Assumption Preparatory School - Memini Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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President ' s jrddfiess oj Welceme Parents, Friends, and Benefactors: In the name of the graduating class, I extend to you all a most hearty welcome to our commencement exercises. Four years have elapsed since we entered the portals of Assumption High School. For four years we have pursued our studies and adapted ourselves to the strict rule of discipline. Today we are indebted to our parents for the excellent edu¬ cation they have given us and to our professors who instilled in us the fine points of a classical education. We thank our benefactors from the bottom of our hearts. The success of the Yearbook is due largely to your generous contributions. Today we leave the peaceful atmosphere of Assumption to step into a troubled world, a world filled with terror, anxiety and grief. But our catholic philosophy has prepared us to wage a titanic struggle against the forces of evil that would deprive us of our Christian heritage. Many of our classmates have already left us to join the armed forces. May God be with them throughout the war and bring them back to the peaceful homes which they reluctantly abandoned. It is with a spirit of indebtedness to our parents and bene¬ factors that we Seniors of the class of 1944 extend to you a most hearty welcome. JOSEPH E. LEMIRE, JR. 8

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Avant notre depa rt du High School du College de l ' Assomption, nous avons tente la publi¬ cation d ' un annuaire. Si c ' est un succes, graces en soient rendues a nos bienfaiteurs qui ont defraye pour nous les depenses d ' une telle entreprise. La tache de la publication n ' est pas une sine¬ cure. Pour un premier essai nous voudrions un coup de maitre. Le plus sur de l ' affaire, c ' est que nous en sommes a un premier essai. Heureuse- ment, de bons amis sont venus a la rescousse: nous sommes redevables a M. Henri Caron de la Caron Press pour ses conseils opportuns, au Pere Rosaire et au Frere Vincent pour leurs suggestions pre- cieuses. Nous nous gardons bien de passer sous silence le Reverend Pere Rodolphe Martel, Superieur du College, dont l ' approbation a rendu possible l ' impression de ce livre. Les departs repetes de nos confreres de classe en route les uns apres les autres pour servir sous les drapeaux, n ' ait pu qu ' alourdir la tache des au¬ tres. Neanmoins, le dernier obstacle est franchi, et void l ' oeuvre. Nous croyons avoir inaugure avec ce livre une coutume de longue duree. Nous comptons sur un accueil favorable et sur la bienveillance de nos amis-lecteurs. Joseph E. Lemire. 7

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Omnibus Anni Domini MCMXLIII et MCMXLIV Versificatoribus Eorum Ludi Latini Magister, S. P. D. Quid vestris annalibus dignum mentibusque jucundum scribere possim? Quatuor jam annis, latinis rebus saturati estis nihilque vobis optibilius videtur quam ut illas fasti- diosas obliviscamini atque omnes Ciceronis et Vir- gilii libros comburatis. Forsam audivistis Sanctum Hieronynum olim a Domino per somnum reprehensum fuisse quod ciceronianus esset. Ne tarn horrendum malum vo¬ bis immineot neve ullus unquam tanti criminis vos arguat minime timeo. Vobis autem omnibus qui, alii per triennium. alii per biennum, in latinarum palaestra praecep- tum mente retineatis et opere perficiatis: Labor omnia vicit Improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas. Cui si fideles eritis, non tota mea perdita erit opera. Omnes in Domino semper valete et, si cicero- niani esse non potestis, strenuique Christi milites estote. Rev. Odilon Dubois, A.A.