College of St Catherine - La Concha Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Camera art studies by Leonard Lundgren of Ziutzmaster. The conch shell . . . the delicate pink . . . intricate windings . . . a mystery wrought by beating waves. You remember finding one on a beach when you were a child . . . delight . . . wonder . . . you pressed it to your ear and heard the hollow echo . . . the sea . . . the underground caverns . . . recalling its past home . . . recalling the past. La concha, the Spanish call the shell. LA CONCHA we call the year book which recalls the past year, a year rich in events. 2

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Era published by the Junior Class of the College of Saint Catherine, Saint Paul, Minne- sota with the purpose of showing DAILY LIFE on the campus during the year of nineteen hun- dred thirty-eight, nineteen hundred thirty-nine.

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The shield of the College of St. Catherine bears three emblems: the spiked wheel of St. Catherine on a field of blue, symbol of loyalty: the fleur-de-lys, lily of France: and the torch of learning, universal symbol of intellectual light-both on a field of red, symbol of courage. Dividing the chief from the shield proper is a wavy line, symbolizing the waters of the Mississippi. The gold and silver in which the charges are cast are expressive of faith and loyalty. The shield rests upon an inverted sword, symbol of the apostle, Saint Paul, and taken from a charge in the coat of arms of the archdiocese of St. Paul. Above the shield, wound back and forth across the blade of the sword is a scroll on which is inscribed the motto of the college, Progressum Tutatur Pietasf'