∾veryone, please rise to give the pledge of allegiance to the flag, is the first announcement after which the general announcements for the day or the week are made. They include material on witchcraft, magic, sports, music, biography, World War II, modern references, and twentieth century novels, short stories, plays and essays.Īt the Public Address System in our school are technician William Higgins and the announcers: Dominic Giancarlo, Jeannine Albaugh, and Frank Duby, who are ready to begin the eight-thirty home room period program for the school. This year, many new books have been added to the library. The assistants have complete charge of distributing and receiving books, keeping current events on file, and preserving the general appearance of the Library. Griffin, and Shirley Patt help the student body to use and to understand the library thoroughly. Mary Catherine Downey, the Library Staff comprised of Patricia Carine, Norma Falasco, Martha Flack, Grace DeVito, Norma J. The 1947 Reflector Volume XXXI - Forty-Third Annual Commencement This book is not just interesting it is inspirational, and it splendidly illustrates Patricia’s mantra that ‘It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness’.FASD - Farrell Senior High School, Farrell Pennsylvania - Class of 1947 Alumni FASD 1947 Alumni Archives (Return to the Archives Index Page) Patricia concludes with a number of very useful reflections: on knowing your limitations, prayer, true forgiveness, and trusting in God. Presumably to lighten her dark narrative of man’s inhumanity to man she includes an account of a seemingly miraculous case of healing, following prayer to Our Lady at Medjugorje. She records some of her interviews verbatim – horrifying accounts of murders, rapes, torture, and deliberately degrading incarceration. And she became aware of other less well-known massacres carried out by the same Serb army at Tuzla and Vukovar.

She learned about the massacre at Srebrenica when more than 8,000 men and boys were serially murdered and buried in mass graves.

To this end she met and heard the tragic life-stories of many of the Bosnian refugees. Patricia was determined that homes would be made available to the most vulnerable persons, such as widows and others who had the responsibility of caring for children with mental and physical disabilities. Ninety per cent of that money was spent on having 78 houses built with the remainder funding the repair of schools as well as supplying the sick with life-saving medicines and devices. In a period of five years it raised €2.5 million. Subsequently she and her colleagues set up Friends of Rebuild for Bosnia to raise funds for the project.

Faith House by Patricia Farrell