Assumtion College - Heights Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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It is time for graduation. Let us go then, you and I, but not with out a thought of what we leave behind, May this book be for us, the graduating class of 195 8, a reminder of these things: the hours spent in acquiring our e ducation, the hours in prayer and meditation, and also those at recreation. For we have known them all, have known the eve nings, mornings, and afternoons, even the tinkle of coffee spoons. We think too of the faculty, those dedicated men to whom we owe our education. It is not without a sense of gratitude and appreciation that we leave Assumption College. May this book serve to remind us of this debt, and may it serve also to bind us to the college. In a sense, gradua¬ tion is an end, but in this end is our beginning. Page 3

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Father Polyeucte Guissard marks his forty-sixth year as a teacher and his fifty-first as a religious. He might remind you of the Socrates of old. Young philosophers knock on his door,” curious to hear the old master whom generations of students have praised so highly. Father Guissard, like the sage of Athens, does not fall below their expectations. His courses are rigorously prepared, eloquently delivered; his punctuality remains proverbial; and like any man of stature, he artfully blends an in¬ nate modesty with mature self-evaluation. Father Guissard remains an Assumptionist in the true sense of the term. An indefatigable worker, he has devoted much of his talent to furthering the reputation and the prestige of the Augustinian order and of its founder. Lest his half- century-long devotion tend to slip by unacknowledged during these later years of his teaching career, the Seniors gratefully dedicate The Heights to Father Guissard. We are mindful, perhaps, of the tribute once paid a great French tragedian: Nous ne manquions pas a votre gloire; vous manquiez a la notre.” Father Guissard is quite deserving of the same tribute. Page 5