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When I was at CMI, my friends and I tended to be rebels. We went to play baseball with some students at Three Rivers High School without getting permission. We were, however, still wearing sweaters that displayed the emblem of the college. We were a small group of sports fans. At that time, there was an English-language newspaper in Trois-Rivières - the St. Maurice Valley Chronicle. The Chronicle ran an article about our baseball game in May 1949 in which it talked about certain players' great hits. The names of my teammates - Françoise Berlinguet, Françoise Normand, Josette Lamontagne and my own - were mentioned. We had probably made a few good hits that won points for our team. But we lost the game with a mediocre score of twenty-four to eight. We weren't very good players.The team from the High School was much better organized than ours. We had practically no equipment. But we did have fun. It was really a 'fun-packed game' as the newspaper said and, to quote our anglophone adversaries, 'the kind of thing that should happen more often.' It was quite a special event, and also the only time we ever played baseball with the girls from the Three Rivers High School.

Suzanne Desaulniers
Graduate at CMI in 1953