE GIRL IN THE LOOKING GLASS Marrka Kretekes Class of 60 Rosemary Olrvarrr Class of 58 To the young gtrls rn the vrllage of Greece then hobby rs mostly embrordermg 'I'h1s mtght not sound so rnterestrng to the Amerrcan gtrls because they have so many other actrvtttes such as gotng to a dance at least once a week And besrdes why should they em brolder thtngs when they can buy them and save much t1me'7 The grrls rn Greece also have festivals dances and ever so many other thmgs but durmg the week days after therr housework they gather to talk thxngs over and embrorder Many trmes they have races among themselves to see who wrll embrorder a cer tarn destgn faster I remember when I was tn Greece my frrend and I gathered rn a gxrl s house to embrorder Durxng glorious sprmgttme xt was heavenly srtttng under the snow whrte and newly blossomed almond and plum trees Perhaps we seemed a lrttle rdle Just srttmg there and emoymg the cool breeze whrch scented from the evergreen trees near by and lxstenrng to the whrspers of the bees and butterfltes danctng around the whrte blossoms rn search for food but our mrnds betng busy wrth these thrngs our hands never stopped from thetr task Durrng the wmter however many trmes we gathered at nrght and worked by the lrght of a lamp whrch was fueled by gas because wrres and other equtpment that are necessary to make electrrctty QI-lowever now every vrllage has elec trrclty agarn Q Nevertheless whrle we were embrordertng durtng the wtnter we drdn t mrss any of the fun we had rn sprmg and summertrme Now we made popcorn and many delrcrous pastrres We drd th1s sxttrng by the frresrde and taktng turns watchrng the thtngs we baked whrle the others were embroxderrng Frnally when we got ttred gossxptng and at the same txme workrng all of us spent the nrght at whatever house we were because usually outsrde there was snow many feet deep and durrng the mght rt was very dangerous to walk through ll You mrght wonder what we drd wrth the thrngs we embrotdered In Greece there rs a custom that when a grrl marrtes she must have a dowry so she may equrp the home a lrttle So for thetr dowry grrls make beauttful desrgns on therr ptllow cases sheets and many other thrngs Who ts th1s grrl wrth eyes that shme'7 Who rs thls grrl wrth features fme'7 Thrs rsn t ME tt COULDN T be For I VE NEVER looked so lovely But look agatn My Chtld a Vorce sard unto me Look once agarn and tell me dear now what do you see? I see a lady clothed U1 blue wrth eyes so sweet and ktnd And Just ltke her I m gorng to be sweet and pure of mrnd So I guess tt s really ME wrth Mary shmmg through Oh' Mary dear KEEP on shrnmg and KEEP ME JUST LIKE YOU THE EXISTENCE OF GOD Elste Ramxrez Class of 61 In our modern day we ftnd many athelsts walking the streets How would you argue wtth them the ex rstence of God? Well you have several drfferent vrewpolnts on whtch to base your arguments You can prove that there ts a God from the de srre for happrness Every created flnrte berng has a longrng for happrness There must be an tnfrnrte uncreated berng who can frll thts longmg of human betngs Thrs someone ts God You can prove that there IS a God from our sur roundtngs Look at a flower for rnstance tt IS a beautiful thrng Yet who caused tts CXISICIICCV You can say Well I can plant some seeds and flowers wrll grow That 1S true but where drd the seeds come from? Someone had to make the seeds Thrs one rs God who rs all wrse I-low does a lrght bulb work'7 By means of electrlcrty you have lrght Electrrcrty rs produced by water power from our falls Who put water here on earth? There ts no doubt about rt It has to be someone who ts greater than us God Everythrng rs subJect to change You get older day by day Plants grow and dte Anrmals lrve and dre Our way of ltvrng today IS not as rt was flfty years ago Srnce everythtng changes there must be someone who rs the cause of these changes but that one doesn t change The changer IS God during the World War II the enemy had destroyed the ' . , '

