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a place to put various images, fragments of information, and annotated links re: my mother Patricia Ronayne McVey (1925-69), and her side of the family.
 

1.  
   

   from xerox of photo, showing Patrick Joseph Murphy (1866-1926) and Margaret Curtis Murphy (1871-1904). with Mary Agnes and Patrick Joseph Murphy, Jr., Dublin, Ireland.

2. The family emigrated to the United States in 1898. The children were:
   Mary Agnes “Mae” (1892-1973)
   Patrick Joseph (1894-1967)
   Dennis (unclear, born 1893-97, died as infant before family’s emigration)
   Sarah “Sadie” “Sal” Katherine (1896-1993)
   John “Jack” Patrick (1900-1989)
   George John (1900-61)
   William “Bill” (1902-57), and
   Jeremiah “Jerry” (1904-?).

   This information is taken from the Murphy Family History that has been compiled by Constance McManis Ronayne; dates also from Moira Hahn.

3.  
   

   undated, late 1930s? 321 Alta Vista Ave., South Pasadena
   probably had a view of San Gabriels, looking across street, until later-arriving houses blocked it.
   oak tree still there; and must have been there many years before.

4. Women — 1945

   Patricia Ronayne, publicity director of the Jongleurs of Our Lady, Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, sends us an announcement of their spring production :
         “Seven Mirrors” was written by members of the group and inspired by the combined lectures of Emmet Lavery and Joseph Rice. The play itself, a song of modern woman, consists of seven scenes, each conveying the heroic part played by women in wartime. Warsaw, an Immaculate Heart College prom, Mexico, the South Pacific, France, a Wilshire bus, and Germany provide the background of the play to which the key is seven, significant of the seven recorded words of Mary and of her seven sorrows. Music, dance, and drama mirror the women of 1945.

   ex “Production Calendar,” National Catholic Theater Conference 4:5 (May 1945)
   via archive.org : link

   for some background on that production, see Urban Nagle, O.P., Behind the Masque (1951) : 231-235
   borrowable at archive.org : link

   Our first play had a swarm of authors. So in accordance, with the wishes of the copyright holders, we announced the fact as follows: “Seven Mirrors is an experiment in social drama. Some of the scenes are factual; others are rather concretizations of feelings and tendencies gathered from the news and personal observation. These are focused on the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God. Seven Mirrors came into being as a college production on the stage of Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, where the following members of the classes in production under experienced professional guidance collaborated in its writing: Anniabelle Crabbe, Fleurette Dillon, Lorraine Johnson, Diane Mellos, Patricia Murphy, Eulalia O’Sullivan, Antoinette Petrasich, Patricia Ronayne, Lorraine Sprafka, Frances Swain.”

   —

   Urban Nagle (1905-1965)

   “Rev. Urban Nagle Dead at 59; Founder of Blackfriars' Guild,” The New York Times (March 12, 1965) : link (paywall)

   there is also an entertaining self-profile at CatholicAuthors.com : link

5. “Miss Ronayne Repeats Vows”

   wedding announcement, and photo, Los Angeles Times (December 1, 1950) at link

6. three asfaltics posts on/around
   Patricia Ronayne McVey, The History and Development of the Living Newspaper in the American Theatre. MA Thesis, Department of Drama, USC (August 1953)

   and shook the living daylights out of them. : 1415
   and shook the living daylights out of them. : 1416
   black and white and read all over : 1417
   

7. detail, portrait of P, painted by M ca1945 . photographed (through glass) by C

   ⧸⧸⧸/⧸ : asfaltics 2221

8. at Salton Sea, ca 1961-62?

   its bitter, useless waters, 2 : asfaltics 0691

 

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