Annunciation High School - Annunciator Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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My dear Graduates: i On this, the occasion of your graduation from high school, I am i 1 happy to extend to you my sincere l congratulations and good wishes. l I commend you for the devotion you have accorded your four years' task and for the perseverance that characterized your eifort. To have so sacrificed yourselves i is a source of lasting satisfac- tion, as well as a tribute to your ' sense of values. The advantages you have derived from the educa- tion it has been your good fortune ' to receive at the Annunciation cannot but be calculated to pre- l pare and fit you for all that is best in life. we As you leave the hallowed halls, THE REV' CHARLES J' I?EASY' AB' of your Alma Mater, either to con- tinue the pursuit of scholastic work or to enter upon the vocations and avocations of life, may I express the ardent hope that you will always cherish the high ideals of Catholic womanhoodg and that you will make your Holy Faith the constant guiding principle of your life's activity. May God enlighten your minds, direct your ways, and bless you abundantly now and always. Sincerely yours in the Blessed Virgin Mary, our lovely Patroness, WW Annunciation Rectory 2603 Norwood Avenue North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa. May, 1938 l7l if

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Class of '3 8: We have not wings, We cannot soar: But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. --Longfellow. Your forefathers from far off Europe went down to the sea in ships, looked over a pathless ocean waste, and visioned future success under distant western skies. They feared not veering from their course in that seemingly endless, pachless void because they had sub- lime confidence in the un- erring needle of the compass. Today you drift into a new sea in ships, individual ships that will carry you over the sea of life. The vista ahead may seem path- less and hazy, the goal of your ambition a long way off, but your training at Annunciation High School under the patronage of Mary, so often called the Star of the Sea, will be an un- erring compass in guiding your course to the shore of success. THE VERY REV. JOHN J. GREANEY, S.T.L. To return to the thought of Longfellow-remember there is no royal road to that shore. Only hard, earnest Work ensures victory. Some natural talent, some happy opportunity may form the sides of the ladder on which you climb towards successg but the rounds must stand the wear and tear of your climbing. For the wood of those rounds there is no substitute, it must be that which is sawed from the trees of Hard Work, Ernestness, Perseverance, Caution, Faith, Hope, and Love. God has given us all the ability to be moderately successful here and glori- ously so in the hereafter. May He bless you and assist you on the Way. Sincerely yours in Christ, JOHN J. GREANEY l6l u .

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Dear Sailors of '38, You are embarking on a great adventure. For the past four years you have looked forward to the day on which you would be given complete command of your ship. Others have looked forward with you, others who have loved you and who know by experi- ence, at least a little, what you will encounter on the sea of life. As you prepare to follow the course charted for you by your faithful and be- loved teachers, we who love you can do little except to look on, some of us to smile, some of us to fear, some to weep, but all to hope. To smile, because We admire the courage with which you THE REV. LAWRENCE'A. OCONNELL, A.B. face life's voyageg to fear, because we realize the fury of the waves and billows that will challenge your very Faithg to weep, because the memory of many horrible shipwrecks is before usg to hope, because we know that while you go out upon perilous seas, you can never entirely go out from under the steadfast stars we have so long watched together in the sky. To hope, because we know that while you must journey over oceans in which, indeed, the starlight might fade, we know that if you will but remember us and your days at Annunciation, you will remember to look up. Look up--for there is high up beyond the reaches of the stars another WATCHER, who sees all ships go out and all lives begin. He too has been waiting for this day. He is the ONE who is gazing most intently on your faces as you quit forever the well known and well beloved shores of your childhood. The Infinite and All Holy God, who has been the helpless and sorrowing witness of many shipwrecked lives, because they failed to look up to Him, is looking upon you with expectation. He who commanded the winds and the sea will bring calm and peace to you as long as you have the courage to look up and call to Him Lord, save us, we perish. ' There is ONE who will teach you the way--our Lady, the Star of the Sea. May she ever guard and guide you on your course until you are safely anchored within the harbor of Eternal Love. Bon voyage with Jesus and Mary. Faitbfully yours, L. A. O'CoNNELL. E81