All Saints Commercial High School - Excelsior Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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All Mothers and Fathers are heroines and heroes to a large extent. They face the very ravages of lite to protect their young. We have lived through a crisis and we know they are the unsung heroes of this past war. They hravety and staunchty stood aside when duty called their hetoved children to war. They would rather have heen torn timh from hmh themselves than to send their hoys into the jaws of death. They died a thousand deaths daily as they tremuiousiy glanced over the casualty tist. Many, ah, too many, died in spirit themselves as they found the name they hoped would not he there. Of such hrave stuff is this country made-the parent stock is good so we need have no fear for our future. Parents grow old with time and many of them hecome helpless. The tragedy of that is they also hecome unwanted. Those who would have died for their children are now pushed from pillar 'to post with annoyance hecause they are in the way. is it any wonder God would put a curse on such children? Whatsoever you do to your parents, that same thing wilt happen to you. Let me ten you a little story. A poor old granny was hving with her daughter and son-in-taw. She had no money now for she had given it to her daughter to start her oft' in her newly-married life. She knew she hadn't many years to tive so she prayed her children would have patience with her until she could claim her Eternal Reward. Feehte though she was, she often tried to help her daughter around the house and several times she hroke a dish or cup. In exasperation the ungrateful daughter ordered her hushand to carve a thick mug of wood for her welt-meaning Mother. Two hright little eyes of their son watched this scene. Sotemnty the owner of those eyes went to his little toot chest and put together a rude cup of wood. At First the mother thought he was unusuatiy clever and she asked the tad what he intended to do with the cup. Her pleasure turned to chagrin when he innocently answered, 'Tve made it for you, when youyre old iike Grandmaf, This story speaks for itself. So, youth of America, tet us stand erect, and in spirit, word and action let us salute our parents as Gods gift to Mankind. I Q s ANNE HEILMAN '47 1 L 111 G +0 .J O o KJ 'E 'ff gf? 2-D 25 gif

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UUH P!-XHE T5 Uppermost in Gods mind alter He made His laws of respect towards llimsell' was respect towards our Mothers and Fathers. Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother commanded He, and He didnyt mean mayhel The Fourth Commandment is the only commandment to which God has attached hoth a blessing and a curse. Happiness in this world and the next if we are good to our parents-misery here and hereafter if we ahuse and neglect them. That law was not only made for the prim goody-goody hoys and girls of centuries past. lt still holds good for the hale and hearty youth of the twentieth century. One would hardly thinlt we would need the command of the Supreme lraw Maker to tell us to love our parents. Nature itself demands it. True, we love our Mother and Dad, and woe to the one who dares to cast an insulting remarlr against theml From the time we were tiny tilces, Mother and Daddy were the heroes of our world. Vxfe were frightened-they soothed usl XN'e humped our lcnee-they comforted usl We were lost-they found usl Vxfe rarely questioned them and never judged them. They were perfect because they were our Mother and Dad. Do we prove that love hy our actions now? l Do we inspire a loolc of pride in the eyes of our parents when they rest upon us. Do we malce them thinl: happily Hltys all heen worth whilef, NVhat's heen worth-while? What sacrifices have my parents made for me. My dear girls, try to snap out of the apathy of talcing everything without even realizing it has cost a sacrifice on the part of the donor. Since the minute ol our first hreath our parents have heen planning for our welfare. Many times those plans have cost them sleepless nights and empty poclcets. The deht we owe our mother and dad can never he repaid on this side of heaven. Yet, they aslc for little in return-donly the right to he proud of us. As we loolc into our own hearts, our consciences remind us of the many, many times our own Mother had done without something she wanted so much just so that we could have something we didn't even need. Have they not scraped and sacrificed to give us a Catholic education which they considered more important than anything else? The money for such an education could easily have heen spent on some- thing else. l lcnow ol more than one good mother who has scruhhed 'lloors to earn her daughterys tuition. It is a consoling thought to thinlc of that happy holy Family of Nazareth. We lilce to put our own parents into the place of Mary and Joseph. We admire their gentleness and lcindness and their tireless spirit of sacrificel That is all very good and aflmirahle. hut we must not forget there was a Child, Jesus, in the Holy Family and 'tHe was suhiect to themf, Do we follow His example ol ohedience? l fear many of us fall verv short of our marlc. lt's Mothers joh to lceep us in tow, to lay the groundworlc for us to grow into well-groomed. well-mannerecl adults. Young people don't want their parents as pals-they want them young enough to tall: to and old enough to tum to.

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My dear Girls, You, at the end ol your husiness school training, lcnow where you are going-you are going out into the husiness world to malce your dehut and he- come successful in whatever worlc you undertalce. That is your immediate end. But, you are also going to God-you want to go to God-that is why you chose a Catholic husiness school for your training. That is why you have heen doing what you have heen doing for the past ten years of your Catholic Schoot tile. Every course in your curriculum has had an immediate purpose. Every part ol' your training has had an end proper and pecutiar to itself, and good in itsetl. Your entire educational experience is its own end and it needs no other justi- limtion. But, God is the ultimate end of your education-that is where you are going. Qtherwise your education would immediatety hecome meaningless and aimless. Because you lcnow where you are going and why-you are ot singular importance to the wortd. Because you lcnow where you are going and why-you quality quite ohviously to talce your ptace in the husiness wortd. You are going into a world ol' totat war. You must not toot yourself about that -Your enemy is Satan whom you will meet in his diahoticat spirit ol wortd- liness-ol hatred of religion and retigious, hut you hear powerful weapons of laasic Catholic lcnowledge, and their numher is legion. Use these weapons and use them wetl. Then your training witt not have been in vain. Your pastor, REVEREND LUCIAN ABBATE, P.S.lVl. ls Q6 ,oo -.1 Q f Ei iz qgmvf? ski'