Villa Maria Academy - Frontenac Yearbook (Frontenac, MN)

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COURTSHIPS Romance zs a glorzous thzng or rather zt used to be zn the olden days when knzghthood was zn flower These tzmes are over and the new age of romance has taken over Lets peek zn on these courtshzps and see exactly how they dzffer WHEN RNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER Knlght May I glVC you a rlde mv Lady? Lady Why thank xou I would be dehghted to rlde a way wlth you lKH1ght takes her hand and helps her lnto hls carriage J Knlght A very nlce dress you are wearlng Lady Thank you Knight My Lady I would be honored lf you would be my partner at the Knlght Ball next Saturday nlght Lady I would be dellghted to attend the Ball wlth you Knlght At elght oclock I shall arrlve for you Lady You wlll fmd me waltlng for you Knlght My Lady we have arrlved at your castle CThe Knlght helps the Lady down from the carrlage walks her to the door sees her 1ns1de and w1th a sweeplng bow leaves her J TYVENTIETH CEN TURY COURTSHIP Glr Boy Glr Boy Glr Boy to Have you your car heres' Yep' Are you golng my wavg Dont know Could you g1VC me a l1ft'7 Suppose so CG1rl and boy walk IU sllence the car The glrl carrles her own books and opens her own door whlle the boy jumps IH on the other slde Glr Boy Glr Boy Glr Boy Glr Boy Boy Glr Nlce weather we re havlng Hum hm dldnt notlce CAfter a long sllencel There IS a good show ln town There 1S9 Yes do you thmk youll be gomg to see 1t9 Guess so Whom do you thmk youll go w1th9 Dont know You want to come along? Okay Ill call when I declde to go Here IS my stop Boy Oh yeah almost forgot tThe car stops and the glrl gets out of the car whlle the boy S1tS waltlng for her to go The glrl carrles her own books walks up to the front door by herself and turns to wave to flnd the car speedlng down the drlveway J Mary Schultz '60 H ER MAJ ESTY The sun shmes through her golden halr and melts the crystal gown whlch wlnter wore so gracefully Glowmg wlth a new beauty not ghttermg whlte but sc1nt1llat1ng greens the mother of hfe appears w1th all her warmth and kmdness The flowers clothed ln beauty awaken to greet her Trees hve agaln and each turns to 1ts own shade of green The forest once dead and noxseless now comes ahve wlth the chatter-chatter and smgmg of blrds The flelds of wheat awaken to her golden rays of sunshlne The rlvers and streams that were once stlll and motlonless overflow then' beds and ripple agam All thmgs l1ve agaln for Her Majesty, Sprlng, IS here Mary Ann Rhoads, '61 TH E LITU RGICAL YEAR Wouldnt It be wonderful to be able to go back to the tlme when Chrlst was born9 T be able to lne when He hved and to umte our selves closely to H1m9 However we do not have to wlsh that, for today we may share more closely ln Our Lords hfe than when He walked on earth The explanatlon for thls IS that Chrlst IS l1v1ng here IH Hrs Mystlcal Body the Cathollc Church Each year Our Dlvlne Savlor llves agaln all He d1d 1n Hls whole hfe Throu h the hturglcal year we not only learn about t e events ln the hfe of Our Savlor but we also learn to part1c1pate ln them If through grace we seek to unlte ourselves to God we w1ll show forth IH our actlons the holy events of Hls hfe We should try to acqulre the sp1r1t of the feasts of the lltl1l'g1C8l year Thls can be done through the frequent offermg of Holy Mass by celebratmg the feasts of our patron saints and by l1Vll'lg ln the splrlt of each hturglcal season as lt comes. Jzll Beaudette, '61 's A Q v X x 4 f' l ' l: . l o v l T ' : . ' l: ' . 5 a j ' t L f J : ' . , n 0 I 'KN :fre 5 - 7 l: . 9 . . . U.. , I - . . ' I' a a g ' Y ' , 'l: ' ' ' . , . , - ' v ' : 7 , - . 1' . . D y , . . .u , o .1 , Q A l i . 1: , . , . . . : I .12 . , . . ' . , ' , 1 ' , . 0 I U . Girl: Sure, I'd love to. l , i , I 7: . . , . ' , ' l: ' . . . . , , , ' ' I . , I . : ,U , ' , i . . 1 . . 7 . . ' 7 . 7 , . . . ' L . 0 . V . . . - I ' . , I u n 9 . , . 7 . . . , I u 9 , . , 1 , I u . . , ' 5 . 0 , Q a - u Q ' 1 29

