Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School - Loughlinite Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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SCHOOL MEMORIAL HIGH BISHOP LOUOHLIN

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LOUGHLIN MEMoR1AL HIGH s6'HooL VALE HE sands of the glass of time are running out. Soon the Class of '31 will be naught but a memory. It shall go forth into the world to join those which have preceded it honoring the fair name of our school in word and in deed. But while there is time yet remaining let us use it in which to express our heartfelt appreciation. To the Right Reverend Bishop Molloy we owe our greatest debt. He it was who made possible for us a Catholic Education for us in this High School. Our parents, likewise, are our creditors in a debt which we can pay only by showing that their sacrifices have not been in vain and that we have obtained a good christian education. And then come the Christian Brothers, our kind mentors and advisors during the past four years. VVhat affection and gratitude can they not claim who have made us practical Catholics. All these good people and their work shall never be forgotten, for, if there should prove to be any good within us, it will be the result of their painstaking solicitude rather than any natural development of ourselves. It remains for us to develop as did the good seed which gave forth fruit a hundredfoldf' And now as our time draws to a close, our life of the past four years passes before us in review. We see old, familiar faces, perhaps for the last time. We envision scenes which have been acquainted with our daily life. And we feel a tinge of sadness in the thought that that which has been can be no more. But it will remain with us as a memory to cheer us in days to come. And no matter where we may direct our steps we shall never forget LOUGHLIN, the school that we have learned to love. So farewell, O halls of LOUGHLIN! Like some forgotten legion of long ago, on its way to war, bidding farewell to an august Caesar, we salute thee. Vale!

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LOUGHLIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL LOYALTY TO LOUGHLIN OYALTY to LOUGHLIN means loyalty to the Church. LOUGHLIN! What has our Alma Mater meant for us? With Firm conviction and sincere gratitude we proclaim that it has been the chief means of affording us real training for life. This fortress of learning and Christian culture, to the present, has enrolled and recorded hundreds of youths, the men of tomorrow, the men of today. VVe, the privileged graduates of this most excellent school of the great Diocese of Brooklyn, are indeed desirous of doing all in our power to enable LOUGHLIN to progress in its endeavors. As Catholics we are called upon daily to engage in the conflict that is ever being waged between the world and the Church. The Church, on the one hand, stands alike besides man's cradle and his grave, raising his thoughts to higher levels, filling his soul with nobler aspirations, and moulding his conduct by purer standards than any the earth can supply. The Church that sanctifies his childhood, inspires his youth, enobles his manhood, and enlightens him at every age. The world, on the other hand, striving to put its own mark upon man, to lower his aspirations to its own sordid levels and to divest him of every thought and hope and concern for the world beyond the grave, presents to us a battlefield in which our intellect and every faculty of mind and body play important parts. No wonder then that the Church lays such great stress on the importance of the training of the whole man which true education gives. May we be ever mindful of the significance of the Church's teachings as conveyed to us by God's priests and our beloved teachers of LOUGHLIN, the Christian Brothers. May our lives be a constant tribute to the zeal of these self-sacrificing men who have been so devoted to the service of youth and who are listed among the best type of educators in the world today.