September 2017 Vol 1 No. 9 SAINT XAVIER ALUMNAE … · Dear Saint Xavier Alumnae, It is incredible...

Dear Saint Xavier Alumnae,

ItisincrediblehowfastnearlytwoyearshavepassedsinceIacceptedtheofficeofPresidentforourbelovedSaint Francis Xavier Alumnae Association. I have had the pleasure to learn and grow with wonderful alumnae from class-es in the 40’s to the 80’s on the Executive Board. I am so very grateful for their faithful support, expertise, and assistance.

It is close to 111 years since Sister Margaret Mary Donworth, RSM encouraged a group of SXA graduates to estab-lish the Alumnae Association. I believe she is smiling down from her high place in heaven at the dedication and hard work of the all-volunteer Executive Board ladies, the nearly 500 dues-paying members, and those who donate annually to our Catholic High School Scholarship Fund. I give a special thank you to these ladies, who out of over 3,000 on our database, donated more than $25,000 to the 2016 fund. Every cent of those donations went to worthy Catholic High School stu-dentstohelpreducethefinancialburdenontheirfamilies.

The Association counts on the continual annual support of alumnae who keep up with the still very low Membership Dues of $10. The dues cover costs for printing and mailing of this Newsletter and other printing needs. In addition, dues cover the cost of keeping your contact information up-to-date on our database. This is costly even with the nonprofitbulkrate,nottomentiontheextrahighcostofReturnServiceforalumnaenotfound,movedand/ordeceased.Historically, our keeping alumnae contact information up to date is very important to the Association. The Association does not want to lose track of any one of our precious alumna.

Each September the Executive Board awaits your support for the October Scholarships. We pray that we can maintain, or even better, exceed the 2016 Scholarship donations and continue to assist struggling families who see the valueofsacrificingforanexcellentCatholicHighSchooleducationjustlikewereceivedfromSXA.

This year, as every year, we invite ALL classes to attend the annual October 22 Homecoming event at the lovely Quidnessett Country Club luncheon, which follows a beautiful Mass honoring the 50th Reunion Class. At the 11 o’clock Mass, each 50th Reunion alumna will receive a beautiful gold rosary memento of this milestone event. And everyone will say a special prayer as the 50th alumnae place a rose for each of their classmates and teachers resting in peace.

I hope to see you on Sunday October 22. Thank you again for your continual generosity to the Scholarship fund. If you have never contributed, I pray that this will be the year you can use some of your precious time to do so.

No matter what class you are in, please try to attend Homecoming Sunday, October 22 as alumnae give special honor to the 50thClassof1967andallclassesendingin7and2.PleaseseeReservationinformationinthisnewsletter.

God Bless,

CarolMoffittMaynardPresident

Vol 1 No. 9

ALL CLASSES ARE INVITED TO JOIN IN HONORING THE 50th REUNION CLASS OF 1967and all classes ending in 7 and 2

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Volume 1 Issue 9 Official Newsletter of the St. Francis Xavier Alumnae Association September 2017

CLASS of 1942 - 75th Reunion!Dorothy Gleason Maynard401 397 3180

This past year has certainly been full of highs and lows for Madeline. Her difficult journey began thirteen years ago when she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Systemic Scleroderma (“hard skin”). The disease manifests itself by tissues of involved organs be-coming hard and fibrous, causing them to function less efficiently. Pulmonary Fibrosis resulted from Madeline’s Scleroderma, making it extremely dif-ficult for her to get oxygen for even the most routine tasks. After three years of round-the-clock supple-mental oxygen, last July she was accepted into the