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OUR DAILY BREAD Glve us thls day Jesus Sald our dally bread VV hat IS our dally bread9 What does lt mean to us and to the people all over the world? For us lt may mean the answer to a problem, or a joyfllled day or a good confession, or Hlm ln Holy Communlon For the r1ch people of the world lt may mean the same but Sald 1n a dlfferent language But for the poor people of the world lt means clothes to put on thelr backs food to keep them allve a place to sleep, protectlon agamst the raln and a frlend ln Amerxca who cares enough to help them Why are We so luckyf' God only knows Maybe He thlnks that we w1ll have enough heart to help the poor lnstead of helpmg our selves to food, clothes money, and other worldly goods of WhlCh we have enough In the materlahstlc world of today we are lncllned to thlnk of ourselves more than of others and to say, Let somebody else take care of them I m too busy wlth my own troubles But that IS where we flnd our troubles thmkmg of ourselves lnstead of others GIVC us thls day our dally bread so that we mlght share lt with others who need lt more than we do Judy Merrzll 6 1 ITALIAN FOOD y mother belng Italian I have been very famll lar wlth Itallan people all my hfe and have more than sampled the1r dehclous foods There are many dlfferent va rletles of the fax Oflte dlsh spaghettl the most well known of Itahan foods No two people prepare lt exactly allke, and nelther does It always taste the same But It IS always de l1c1ous The Itallans f1X a Frlday dlsh whlch IS called polenta It conslsts of corn meal wlth a sauce of tomato and codflsh Thls meal or any Itallan meal IS not prepared IH a short time On holldays the Itallans are extravagants and artists at cooking a feast worthy of the most exact of connolsseurs Not only do they have several large courses but there lS also plenty of Chlantl wlne soup salad and many breads and desserts One very well hked dessert IS called torte, a ple of chocolate and rlce very diifflcult to prepare correctly but well worth the e ort 'R 'WD that can be bestowed on an Itallan cook or any cook for that matter IS to eat heartlly of the wonderful foods that she has taken so much tlme to prepare In thls way both cook and consumer are satlsfled Janet Gray 60 WI The Unlted States has rlsen to fame For the past years she has been far ahead of the other leadmg powers but now lt seems RUSSIR IS supplylng some rather Stlff competltlon Wlll the Unlted States be overcomec? Wlll she l1ke Greece, Rome, and other great emplres fall to rum just as soon as she really has the power, the prestlge she has worked so hard to get9 I thlnk the answers to these questlons depend on you and me and every READY? other hlgh school and college student throughout the natlon Few of us reallze that ln just a few years the fate of our country Wlll be placed ln our hands Once It IS there, then It IS too late to declde the sltuatlon IS too blg too com pllcated for us to handle Although not all of us w1ll take part IH the actual polltlcal control of the United States as members of a democracy we have the obllgatlon to make use of the rlght to vote It IS everyones responslblhty to see that the best quallfled are holdlng offlce and leadlng our country on the rlght path We must be able to take over where those before us left off and keep the Unlted States ln her posxtxon It w1ll not be an easy Job for anyone and It w1ll not even be posslble lf we the students of today are not on the alert to the manner ln whlch world affalrs are now belng handled If all we ever read ln the newspapers IS funmes or the sports sectlon and 1f we turn off the radlo vs hen the news comes on we certamly won t be able to combat Commumsm and the other dangers to our natlon s freedom We as the Amerlcan leaders of tomorrow have the responslblllty to prepare now for the Job we w1ll have to do ln the future It 1S onlv wlth thlS preparat1on and the help of God that we wlll be able to take a flrm stand agalnst those problems whlch we shall meet ln keeplng the Unlted States on top the greatest natlon ln the world Mary E Blaylock '59 as ' ' 79 ' cc ' ' ' 1 1 . 5 71 ' ' , . . . ,. . . u - . . . v . . 7 . ' . f gt S . . 7 7 . , 0 I u , 0 I - , . . ' - . . I u I Q , u . . . 1 ' - , . . . - I 1 i 9 , . ' ' ' 1 1 1 D . Cl 4 ' 1 ' 19 ' , ' ' - in tt - - - ,, We should know that the finest compliment . - . 7 , I . , 7 ' 7 - . . , I 7 7 1 Q 9 . u , 5 ' . a U WE ' . . . ' 1 7 . . . . . . . 5 . . . . U. , - . 7 ' 1 . 1 0 . . J , 0 , . I , . , . ' 1 ' 1 28

