Catholic Central High School - Shamrock Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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,peach GOODNESS: IT IS THE AIM OF THE BASILIAN FATHERS OF CATHOLIC CENTRAL TO IMPART TO THEIR STU- DENTS THE FACT THAT THEY MUST KEEP GOD IN THEIR DAILY LIVES, BOTH IN SCHOOL AND OUT OF SCHOOL, AS STUDENTS AND LONG AFTER THEY LEAVE THE CLASSROOMS OF THEIR ALMA MATER. CONSEQUENTLY, THEY TRY TO INSTILL, FIRST OF ALL, THE PRINCIPLES OF TRUE GOOD- NESS, REALIZING THAT THERE CAN BE NO REAL GOODNESS APART FROM THE MEANS THAT GOD GAVE TO DRAW US NEAR THE SOURCE OF ALL GOODNESS: THE SACRAMENTS, THE MASS, OUR PARENTS, OUR TEACHERS, AND HUMBLE PRAYER. CONTENTS: staff mothens fathens RELIGIOUS ACIIVIIIIGS SGDIORS LIUOGRCLASSITIGI1

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QE, C-53' aeno WMRND Kflli school me VERY Rfiliaihoiac central Mg Prlftf-lpcl 0 pmncipats 1 ' ll 1 12111115111 Mil SSAGG sal. W, .. Hx '-,NX w... Dear Students, lsn't it unfortunate that we get used to many things. Things which become so familiar by repetition that little by little we become insensitive to them. Take our school motto for example - Teach me goodness, discipline, and knowledge. I am sure that you could never count the number of times that you have heard or read these words since you first came to Catholic Central. So many times l am afraid, that re- petition has produced a dullness that their real meaning never penetrates. How unfortunate if this be true, because the motto of our school summarizes the whole story of Catholic Central. lt expresses in a few words the purpose, the inspiring force, the dream of the school. So to leave Catholic Central without understanding this simple prayer for goodness, discipline, and knowledge would be to leave without ever understanding the real spirit of your alma mater. The motto, selected by the Basilian Fathers when the community was founded near- ly one hundred and forty years ago, was adopted as the motto of Catholic Central when the school was established in l928. Actually, it is much older than either the Basilian Fathers or Catholic Central. lt is taken from Psalm ll8, and there in their pristine setting the words are enshrined in the psalmist's prayer for loyalty to God. Here is the picture that our motto paints: goodness, complete consecration to God, discipline, virile mastery of ourselves, and knowledge, an insatiable love of truth,- all united with the golden thread of unswerving loyalty to our Creator. This is the reason for a Catholic Central. lt must be the ambition of every student, the driving force of every aluminus. Any lesser purpose would blister the lips of your Alma Mater with a traitor's kiss. Sincerely, fawfy ,