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

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ALUM AE UTES Graduation days should he happy days and indeed they are, hut some- where in this houquet of gladness there lies hidden the thorn of sadness. We lind ourselves priclced hy the thought that our dear old school days are gone foreverg hut with this comes the rememhrance that we all shall meet again in these hallowed halls. Lest old acquaintances he forgot!! from time immemorial each Alma Mater has hequeathed to those who left her portals a lcey which would unloclc the heavy iron gates-a lcey in the form of memhership in the Alumnae, and this lcey is yours to use. Your Reverend Pastor, Father L. Ahhate, PSM., your Principal, Sister Gertrude Magdalen, OP. and the Sisters of the Faculty will be waiting to receive you with a royal welcome. So wipe away those tears and smile again for we shall all meet again in the near uhye and hyeu. You rememher the old story of gratitude so well told hy the writers ol Sacred Scripture, don,t you? Qur Lord, Jesus Christ, had cured ten lepers of the dread disease which had made them outcasts from society, He had so com- pletely cured them that they were ahle to go out into the marlcets again and sell their wares. After this miracle only one returned to the Master to give thanlcs and He, who does not need the gratitude of men, meelcly aslced, HAnd where are the other nine? So, too, when the afternoon set aside for thc Alumnae Meeting comes around on the calendar the Faculty often stop to wonder-Uvxfhere are the other-not nine, hut nine hundred and ninety-nine who should have returned, not to return thanlcs hut to pay the proper respect to our former teachers and fellow-students? The love you have for your own class- mates is clearly manifested hy your attendance at these meetings. Resolve now, on your Graduation Day to he Hsemper Fidelisu and your All Saints will he very proud of you. Sister Venard, QP., Moderator of the Alumnae, extends a cordial invitation to all graduates to return and have a gala reunion the afternoon of the Sundays hefore Decoration Day and Thanlcsgiving Day. Should you have a date. just hring your Van Johnson along. While you are reminiscing with your former classmates the Sisters will entertain the 'Boy friendn hy telling of your outstanding achievements while at All Saints. The entire Alumnae hody extend the very hest greetings to the graduating classes of 1947. To them we wish nothing hut the hest-Happiness, here and lierealterl

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