Posted on 12/26/2017 10:39:26 AM PST by mairdie
To celebrate the 50th year anniversary of our Catholic girls' high school, I put up all four of our yearbooks. From those images, I made a music video to celebrate old friends, many of whom are gone too soon. For many of you who also went to religious schools, this may bring back some of your memories.
And then there's the nuns. James Taylor's "Auld Lang Syne."
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Thanks for sharing.
If a dream, it was one I cherish.
Getting back in touch with the women by doing a website to celebrate them was absolute joy. And heartbreak. So many wonderful people gone. We’ve lost the last of our teachers.
But the memories! Sister Visitation - our librarian who only joined the convent after her elderly mother died. A magnificent woman. Sister John Maureen - our science nun who could make the most obscure topics thrilling. Sister Rose Ethel - my elderly homeroom nun who was the gentlest soul and best human being.
I’ll bet a lot of people have similar memories.
Could have been my class...wonderful memories, a great education and values plus lifelong friends
Pre Vatican II.
in HS, we had a different order....more stern...but my best math teacher ever was an elderly nun and 2nd best was also a nun....
That’s what I thought when I rewatched that video. It’s the history of so many of us. I’d love to see other people’s pictures from their high school years, and hear their loyalty songs, and read about their memories. It triggers even more memories and that’s purely joyous.
And I know when I went to University of Chicago for college that my educational background was very good. It was a strict school, with hard grading, and the expectation that you worked. So we did.
It takes a long time to go through the website and the yearbooks, and that’s what I love about music videos - all the memories stuffed into 3 minutes, made emotional by the underlying music.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!
I’m STILL hung on Pius XII.
I think we all had crushes on the nuns. And wanted to be like them. Certainly there were some losers, but you just ignored them and gravitated to the good women. There were heavy pushes to try to get us all to consider vocations. But I really enjoyed the retreats and the education and the people.
Thanks for posting - I had relatives who went to Aquinas. Once a fine school in what was then a surprisingly classy neighborhood for Chicago’s South Side (today that neighborhood is basically a free-fire zone).
How wonderful about your relatives. Always like to hear about fellow students.
The South Side was then a normal suburban neighborhood. We lived on 88th and shopped on 71st, a block from the school. There were country clubs everywhere between, parks and really good schools. The movie theaters were the fancy old kind, and the shopping was excellent.
Then, gradually, it started to change. As the neighborhoods turned over, many residents tried desperately to stay and integrate, out of good conscience and intentions. A classmate’s father stayed with his furniture store and was shot and killed. So people moved. Years after we graduated, the high school neighborhood changed and the school was closed and torn down. I presume the demographics for a Catholic high school with tuition couldn’t be supported in what was primarily becoming a poor, more Protestant, neighborhood.
Now when I read about my old neighborhood, I read about murders in our grammar school playground. I also made a website for our grammar school, and one of my classmates described a reunion where they got a bus to tour the old neighborhood but had to go with a police escort.
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