Ebb Tide, Vol. 6 No. 4 (Mar-Apr 1953)

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Baby Billy's Activities Banish Boredom by Rita (Belanger) Gaouette, '51 Editor's Note.- In keeping with National Family Week we have asked Mrs. Gaouette (Rita Belanger) formerly of the Ebb Tide Staff to give us her ideas on family living.

Hi! - - I'm Billy Gaouette. I'm the one who banishes boredom.

It seems like such a long time since I last wrote an article for my old Alma Mater. Actually, less than two years have passed, but so much has happened since that warmly remembered day in June "51" when I clutched my diploma in hand and said my "adieus". The black cap and gown were replaced by a white wedding dress, which in turn was packed away to be surplanted by red slacks, sneakers, and a shabby sweater which all go to make up what I call my "cleaning outfit." And then I found myself in white again; only this time it was hospital white.

Roland (the gentleman who made all of this possible) proved tO be the typical "waiting room pacer", but his nervousness fled with the news that we had a baby; best of all, it merited a blue blanket. Billy, who seemed quite oblivious to his father's glow and grandparents' ecstatic antics, was quite a normal child complete with red face and wrinkled feet, but we thought he looked like a model for an Ivory Soap ad.

Almost ten months have passed since Billy first joined his screeching roommates in the hospital nursery, and his interests have gradually turned from bottles, bed, and burps to paws, glass-top tables, and the challenge of a closed door; and very definitely to Sh~ggy, the collie puppy, who plays such a leading role in his young master's busy life. So til God sees fit to add another, we remain, Roland, Rita, Bill, and Shaggy.

M ound s Of Delicacies And Goodies A ttract TV Cameras To Young Pupil Heaping mounds of fluffy white bisquits, huge crusty apple pies and dozens of dainty pink-frosted cupcakes. No, it's not a bakery shop or a kitchen, but a Home Economics laboratOry and the slim dark-haired teacher is Janet McDonald, Home Economics Major. Instead of teaching the common everyday "three R's", Janet enjoyed spending her teacher-training period by instructing junior high school pupils the art of cooking. Her classes consisted of boys and girls of Mumford Junior High School, where she taught three different groups per day last semester. "Strangely enough," says Janet, "the boys showed as much enthusiasm as the girls. They were very eager to cook anything, just so long as it tasted good." As their major project, the whole class prepared a gala luncheon for all the public school principals of the city. Also, individual classes held parents' lunches to exhibit their newly-learned ¡talent.

Salve Reg ina receives Constituent Membership in the National Catholic Educational Association

To climax the course, one of Janet's pupils, Miss Joanne Arciori, an eighth grade student at Mumford, demonstrated before TV cameras the creative art of baking a huge cake. This program was shown on April 15. "Teaching Home Economics is an interesting and profitable branch of education" advises Janet to all would-be teachers.

Sextet Harmonizes At Choral Festiva l With Glee Clubs Burlington, Vermont will be the scene on May 16 of the annual Music Festival conducted by the Sisters of Mercy of Trinity College. Salve Regina is to be one of the many colleges represented. Constance Lynch, Susan Whalon, Eleanor Taft, Marguerite Walsh, Mary Elizabeth Murray, and Menda Castillo comprise the choral sextet. Mary Lou Aylward will accompany them. "Halls of Ivy", "Alleluia" by Randall Thompson and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Wilhousky are joint numbers between Salve Regina and other Colleges. For the combined girls' glee clubs, a Czeck folk song known as the "Mountains" has been selected. The Salve Regina Glee club selections include "The Cradles" by Faure, "The Song of the Milkmaid" by Haupt, and "Alphabet" by Mozart. Some of the other colleges which are to be present are St. Michael's, Winooski, St. John's, New York, and the University of Vermont.

Vol. 6. No.4

Salve Reg ina College

Mar. - Apr. -May, 1953

Sodality Members Honor Mary - Queen Of Campus Members of the Maria Regina Sodality will hold a May procession on the campus at eleven o'clock on May 13, to proclaim Our Lady as their Queen. The sodalists will wear their academic dress together with the blue ribbon and medal of Our Lady. Marguerite Johnson, standardbearer, will lead the procession to the East Terrace of Ochre Court where Mary Louise Burck:hart, Sodality Prefect, will crown the Sister M. Kathleen Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of May. The Vice-Prefect, Eileen Dwyer will act as crown-bearer, having as her Named Chairman court the members of the Sodality Sister M. Kathleen, R.S.M. of the Board. Her attendants will be Nelley Division of Home Economics was Little and Fern Leahy. The president appointed chairman of region 12 of each class will present flowers at at a recent meeting of the National the shrine and all the socialists will Catholic Council on Home Eco- recite the Act of Consecration to Our Lady. nomics. Following the coronation, beneAt this meeting the division of diction will be held in the chapel the United States into regions for and a short sermon will be delivered the purpose of planning for next by Reverend Father Dillon. Socialyear's calendar of events in Home ists will also witness the reception Economics was decided upon. Re- of three new members-Eleanor gion 12 over which Sister M. KathTaft, Barbara Harris, and Joan leen presides includes the New Eng- Howell. land States, New Jersey and Deleware. Further information and planning for the various regional meetDate Log ings will be available at the meeting to be held at the College of St. Teresa in Kansas City on June 21. 17-Nurses Meeting Both Sister M. Martha, R.S.M. 18-22-Final Examsand Sister M. Kathleen, R.S.M. plan Seniors to attend this meeting. 24-Guild Senior For the past year Sister M. KathReception leen, R.S.M. has been chairman of the Food and Nutrition Committee 25-29-Final Exams of the Rhode Island Home Economics Association.

a Regina Sodality's tmas party for unchildren in Newport e most rewarding of projects. All students o share with the Sors the joy of givin~ ng gifts of toys and 30 young guests. At held in Mercy Hall second week of Deve Regina's "fairy ' enchant the children am of delights and d are, in turn, amply the excitement and irrored in the eyes of sitors. nity of the Advent . ept in focus by obceremony of lighting Wreath. Beginning shman class on the evening, each group the Great Hall to k with the simple, rescribed prayers and candle which symcoming of the Light . The Advent Wreath beauty is fashioned by Home Econom-

procession rul elegance of Salve's room is an approprithe annual Holly faculty members are and are feted by junior resident stuname of the student Noel festivities the week in all the merriment is replaced by lletnn:ltv as the stuthe tradition-

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