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

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3 Q YF.. , 1.111 1, - 771. l Q 1 all ..., .s 1 OORS, opening on new vistas of life, opening wide and inviting all who will to step within, to explore the dark recesses beyond. Doors opening on rare hours of peace and contentment. found only in the golden realm of youth, out of the dingy sordidness of the world. Doors, closing with frightening finality, bringing sudden realization of the onrush of the years. Eager, wondering Freshmen have walked hesitantly through these doors, hopeful, and yet a little afraid of what lay within. To Seniors, in whose eyes lay the richness of four years added wisdom, the very finality of that last closing is a knell to four years that will stand out colorfully in a lifetime of years, and a challenge to all that lies beyond.

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His Exc'i11.1.1':Nr'i', Tm: Mow Riav. ALIQXANDIQR J. Mm' Giwirx, D. IJ., Bisnoi' or' LA Vimssic HHN, on May l. 1899Bist1opXIt-Gzavit-k sta-ppc-d ont of tht' ranks of thc- ordinary prim-st hood to take his ptuvc' :nnong the- tli0I'2lI'l'tly first. as .Xnxilinry Bishop of l'liic'ngo. za then on NOVf lIlll0I' 21, 1021, :is tht- Bishop of our own dioc-vsv, he did so in tht- Annu' spirit tl: it c'harac'tvrizc's his vondnvt to this tiny- witl1 nnnssnniing dignity and poisv. And now, in 1037, when Bishop NI1'Gux'ic'k 1-vlvhrzitvs thc' Gold:-n Jnhihw- of his ordinx tion to the priesthood. W0 vhoosc Vaittwttrails as :in uppropriatc thc-nw for our znnnud.

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I l f 1 , l 1 l if M ff .l 1' ,. 4 I .l I1 A Q - I I ' 1 l I f' . 1.1 A i 4 it - : i J ' 1 l .1 l 4 1, 1 ' X ul I HE voice of Another Christ going out from his chair of authority to the far corners of his diocese thrills in its potency. A voice directs the spiritual lives of those under him with the power and precision that can come only from God. Another Christ, yes, in every sense of the word. In crozier and mitre, the Bishop,s mission is identical with Christ's own. The world that is Christ's narrowed to the confines of a diocese with the same perplexities, the same work to be done. Through it all, however, the ruling pow- er of the Bishop shines forth unerringly, a sheltering haven in a misleading world.