Aquinas High School - Trumpet Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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O t SCENIC BEAUTY When the gradual September blending of greens and golds, reds and rusts occurs out ol nowhere, rushing surging Aquinites seem to come bubbling with the ioie d'etudier after three months of vacation. The erstwhile daring knights of squirrel-dom now perch timidly on the leafy branches to view the antics of these strangers. And only in the late altemoon when some stray students wade home through the leaves-and when a restless cool breeze forces one to remark, I guess it's going to get colder, do they realize that Aquinas in the autumn is a student's fairyland ....

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fl , fe -?--'- On the right sits Gilbert Keith Chesterton, ister of the pen, while above nestled in e peaceful beauty of the English country- :le is Top Meadow, the great author's nme. Here from his stucly in this quiet iven of rest Chesterton has written the umortal lines of Lepanto, mighty tale of aristian victory.

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Q Soft falling snowliakes from a starlit or sunlit slty, it matters not, for winter has come to Aquinas. Q The Polar loveliness of the whole spectacle gives birth to many a creative idea, and literary Aquinas thrives. I Frost-bitten and often frozen students now dash into school muifed and mittened to escape the freezing gales. Their mingled applause at basketball, plays, and debates echoes across the snowy paradise in childish defiance of the cold. From the snugness of their trees the squirrels realize that winter is in power, and athletic Aquinas is off to a grand start ....