St. Xavier Dear

St. Xavier dear, we'll think of thee

When classroom days have passed away

Those happy days to us will be

A bond of love when far away.

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Chorus:

St. Xavier dear, St. Xavier dear,

Your colors rare of blue and white

Will always be as dear to me

As on this happy night.

Your daughters, too, are always true,

Oh Alma Mater fair;

A hymn of praise to you they raise

For you their love declare.

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We love thy halls, St. Xavier dear

The friends we've made there long ago

They come again in visions clear

To grace the scenes we used to know.

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Dear Alma Mater

Dear Alma Mater, we bid thee good-by

Leaving your portals brings

forth a sign ~

Our hearts are yours through the

long years to be

We'll still belong to thee.

Teachers of childhood who moulded

our life

Giving us weapons to conquer in strife.

When we have started our journey so long

Our hearts will sing this song.

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Chorus:

Loved Alma Mater, we're thine until

forsaken

Thou our inspiration till from this

earth we're taken.

Ah! How our hearts beat with rapture

anew,

As your dear outlines again meet our

view,

Sing, then O classmates, raise

voices on high.

Our Alma Mater, long may she be loved;

Echoes of praises ring out to the sky,

Wafted to heav'n above.

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Dearest of High Schools, our joy and

our crown,

By golden strands to thee we are bound.

One strand is glory, the other is love,

Lifting our hearts above.

Now we are singing as onward we go

Songs of courage at thy command

Great are the gifts which you did

bestow

On us with lavish hands.

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1957 Graduating Class

(Click to enlarge) Members of the 1957 graduating classes of St. Aloysius High School and St. Francis Xavier Academy posed for their photo at St. Paul Catholic Church. Graduates are, front from left, Kay Lavecchia Gex, Dooley Bell Fava, Dorothy Logue Kittrell, Linda Reese Craft, Janice Calcote Clark, Betty Lou Brasfield, Shirley Farrish, Zita Long Sandmeyer, Carol Strickland Schaljo, Joyce Melsheimer Davis, Betty McIntyre Middleton, Linda Jones Styron, Mary Jane Pinkston LaHatte, Mary Nell Garvin McMaster, Frances Smith Jowers, Judy Hale McCallum, Linda Melsheimer Harden, Eloise Yerger Wall, Alice Guchereau Portwood, Theresa Canizaro Meder, Mary Pat Booth Fulton, Katherine Warriner McLain and Betty Rose Setaro Webb. The St. Al grads are, from left, Butch McCormack, Thomas Herrod, Clifton McMillan, Jesse Jones, Robert Wilkerson, Tommy Byrd, Tim Vollor, Karl Nicholas, Randall Baker, Rad Styron, Eddie Lucchesi, John Edward Ellis, Jimmy McCleskey, Charles Haley, Joe Hossley, Bill Irby, Paul Kelly Loyacono, Paul Marsicano and Paul Chatham. The clergy at center are Brother Anselm and Monsignor D. J. O'Beirne. The classes are holding their 50-year reunion this weekend.

(Vicksburg Post, Sunday, May 27, 2007)

Birthday Party of Petesy Peterson Smith

A 1945 Photo shows the first birthday party of Petesy Peterson Smith, who grew up to be a Warren County supervisor, a landowner, rancher and attorney. With the 1-year-old, front and center, are, clockwise from left, John Boa, Florence Murphy Boren (Class of 1959), Cora Lee Logan Phillips, Rosalye Wilkerson Baldwin (Class of 1959) and Robert Wilkerson (Deceased). The photo was contributed by Virginia Burrell (Deceased), Wilkerson's daughter of Vicksburg.

Commencement ~ Class of 1960

Commencement For SFXA-SAHS Set For Tonight

Graduation exercises for the senior students of St. Aloysius High School and St. Francis Xavier Academy will be held at St. Paul's Catholic Church this evening at 7:30 o'clock.

Members of the graduating class will attend the 9 o'clock mass at the church this morning.

Diplomas of graduation will be conferred by Right Reverend monsignor Michael J. McCarthy, pastor of St. Paul's Church.

The graduation address will be delivered by Rev. Father William M. Hopp, pastor of St. Edwards Catholic Church, Tallulah, LA.

Music for the occasion will be furnished by St. Paul's senior choir under the direction of Mrs. Jessie Yoste, who will preside at the organ.

St. Francis Xavier

Students receiving diplomas from St. Francis Xavier Academy are:

Lillian Jacqueline Andrews, Mary Love Angelo, Agnes Marie Banchetti, Barbara Ann Banchetti, Peggy Ann Calcote, Jane Augusta Cathey, Bertha Edith Dearing, Flora Alice Finane, Vera Ann Franco, Mildred Ann Freutel, Jeannie Marie Gardner, Alyce Charlene Guiney, Beverly Ray Haas, Frances Ann Hardin, Amelia Adelynn Honsa, Pamela Ann Mahoney, Rita Blance Martin, Patricia Ann MCCaffrey, Patricia Ann Murphy, Cecelia Evelyn Varner, Mildred Clair Quarles and Patricia Ruth Woodbury.

Students receiving additional diplomas from the Catholic University of America are:

Vera Ann Franco, Mildred Ann Freutal, Beverly Rae Haas, Frances Ann Hardin, Rita Blanche Martin and Patricia Ann Murphy.

St. Aloysius High

Students receiving diplomas from St. Aloysius High School are:

Barton Coccaro, David Ellis, Angelino Franco, Wade Gery, Bobby Gordon, Birchett Hopkins, John Hosemann, Daniel Hossley, Jerome Johnson, Steve Kirschmayer, David Kinnebrew, James Monsour, Ellis Nassour Jr., Frank Schlosser Jr., Hansel Stegall, Dave Stewart (Deceased), Robert Sullivan and William Yerger.

Class of 1960 ~ Pamela

Pamela Mahoney

Class of 1960 ~ Jane

Jane Cathy