Gerard Catholic High School - Image Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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Bishop lnspires Pride In Redcoats pride in one's family, school, Church and community. lf, on the other hand, pride becomes an assertion of one's independence from divine and human support, we're on a dead-end street and the end awaits us with nothing but disappointment and failure. inevitably we are doomed to being bloodied up by our persistence in believing that we are self-made and self-saved. ' So, as your bishop, l challenge you to make Redcoats Shine With Pride an act of thanksgiving for who and what you are because of God's goodness to you and because He has engaged and continues to engage wonderful people to assist you in constantly trying to become all He has made it possible for you to be. l challenge you, as well, to devote your gifts and the grace God offers you to work toward the strengthening of the family, your school, the Church and the community. I May the Lord accompany you on this venture! Truly, then, the Fledcoats will shine! ' 1

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? 'li ' I .F A 'I -f ,X . lI1I d GERARD CATHOLIC HIGH scuool. t Home crime We Shine With Pride We at Gerard feel we have pride. We have pride, not only in our school, but in ourselves. Our students have shown their pride when it counts. Whenever people were called on because of necessity, they lived up to their responsi- bilities. Early in Gerard's history, when it was scarcely known beyond its student body, a particularly inspiring event occurred: A local radio station was having a contest. To win the contest for your high school, you were to write the name of your high school on a piece of paper and send it in. The seniors here de- cided that Gerard would win that contest and organized a drive for getting people to write down Gerard on pieces of paper. When they announced the winner, Gerard had about ten times as many responses as even the larger schools, enough to fill a truck. lt's this feeling, the feeling that everyone can contribute, that dominates here at Gerard. Everyone cares. The students, teachers, athletes, even the parents and graduates care, not just about the school, but about each other. The school promotes this close knit feeling by sponsoring a steak fry for parents of freshman and new students each year. The newest addition to Gerard, the new locker rooms, is a testimony to Red- coat Pride all by itself. Parents and teachers worked on what they could, painting, etc., on weekends. They didn't have to be there, but they were. The best way, it seems, to describe the way the majority of us here at Gerard feel our pride is how a faculty member here, Mr. Fielph, said it, lt's caring enough to give up, endure, give up our selfishness for the good of everyone. If pride in oneself means self-acceptance for what God has made us and for what we are capable of achieving as a consequence, it is simultaneously an act of thanksgiving and the acceptance of a challenge. This is also true of

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