Villa Maria Academy High School - Reflections Yearbook (Malvern, PA)

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Gm! Stem Typing and stenography were just words to us when we first began our Commercial Course but it was not long before we discovered their true meaning and the work it took to master them, Typing to the rhythm of music was 11 help to us as well as 11 novelty, Stenogruphy was all very new and tamseinuting. After the first few weeks we marveled as we wrote and resid our new sign language. Our progress, however, was .1 gradual one and only the zunbitious sueeeeded. Nezttness, ueeuraey and reliability, we were taught. are synonymous with 21 good business woman. With this in mind we pre' pared ourselves for the fastfeoming future. NIMBLE FINGERS make many strokes to the minute for these diligent typists who are so in- tent on their work. THE COMPLEXITIES of sfenogruphy are made less Ill-mflllt for these juniors as capable Eliza- beth Verna trunsrrihes the da-Vs lesson. mefwgmfg M www 'E lv,

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7fze 6 5 This year lirltl .1 new .ittmctiwii fur Ur fmcc .it the and wt' wur supliiwiiiiwix' y-fax' we had .1 clinics as in vvliat uwursc ut' slmlics we xumlcl tales. Nalllllllly. xv-J xvcrc .111 very ixfgcr tu Llclvc into our ncxx' sillilccts. VNU: whu clump thi: 1'3XCQlLlCIlllC Cmlrsc foiiiicl miiwclxrs lausily uiigiw-ssfd III rhe pri 11' lcms ut Atlvamfd fh1!ClNI'1l amcl the II'i1IlS1.lIIUI1 ut lsatm Ill. .ilonu with our utlicr sluclics. Aftci' the first term. .111 who liatl Llllllflllly .ippliutl llicmfclvcs wcrc well satisficcl fur xxx' lmcxx' we xvcrc pavliig our way Ln college. lltllkllllg Sli.11x-Jspc.ii'c. we liked thc play. klulzus Clwstir, fruiii which wc mcm+wri:ud wins of the farnmis speeches. Echwcs of Friends, llmmririns. Ciwiiiilrylnuiiu xwix' 111.1611 1101111 drifting from nur English glasses. JUNIORS fleft to rightj, First Rout Felice Coady, Gloria Lanoce, Mary McKee, Dolores McGarvey, Therese Cavanaugh, Elizabeth Ellen Ecock. Second Rout Beau Smith, Alicia Hussey, Mary Lou Hetherington, Patricia Nicholson, Elizabeth Bush, Rose Kelly, Elizabeth Verna. Third Rout Joanne Brady, Barbara Wanamaker, Pa- tricia Miller, Mary Dwyer, Patricia Bourne, joan Henry, Eileen Collins. Fourfb Rolf: Kathryn Wunder, Mary Van Winkle, Mary Ryan, Dolores Meredith, Roberta Burns, Mary McGarvey, Patricia Nice. Fifi!! Ron: Suzanne Jenkinson, Mary Alice Wolhngton, Eleanore Westhead, Dorothy Bones, Eileen Phelan, Helen Mit- chell, Barbara O'Hara.

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Um fiaelff Then came the highlight of our junior year' fCarol Night. Donned in cassocks and surplices and in the presence of Uur Divine Lord. we proudly received our class rings. When could have thought of a more suitahle place for this ceremony than in the serene atmosphere of our hcloved chapel? Un this joyous occasion xve solemnly prayed to God that we would always he a living proof of Villa lvlaria and her ideals. This year found girls from our class as active memhers in sports. dramatics. Orchestra. Glee Club. newspaper staff. and the Leader Group. Since the juniors comprise the lvlission Group in the Children of lvlary. we sponsored many drives. In this way we learned to help those in nccd. Vkle think that xve have shoxvn to ourselves and others. hy our active participation in all activities. that we are hoth capahle and xvilling to take our place at the helm next year. as seniors. PATRICIA NICHOLSON ctvplaius the seasons of the French your to ber flass- mates, u-bile Aliria Hussey writes a paragraph evplauatary of the days of the French -TFKIV. AN ARTICLE from Au.x'iIium La- tinum,' provides an ideal substitute for the usual Latin grammar during Latin III. -ff