Ascension High School, Class of 1967

11/22/2025

Friday, November 22, 1963: A very bad day for Ascension High School and the world.

That morning, the Sisters at our small high school of Ascension received some shockingly bad news: a senior named Anne Marie Riel had been hit by a car outside her home in Leicester while on her way to school.

Anne Marie died.

Everyone was stunned, and the Sisters accompanied the entire school over to the church to pray for our schoolmate.

It was first-page news certainly as the unfortunate driver who hit Anne Marie was a senior at St. Mary's High School right around the corner from Ascension. An incredibly freaky set of events.

Understandably, we were subdued for the rest of the day.

Then, at 1:45 PM, things got impossibly worse when Sister Superior broadcast the radio over the intercom, and we learned that President Kennedy had just been shot in Dallas.

We students were reeling, and Anne Marie's story was moved to page two. Not many events could have done that.

Two photos: the news item about Anne Marie's death and a photo of that day taken just before the shots rang out in Dallas.

How's your memory, Ascension girls?

08/02/2025

Hi, Girls,

It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the death of Kate Baker Mullaly Adams.

Kate was with us at our fiftieth reunion EIGHT years ago, and she also attended a mini-reunion four years ago in Wrentham.

Besides Kate's obituary, there are four photos of Kate;

Photo 1 is with Betty Liseno (our "Red Letter Day" if your memory serves) and Photo 2 with Jody Kane are from "entertainments" during our Flying A days! Was there ever a better Captain Von Trapp?

It appears that Kate was ALWAYS involved in entertainments throughout her life.

Photo 3 was taken at our 50th with her good friend Beth Wasgatt Morin, and Photo 4 was from July of 2021.

Please stop and say a prayer for Kate and for us all.

Link to Kate's obituary:

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/tucson/name/kathleen-adams-obituary?id=59042376&utm_source=MarketingCloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ObitShare_022525&utm_content=%25%25%3dRedirectTo(%40ObitUrl)%3d%25%25&sfmc_id=462980105&env=54e99adddf7f828c422bc2cbdc7ef29559705141f7051ab2f8019cfecbe6b2ae&et_rid=462980105

08/16/2024

Attention All Ascension Girls:

We've received an invitation to a Liturgy of Celebration from Lauren Fitzgerald, Coordinator of Gift Processing and Database.

Lauren writes:

A Liturgy of Celebration will be held on Saturday, August 24, at 4 p.m. at the Notre Dame Health Care du Lac Chapel in Worcester, Massachusetts, to commemorate the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur's 175 years of an Enduring Legacy of Goodness in New England. Some of the sisters will be present.

Please RSVP by August 21 to Lauren Fitzgerald at [email protected] or 617-387-2500, ext. 19.

The Chapel is in the du Lac building and the address is 555 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01505

08/16/2024

Photo #2 of the recent lunch of "The Girls"!

(L to R): Pat Mullaly, Betty Battelle, Mary Morris, Leonora Pagano, Paula Shea, Betty Liseno and Jody Kane.

And for sure they said "Grace" before eating!

08/16/2024

Recently seven of our class of Flying A's gathered together for lunch, laughter and memories at a Cape Cod restaurant.

Photo # 1 (L to R)

Leonora Pagano, Betty Battelle, Betty Liseno, Jody Kane, Pat Mullaly, Paula Shea, Mary Morris.

Not sure there's any wine in those glasses!

12/31/2022

Can't get away from the SOM! Happy 2023, Girls of '67!

Funny.....thanks to The Far Side for sharing.....♫

11/19/2022

Try as we may, Ladies, we can't escape "The Sound of Music"!

Hope you all had a Happy 55th Graduation Anniversary Year!

Whilst musicals might not be everyone’s cup of tea, the iconic Sound of Music soundtrack was a landmark in music history. First released in 1965 by RCA Victor (an American record label…

06/11/2022

I just KNOW my Ascension '67 classmates would want to hear the "newest" about "The Sound of Music"!

Do you realize WE were sixteen-going-on-seventeen when we put this show (I believe the nuns called it an "entertainment") on for the Seniors?

In a recent interview, Andrews said the film adaptation of the musical "stayed in people's consciousness all this time. It made a big, big dent in people's psyche."

10/21/2021

Hi, Girls and fellow Flying A's! I'd surely rather be posting another turkey dinner photo, but sharp-eyed Jackie made note of this obituary. It seems we've lost another classmate. Very sad. I remember Lynn as a good sport and a lot of fun. Let's say a prayer for her, AND I hope you all are doing well.

Lynn A. Lemoine, 72 South Grafton — Lynn A. (Dumas) Lemoine, 72, passed away October 14, 2021 at Blackstone Valley Health and Rehabilitation...

05/31/2021

Our latest (MASKLESS!) Turkey Dinner at O'Connor's. May 11, 2021.
Please send in any turkey dinner photos you other Flying A's attend! We're free now!

08/23/2020

Peek-a-boo! Here we are! You knew it was us all the time! AND we were at O'Connor's Restaurant, of course. And we all had the turkey dinner which we generously shared with the wasps. They like cranberry sauce, it appears!

Front: Linda Gravlin Pilla and Joan Barbato Champagne

Back: Sharon Fleming Anderson and Jackie Ball Stein