lung transplant program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The Center is a leader in lung transplants, and one of only a few to consider transplant surgery on a patient with Scleroderma. Madeline and her husband lived temporarily in Pittsburgh to be close to the hospital as they anxiously waited for a pair of lungs to become available. Although a major part of getting through the stressful wait period was due to her family’s support and loving care, along with her positive attitude and genuine faith, Madeline is ever grateful for longtime friendships formed at SXA. Her friends kept continual contact via Facebook and a blog set up by her family at madforlife.org. (Both Madeline’s mother and mother-in-law were SXA alumnae and her aunt, Sister Marie Paulette, served on the faculty.) Madeline was especially touched to hear from a number of classmates with whom she had been out of contact for years. Madeline’s prayers were answered on January19th, when she finally received a call that a pair of donor lungs, appearing to be a good match, became available. The nearly twelve-hour surgery by the Transplant Team began the next afternoon. Madeline’s recuperation included over 5 weeks in the hospital’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit, and an additional 7 weeks “at home” in Pitts-burgh before returning to Rhode Island and her family at the end of April. Madeline feels blessed to be the recipient of a second chance at life. While acutely aware that her donor’s family misses their loved one, Madeline and her family are forever grateful to her donor and the donor family and the support through prayer from St. Xavier friends.

Madeline Boyle Reilly, ‘67Grateful to Lung Donor and SXA Friends.

Deborah Doyle401 781 7383

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Congratulations to the 50th Reunion Class of 1967 !REPRESENTATIVES FOR CLASS OF 1967

Sheila Monahan401 942 3962

Email - Contact Page Alumnae Websitestxavieralumnae.org

HOMECOMING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2017ELEVEN O’CLOCK MASS - ST. TIMOTHY CHURCH, WARWICK, RI

LUNCHEON FOLLOWING MASS AT QUIDNESSETT COUNTRY CLUB(SEE RESERVATION FORM AND DIRECTIONS IN THIS NEWSLETTER)

FIVE YEAR REPRESENTATIVES

CLASS OF 1962Ann Marie Cole401 821 [email protected]

CLASS OF 1947CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 70TH REUNION!!!

Betty Francis Magiera401 821 9041

ALL OTHER CLASSESCarol Moffitt Maynard401 263 [email protected]

CLASS OF 1952Ann Cassidy MorrillC- 401 480 0344 / 401 274 6927

CLASS OF 195760TH REUNION !Ann M. Doherty401 941 [email protected]

Barbara Johnson Cahir401 739 [email protected]


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Pat Holt Newell, Class of 1967, is still as warm, sunny and positive today as she was 50 years ago! WhenPat foundouthergood friend,CamyColantoniowasgoing toattendSaint Xavier Academy, she decided that was the school for her as well. The two of them quickly learned from the warm welcome by all the players on the basket-ball team that SXA was a strong and loving community.PatrecallsthatpartofSXA’s rigorous academics was knowing how to learn and study and never give up, valuable lessons she carried into her future profes-sionallifeasaneducator.FollowinggraduationfromSaintXavierAcademy,Patpursued a degree in Elementary Education with a minor in Art at Rhode Island

College.In1971herTeachingjourneybeganintheProvidenceSchoolSystem.Whileholdingateachingposition, she pursued a Masters Degree in Education. At that time, she realized she was drawn to the mostdifficultandchallengingstudentsandvowedneverto“giveuponthem”.ArmedwithaMastersinSpecial Education from September, 1977 to June 2004, she served as Special Education Resource teacher at Hope High School, where she was honored as Teacher of the Year. She retired in 2004.PathasbeenattractedtotheArtsasmuchaseducation.Sheisrememberedforherloveoffolkmu-sicandguitarplaying.ForthepastfifteenyearsshehassungwiththeStBernardParishChoirinNorthKingstown. Her true artistic passion is photography, pursued since college. An accomplished photog-rapher, she has exhibited with several local art groups and named Juried Artist of the Month for January 2017 by the Wickford Art Association. She was one of eight artists exhibiting at the South County Art Association in the Members Invitational Exhibit, January to February 2017. TherealessenceofPatistobefoundinherfaith-basedcommitmentofservicetoothers,anintegralpartoftheSXAexperience.Pattutored,taughtCCDandplayedguitarattheFogartyCenterwhileatSXA! In 2002, she was called to commit to the Haitian Project andmadeherfirstmissiontriptotheLouver-tureClearySchoolinHaiti,returningsixmoretimessincethen.Shedoes“whatneedstobedone”fromweeding gardens to curriculum development, serving on the Board of Directors and currently Chair of theDevelopmentCommittee.PathasgiventhegiftofhermanytalentstotheProject,allofwhichhasmadeherfaiththatmuchdeeper.(www.haitianproject.org).Shehasbeenmarriedfor45yearstoDaveNewell,nowinretirement.Theirprideandjoyaretheirtwo sons, Dave and Matthew.PatrecallsasigninanSXAclassroom—“SMILE GOD LOVES YOU,” whichistrulyher“lifesign”projected throughhersmileandwarmth,and lessons learnedatSt.FrancisXavierAcademy.She isagenuine example of how to bring the love and light of Christ into the world.

