Boys Town High School - Pylon Yearbook (Boys Town, NE)

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REV EDMOND C WALSH Dxrector of Welfare Department Dean of Sennor Secuon REV FRANCIS SCHMDT Dxrector of Chonr Dean of Choxr Secuon I xt ,B Rav ROMAN ULRICH Supermtendem of Schools Archd1ocese of Omaha Dean of Sophomore Sectxon pau. 61' ---L, Rrx XX ARR! Nl Axm RQON REV PETER DLNNE Ifmn Dean of Jumor Secuon Dem of Ylememary Sectnon Dean of Freshman Section

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A Message From Monsignor Wegner Fortunate is a college, and doubly fortunate is a high school that has the facilities and whose students have the courage and ability to publish an annual year book describing the school and its various programs and activities. Some years ago Father Flanagan conceived the idea of editing an annual year book, but due to the many problems confronting him and the demands con- stantly made on his time, he found it impossible to put his intention into a fail accompli' or into action. For me. the faculty and all the boys it is a real privilege to publish the first annual year book in honor of Father Flanagan, the founder of Father Flanagans Boys' Home, Boys Town, Nebraska, and all its former citizens and alumni. The year book of any school reveals the events which took place and gives an account of that which it has accomplished for its students, over that period, in spiritual, mental and physical calisthenics. Father Flanagan's Boys' Home is a home and school with many fine and noteworthy traditions gath- ered and accumulated during the 35 years of its being. Its most precious tradition, however, is that thousands of boys have here experienced happiness thru kind- ness and understanding. Here their minds and hearts were nurtured with a sound Christian philosophy of life, in consequence of which thousands of boys have become prominent and useful citizens, and a lasting bond of love and friendship created between them and their Alma Mater, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. I realize that the publishing of the first annual year book is a new adventure and experience for our boys. They put in many extra hours in getting together all the material and it gives me much pleasure to compliment them, and extend them in my name, and that of our school faculty, a vote of thanks. I trust that our first annual year book will be cordially received and favored with many commedations. RT. REV. MONSIGNOR NICHOLAS H. WEGNER Dtruscrott OF Boys TowN If the publication of the first annual year book will help to preserve more vividly and enduringly the oppor- tunities and advantages Boys Town has given to former boys and the graduating class of 1952, and make for greater nobility of their virtues and character, I would say, it has accomplished its aim and purpose. Thar God's blessing may accompany this volume is my fer- vent wish and prayer. To the boys of the 1952 graduating class may I quote a stanza from Ella XV. Wilcox's poem Do You Wish : Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do. Set a watch upon your actions Keep them always straight and true: Rid your mind of selfish motives, Let your thought be clean and highg You can make a little Eden Of the sphere you occupy.

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T ...asv , 'El HAROLD L CRAWFORD Superintendent of Schools quo- Ancx-ma KBARNS PETER MULREADY Hxgh School Prmcxpal Trade School Dxrector