St Vincents Seminary - Vincentian Yearbook (Montebello, CA)

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GOLDEN PATRCNS Bell Telephone Co.-Bristol Office Mr. and Mrs. Danny and Rosie Gonzales and Family Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Schreiner and Family SILVER PATRONS Very Rev. John Zimmerman, C.M. Mr. and Mrs. Bill and Becky Barreras and Family Rev. David Pansini, C.M. Mr. Max Durr Discaled Carmelite Fathers St. Therese Church Mrs. James Flynn Alhambra, California Maria Ioloma St. Josephs Women Council Palicentia, California Mrs. A. E. Shandrick Manchester Heights Council No. The Zaragoza Family 2492 Knights of Columbus Mr. and Mrs. Ziolkowski Dr. Frances M. Boyer Mr,.and Mrs. Robert Collins and family

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Ieff Hartel and all my other co-workers. In sports I'd like to give my goofs and misses to jim Souder and my football plays to Don Salz. I hope that God will bless our minds and souls so that.we may know and do God's will. O my jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fire of hell, lead all souls to heaven and help especially those most in need of Thy mercy. - B.V.M. at Fatima VMIGUEL MENDEZ Y I I am happy here but now I must leave this place and just make it a memorytin my mind. Yes, I am hooked on a feeling a feeling that I can't shake loose. The people here have really been good to me and to say good-bye to them hurts me so, ibut I must. Firstly, l'd like to thank all my classmates for just beingrthere when I needed them and all the help they gave me. Thankyou: P.A'.,l' L.C., L.G., G.H., G.L., A.L., L.M., A.M., I.N.,. C.R., D.S., G.S., thanks to the faculty and very SPECIAL THANKS to my mom, dad, and sister for everything they've done for me. Good-bye S.V.S. and good-bye to a part of me. IOSEPH MYRON QDOCJ NICKELS tSchool impressionist, Newspaper Editor, Refectoriartl. My two years spent here at the seminary have been the most memorable, enjoyable, and rewarding years of my life. 'There are so many people l'd like to thank that really encouraged me and gavearme guidance throughout my junior and Senior-years. I am very grateful to the faculty and to all the students. Special appreaciation to my -fellow classmates tWater- buffalosj: PA, LC, LG, GH, GL, AL, LM, IM, AM, MM, CR, DS, GS, TZ, and Herman Egg QB. 1973 - D. 19731. Thanksto coach Mr. Skip Pomycata for a successful basketball season. There are places l'll remember allmy life, though some have changed, some forever, not for better, somevhavegone and some rerriain.,All these places had their moments . . . withifriends I stillcan recall, somedead and some areliving, in my'?life,I've, love them all . .. though'I3know I'll never lose affection for people and things that -went.before,' glknow I'll often stop and think about them, in my life I'll love you'Imore. - Beatles Sometimes you dream. Sometimes it seems there's-.nothing there at all. You just seem older than ,yesterday and' you're. .waiting for to- morrow to call. 'Mya future lieslbeyond the Yellow Brick 'Road. - Elton john. Pleh Bob! .A Q 1 A' ' ' , CARLOS RENE .RODRIGUEZ ' 'Dear Jesus, I want to thank you for having me come into this world, born and brought up by two wonderful parents. They make mewhat I am and help me to come closer to you. I don't think that I would have come here to St. Vincent's if they hadn't that -same love for me which exists between You and God the Father. For where there was faith, I found peace. Where there was peace, I found love. And where there was love, I found you. I also want to thank Fr. Braakhuis C.M., Fr. Crowley C.M. for guiding me in right paths. Thank you for my class- mates, my brothers, who helped me to grow, thereby giving mera deep- er understanding with each of them. I thank you' forlthaticoncernand 'respect they have always ,had for me, Oh Lord, transform me into Yourself. May my hands be the hands of jesus. May my tongue be the tongue of Jesus. Grant that every faculty of my body may serve only to glorify You. Above all, transform my soul and all its powers that my memory, my will, and my affection may be the memory, the will and the affection of jesus. I pray 'You to destroy in me