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LFE To llve IS but the smallest part of llfe It IS to see but never to behold The beauty of a mother who ln strlfe Gave from her womb a chlld that she mlght mold It ls to hear llke one who knows not sound And so to mlss the thrlll of gentle raln That softly patters on the thlrsty ground Or so to hear a wlolln ID valn It IS to wear the softest velvet robe Yet not to reallze the wealth of touch It IS to stand before our mlghty globe Pretendlng that lts beauty IS not much The nourlshment of llfe IS beauty bold In mlsslng lt, we mlSS all llfe does hold Mary Margaret Glefer, 58 ADVENTURE he blg day had flnally arrlved I watched Wlth excltement as the crates of food and supplles were hauled aboard our Shlp Everyone was hustllng here and there but nobody seemed to know where they were ww golng A group f VVldC-eyed chlldren sat on a bench a short dlstance away starlng ln wonder not darlng to move Farther away a group of professors were chatterlng over a large PICCC of paper Suddenly a horn blew Wlthln mlnutes the fleld was cleared The people had become a mass of bobblng heads on the other Slde of the rope Several pollcemen were on duty to see that they stayed there As soon as we started walklng toward the blg Shlp whlch now looked almost fearsome the crowd be an shoutlng laughlng crylng and cheerlng or us all at once' The crew boarded flrst then the few speclal passengers llke myself Everyone was aware that thls was the blggest and maybe last ad xenture of our llves Wlth a Jolt that left us dlZZy, we were off on the flrst trlp to the moon Mary Ann Berktold 60 THE GIFT OF A CHILD The chllllng cold of wlnter had settled on the country Trees were heavy wlth sllent snow antlfreeze sales were golng full force, woolens were taken out of storage and all over the soft whlte beauty of Gods wlnter was VlSlblC It was also the season of Chrlstmas Thls was much ln evldence bv the fasclnatlng panor amas ln the store wlndows trees belng decora ted by happlly unlted famllles and all of the beautlful ceremonles that prepared for the com lng of the Infant Jesus Chrlstmas IS a happy tlme for chlldren They dream of Santa of stocklngs fllled Wlth toys of the wonderful food and of a brllllant Chrlstmas tree untll thelr llttle heads SPIH Wlth excltement That IS most chlldren Llttle Tommy was an exceptlon He sat on the steps of Old Jlms shack and poked the snow Wlth a stlck He vaguely remembered the lncldent that had completely changed hls young llfe four years ago Chrlstmas Eve, that four vears ago had been breathtaklng Tommy s motller and father had taken the chlld and hls baby slster out for a rlde to see all the beautlful llghts and to enjoy and absorb the beautlful Chrlstmas Splflt Under that gllstenlng snow lay tragedy The ICC was treacherously smooth and sllppery A Tommys father attempted to turn a corner at the deserted edge of town the car skldded rolled over, and smashed agalnst a telephone po e The old man taklng hls nlghtly walk would nex er hate known anythlng had happened lf he hadnt heard the tlny whlmper of a llttle chlld He peered through the darkness and he turned wlth terror at the slght he saw The only per son allve was a small boy about f1VC years old The old man carefully bundled the boy up and carrled hlm to hls shack at the edge of town As the chlld grew a deep attachment devel oped between the two Old Jlm had been a klnd bachelor a recluse who had never been lox ed by anyone untll a small boy tugged at hls heart strlngs that Chrlsmas Exe four years ago As for Tommv, he grew up to be a shy and qulet box lery small ID SIZC and extremely thln He coughed contlnually and was SlCk more than he was well He had a mop of curly brown halr and huge black eyes that seemed to cover half of hls face MD . . F O I Q . 1 . . . 9 . . . 7 . . . . . . , . . . . 9 I I l T I M I I ,U O - . . . . 7 7 4 - . . . . . . . . 7 Q u . . . . , A I o 9 7 . . - . . . . . . . . . . ,. . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . I D I I 0 . . V .4 . , ' 1 . . . . EEEEQEEZEQQEEQQEQZQEEEEZQIQIE:2:3:Etf12:ii5j3:EjE3E:ijljljigigigigigizi . ' ' l. s 3 3 . 7 . . . . . . ' 1 . 7 . . 7 ' , . . . . . . . - , . . , . . o ' I . . ' 7 . - 7 4 9 U l ' 1 , . . , . . . . . . 1 ' , . ur, V ' . . . . . . , ' I I l Q ' 7 9 . . . . EI 1 1 1 . - . , 7 . . . , U . . , - J . J C , f , - a 30