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INSIDE OF A CHURCH Mary Ann Perez Class of 59 As one steps tnto a qutet solemn church 1m medrately there ts a feeling of both Joy and sorrow You are probably say1ng how can one feel Joy and sorrow at the same time One feels Joy when he enters the church and be holds all the beauty of heaven expressed on the faces of the satnts For example St Joseph although he rs dressed in peasant clothes on hrs face he wears a welcoming expression of Joy One can almost hear him sayrng Come all who labor for one s daily bread and offer all of today s sacrtfrces for the greatest Laborer of all Chrrst As one s eyes are distracted they gaze upon the most beautiful flower of all the Blessed Vugm Here rndeed ts a face no arttst can ever pamt so that we can ever truthfully say Here 15 the Blessed Vlrgm Her eyes are ltke crystal blue water her face lxke a pmk glowing wax rose and her smtle one of a moth er s fnlled wrth Joy Her sad and ioyful eyes pene trate one to the very depth because tmmedlately one feels the gulf of all sin and the death of her beloved As one walks farther on one comes to the ltghted candles 'l'he1r glowxng yellow and orange flames re mtnds one of the Holy Spxrit that dwells tn the soul How often one forgets that God is withm us we forget this and act as we please we live accordrng to our feelings or we do things Just to go along with the crowd After one has visited the whole church and rs about to leave one sees the very expressive Gothlc architecture Wxth its peaks pomttng upward tt re mtnds one of where he is going to the place where the Kmg of the Jews dwells to Heaven POVERTY VERSUS CONTRIBUTION Elva E Cardenas Class of 58 Often one hears the defense that contributrng to mankmd rs dtfftcult Lt' not lmpossrble for one ham pered by the lack of fmanctal resources We must first of all realtze that God has gtven every one of us certam gifts or talents some have more some have less In His Dtvlne Providence an arrangement has already been made as to the how of therr use and ll s up to us to ftnd rt Money tttle nches and the like aren t really necessary For rn reality the most tmportant necessmes are a desrre to contrrbute a love of mankmd and a wtllmgness for self sacrtftce These alone are the requirements and Ln thts theme l shall glve an example of a person who was born rn poverty and yet contrxbuted very much to mankmd For example tn a small town named Ltchtenthal near Vtenna on January 31 1797 a boy was born tn to the famrly of a school teacher named Schubert and a cook Eltzabeth Vrtz Never dxd they realtze that one of then chtldren Franz Peter would become one of the greatest composers that the world would ever know Many would be surpnsed to learn that at the age of slxteen Schubert had completed hrs frrst symphony but even more surprlsmg IS the fact that at seventeen hts frrst Mass reached comp1et1on In hts poverty Schubert was a Mtdas A Mrdas of mustc Everythrng he heard everythtng he saw everything he read every emotton he ever felt was turned into the golden stratns of musrc whrch ts our herrtage Yes Schubert was a man of the greatest poverty and yet hrs works have been many and great Hrs works complete over forty volumes mcluding ten symphomes twenty stnng quartets one octet twen ty ptanoforte sonatas and short pieces stx Masses and over stx hundred compositions As a song composer of hrs day he never reached fame and fortune No Schubert was born in poverty the world wrll never forget the man who contributed so much havmg had so very l1ttle AUTUMN Laura Rodrlguez Class of 60 I met a lady named Autumn one day She stopped and she whispered I ve come to stay In one hand a palette III the other a brush She had plenty of time there was no rush She parnted the leaves all brown gold and red To match the glrtterrng crown on her head A necklace of dewdrops she wore wrth a flarr Her presence made musxc I knew she was there She colored the mountams a vrolet pale The mottonless wmds she turned to a gale She had much to say to the folk of the wood And I d pass rt on to you rf only I could But I am not one of them I cannot say Whatever she sard to them on that day And now she rs fmtshed her masterptece stands From seacoast to seacoast throughout all the land Farewell Lady Autumn so lovely do dear Please do not forget us and come back next year ' N . . r ' ' ' I ' g ' Son, Jesus Christ. he lived in poverty, and he died in poverty. Truly,

