Teachers from 1950-1958

Ed Neville (Class of 1958) shared the names of many of the Sisters and lay teachers he remembers from his years at STA:

Sr. Giovanni was the principal, but he tells us that her niece also was at St. Thomas Aquinas AND was a principal too?  Her name was Sr. Honore.  (She was the principal while I was at STA in the late 1950s.)

He also remembers Sr. Immaculata, Sr. Alfred, Sr. Eva, Sr. Agnes, Sr. Cecilia, Sr. Beatrice, and Sr. Aloysius.  As well as Mrs. Leonard and Miss Jones.

We are all thankful to these incredible women who helped create the individuals we are today.

Thanks Ed for remembering.

STA Memories

We all have many memories of St. Thomas Aquinas.  We thought you might enjoy seeing a list culled from the memories shared in 1985.  Do you have others?  If so, share them by adding them as comments to this posting.

Teachers

Sister Immaculata and candy bars in her pockets (First Grade)

The love of Sr. Mercy (Third Grade)

Miss Delaney and making bulletin boards (Sixth grade)

The day Mrs. Watts left, walking down the aisle of church at graduation (Seventh Grade teacher)

Miss Jones “dispersing” the mission bank across the room (Fourth Grade)

Sister Damien (Eighth grade – boys)

Sister Stella (Eighth grade - girls)

Piano lessons with Sr. Rosalie

Priests

Msgr. Long and confessions, especially our first confession, and learning Msgr. Long was “deaf”

Msgr. Long’s sermon on Sundays

Father Rabbitt

Father White

Religious Events/Experiences

First Holy Communion

Confirmation Day

Being an altar boy

Knees and back aching while saying the rosary on hardwood floors

Going to confession and not being able to think of anything to tell the priest

Mural behind the Church altar

Religious processions and rehearsing for them

Reciting from the Baltimore Catechism
Tom McGrath and his sacrificial lamb imitation

Athletics

Basketball games, especially Eighth grade

Football games

Playing baseball at lunch time near the “sign boards” on Washington Boulevard

Playing slap ball at lunch on the corner of Le Claire and West End

Playing ball on the blacktop
John Santoro attending the football homecoming party minus his front teeth

Eighth Grade Related Activities

Graduation Day

Eighth grade picnic

Eighth grade retreat

Eighth Grade Variety Show

Separation of boys and girls in the eighth grade

No caps and gowns for graduation

In Classroom Events

Lightening striking one of the empty desks at the rear of our fifth grade classroom

Acting out book reports

Fire drills

Warm milk for 2 cents a carton

Out of Classroom Events

Stint as a patrol boy

Being a hall guard

Walking younger students to the corner

Attending sock hops

Rosary Club
Being urinated on in the boys’ wash room (name withheld to protect both individuals - not sure 50 years is long enough!)

Best of All

Fun we had and Friends we made

Do you have some more memories?  Please add them as comments to this post.