Nazareth School Class of 1954

50th Anniversary in 2004

20 Allen St. Burlington, Vermont

Girls Side - Teachers

Allard, Ellen M
Benoit, Mary A
Bessette, Shirley R
Bissonette, Kenneth J
Blanchard, Richard H
Blow, Joan H
Bouchard, Leonard R
Bove, Natalie J
Brodeur, Maurice N
Charron, George F
Devino, Lillian J
Dion, Robert
Dion, Rolland P
Dufresne, Carmen T
Fay, Adrian R
Guyette, Joyce E
Handle, Irena M
Hebert, Richard T
Hubbard, Mary J
Lafountaine, Laura M
Lavallee, Edward W
Masse, Merrill R
McCarty, Martha J
Prim, Anita L
Prudenzano, Sandra J
Quinn, Mary A
Reed, Betty J
Reid, James L
Saltus, James W
Shepard, Thomas C
Trombly, Carol A
Villemaire, Carl T
Vincent, Gordon L

Baker, Richard
Buinisky, Alice
Bombard, Suzanne
Boucher, Mary Ann
Bourgeois, Harry
Bourgeois, Arthur
Brosseau, Richard
Burdo, Nancy
Bushway, Patricia(Irish)
Childs, John
Chouinard, Girard
DeLaricheliere, Joyce
Dupuis, Nancy
Fisher, John
Gravel, Carleen(Lehouiller)
Hebert, Lorraine
LaVallee, Roderick
Langlois, Patricia (Allen)
Leclair, Brenda
Lorrain, Janice
Marcoux, Gabrielle
McGrath, Beverly
Pashby, Gloria
Pollard, Royce
Quesnel, Mary Anne
Racine, Carol
Rogers, John
Sharpley, John
Stevens, Leonard
Wentworth, Sara (w)
Willette, Henry
Yandow, Sheila
Yandow, Theodore

Sixty-four graduates of Nazareth School received their diplomas in the annual graduation exercises at St. Joseph's Church last night, The diplomas were awarded by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. E. Pariseau who also addressed the graduates. Assisting was the Rev. William Hammond.
Many prizes were distributed, including a scholarship to Mt St. Mary Academy, which was won by Joyce Delaricheliere. Miss Delaricheliere was also winner of the highest average prizes in her eighth grade division and of the award for American History, presented by the American Legion Auxiliary.
Other Prizes
Other prizes for proficiency in various subjects in the two eighth grades were awarded as follows: Highest average, Thomas Shepard; religion, Carol Trombley and John Childs; french, first prize winners, Carleen Gravel and Lillian Devino; second prizes in French, Carmen Dufresne and Gerald Choinard
English, first prize, Brenda Leclair and Sandra Prudenzano; second prize, Anita Prim; reading, Joyce Guyette and Beverly McGrath.
First prizes in Arithmetic, Roderick LaVallee and Richard Blanchard; second prize in arithmetic, John Sharpley.
Science, Irena Handl and Suzanne Bombard; spelling, John Fisher and Natalie Bove; history, George Charron and Patricia Bushway.
Citizenship medals, presented by the Green Mountain chapter of the DAR, were awarded to Brenda LeClair and James Reid.
Joan Blow, Carmen Dufresne, Mary Joy Hubbard and Theodore Yandow received music diplomas.
The ceremonies closed with Benediction.

Prize Donors
Donors of the prizes; Monsignor Pariseau, $20; Mothers Club, $100; DeGoesbriand Council 36 L'Union St. Jean Baptist, $35; and Immaculate Conception Council 78 of the same order, $25; League of the Sacred Heart, $25; Ladies of St. Anne, $20; Sancta Maria Circle, Daughters of Isabella, $5; a friend $5.

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Some of our classmates went on to Cathedral High School, which later became Rice Memorial High School.

Cathedral High School Class of 1958

Nazareth Girls School Song

Carleen says "We gals used to sing this at Nazareth and it was sung to the tune of Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-de-ay"

Royce Pollard on the Web

Pollard, a 63-year-old Burlington, Vt., native, is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former commander at Vancouver Barracks.

He was appointed to the city council in February 1989 and elected to a full four-year term in 1991.

In 1995, Pollard ran for mayor of Vancouver, Washington and was elected after Bruce Hagensen decided not to run for a fifth two-year term. Pollard was re-elected in 1997, 1999 and 2001.

Check this website... Good info on Royce

Top Row: John Fisher, Roland Dion, Ed Lavallee, Leonard Bouchard, Merrill Masse, Ted Yandow, Ken Bissonnette, John Childs, Nancy Dupuis Templeton, Carmen Dufresne Cross, James Reid

Bottom Row: Carleen Gravel Lehouiller, Alice Buinicky, Mary Ann Quinn Corey, Natalie Bove Barber, Joy Hubbard, Pat Bushway Irish, Nancy Burdo Canavan