Aquinas Academy - Aquinan Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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As you curiously peer within the walls of our school, you will see the Aquinian - the spirit, the laughter, and the tears of a young girl. Quizzically she slams her friend's open locket. But she hurries to her homeroom as the warning bell announces the beginning of her busy day. Unable, perhaps, to remember that difficult Latin idiom or French phrase, she keeps trying and keeps smiling. Imagining who will be her date for the semi-formal, the Aquinian dreams of pink chiffon and dehcate corsages. Normally cramming for an exam in history or English or religion, she uses her Intellect, memorizing dates or spelling words or chemistry equations. Always on the go, she rushes through the hall. in an air of anticipation. Never forget that the Aquinian ' mmmv .535 :gRDADWAV WM mm n; m, , , $115531 3, figuzenir I ' the graduating chm: of p161an saw the first class to complete trulLQ .1 v at years at the new Aqumnxy 16 students of Aquinas delicate our 1001

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Published by the students of Aquinas Academy Tacoma, Washington AQUINIAN

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Administrators Excel in Rev. E. j. McFadden, pastor Leadership What does Aquinas mean? Take the word apart. A - Admirable - Amiable - but after all Mary is the Mater Amabius. Q - Quality rather than quantity. U - Ultra - beyond what is common. I - Ideals high - what else. N - Neat - Nice - hackneyed perhaps but can one be nice with- out being neat - it also means pleasing, agreeable, well-mannered. HA - And now we can use the Admirable. S - The synthesis - put them all together - and we reach the goal, the natural result, Sanctity. These are the marks we look for in a student at Aquinas. This is our aim, our purpose, our hoped-for and ptayed-for con- summation of your years at AquinaS- Sister Mary Rita, O.P., principal