Smile God Loves You

Susan Denellio Tardio, Class of ’67 (Resting In Peace, August 27, 2010). Sue received a BA from Salve Regina College in 1972, and MAT from RIC in 1979. She taught at Saint Rose of Lima Junior High, and ESL at Edgewood Highland School. Sue spent many years as a Fourth Grade teacher at Woodridge Elemen-tary School. Interested in helping both teachers and students, she devoted much of her time as Secre-tary for the Cranston Teachers’ Alliance. She and her husband, Vincenzio, lived in Garden City where they raised their daughters, Maria and Christine. Because of Sue’s daily neighborhood walks, she was fondly nicknamed the “mayor” of Garden City. She was a communicant of St. Mark’s Church. Although Sue’s colleagues knew her as an outstanding teacher, most importantly she was a beloved daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and friend.

The 50th Reunion Class wishes to remember a classmate among many gone before them ....�


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OUR PRAYERFUL SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF OUR DECEASED ALUMNAE

MASS FOR DECEASED ALUMNAE

Friday, November 3, 2017 9 a.m.

Saint Robert Bellarmine Church1804 Atwood AvenueJohnston, RI 02919

SUBMISSIONS FOR NEXT YEAR’S NEWSLETTER

Do you have news you would like to share in next year’s newsletter? If so, please contact us via e-mail at our web site: stxavieralumnae.org. or write/call:

Mary Aquino-Dacey,’61 401 828 2761

Deadline date is June 30, 2018. Suggestions: Share your “story” since graduating from SXA -New Job - Marriage - Promotion - Births - Published, Retirement- Honor - Share Your SXA Memories - Other?

35 Kathleen Hughes Brannon 37 Rita Conway Moran38 Mary Louise Monti38 Mary O’Donnell Connelly38 Lorena Ward Murphy39 Eleanor Collins O’Hara40 Margaret Smith, RSM40 Marcella Shanley, RSM40 Madeline Wold Riva41 Beatrice Albanese Connolly 41 Marie O’Neill, RSM41 Eleanora Mary Crook, RSM41 Eileen Allan Smith42 Catherine McGuigan, RSM42 Lorena Ward Murphy42 Rita Frances Jones42 Joann Ialongo Healy42 Genevieve McWeeney Lynch43 Margaret M. Brady43 Joan Alexander Ryding43 Margaret Flynn Brady43 Elizabeth Feeney Nault

44 Madeline Russo Travelyn44 Margaret Pelrine Cook44 Alice Sweeney Kearney44 Margaret M. Fogarty45 Claire M.Thorpe, RSM45 Olga Calvary Wilcox45 Shirley Krekorian Healey46 Barbara A. Anthony47 Cecelia Pistocco DiVincenzo47 Edna Lynch, RSM48 Kathleen Roan Melander 49 Nancy Johnson50 Lorraine Paradise Hempe51 Elizabeth Dillon Dyer51 Maureen Sheehan52 Claire Benison Riggs55 Hope Reilly Hickey54 Gloria Devine Smith56 Agnes Marie Klement56 Barbara Plunkett Tetreault56 Margaret Dineen Brooks56 Patricia Ann McConnell Scott

57 Barbara Hylek Horta57 Barbara Sepe Reall57 Christine McDonald57 Leona Misto, RSM57 Rosemary Quinton Dwyer58 Lee Ziminsky Maria58 Elizabeth Pyne Genest58 Joan Harrison Bennett59 Ann McCaffrey Beaupre59 Marie Laboissonniere Sylvestre59 Maureen Cunningham Vigneault59 Gail Hewitt Parkhurst59 Catherine Louth59 Sandra Shaw Edwardo60 Maureen Ryerson60 Elizabeth (Betty) Enest61 Gertrude Cochran LaCroix61 Linda Shephard Kane61 Carolyn Ames Forgette70 Patricia Crowley Izzi71 Cheryl Ann Pertuso75 Kathleen M. Griffin


