This photo in the November 1961 Chronicle (page three) accompanies an article about new girls physical education instructor Frances White. Kind of a hodge-podge of socks and sneakers (even a pair of saddle shoes in the rear) on the girls. Whatever happened to uniforms? 🙂

Page one reports on the new Pantherpix, i.e., the first-ever. We were apparently only the third class to have what was called the school’s “Memory book.” And page four has an item about the introduction of CHS commercial students to the “latest typewriters” by IBM.  Yup, the Selectric. (Though the caption refers to it as the “Selective.”) Mentioned is the presence of “built-in memory.” “[I]f two characters are typed at one time, the second will not print until the first one has been recorded.” Maybe 14 bytes of memory?

Doesn’t this make you feel old?

Here’s the November 21, 1961, Chronicle

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The October 1961 Chronicle had a couple of articles on United Nations Week and another editorial calling CHS students to task, this time for a conspicuous lack of enthusiasm. The September Chronicle had complained about the lack of maturity among students and the editorial in this issue said, “Cathedral is running lower on enthusiasm these days than a sway-backed rattlesnake(?).” I repeat — Who wrote these things?

Three classmates made the front page. Kathleen Williams‘s picture (at right) accompanied an item on biology classes and “beautiful bugs.” Paul Donahue‘s visage was in a photo/cartoon (above) about our debating teams. Kevin O’Malley was listed as a correspondent for WSPR sports.

Page three (sports) reported on the winless varsity Purple Panthers, but also had an item about the JV football team. Mentioned were classmates Tom Briggs, Don Chase, Paul “Fuzzy” Dufresne, Desmond Callahan, Dennis Finnerty, and Dan O’Malley.

Here’s the October 20, 1961, Chronicle

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I don’t remember using or even hearing “greens” and “greys” to describe female and male students at CHS, but there is much logic to the terms, which described the color of the respective uniform jackets.

The lead article in the September 1961 Chronicle, the first of our sophomore year, announced “Greens Outnumber Greys.” Each class contained more girls than boys, with ours having 412 “feminine sophs” and 370 “masculine members” ( . . . ahem).

The Chronicle also said CHS had nine new faculty members that fall: Sisters Edward Grace, Edward Patrice, James Elizabeth, and Agnes Aloysius; civilians Lois Lambert, James Parent, Michael Gelinas, Raymond Czelusniak, and Frances White.

On page two, sophomore Maryellen Rooney had an article about her trip to Washington, DC, with classmate Dianne Dillon. And page two also contained the sad news about the death during the summer of our classmate, Gerard Plante.

One of the editorials discussed the issue of “mature” Cathedralites. It was accompanied by the cartoon at right (can’t one be mature and preoccupied with the opposite sex?). One of the attributes of a “mature” student, according to the editorial, was that he or she “tries to live above the traits of adolescence.” What I want to know is who wrote these things? 🙂

Here’s the September 29, 1961 Chronicle

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