St Francis High School - Alvernian Yearbook (La Canada Flintridge, CA)

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 Richard Siarris “Richie” Star of the Hoopsters ... a future with the Ca- puchins . . . loves his plot in the dormitory and his seat in the Dining Room . . . fancies black shirts . . . Bend booster . . . good student . . . Csucjene Gene St. Michael's — Long Branch, N. J. Six-footer with a “Joisey” accent . . . pals with Joe and Bill . . . will make a good Capuchin . . . Basketball manager ... no place like Long Branch; no school like SFHS . . . gets along fine in Spanish. JR

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jass You are all familiar with the school crest as it appears on the Senior class ring and on the cover of this book, but how many of you know what it means? If you examine it closely, you will $ee that it depicts a cross surrounded by rays of light, and in the foreground, two arms outstretched and crossed, one over the other. One of the arms is bare, while the other is clothed in the Franciscan brown, and the palm of each hand is pierced. Underneath the whole design is a scroll with the Franciscan motto: “Deus Meus et Omnia,” which means: “My God and My All! If we are to understand the significance of the two arms, we must recall that St. Francis received the marks of the Passion, the Stigmata, and that he car- ried them for the last two years of his life. His hands, feet, and side were pierced like those of his Divine Master in token of his likeness to Him. And so the bare arm in the school crest is the arm of Christ, and the one clothed in brown is the arm of St. Francis. The cross in the background has no figure on it because Our Lord, Who actually hung on it, and St. Francis, who was wounded with the marks of the Crucifixion, are both represented by the arms outstretched in front of the cross. The motto: “My God and My All! was a favorite prayer of St. Frarxcis, and he often used to spend the whole night repeating it over and over again. The school crest and motto, which are in reality the Franciscan coat-of-arms, point out to us the way we should live—imitating Christ, Our Lord, and desiring nothing but God and whatever leads us to Him.