As seniors, we were reminded that money for invitations to graduation must be paid by May 25. There would be an assembly on Wednesday at 9, a talk on Father Pio, for freshmen and sophomores.The girls in the dance number of Brigadoon would have rehearsal in the cafeteria at 3.

CHS Daily Bulletin, May 19, 1964

This, and more, was in the Daily Bulletin for May 19, 1964. Click on the image at left to read. Was the Daily Bulletin how we learned of the daily goings-on at school? Was it read in the morning over the loudspeaker? Posted on bulletin boards? Read in our homerooms? All of these?

Thanks to Jacqui Artiano Ruest for preserving this mimeograph memory.

This was Prom Night 50 years ago at CHS (this date was a Friday in 1964).

Joseph McClellan and Marilyn O’Day (later Mr. and Mrs. McClellan)

We have another prom picture! Marilyn O’Day McClellan sent in the picture, taken at the prom, I’m pretty sure, of her and Joe McClellan. Joe, who went on to a most distinguished career as a physician, sadly died in February 2011. Many thanks, Marilyn, for the photo.

Jacqui Artiano and Elisabeth Malcolm

Jacqui Artiano Ruest and her BFF, Elisabeth Malcolm, had their picture taken in their gowns. You can see the ladies with their dates in the post below.

With whom did you go to the prom? What did you do after? Go home? To the beach? Misquamicut? Hammonasset? When did you get home? Was it the beginning of a great weekend?

What do you remember about the prom? Or are the memories more about before and after?

Now we’re going way back. 🙂

Added to the “Back Then” page (click on the title in the line above, under the header photo) are scans of the 1962 and 1961 Minstrel Revue programs, when members of the Class of 1964 were sophomores and freshmen.

In 1961, the show included only a few specialty performers from the Class, best I can tell. Performing as freshmen were Mary Lou Lattinville, Rita Arsenault, and Dan Cotter. There was stronger representation behind the scenes with Fran Liro beginning his stellar career in lighting, and Patrica Bagge, Bill Fleming, Richard Joseph, Jean Matthew, Kathleen McDonald, and Jim Montanari helping with make-up.

By sophomore year, the Class was much more active. The 1962 show featured the first group composed only of classmates — “Chattanooga Choo Choo” — with Elaine Ambrose as “directress” and featuring 24 fellow sophomores. But other groups included class members among their participants. Look in the 1962 program at pages 49 and 52-54 for listings.

From PantherPix: “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,” request Mary Perrin, Marilyn McCarthy, and Sue Rouillard to Tim McManus, Ed Callahan, John Moore, Paul Greely, “Fuzzy” Dufresne, and Eddie Lambert.

On this day (the third Friday in April) 50 years ago, members of our class participating in the Minstrel Revue were anticipating, maybe gladly looking forward to, closing night of the four-day 1964 show. (In 1964, Friday was April 17 and Easter had been celebrated on March 29.)

Thanks to Jacqui Artiano Ruest, we are able to present Minstrel Revue programs from 1964 (and 1963, at which the pictures in PantherPix used in this post were taken). The scans, available on the “Back Then” page (click in the bar just below the main blog header photo), are of program page spreads, two at a time.

Theme of the show was “Cathedral’s version of the World’s Fair” and among the groups performing were “South of the Border,” “Our World’s Fair,” “That’s Amore,” “Hut Sut Group,” “Japanese Group,” “Irish Dancers,” “Typically English,” “Polish Dancers,” and “In an Old Dutch Garden.”

Class president Jim Montanari was master of ceremonies. Among classmates performing specialty numbers were Bill Danoff, Jean Landry, Dianne Dillon, Robert Fitzgerald, Larry Dempsey, Brendan Montano, Mike Reavey, Peggy Morneau, Mary Lou Lattinwille, and Rita Arsenault. Group directors were Ellie Mayotte, Peggy Morneau, Roberta Quiriy, and Theresa Yesu. Jacqui Artiano was supervisor of the make-up crew.

Does anyone have pictures from the 1964 show, or related to it? Or of any other Minstrel Revue? We’ll be putting up the other two programs from our time at CHS very soon.

The programs themselves are telling, of course. Cost $.10. Notice the ads. Some from institutions long gone. No zip codes, but “zones.” No area codes, but “telephone exchanges.” Were you an “RE” or a “ST”? Dreikorn’s bread, in the orange wrap, boasts “Untouched by human hands.”

Were you a performer at the Minstrel Revue? (I doubt they would call the show that now.) Were you a backstage assistant? What do you remember about Minstrel?

From PantherPix: Slipping back into their “barefoot days” are performers Diane Girouard, Mary Lyons, Kathy Kirwin, Joanne Moore, Betty Gordon, Linda Louraine, Ellie Mayotte, Linda Nickerson, Susan Barrett, Ellen McCaffrey, Rosemary Hickey, and Ann McGinity.

From PantherPix: CHS Rockettes include Kathy Hamel, Betty Gordon, Jackie LaPlante, Peggy Morneau, Georgia Gotha, and Sue Know.

From PantherPix: “Tico-Tico artists” from the 1963 Revue are Diane Kruger, Rory Lyons, Bonnie Keane, Sue McKenna, Louise Brochu, Roberta Quiry, Mary Ulrich, and Joanne Carroll.