Xavier High School - Xavierian Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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l 1 Eff F A C U L T Y REVEREND GEORGE DUNNE, S.J. Religion REVEREND THOMAS SAVAGE, SJ. I Religion QAM ' S AAY. iff ,IMA V SISTER MARY EMERITA, B.V.M. Principal, Mafhemafics SISTER MARY INVIOLATA, B.V.M. Y: Library, Foreign Languages, Mafhemafics , MMZSISTER MARY GERTRUDETTE, B.V.M. -L4-77,3 lnsfrumenfal Music, Vocal, Choral, .1 Social Science Lf f! ,nf I 1, E1 64, f I W SISTER MARY FLORELLA, B.V.M. Senior Adviser, Foreign Languages, ratify Social Sciences, Mafhemafics , J, A QJW7 SISTER MARY TERESE AVILA, B.V.M. Qljjqyl' Junior Adviser, Foreign Languages, XX fi flfyuyvf Social Sciences, English . 'fffv ' ,Q Ulf J' SISTER MARY AGNESETTE, B.V.M. Sophomore Adviser, Commercial Courses, I lish dj 1 Eng 1 SISTER MARY AGNESITA, B.V.M. I7 Freshman Adviser, Science, Mafhemafics, R 'fiflwf English W ' MISS JEAN ELERICK Physical Educafion g 1 WWA MRS. JOHN OEHNKE f .N Ph sical Educafion XI M J' y QQ IA ' I I J RRI I

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THE SISTERS' MESSAGE EB Mg S lI' Xavier High School .gg ffL 6g May, 1955 4wwnwna5 Dear Graduate, In the closing hours of Mary's month you will have reached the end of high sdxool days, and graduation night will mean a last farewell to Xavier High. The long-coveted diploma will be yours at last, the lessons over, all the prizes lost or won. We who have been with you through the years, instructing and directing, sharing in your joys and sorrows, know that now at last our task is done, that you are ready to go on without us, equipped with the knowledge and ideals we have given you. But we know, ton, that there is one who can do now what we are powerless to do, for she can go with you out into broader fields, and with her love and guiding hand lead you safely through all the days ahead. Our wishes for you on your graduation night we breathe in prayer to her. Dear Mother Mary, keep her as she is tonight--sweet and pure and beautiful. Remember that once long ago, in far-off Nazareth, you were a girl just as she is, and in your heart were all the wonderful dreams of girlhood. You know the dangers and the pitfalls that surround herg you know how frail she is and how easy it is for her to fail, for you lived in the world and were surrounded by its temptations just as she is. Yet by your own lovely choice you remained loyal to God's trust in you. To your Heart, then, we entrust her--all her hopes and fears, her longings and her aspirations. Let her use her youth and attractiveness, as you did yours, to lead others to the attractiveness of your Divine Son. Strengthen her in purity, in love, in patience. Let her so radiate your own sinless personality that she may bear an unmistakable resemblance to her beautiful Mother. Go with her, Mother Mary, as she leaves us now to enter her own domain of womanhood, Be with her through the years, and bring her at last to that plenitude of loveliness that was your own-- full of grace. Dear little Graduate, place your hand in Mary's today, and keep it there forever. She will never be the first to let go. God love and bless you always. Lovingly, The sisters

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