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INVITATION TO ALL CLASSES - PLEASE JOIN USHOMECOMING - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2017

11 o’clock Mass at St. Timothy Church. Immediately following Mass ~ Quidnessett Country Club with Appetizers and time to chat with your classmates before the lovely luncheon!

~ Directions on Mailer ~ DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2017 !No dues for those beautiful ladies who have reached their 70th Reunion.

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CLASS OF 1968 - Your 2018 50th Reunion when ALL ‘68 classmates will be honored by the Association is on October 21, 2018. The current ‘68 Representives for any questions are: Jill Petrocelli Larsen, 401 949 3920 [email protected] Anne Brown Klumbis, 401 369 2835 [email protected]

INFORMATIONSCHOLARSHIP FUND ~ We rely on your donations! Please read in this newsletter different ways you can be a part of contributing to the October 22 Saint Francis Xavier Scholarship Fund. Scholarships will be announced at the Homecoming luncheon. Any (2017/2018) up-to-date, dues-paying alumnae mem-ber who graduated from St. Francis Xavier Academy can sponsor a child, grandchild, niece, nephew and/or foster child for a Catholic high school scholarship. Scholarship awards are based on need, academic per-formance and a written essay as to why a Catholic high school education is important to the applicant. Applica-tions for 2018 will be available some time in the spring.

Memento of 50th Reunion small Gold Blessed Medal “ Congratulations /50th Reunion”with link for attachment to 50th Reunion Gold Rosary.

Various memorabilia will be available for your donations to the Scholarship Fund on

Sunday, October 22, 2017!

ALASKAN CRUISE!DOLORES LANGELLA CAPALLI ‘59Dolores and her husband, Tom enjoyed a won-derful 15 day vacation in Alaska. they spent eight days on land and seven on the Island Prin-cess. “The scenery was amazing and the people we met were wonderful. We have never seen so many animals in the wild. A sled dog ride was the ultimate thrill. Our next adventure is already in our thoughts....but where to go?”

Saint Francis Xavier Alumnae Association Nominating Committee submits to the Membership the following names for Executive Board Officers, November, 2017-2019: President Margaret Colicci Mathias, ‘60Vice-president Maureen O’Gorman, ‘84Treasurer Barbara Auger Papitto, ‘69Rec. Secretary Marilyn Horan, ‘61Membership Sec. Ann M. Doherty, ‘57Correspond. Sec. Beverly Zoglio Tomao, ‘64Publicity Mary Aquino-Dacey, 61

CLASS OF 1953 - 65TH, A message from Irene Armao Coletta: ”Please place on yourcalendars OCTOBER 21 , 2018, for celebrating our 65th Reunion! I would love to have as many as possible attend.” [email protected] 401 497 9459 or 561 372 9582

Celebration of Mercy Annual FundraiserOctober 18, 2017Providence Biltmore, 5-8 p.mFor further information: Contact Beth Watson 401 333 6333 Ext 138www.sistersofmercy.org/northeast

BARBARA BENNETT ARNOLD ‘55and her husband were given a 60th Wedding Anniversary party by their five children.

More to come about Barbara’s lifein a future issue.

60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!

