St Josephs Academy - La Lumiere Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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 ®gCp p ZpCpGpGpCpQpGpGpGpCpGp6pCpGpGpGpGpGpGpCpC{ Graduates are correct in refusing to believe that a successful career depends upon accident, chance, or the whims of fate. Youth is ardent and eager. It wishes to command success. There is a magic button which opens the door to treasure, learning, and esteem. There is indeed a wizardry which, if practiced, turns a dull drab day to golden and replaces poverty with plenty. That magic button is industry; that wizardry is hard work. When you leave school to enter the work-a-day world and commence to feel the sharp injustices which some people in the pursuit of success impose upon others, there may be moments when you will be tempted to say that all the fine talk you heard in school and all the beautiful philosophy of noblesse oblige seem to be forgotten, but at such times cling to the noble ideals taught by Saint Joseph's Academy, and live up to its high standard. Practice the wizardry of hard work, press the magic button of industry, and every joy will shed its sunshine upon your face, and you will be more successful than if the goddess of Fortune had lit a lamp of genius in your brain. FOREWORD United States Senator from Arizona.

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wars i sfca LA LUMIERE 1923 F a q c Four The Poet’s Tribute “A light to the revelation of the Gentiles And the glory of the people of Israel. Remembering the claims of Mary upon our deepest gratitude, it is fitting that La Lumiere should be dedicated to her whose glories have been extolled from earliest ages and who, to the trouble-tossed and sin-darkened world is “The Sweet Benediction in the Eternal Curse, The Veiled Glory of this lampless universe. That Mary was redeemed by anticipation, through the merits of her Son, harmonizes with our faith that Mary is immaculate because her Son is God. So in the Office of the B. V. M. we chant: “All stately without, and all perfect within, He chose Him a dwelling undarkened by sin: For even before thy miraculous birth Thou wert free from the stain that has sullied the earth. Antedating Eve in the mind of the Creator, she was exempt from the original stain. Though infinitely lower than Him, she reflects the glory of God, giving light and beauty to every teaching of the Church. The Grotto erected on Academy Campus by Class 1920, with its statue of our Immaculate Mother, her sweet face uplifted, her gentle hands folded in prayer, is our daily inspiration as we glance lovingly towards her from our classroom windows or from the recreation courts. We crown her queen of our hearts and fervently grasp the meaning of Words- worth when he sings: “Mother, whose rirgin bosom was uncrossed With the least shadow of thought to sin allied; Woman, above all women glorified. Our tainted nature's solitary boast; Purer than foam on central ocean tossed. —Virginia Amberg.