Keeping Cool in the Summer of 1959

The Summer of 1959 was a good time to be alive. We were about to begin our last year at St. Thomas Aquinas and we were entering our teenage years.  

Enjoying a summer day in the backyard on the westside are Kathleen Hughes and Joan Laughlin in back with Carol Broderick and Bernadette Birkett in front.

Photo Courtesy:  Elaine McIntyre Beaudoin





The bathing beauties, cooling off from one of Chicago's hot summer days.  From left to right: Katheleen Hughes, Carol Broderick, Mary McGuff and Diane Hallinan.

Photo Courtesy: Diane Hallinan

Bernadette Birkett and Carole Keough enjoying ice cream cones on a sultry summer day.

Photo courtesy: Elaine McIntyre Beaudoin