HAPPY HAPPENINGS

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This is my story which I do not tell that often (only if the occasion arises, and I believe it should be told) because most people will think I’m making it up or crazy! In April of 1946, I was a fresh-man at SXA and was diagnosed

with a form of Rheumatic Fever. I could not walk or hold on to anything, even a fork to feed myself. It started at the time I was the Class Treasurer during study period one day when I was selling lunch tickets. Three times I dropped the box with the money and tickets. I “swore” to the older sister in charge, who became angry with me thinking I was kidding around, that I was not fooling! I had to leave school and stay at home during the summer. My father brought me a recliner for outdoors and carried me out to be in the sun.The Italian neighbor-hood ladies went to Mass every day at Saint Ann Church, lighting candles and and praying for me. On August 15,1946, the Feast of the Assumption, as I was sitting outside in my chair, the bells at Saint Ann’s were ringing and a voice (lacking any other description I can give) told me I could get up and that I would be fine from now on. I got out of the recliner, walked up the front steps into the house and went into the pantry, where my mother was at the sink. She was shocked to see me there and I said to her, “Don’t worry, Mom. I’m going to be fine from now on!” Thank God and the Blessed Virgin, I have been. Believe in the power of prayer! Catholic faith in the Assumption is a reflection that Mary’s end is the promise of our beginning. Mary -- who is the Ark of the New Covenant, the Mother of the Lord -- is taken to heaven as a sign of our hope that we, through devout faith ‘in Christ shall be brought to life’. From Catholic Community Forum

THANK YOU -BLESS YOU!2016 BENEFACTORS

NOTE: SOME 2016 DONATIONS NOT LISTED HERE ARE IN SEPTEMBER 2016 NEWSLETTER

$5 to $10

Natalie McCaughey McKenna,’49

YEAR47 Helen Dillon Gilroy47 Mary Murphy McGunagle49 Vivian Rego Murphy49 Barbara McEvilly Elson49 Ruth O’Brien McElhiney52 Verna Barish Devine52 Cynthia Benardoni Marandola53 Marie Leville Lapizzera53 Mary Quarnstrom Mernick53 Jacqueline McSally Marder53 Jean Turchetta Franco53 Margaret Carr Wallace55 Caroline Bicknell O’Connell55 Barbara Bennett Arnold56 Faith Lachapelle Rivet56 Barbara Dreyer57 Rosalie Macchiarola Johnson57 Claire Moran Costello58 Carol Corey Hadzima59 Margaret Fleury Dwyer 59 Jeanne Plante63 Sandy Arnone60 Joan Bettez Giusti60 Janice Bailey Panzarella61 Cheryl Foster61 Angela DelMonico61 Sr. Catherine Cahill61 Ann M. Tarlian Harootunian61 Rosemary Smith Alden62 Roberta McGuinness Trudeau62 Patricia Pyne64 Veronica Sheridan64 Marie Sweet Frances66 Maureen Banigan Renaud66 Diane Gendice Grenier66 Nancy Doyle Xavier

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Volume 1 Issue 9 Official Newsletter of the St. Francis Xavier Alumnae Association September 2017 $25 to $35

40 Olga Lusi O’Brien41 Dorothy Lent McPhillips44 Memory of Julia Goulding Kavanagh46 Eileen O’Connell Marshall46 Sr. Mary Jacinta, RSM47 Mary McKeirnan Paquin47 Ann Fera Maloney50 Mariana Marsocci51 Ann Reynolds Brown51 Geraldine McGrath Coen54 Barbara Carlin Andrews54 Rosemarie Neri Perry55 Ann Michael Sijon55 Ann M. Sijon55 Frances Martin52 Kindness of Mary D/Ann Cassidy Morrill56 Mary Gormally Crook56 Ann M. LaFrance57 Jeannette Martinelli Spirito58 Geraldine Maccarone Murray59 Donna Forte DiIorio59 Marie Lucey Grygiel59 Mary Ann Mimnaugh Famiglietti59 Arlene Zarella Brook60 Helen Murray Toohey60 Maureen Gill Duncan61 Kathleen Carr Boyle61 Roberta Milroy Grundy61 Nancy Byrnes Martone61 Mary Dwyer Maher61 Edwina Ricci McElroy61 Katherine McKeever Charpentier62 I. Margherita Sheridan Whitford63 Theresa Marzilli Moretti64 Helen M. Ferrucci66 Denise Rondeau Klotzbucher66 Betty Conley Blanchette66 Janet Boyle Welch66 Michaela Reilly Geary

