Mary's Page - March 27, 1958

Merikay Fogarty (Class of 1958) attended the September 30th reunion and brought several issues of her Mary's Page, a "school newspaper" she wrote while at STA.  One of the issues was scanned and is presented below.  Wouldn't we love to have Merikay scan the rest?  If so, comment below -- perhaps Merikay will oblige.

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This March 27, 1958 issue identifies many STA classmates.  I see the names Belmonte, Parry, Hickey, Flavin, McGuin, Kernaghan, Redding, Cotter, Loech, Mullins and Dutra.  I also notice a short article about JM in Miss Delaney's classroom -- could this be John McGuinnis?

Merikay, thanks so much for sharing this bit of nostalgia.  We'd love to see more.

Memories from a 1958 Graduate

MY NAME IS EDWARD NEVILLE, I AM FROM THE CLASS OF 1958, MY BROTHER PATRICK RIP. CLASS OF 1959, MY SISTER MARY RIP. CLASS OF 1954, MY OLDER BROTHER JIM WAS 1950. WE LIVED AT 5348 W. WASHINGTON BLVD.

PAT O'CONNOR (1960) WAS OUR NEIGHBOR, AND VIOLET SCALISE (1960) LIVED JUST ACROSS THE STREET FROM US UNTIL HER FAMILY SOLD THEIR HOME TO THE JUSTIN MC CARTHY FAMILY IN THE MID 60S.  JOHN MC CAULIFFE (1960) LIVED ON THE SAME BLOCK, EXCEPT HE LIVED ON THE MADISON STREET SIDE.

KARL VITZTHUM (Architect of STA Church) LIVED ACROSS THE STREET FROM US.  MY MOTHER WAS DAY-TIME NANNY TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN. THERE WERE SO MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS THAT GRADUATED FROM S.T.A. ON LOREL AVE. THERE WAS THE COITS, ALLISONS, LAUGHLINS, MC CARVILLES, RUSSELS, FOGARTYS, GREENWALLS, FURLONGS, HOLMESES, RIGNEYS, MC GRATHS,  MC KENNAS.  WE HAD FRIENDS ON EVERY BLOCK -- WHAT A TIME.
I LOVE THE PICTURE OF YOU AND THE OTHER 3 GIRLS IN THE BEND (Click here to see post).  THE LAUGHLINS ON LATROBE WERE FRIENDS OF OUR FAMILY.  WE KNEW SO MANY FAMILIES ON LATROBE, LOCKWOOD, LARAMIE, LONG, LOTUS.  WHAT YOU STARTED HERE BRINGS MY HEART, SOUL, AND MIND BACK TO AUSTIN, AND CHILDHOOD, AND SO MANY TENDER AND DEAR MEMORIES.

WE LEFT AUSTIN AND OUR GREAT PARISH IN 1968. BEFORE WE LEFT, FR. MC KENNA AND JUSTIN MC CARTHY GOT ME INTERESTED IN THE ORGANIZATION FOR A BETTER AUSTIN (O.B.A.)  IT WAS A GREAT ATTEMPT AT INTERGRATING AUSTIN IN A SLOW SANE MANNER. BUT THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS OF THE TIME WERE AGAINST IT. WE HAD FEAR, PANIC PEDDLING, AND WHITE FLIGHT.  IT WAS A LOSING BATTLE.  IN JUST A FEW SHORT YEARS, SOUTH AUSTIN WENT FROM MOSTLY WHITE TO MOSTLY BLACK.

I WAS LIVING IN THE BIG HOUSE BY MYSELF IN 1967-68. MY FATHER HAD PASSED AWAY.  MY SISTER AND OLDER BROTHER WERE BOTH MARRIED AND LIVING IN DES PLAINES.  MY MOTHER AND OLDER BROTHER BOUGHT A RESTAURANT IN DES PLAINES, SO MY MOTHER AND YOUNGER BROTHER MOVED THERE AND WE HAD TO SELL OUR BIG BEAUTIFUL HOME ON WASH. BLVD.
I HAVE A  CLASS PHOTO SOME WHERE AND A 1958 GRADUATION PHOTO OF THE TWO EIGHT GRADE CLASSES, IN THE CHURCH, ON THE ALTAR, WITH MSGR. LONG.  COULD BE THE LAST GRADUATION CLASS HE POSED WITH.  (See photos in separate post elsewhere on STA Blog)

LAST YEAR I WAS TRYING TO CONTACT  PALOMAR STUDIOS (THE COMPANY THAT DID ALL THE SCHOOL PHOTOS) OVER THE INTERNET.  I WAS INTERESTED IN PURCHASING REPLACEMENT CLASS PHOTOS THAT WE LOST, BUT I WAS UNABLE TO LOCATE PALOMAR. IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO GET REPLACEMENT COPIES OF CLASS PHOTOS I AM SURE MANY PEOPLE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HAVING THAT INFORMATION.

