YVONNE'S PROUD EVENING

Happy Presentation Day, to all.  On this Presentation Day 2019, I am pleased to bring you this lovely little post.  I think it  will bring back happy memories of our small, but important, share of Presentation life. 

Venerable Nano Nagle

I have to thank Yvonne Dionne for the memories and photos. The photos and reminiscences are so nice to receive and they certainly reawaken half forgotten memories of our younger selves.

Yvonne writes:

"While at St. Patrick’s, around grade 5, age 10, in 1971, I joined the Girl Guides. The investiture was held in the school gym. My patrol leader, standing behind me, was Ellen Walsh."

Little Yvonne, A Proud Girl Guide

Thanks Yvonne.  This is a sweet little look back at life at dear old St Patrick's.  If anyone has photos, stories, or memories they would like to share, please just send them along to  us  at mcallistersmith@gmail.com.  It would be a pleasure to post them.  I have a bit of a backlog at present but I am working my way through it and I am slowly catching up.  Please keep the news coming!

A momentous night

KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL

A great big THANK YOU  to Cynthia & Ted Downey for this beautiful picture.    It is bound to bring back some happy memories for a lot of people.  Cynthia also supplied most of the names.  There are two names missing so if anyone can help us there, we would be very grateful.  Any idea what year this was, Cynthia?  

 

In the last post, Yvonne Dionne spoke of singing in the Kiwanis Music Festival.  Therefore I thought it was appropriate to post this picture today.  Again, thank you Cynthia & Ted.  




St Patrick's Convent, Kiwanis Music Festival

 

FRONT ROW R-L: Barb Doran, Phylis Reardon, Mary L Smith, Cathy Tobin, Sheila Yetman, Mary Hamlyn, Cathy Hearn, Edie Ryan, ?,

 

ROW 2: Josephine Lawlor, Bernadette Grant, Sheila Moyst, Carol Pynn, Cathy Sheehan, Cathy Walsh, Maureen O'Brien, Geraldine Evoy, Mary Reddy, Sheila Moriarity, CYNTHIA MURPHY, Marg Whitty, Joan Walsh, Dot Yetman, Helena Christopher,

 

ROW 3: Diane Mulcahy, June Healey, Brenda Murphy, Sheila Hurley, Anne Marie Cleary, Janice McGrath, Kay Johnson, Trudy Ashley, Carmel Hayes, Joan English, Sandra Walsh, Diane Meaney, ?, Joan Roy.

YVONNE'S COMMENT

ONE OF THE SCHOOL CRESTS

 

I am posting here a comment left by Yvonne Dionne.   Not everyone goes into comments so, by posting it, you all have a chance to see it.  If you know Yvonne, she would love to hear from you so PLEASE SAY HELLO TO HER IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW THIS POST.  

 

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Here is Yvonne's comment.  Enjoy!

"Wow - I am happy to find this page, and to see comments from Yvonne (Cullen) mentioning Roxanne. I was at St. Pat's for grades 3-5 (1969-1972), starting in the portables with Miss Sears (I think). We lived at 199 Lemarchant Road, which is now gone. I live in Ottawa now. I used to write a friend from Lemarchant, asking about Roxanne, because just before we moved to Ontario (my dad was in the military and we were transferred) one of the Cullen girls was hit by a car on Lemarchant - I saw it happen and it has never left my memory.

St. Pat's was a beautiful time for me. It was one of my most memorable schools (numbering 14 before I graduated high school). I absolutely lived in the library with Sister Redempta (spelling?), reading voraciously anything I could get my hands on. I was in the Choir and we sang at Kiwanis, but I mouthed the words as I was terrified to mess up. I loved the concerts. I was a Girl Guide. I was so curious about the nuns and their residence.

I visited the Church and grounds this summer. Such a good feeling washed over me there.

Would love to hear from anyone who remembers me, and I will keep up here to see what other memories people have.

Cheers,

Yvonne Dionne"