45 Anna Gemma Laurelli46 Jane DuValley Battison47 Sr. Christine Crowley, RSM47 Sr. Mary Geraldyn McGreevy, RSM48 Barbara Suitor Leahy51 Catherine Brady Emery53 Paula Susi Sylvia54 Patricia Dunphy Alessi56 Gloria V. Delbonis56 Babara McGuirl Schumacher56 Teresa Quinn Godbout56 Dorothy Siedzick Studley58 Jean M. Woodcock58 Judith Falls O’Connell60 Virginia Bilotti Garan61 Mary Cantini Norkin61 Nancy Tatro Kuipers61 Sharon LaFazia Mills 61 Helen Driscoll Maiorisi62 Janice Johnson Henry62 Karen McEntee Fonseca64 Cynthia Riccitelli Cook64 Dorothy Doyle Smith65 Kathleen Cull Stagg66 Patricia Barrette Birbuet66 Marcia Monfette Bentley66 Janet Boyle Welch66 Dorothy Lisabelle Bannister67 Deborah Doyle86 Kristen Trahan Cole

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66 Carol Morris Corbishley66 Maureen Whalen Spaight66 Mercedes Clifford66 Barbara Coyle Fappiano66 Mary Donahue Murphy68 Beverly Renner Smith72 Marie Fleming Brennan

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67 Sandra Capaldi Spadazzi67 Maryanne Guglielmi Gammons68 Carolyn Hauck Perkins70 Patricia Mulcahy-Ernt71 Joanne McDevitt Emswiler71 Christine Crudele Avella73 Marilyn Gildea Wright73 Jacqueline Berard Youngsma77 Donna Butler

46 Kathryn Upham for Mary Brennan49 Florence Padden Bruscemi51 Isabelle Lambert Wellwood51 Pauline Senecal Silvia53 Madeleine Costigan Bussier55 Alice McLaughlin Crawley56 Jeanne Louth Widmer56 Carol Sullivan Gederman57 Elizabeth Pinto Franko58 Marylou Pinardi Mandell59 Madeleine Guerard McNulty59 Eleanor Imbriglio Darron60 Ann Foran Farrell61 Sandra DeNofio Didonato61 Marion Appleton Thayer61 Frances Cicccarelli D’Amato61 Eileen Horan61 Judith Benson McGinn61 Vera Kilmartin Candelmo64 Joanna Souto Martin65 Lynne Ward Chaput65 Lorraine Frenze Bouchard65 Ellen Dolan66 Gertrude Croke Toher66 Rosemarie Rylander Cabral67 Susan Swiszcz Schackner68 Kathleen McDevitt Goldberger

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$60 to $90 46 Mary Brennan 49 Natalie McCaughey McKenna57 Gabrielle Landrigan Clasby61 Barbara Kay Tautin71 Honoring Class of ‘71/Chris Avella

45 Evelyn McWeeney Rush47 Mary McGovern Condry48 Mary G. Barry48 Patricia Keough Chatty53 Peggy Carr Wallace53 Patricia Ann Adrian61 Nancy O’Donnell Connors61 Arlene Violet61 Doreen Wall Whitehead61 Carol Kerwick Shea64 Beverly Zoglio Tomao66 Memory Deceased, Class ‘66/ Annon.66 Grace Abbenante Smith83 Martha Diaz DeSan Lucas

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$200 to $29038 Kathryn Murphy58 Barbara Moura Bamford61 Loretta O’Gorman68 Jean Furlong Murray

$500 to $60046 Class of 1946 61 Eileen Horan, Memory of ‘61 Deceased

60 Class of 196066 In Honor of Wife Nancy Medeiros Hudson

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44From Donations Requested In Loving Memory Margaret Pelrine Cook/Family and Friends

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Every year I look forward to the Class of 1947 reunion tables as I roam around taking pictures for placement in the Alumnae Website. Not only was the Class of ’47 the largest graduating class in the history of Saint Francis Xavier