Ed, Thanks for the great note and for supplying the photos.  I have put the photos up on two separate posts on the Blog.  
Also -- Does anyone know what happened to all the class photo negatives taken by Palomar?   If so, let us know and I will post the information.

1958 Graduation Photo

Photo provided by Ed Neville (Class of 1958) via Nancy T. O'Connor.

Ed also sent me a list of names of individuals in the photo, not in any particular order, he tells me.  Of the 84 students pictured, he was able to identify 68.  Great memory!  And, of course, Msgr. William Long is sitting in the center!

THE BOYS---

EDWARD NEVILLE,DONALD FREHE,TERRANCE MC CAULIFFE,DONALD BIRDSELL,ROBERT CRONIN, STANLEY GURICH, THOMAS KAVANAGH, JAMES WALSH, DOUGLAS JACKSON, THOMAS LOESCH, NED SANTORA, IRWIN MATTHEWS, ROBERT MAYER, JOHN DISANTO, DAVID FAY, THOMAS SEDWICK, THOMAS CARR, EDWARD MULKERIN, ROBERT WILLIE, BERNARD OTTO, WILLAM KRUGER, DONALD ZORC, RONALD ZORC, THOMAS CIPRANO, FRANK RADKE, MICHAEL FLAVIN, CHARLES OR FRANK MURPHY, JOSEPH JACKO, LAWRENCE ULMAN, JOHN MULLINS, JAMES BRECKEN, CARL MC DONALD, BYRON JOYCE, JOHN QUINLIN AND THERE WAS BUCKY BOROWSKI, AND BOOTSIE CLARK, I DON'T REMEMBER BORWOSKI OR CLARK'S FIRST NAMES BUCKY AND BOOTSIE WERE THEIR NICK NAMES

THE GIRLS---

ANN REITHAL, DIANE INDELICATO, NANCY KEATING, THERESA RIGNEY, JUDY WELTON, MARGARET ROTCHFORD, BETTY BOGAN, PAT NOOR, PAT WARD, MERIKAY FOGERTY, JOELLEN KERIVAN, PAT PROVENZALE, PAT MAHONEY, JOANN CLEARY, MARGARET ROCHE, KATHLEEN DUGAN, NANCY MARTIN, DONNA JOHNSON, BETTY MUZIK, GEORGIANNE NOONE, MAUREEN O'CONNOR, JOAN HAAS, MARY RUTH, ANNAMARIE BELMONTE, JOANN MANGHUN, LYNN STOLL, CAROLE ACRE, CATHY LOVING, MAUREEN HICKEY, A HUNT GIRL I NEVER KNEW HER FIRST NAME, BUT SOME CALLED HER CHICKIE HUNT, MARY HUNTNER, MARYANN MCENDY--I THINK THERE WAS A GIRLNAMED KERNIHAN AS WELL.     

Edward -- Thanks so much for providing the photos and sharing with us your memory of the names of students in your class.  Does anyone else remember others in the photo and/or corrections to the list of names?
 

Ned Santora (Class of 1958) identified several others in the photo including:
Mary Kay Kernin, Rita Garrison, Patricia Werner, Dale Parry, Mary Cathrine Coyne, Patricia Hartigan, Thomas Russo ??, Madiline McGuinn??, John Quinlisk, Clarence Bucky Borowski, John Riordon,  Mary Ann Matthews ??,  Jerome Osborne ??,  Thomas Plunkett ??, Christine Henning,   Mike Vogel ??,  George Dutra ??,  Dombroski ??,   Henry Babcock ??, Shawn the dog.

Not sure about that last name!  Thanks Ned for the additional information.

First Grade, Room 3, 1951 - Class of 1958

A great first grade photo from Ed Neville, Class of 1958.  You can see it has been much "loved!"

First Grade, Room 3, Winter, 1951 -- Class of 1958

Note from Ed Neville:

I DO REMEMBER SOME OF THIS CLASS.  I AM SITTING IN THE LAST ROW.  I AM THE THIRD CHILD IN THAT ROW (BY THE WINDOW).

I ALSO RECOGNIZE BYRON JOYCE, DALE PERRY, FRED SCHMIDT, JIM BREEKEN, PHILIP SHEEN, NANCY MARTIN, JIM DOMBROWSKI, JOHN NALLEN, ROGER DOHERTY,
CLIFFORD HUTCHINSON, BOOTSIE CLARK, MAUREEN HICKEY, AND PENNY NOONE.

ANY ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS ARE WELCOMED GOD BLESS EVERYONE.  I LOVE YOU ALL


Ed, Thanks for the wonderful photo of your first grade class.  Can anyone identify others in this photo?