Cascia Hall High School - Towers (Tulsa, OK)

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His Excellency, Bishop Eugene McGuinness Mrs. Bernice Galey, Secretary Very Rev. Clement C. MCI-lale, O.S.A., Provincial 0 VUE s,,,..w- m Page 13

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Rev. Anthony Chojecki Mr. Joseph Margoia Religion Languages Mr. Angelo Prassa Mr. Leo Mahoney Physical Education History Page 12 ,mm 'Wi v

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eww Qfwewef We have reached the main highway. Slowly, thoughtfully, we turn and glance back. Our eyes trace the dusty road as it wends its way through thick woods. Suddenly it is swallowed up by the lush ver- dure, only to appear again, more distant still and less discernible. It terminates abruptly in a clearing. We lift our eyes and behold spiral-capped turrets and acutely ridged roof tops outlined against the horizon. There, situated amidst a grove of towering elms and reigning augustly over the woodland scene, is a building. The rustic atmosphere that surrounds this building mingled with the crude beauty of its Norman lines arouses a sort of rugged fascination. And over all there exists a sheltered serenity, a tran- quil seclusion. Pensively we recall that day, far in the past, hither- to forgotten, when for the first time we trod the dusty path to the building in the clearing. We entered the oaken portals and discovered beneath the somewhat artless and unsophisticated exterior a community of Augustinian Fathers, each dedicated paramountly to God and secondly to his fellow men, each endowed with certain principles and ideals. And we learned that each was devoting his life to the inculcation of these principles and ideals upon a chosen few, toward whom fate had cast a benevolent glance. We at the end of the road are those chosen few. And to these men we are forever indebted. For here, withdrawn from the perplexities and immune from the secular philosophies of modern so- ciety, we were educated by these men. They blended scholastic indoctrination with ideals, sets of values, standards of morality. They developed our minds, influenced our characters, strengthened our bodies. Page 14 To say that they thoroughly instructed us for life with all its complications and complexities would border on an understatement. Rather they gave us an invalu- able gift, a set of tools which, with the aid of Divine Providence, we shall utilize in whatever undertakings in life we may choose. God grant that the indelible impression of their tireless labor be never suppressed. And so to us at the end of the road, this building is more than a building, the masonry of its jagged walls is more than concrete and brick. This building is a chapter in our young lives. It and the institution represented by it have imparted to us a key, a key which unlocks the door to a unique way of life. If the eforts extended by Cascia Hall and the oppor- tunities afforded by it have borne worthy fruit, that key is ours. And suddenly the great oaken doors reopened and released us, and we were retracing our footsteps down the dusty road. And nothing remained of the chapter save lingering memories. A melancholy smile of reminiscence slowly van- ishes as once again we face the highway. This high- way is curbless. It has many routes, it has many detours. It has its paved reaches, it has its unpaved reaches. To some of us it is rather hazy, to others of us it is clear, But regardless, as we travel this high- way and as we proceed farther into the misty future toward our destiny, we shall pause now and then and ozzr eyes and our hearts will revert to that dusty road and that building in the clearing. And we will whis- per a soft, ineffectual, but sincere, Thank you, Cascia I-Iallfi -Philip Charles Lauinger, Jr., ,54