Central Catholic High School - Centripetal Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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 The unifying theme of this book is Toledo—its past, its present, its advantages for future develop' ment. Every line has been writ' ten with the purpose of expressing, on the part of the student body of Central Catholic High School, the awakening appreciation of the city in which their parents believe. pOREWORD Paft «

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 To the Pioneer of the Church of Toledo “who have gone before us with the sign of faith and sleep in the sleep of peace. whose fidelity to Religion was the foundation and promise of all that is or is to come; To the Bishops and Priests of yesterday and today whose trust in the Bishop and Pastor of Souls gave them the vision of prophets and the ardor of Apostles, whose words and deeds were a lamp to the feet and a light to the ways in the progress of a new people towards advanced education, made wholesome and saving by Religion; To the teaching Nuns blessed and glorified in the humility and charity of the Virgin of Virgins, whose sacrifices, forgetfulness of self and generosity made Catholic teaching possible and adequate; who were the example of consecrated life to young men and young women; To the perpetual remembrance of the Catholics of Toledo of 1906, who. out of their plenty and out of their poverty, in their love for learning and in their anxiety for the souls of children, pledged [ themselves to their father in God. Bishop Samuel A. Stritch. to build, even to the extreme of sacrifice, a new Central Catholic High School, as a memorial of their reverence for the Church, in token of their deep sense of the necessity of Catholic training for Catholic youth, This book is gratefully and affection ately inscribed. ‘-Dedication Pate ivt

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