Academy (over 300), but it also continually brings the largest class representation to the annual Homecomings. Moving closer to the age of 80 and attracted to their vim and vigor, I want to learn the “secret” of this amazing group of smart, animated and elegant gentlewomen. A typical alumna of 1947, Louise Anthony Pendergast, age 88, has never missed an annual SXA reunion! Born in South Providence, (she had three older siblings) she moved to Cranston when she was about four years of age. “My mom, who worked all her life, would drop me off at a daycare run by the ‘White Sisters’ on Pine Street before she went to work as Head of Housekeeping at the Biltmore Hotel.” Louise attended Eden Park Elementary School and continued until the eighth grade at Valentine Almy Jr. High School in

Cranston. She changed her mind about continuing in public school when she learned her friend, Muriel Spellman Mulhearn (Deceased 2007), was going to St. Xavier’s. “I realize part of the person I am today is due to my upbringing, but in large measure it was also the wonderful confidence and spiritual develop-ment I received from the dedicated Religious Sisters of Mercy at St. Xavier Academy.” Louise developed typing skills, from Sister Concepta’s vigilant instruction, one of the requirements in the Com-mercial Division. Among the many clubs she was involved in were the Sodality of Our Lady of Mercy, Basketball and Spanish. In her senior year, after school, she got a job linking chains at Brier Mfg. on Richmond Street. The boss, know-ing that St. Xavier girls had excellent business skills, hired Louise for office work right after her graduation. Louise and Muriel would take the crosstown bus at the Park Theater to Rhodes every Wednesday and Saturday night. Muriel’s Dad would pick them up at the end of the evening. She met John, the love of her life, at a Rhodes’ dance. Muriel was not quite 20, when they planned to marry, but her mom had another idea “You will not get married before you are 20,” was her mom’s reprimand. So at age 20 in 1949, they married. They had four children—two girls and two boys (8 grandchildren). “John was just out of the military when we met. He was a Carpenter, and a very good provider. He passed away in 2010.” (Louise took care of him for sixteen years after he suffered a stroke.) One of her daughters, Shirley Pendergast Doherty (Class of ’68, SXA—50th Reunion next year), has four children and 8 grandchildren. Although throughout most of her married life, Louise was a “stay-at-home” wife and mother, once her children were grown, she went back to work at the Outlet Company as a saleslady. Thereafter, she worked for the Cranston School Department as a lunchroom worker. At age 70, she retired from the Cranston Town Hall as a Chief Clerk in the Records Department. “I loved all of my jobs, and to this day I have many friends from there. We have regular get-togethers and telephone conversations.” Recently, Louise was experiencing debilitating arthritic pain in her hip, keeping her from volunteering at the McCauley House, where she helps provide meals and support to those in need. Her motivation to get back to that job strengthened her determination to have hip surgery in May of 2017. “I love, love volunteering at the McCauley House. I just love it! I had to have this surgery so I could do my job at McCauley House.” Her recovery was so smooth that she was able to walk without a cane “within a month after surgery”. Louise enjoys living on the first floor in a Condo Village in Warwick, where she and John moved when he wasunable to climb stairs after his stroke. She participates in activities including Mahjong, Dominoes, and day trips with many “kind and friendly people”.

Early in her marriage, Louise developed what was to become a longtime St Xavier friendship when she surprisingly met another Commercial Division SXA grad—“While walking with my first daughter Shirley, I met Ann (Whitley) Maloney, walking with her daughter (she also worked for the City of Cranston). Through the years, our children participated together in St. Matthew church functions and other activities. In later years, Ann and I accompanied each other on trips throughout Europe and the USA, and every year we attend the SXA annual Homecoming. We have been friends for over sixty years!”

Learning about Louise and many other ladies in the Class of 1947, I discovered their “secret” encompasses positive attitudes, helping others, and continually developing skills with a vigorous social life and well...just being there, like every year at SXA Homecoming. Louise, like most of the ‘47 ladies, never forgets that her fortitude comes from resilience through faith, inspired by St. Francis Xavier Academy’s Sisters of Mercy through a crucial part of her developmental years.

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70th Reunion-Alumna, Louise Anthony Pendergast, ‘47 Never Missed A Saint Xavier Annual Reunion! by Mary Aquino-Dacey, ‘61

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We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. Thomas Aquinas

“Betty” Mary Elizabeth (Francis) Magiera, 70th Reunion Class,‘47 Shares Some Memories

In my Book of Life, Saint Francis Xavier Academy holds a special section among the several chapters from 1944 to June 1947—Two Trips to Providence On The Bus Each Day from West Warwick, New Friends From All Over, and Friendships Lasting a Lifetime.

