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

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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 ....

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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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Dedication ' Without the first faint sparlc ol dawn, the bright lire of day would never burn, without the twilight's soothing calm, hectic hours would never cease with night,-without a guiding hand we would fail to cross the laridge that spans the dangerous stretch from youth to maturity. Without the kindly inspiration of a man who holds high the torch that lights the way, we would grope un- warily along the course which leads to success. ' As a shepherd, he must tend his precious floclc of sheep-hring them safely through the dangers which, lilce wolves, lurlc in the darlc ravines of the hills-and then he sighs, happy with the lcnowledge that his floclc is sale and wise enough to graze on richer grounds. ' He stands as a safeguard of the Seven Seas-and watches his boats, one by one put out on the rough waters. His lcind, understanding ways, plant confidence and ambition in the young hearts he commands. He strives to avoid the squalls of the sea that pound and Batter-struggling to destroy, he steers for the port of Success, hoping that there, each of his sailors will find the fulfillment of his dreams. ' To this good shepherd and great captain, our principal, The Reverend Hilary Leuther, we dedicate this Trumpet.