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MAURICE R. ALLAIRE, A.A., ACTING DEAN OF STUDIES In his first year as Dean of Studies, he did a tremendous job in helping each of us take another big step in educa¬ tion. He was always willing to discuss the student ' s problems with him, and his advice was welcomed and respected by all. His great understanding of youth created an atmosphere of friendliness which always helped us to feel relaxed in his presence. As Dean he was very good; as a friend he was even better. He took an avid interest in student activities, knowing very well that the complete man is composed of a sound mind in a sound body. We are indeed lucky to have had such a man to guide us. PHILIP E. BONVOULOIR, A.A., DEAN OF STUDENTS As Dean of Students, he taught us the value of discipline in our lives. He was indeed the student ' s friend, always ready to help a student with a problem, no matter what it concerned. Later on in life when we look back on the years we spent at Assump¬ tion, we will thank him for greatly hastening our formation. He was a strict but understanding discip¬ linarian. We all remember the numerous privileges he granted us. As moderator of alhletics, he did much to encourage our participation in sports. Rest assured he will not be forgotten by any of us.
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headmaster’s Message Dear Graduates of 1961: I have been asked to vindicate the reputa¬ tion of teen-agers. Upon reflection it seems best not to undertake the task. Rather should I leave it to you and your co-teen-agers, for your own actions will be your most objective judges and, we believe, your staunchest de¬ fenders. I will content myself with putting these unrelenting attacks in perspective: I will cut them down to size. This may help you to meet head on the challenge of these charges. Let ' s begin with the beginning: original sin. Common to mankind, original sin is nonethe¬ less rarely mentioned. Unknown to some, dis¬ regarded by others, this blight on all human ity explains, at least in part, many of the deviations in young and old. It accounts in some measure for the waywardness of youth whose fresh and unbridled passions wounded by this primeval sting are harder to check and to direct. Naive, indeed, are those who hope that universal education will eventually pro¬ duce the perfect teen age generation! History also aids in putting this matter in focus by reminding us that times haven ' t changed that much. Remember the quotations found in your Heritage of February 8, 1960? Youth is a lunatic. — Hindu Proverb, Ageless. Corruption, vice and laxity are the rule today. This is particularly true among our youth. Our society cannot endure, for the young men of our race are given up unto vain pleasures. They think n ot of tomorrow. They live in folly for the day. Woe, woe to our land, the land of our fathers. — Urukagina, King of Sumeria, 2545 B.C. The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palli¬ ate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience. — William Pitt, House of Commons, 1741, A.D. And if the ancient teen-age problem has worsened are not the adults who are im¬ mediately responsible for the world your gen¬ eration has been brought up in somewhat to blame? Mustn ' t at least some of them share the responsibility for the accusations hurled at you? Isn ' t it through the vicarious though intense experience of smart adult American life that young people get their first ideas? Isn ' t it, as Bishop Sheen declares, because youth senses that too often adults have no true respect for Divine authority and law that it all too readily refuses to recognize parental authority and civil law? I am not exonerating teen-agers; I am merely striving to put the situation in its proper perspective. Youth maintains its re¬ sponsibility. Last, but most important, is the fact that you in a special way as young men of Assump¬ tion and all of youth because of the mercy of God, retain the power of doing good, of becoming or remaining virtuous. The words of St. Paul apply well here: For if by the offense of the one the many died, much more has the grace of God, and the gift in the grace of the man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many. When in later years you return to these pages, may you discover, in all simplicity, that the seeds of the hard-earned virtues, the solid accomplishments of your maturity had been sown and cultivated during the teen-age years recorded in these pages. This will be the long awaited moment of vindication. For a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. (Matt. 7:18). s ' '
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