The Religious Sisters of Mercy touched my life in many ways. On my wedding day, I stopped at the Saint Xavier Convent to see Sister Celestine. A favorite photo in my wedding album is the one of me with my husband, Sister Celestine, and Sister Alphon-sa—there had to be two nuns in a picture. At Saint Xavier, I

was fortunate in many ways as I learned and enjoyed being Class President in my sophomore, junior, and senior years. There were many activities from which to choose—I enjoyed being in the Ave Maria Choristers and Stage Players and the Sodality Board. Because of being selected to be on “Our Lady’s Commission”, which oversaw all matters connected with the Blessed Mother, I was honored to crown her in the beautiful SXA Courtyard, an annual May event. I was invited, along with other members of the Sodality Board to go on a week’s trip to Fordham University in New York City, run by the Jesuits, for the “Summer School of Catholic Action”. At another time, Bishop Fran-cis P. Keough invited twelve of us on the Sodality Board to the Cathedral Rectory. We were the first to learn the “secret” that Ochre Court was acquired (given as a gift to the Sisters of Mercy by the Goelet family). It would open as Salve Regina in 1947. I could have been in the first graduating class there, but the temptation of a job offer was more appealing at the time. The Monday after graduating, I began a private secretarialposition in an investment firm on the 9th floor of the Hospital Trust building, where the other girls working there had come from Pembroke or Katherine Gibbs! I have served as past president of the Alumnae Association, and I continue toparticipate, attending Executive Board meetings and playing the organ at Homecoming Masses. I enjoy our activities, making friends with alumnae from other classes, and attending annual Homecoming Reunions with my classmates. As I celebrate my 70th Reunion (Is that possible?), I look back and say, “Where did the time go?” I had a wonderful marriage, a beautiful family with eightchildren, six girls and two boys, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. I have been a church organist for almost fifty years (currently at Saint Mary Church in West Warwick) and I love it! I serve on several boards and committees all of which “keeps me going”. I am truly blessed. The next chapter to come—ready or not—is to enjoy each day. Each day is a gift—enjoy it and thank the Good Lord! God bless! Betty, ‘47

70th Reunion-Alumna, Louise Anthony Pendergast, ‘47 Never Missed A Saint Xavier Annual Reunion! by Mary Aquino-Dacey, ‘61

Vol.I, Issue 9, St. Francis Xavier Alumnae Association, 2017

DIRECTIONS

From Points South: Take I-95 North Take Exit 13 toward US- Route 1/TF Green Airport. Merge onto Airport Connector Road. Take US-1 Post Road ramp. Turn LEFT onto Post Road/US-Route 1 North. Turn RIGHT onto Airport Road. Turn RIGHT onto Warwick Avenue. 1799 Warwick Avenue is on the right.From Points North: Take I-95 South Take Exit 13 toward US Route 1/TF Green Airport. Merge onto Airport Connector Road. Take US Route 1 Post Road ramp. Turn LEFT onto Post Road/ US Route 1 North. Turn RIGHT onto Airport Road. Turn right onto Warwick Avenue. 1799 Warwick Avenue is on the right.

To: St. Timothy Church: 1799 Warwick Avenue, Warwick, RI 02889 Tel: 401 739 9552

Leaving the Church take a LEFT (North) on Warwick Avenue.Turn LEFT onto Airport Road.Turn LEFT onto Post Road/US Route 1 South (about 6.5 miles).Turn LEFT onto Forge Road at traffic lights.Bear RIGHT onto Old Forge Road. (you will see Chianti’s Restaurant)Continue to end of Old Forge Road.Turn LEFT onto North Quidnessett Road.Quidnessett Country Club is on the left.

To Quidnessett Country Club950 North Quidnessett RoadNorth Kingstown, RI 02852401 884 1100

Saint Francis Xavier Alumnae AssociationP.O. Box 20452Cranston, RI 02920

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