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fCont'dj THE EXISTENCE OF GOD So Lf the athersts won t belreve that there rs a God tt ts solely because thetr foolish prtde prevents them from acknowledgrng the truth whrch reason can prove MUSIC MARCHES ON Pamela Martrn Class of 61 Every generatron for about as far back as you can remember has had tts own specral type of musrc This type of mustc expresses tn some way the spectal problem or problems facrng the people of that trme as poltttcal tensron or Just somethtng to be new and dtfferent somethrng to break away from the regular monotonous pattern of gorng along wrth the crowd The Charleston for rnstance became popular about the begrnnrng of the depressxon Durmg those prtrable txmes of hunger and sufferrng they needed to have some way to let go to take theu' mrnds off the desparrrng condttrons of the country So they found a means an orrgmal krnd of musrc and danc mg Not Just a worthless krnd of musrc but a mean mgful absorbtng krnd that told everybody tn the world Just how they felt and what they were gotng to do about rt bea rt And of course we know they drd beat rt for the depressron passed Just as everythrng else rn thts world does Wrth the passrng of the depressxon and the Charles ton there came a perrod of dreamy waltzes and tangos No partrcularly specral krnd of musrc Just very very pretty Thrs perrod resembles the one before the storm Then wrth the unexpectedness of a ragrng hurrr cane rnterrupttng a stlent nrght there came the Sec ond World War And close upon rts heels was the Irtterbug The Irtterbug came rnto berng to match and relax rn a way the stram of polttrcal tensron so hrgh dunng the early 40 s The Irtterbug the same as the Charleston came along as a sort of spontaneous reactron to dtstress to grve people a way to let off steam Just as any krnd of mustc ever to be started wrll one way or another Wrrh the endrng of the Second World War the Korean War and the Irtterbug there came a rest from startltng musrc for three or four years And then wxth the suddenness of and probably the same terrlfy mg effect to some people as a clap of thunder Rock 'n Roll and the mixed up age of rockets and moons is upon us Of course ALMOST everybody ltkes Rock n Roll because tt fulfrlls the wants of the modern mrnd as far as enJoyment and newness are concerned But Just as naturally as the changrng of seasons occurs and trme passes Rock n Roll wrll also pass It has to because musrc rnevrtably changes accordrng to the wants and needs of the subconscrous mrnd whether real or rmagrnary Who knows the next trme a new style of musrc rs introduced there may be nothrng but cosmrc space rays hopptng along to the beep beeps of future Sput ntks Tl-IE ENCHANTMENT OF MOONLIGHT Lupe Ramtrez Class of 58 The sun has settled and the creatures of the nrght have taken over the small crtcket rubbrng hrs legs the bullfrog croakrng and the frrebugs showmg off therr trny lamps All rs srlent and many of the houses are dark Only here and there can you hear a baby s cry a car screechrng and the closrng of a door Stealthlly a radrance comes mto the scene It rs the moon rnrtratrng a show of enchantment that starts at dusk and ends at dawn The t1ny droplets of dew on the leaves sparkle when the moonbeams dance on them Everythmg seems to come to lrfe the huge oak trees become sentrnels of the forest the daffodrls are the marden beautres and the nocturnal anrmals the spectators A hush comes over everythrng when Allessandro Srmplecrrc ket the conductor taps hrs wand on the old oak trunk He taps rt agam and starts the sym phony Ten crxckets clothed rn tuxedos play the vrolrns a small June Bug plays the make belreve prano and the sophrstrcated Lady Bug starts her song She starts srngrng gorng hrgher and htgher and grves out wrth a screechmg notse' The next act rs Just about to start when everyone notlces the moon gotng down and the enchantment recedtng The rnsects and anrmals go back to thetr natural mode of lrfe and the forest seems ttself agarn The moon wrthdraws for another nrght but wrll re turn for many wondrous nrghts to come ' 1 . , . , . . ' . , , , 1 . . . . , . I f , , , n I '- ' 1 9 I . . 9 1 I 1 . g o 1 ' 1 ' 1 . . .. . . - D . . , ' ' 1 ' 1 .- '. .. , ' , . . 1 1 ' . ' 9 n . . 9 1 , - : ' I V 1 o 1 . , , . , - 1 - , , . . ,, - .. l . , g - 1 P . ' u 3 . , Q o 1 - ' ' I - ' . . - , - 1 .