all that is not of You. Grant that I may live in You and by You and for You, that I- may truly say with St. Paul, I live now, not l, but Christ lives in me. GEORGE STEVENS ' If I were to give advice to anyone striving for a vocation in life, I would say, Divide the time 'till you reach your vocation, into steps not more than a year apart. A student whose vocation lies at the end of his school years should make his school years steps and make his goal the next step. Goals should be something you can reach before you lose interest. !tA few of my original sayingsj. Life is like a bed bfi roses, if you rush through it, you will be wounded. often, taking up most of your time binding your wounds, but if you 'go through itslow- ly, step by step and move the branches out of the way one by one, you will be wounded much less often.fIn order to. be successful, you must know yourself thoroughly, your strengths, weaknesses, limits, and reactions in order that you may never lose control over your ac- tions. Not until you can completely control yourself can 'you 'beginjto control the life around you. I fOne can nevergo through three years of High School alone much less three years in .a schoolllike this with- out help from all sides. I would like to thank God' for Sl, BK, KM, LL, AM, IE, and RI who all had .to put forth ,personal--sacrifices in order for me to come to this school. I would like to ,thank God for Fr. Moore who brought me here and for Fr. Braakhuis and-Fr. .Cairns who helped to keep me here. I would also like torthank God for the Stevens family, the Houston family, the LaVenture familylandthe sixother families that took me into their homes over the pastdthree years. And most of all I would like to thank God for my beautiful parents ,who never tried to sway my decisions and who put forthi the biggest sacrifices of all. h A'.. V DONALDSALZ r r C ir J eg Celebrate, Celebrate, dance to the music. I just -want, to CELEBRATE' anothenday ofliving, I just want to Celebrate 'anotherfday of life . .. All right you idiots it is 2:00 a.m.,r when you're,done eating andgoof- ing around, maybe we can get back tohwork tyearbook editorl' Boom chicka boom, ricka chicka'-boom, boom chicka, ricka chicka ricka chicka boom, I-IEY! ' 1CheerleaderJ Liam, ,Happy National Nothing Day tha, ha, I was trying to make a funnyltx Greg,,,the Angels are 41 tsportsrfanaticj , . . Hey you guys, let's go roast wein-' ,nies ont the electric fence fpeanutn gallery, scuddersil THANX to the two most beautiful people in theworld, morn and dad, thanx larry, chuck, harry, philip .. . thanx Fr. Braakhuis- and Fr.. Crowley ... many thanx to the members of the ,Loyal 'Order of Water Buffaloes, past and present SPECIAL thanx tothe many members, ,past and present, of the SVS faculty . . . GOOD LUCK TO' ALL, AT SVS .

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BRONZE PATRONS Rev. Louis A Gutierrez Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Barbosa Best Wishes to the class of 74 -Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Banks Bel Air 'Lanes The Francis Britton Family James E. Buckley 'Mrsl Anne E. Callahan Mr. and Mrs. William Cendejas Mrs. Olivia Chavez iMr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Cormier and Family Mr. Roy Currin Rita DiVita Mr. and Mrs. -Djokic The Dunhan Family Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Fitzwater Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gentile and Family Dr. Michael V. Guerra D.C. Best wishes to the class of 74 -Bonnie Hansen Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Janowicz Mr. and Mrs. Rex Johnston Mrs. Lillian McCaffrie The Markham Family Mr. William S. Miller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James O'Hara A Mr. and Mrs. Hugh O'Har'a O'Connell Family Mr. andrMrs. Ortiz Mr. and Mrs. Pineda Julius M. Pohl Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Price and Family Mr. and- Mrs. W. P. Price The Ernest A. Ramirez Family Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Ramirez and Family c. T. sakaguchi, D.D.s. Shanholtz and Sons Jewelry Store Mrs. Alice Stephenson M-rs. Ester Torres Mr. and Mrs. Ricardo Vasquez and Family Mr. and Mrs. Ray Weraky