St Marks School of Texas - Marksmen Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Dedication We, the Class of ,57, Wish to express our thanks to a gentleman who has been a teacher, friend, and respected advisor to us throughout our days here at St. Marks He has ,given both time and effort in moulding our class into a productive body, and an asset to the school community. We dedicate this yearbook to a man this class will al- ways remember as an individual who could be counted on to help a student beyond the require- ments of his job. John Patrick Neville

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H eadmastefs Message A favorite subject of schoolmasters, contemplation is the pattern of career choices unfolded in the decade following graduation of each class. For, if we urge upon you a concern for service of your society, an ambition to justify your privileged education by contributing to the common weal, it is under- standable that we follow your development to see what effect these exhor- tations may have had. In this present moment of our peoples' history . . . a prosperous moment in a century of confidence . . . l would call on you as a group to think soberly about two fields of human endeavor not so prosperous or confidence-inspir- ing as others on the American scene. Public service, the business of govern- ment, needs gravely nowthe graduates of Christian schooling, men grounded in those disciplines taught in our private academies. And the schools cry out for teachers of major calibre, without whom your children will fail of preparation to hold and advance this nation's unprecedented gains achieved in recent history. These career fields are not green, inviting ones, in terms of their pecuniary promise or community prestige. Their call is to idealists, not materialists. And for those men who will heed that call there await truly important tasks, deep satisfactions, worthwhile sacrifices, and the sure knowledge that they are rendering critical service to a country striving for greatness with morality. If one of you young men is turned eventually towards either of these voca- tions, our efforts in your training, our concern, my present charge to you, will not have been in vain.