Xavier High School - Xavierian Yearbook (Phoenix, AZ)

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The end of Christian education is to cooperate with divine grace in forming the true and perfect Christian . . . to form Christ in those regener- ated by baptism. WHERE THERE IS PROGRESS, changes are inevitable. At Xavier High School, nineteen fifty-six will be remembered as a year of endings and a year of bright beginnings. First, it marks the realization of an old, old dream inthe completion of the first two units of the new high school. Into this sparkling new world, students and faculty have carried the spirit of the old Xavier, keeping its loved traditions, but adapting them to different surroundings, and building on the foundations of the past for a fruitful, glorious future. Too, it commemorates a decade of graduating classes, as the An- niversary Class walks through the daisy chain to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance, and thence into the strange new world of woman- hood. But more important than these is the change wrought in each in- dividual student in her progress toward the Ideal . . . toward the form- ing of Christ in her personality. This changing world . . . the life of every girl at Xavier . . . ma- terial and intellectual and spiritual expansion . . . putting off the old and donning the new . . . linking the past with the future by the inde- structible ties of loyalty and love . . . These are the never-to-be-forgotten days . . . the days we would hold undimmed in memory. And so, with pencil, pen, and camera, we strive to catch them as they hurry toward their sunset, and press them, like the petals of a flower, between the covers of the 1956 Xavierian. 2

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