DeAndreis High School - De Andreian Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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DEDICATED 77,555 To the People of St. Louis whose generous contributions made our school possible. The appeal which the late Iohn Cardinal Glennon made to the people of St. Louis to build schools for the Catholic youth of their city was answered with their usual generosity. In a short time the huge sum of 52,000,000 was raised. Plans for new schools were immediately drawn up and carried out. Due to the unending interest of our late Cardinal Glennon and his devoted assistants, the fifth Diocesan High School is about ready to be occupied. The school is built to accommodate nine hundred students and will relieve the impossible conditions which exist at McBride High School. Une thousand five hundred boys are now attending that school in five daily shifts. To the people of St. Louis who have always showed the spirit of a deep Catholicity, to the people of St. Louis who have been unstinting in their generosity, to the people of St. Louis who have cooperated with the clergy and hierarchy even to the point of sacrifice we dedicate this Yearbook. May it serve as a constant reminder to future De Andreis students of the debt they owe to the Catholics of the past. Their contributions have been wisely invested. When in the course of ages the militant Catholicity of the people of St. Louis is not only perpetuated but also made more articulate by her Catholic schools the generous Catholics of today will proudly recall that their contributions have made this possible. l3l

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De Andreis in the Making We proudly present in this yearbook the news and views of our school as it appears to the Senior Class of nineteen hundred and forty-seven. Ours has been a year of watchful waiting: a year of suspense, hope, disappointments and shaken dreams. It has been our destiny to watch over the progress of the new school. ln our hearts we visited it often. Long before the workmen gathered their tools and left the job completed, in our fancies we walked along its tiled hallways, tip-toed into its quiet chapel, gathered in hilarious groups on its spacious campus, and imagined ourselves working more industriously in its bright classrooms. There the library would breathe a deeper atmosphere of study, the day would never seem so long and our studies wore a newer robe of glory. But as the weeks rolled along and summer gave way to the dull skies of winter. our hopes ol spending the last few months of our Senior Year in the new school began to fade away. It has been hard to wait. These beginnings were hard. ln this issue we present a year of experiment met with patience, a year of difiiculties overcome with determination. a year of dreams and hopes come true. We are proud to present De Andreis in the making. l2l

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The ARCHITECTS lt is the purpose of the Church to make of this world a huge cathedral in praise of God. The architect of this spiritual edifice is our beloved and universally esteemed Pope Pius Xll. l-le carries upon his shoulders the awful burden of teaching. governing and sanctifying the faithful. ln these times he looks to American youth to rescue a world which lies in ruins at his feet. l-le places great trust in the Catholic education of youth: The Church is a power in America. The Christian education, given by our numerous -- Hwy z ' schools, produced many good results during the war .... That is another proof that the educa- ,.,i e c..i- tion of youth is a basic factor in all social moral restoration. 'J X f i? 5 S F ,QS Q ff ir :C wgi' 'Q ' ' I 1 Our new school, so splendidly designed by our architect, Mr. Hess. is planned with only one purpose in mind: to make it possible and even easy to realize the ideal of Catholic education. This ideal was perfectly realized but once, and that within the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our school must, therefore, be Marian. Christ was once formed in the womb of the Virgin Maryp we are to become other Christs in the bosom of the school. l4l Christ is the pattern after which all created things were made. He is the source of grace, the cause of our hope, the object ol life. Man, the created image of God, has as his noble destiny the obligation of reproducing the uncreated image of God in his own soul. The school has as its object this same great and noble purpose, namely. Hthat Christ may be formed in youth. . i ' i wr - is W, i if Q Z l