Assumption High School - Crusader Purple Raider Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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Of old the Prophet said: The sun arise th and .... man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour until the evening ♦ So the graduates of nineteen forty-two are going forth to a new work and new labours Your future wiH probably be different than that of graduates of other years; but it is the hope of your Alma Mater that you always keep in mind your eternal destiny. Then, amid all the changing vicissitudes, the alterations of prosper¬ ity and adversity in the present life, you will have a deep contentment and unshaken peace May you keep your faith undimmed, your mind trained to understand duty. Assumption hopes and expects that you will prove men of principle, men of honour, men of God

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fyofietuofidl V HE coming of June finds another group of graduates about to step out on the threshold of the world. The Basilian Fathers have done all things to impede us to the golden round ' Not only in a practical sense but rather with emphasis on the spiritual. Now the future is in the instant and the responsibility lies in our hands. As you have already noticed, our book is smaller. This is not due entirely to financial reasons, but is rather a sign of the times. Our times, for a while so easy, then so uneasy will, when seen through the eye of history, look to be one in which the mental turmoil was so great as to bewilder completely the people of the time. To us things seem quite clear and yet they are not. We are blinded by the gloom and mist of prejudice and hate. The far-sighted priests who have taught us, realizing the presence in our minds of this shadow of wrong impressions, and mis-beliefs, have provided for us an eternal pillar of strength to which we may always turn. It is up to us to use that priceless gift of faith which has been instilled in us. The crushing burden of the horrible conflict has made changes necessary. One is the condensation of our yearbook. The book was not entirely eliminated, and for good reasons. A book wherein the memories of our formative years are stored is important to remind us of the great lessons of life that we have learned. The lessons of this our senior year were many. Perhaps the greatest lesson came in the shock of the passing of Paul Rochon. Red was perhaps the most popular member of the class and yet as the year approached its end he was taken from us. From this we must realize God has no favorites! Another grim reminder of what faces us in the near future came with the departure of Fr. KiUoran to act as an Army chaplain. These people were the same as we are today. Our position is one which makes it necessary for us to think of the future. It is our turn to strike out and make the imp ortant decisions of our lives. Perhaps in more settled times our decisions could be made after college. But now we must become conscious of the fact that tbe world is not concerned about our well-being, and for this we must make our own provisions. Not rash, hastily-made, decisions, but ones in which we have carefully weighed all factors. Not only practical consider¬ ations, but those concerning the salvation of our soul. It is with this vital thought in mind that we, the Seniors of Assumption College High School, present our class magazine.

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REV. C. J. THOMPSON, C.S.B., B.A. PRINCIPAL cn i Contraction of the imagination is a cause of much modern chaos. Assimilating undigested facts without seeing them in their proportionate relation to other facts can stiffle, shrivel and maim the mind instead of broaden¬ ing it. Hold fast to the clear vision of reality resultant of the Faith, which exaggerates the importance of nothing, but keeps everything in proper focus and terminates in the Beatific Vision. Cultivate what Monsignor Sheen calls the divine sense of humour, which consists in seeing through things ' never taking any mortal thing too seriously; never confusing a means, such as discipline, with a goal; never atrophying one ' s own personality, or anyone else ' s; never becoming a sycophantic groveller, an anaemic echo, a standard¬ ized yes-man of the State of Anyoneelse. Your Alma Mater has done enough for you probably too much at times. Now you are going forth on your own. The jargon of the schools . . . Latin names for horns and stools , , ' etc., will be eclipsed, but, if you have developed as a more complete and human personality by dint of such things, and the even more important spiritual atmosphere here, fear not. To thine own self be true, and you cannot be false to any man or to God.