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Through her mother and sisters June said, “If and when I have an announcement to make, I shall make it to everyone.” When a priest whom she had consulted was contacted, he said, “If Miss Haver has anything to say, it is up to her, not me.” The following day June telephoned the publicity department of her studio and read them the statement she had written herself. It said: “To all my friends: Now that I am about to do something that some of you will perhaps find difficult to understand, I have thought it well to make a public statement. “I am going away to prepare myself, by several years of prayer and study, for something I have been contemplating for two years. I am determined to be a Sister of Charity, with the Grace of God and the approval of His church, and to consecrate my life to the service of God in His sick and in His children. “To do this will take more ability than I have. That is why I am going to prepare myself in a novitiate of work and prayer. If at the end of my two years of preparation my religious superiors judge that I am able to do this, I shall consecrate myself by vow to this kind of life. “As far as I am concerned, I know what I want to do. But what I want must also be what God wants. May His will be done. “You, my friends who have helped me so well in the past, I know will continue to help me with prayer, that I may always be generous in the service of God.” It was neat, concise and to the point, and it said everything that June could possibly say under the circumstances. The publicist who took the message told her he thought it was beautifully worded. “I think it covers it,” June said. “It’s all I want to say. Otherwise they’ll be wanting to know when I leave and it would be embarrassing with photographers.” “I suppose I’ll be talking to you again,” said the publicist. “No,” said June, and he could almost hear the smile in her voice over the phone. “I don’t think so. You won’t be able to get in touch with me.” She hesitated a moment and then added, “I’m very happy.” The news was not surprising to those who knew June. As she said in the statement, she had been considering such a decision for two years. While it was not something about which she spoke freely, wisps of her thoughts did leak out now and then. When she visited the Montevideo Film Festival in South America last year, she made a guarded admission to a Catholic layman that she was interested, and spoke very highly of the life of a nun. She went to Rome in 1951, following the death of her fiance. Dr. John Duzik, and obtained an audience with Pope Pius XII. It is said that during her meeting with the Hollywood Pope, she again spoke of her desire to become a nun. At any rate, although June had left Hollywood a troubled girl, she came back from that trip with a new assurance, a new happiness. She seemed to know, for the first time in many years, what it was she wanted from life. More than two years ago, it was reported that June had applied for dispensation from the Church to enter a convent. Such a waiver is necessary for a woman who has been married, for, although legally divorced, she is still married in the eyes of the Church. Clearance in a case of this kind is quite possible, but the application itself is not binding. The first rumblings began at that time, but June denied them, understandably in view of the uncertain circumstances. After that, a great deal happened to confirm the suspicion. Last year, June sold her lovely home in Cheviot Hills, and afterward, offered for sale by auction the majority of her possessions. Later, she moved into her mother’s apartment, and then two weeks before her decision was made public, she told her studio that she would not renew her contract when it expired on February 20. Incidentally, it is typical of June’s fairness that she refused to accept her salary for that remaining period. All of these things pointed to the ulitimate conclusion, but until everything was arranged and in order June refused to make any comment. The most revealing clue of all, however, was June herself. She had never conformed to Hollywood’s way of life, and had not only shied away from the gaudier parties but had confined her friendships almost entirely to people outside the industry. As one friend put it, “She just never really belonged to Hollywood.” People who knew her well could never reconcile her glamorous screen roles with the sincere and serious girl they knew as a friend. Over the past two years, she grew increasingly interested in helping others. Whenever anyone had a problem, or was sick, or bereaved, June was always on hand with whatever help she could offer. She was devoting her life to other people, and as one person, a non-Catholic, said, “She couldn’t have done more had she already been a nun.” If Hollywood was not surprised at her eventual decision, neither did they understand it. The citizens of the town tend naturally to dramatize the slightest incident, and on reading June’s statement in the newspapers, they immediately began asking each other “Why?” It was supposed, as a matter of course, that June’s tragic experiences in love had led her into the path of solace with the Church. They said that no girl could be expected to live through the heartbreak of such a marriage as that with Jimmy Zito; that no girl could survive such deep grief as that suffered over the death of the charming John Duzik, without finding the need to seek consolation. June’s father, a non-Catholic and a man who has seldom seen his daughters since his divorce from their mother, came to this conclusion: “It is a result,” he said, “of her hard work, her heartbreak and her deep faith in the Catholic Church.” To those who have known June more intimately, the first two reasons are completely unsound. If Dr. Duzik had lived,! of course, and if he and June had been able to secure from the Church an annulment of her marriage to Zito (a procedure which required a statement in writing from Zito to the effect that he had not wanted children at the time he entered into marriage with June, thus making the 102