All Hallows High School - Halloween Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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serious We were made to feel that while we must learn we could also enjoy our selves Study was not such an arduous task when a light atmosphere prevailed The Brothers seemed to have a knack for blending just the right amounts of discipline and camaraderie There was another factor though which was more important There was a strong friendship between the Brother and each student Each one of us felt like and was treated like an individual We knew that the Brothers were concerned with each one of us Through all four years in All Hallows they provided us with instruction en couragement and friendship The result was a general wellbeing in us the students and a greater willingness to work with the Brothers Our Lady must give special heed to the Brothers when they pray to her for help The Order is constantly expanding its scope there are many more vocations to the Brotherhood and she gives the Brothers the strength to maintain their work in a wonderful manner These benefits are but rewards for the work the Brothers are doing for the love of her and her Son Could she be thinking I wondered about First Fridays when the student body came us a group to pay homage to her Divine Son? Surely this must have been a another kind of spirit at All Hallows religious spirit We had but a spark of this spirit perhaps when we entered as Freshmen but nursed and fed by the teaching and example of the Brothers that spark soon rose to a fire in our hearts as it had in hundreds of All Hallows men who had gone before us lt is a fire not to be smothered by the torrent of troubles and temptations which come in later life rather with the grace of God these trials will only serve to intensify its blaze ln our route to Heaven each of us must take a separate path Each path is filled with a number of obstacles The object of All Hallows was to equip us to surmount these obstacles They have attained this goal well With this last thought in mind l turned from the school filled with a sense of completion of fullness of peace and happiness for I realized that we the class of 1958 had not walked beneath the gaze of Our Lady of All Hallows for the last time I knew that she woud ever look out across the miles and see us wherever we went whatever we did She would always be there to encourage us to help us and to pray for us that we having someday finished our life on this earth can return to her and her Son for all etermty ROBERT LEGATO 17 gladdening sight for her. Yet she knew that this.was but one manifestation of

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THOMAS MCGOVERN JAMES MAGUIRE JOHN MAGUME JAMES MORRBSEY WALTER OUAST THOMAS ROACH GEORGE VERRANDO