Diman Vocational High School - Artisan Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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,4 J . To Mr. Martin H. Delahanty, Jr., instructor in the Science of Automobile Mechanics, as a manifestation of love and respect for so broad-minded a teacher, so willing a counselor, and so true a friend, this book is affectionately dedicated. .

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2 .nw- eati v t H OUR THEME culumv . . . and the greatest of these is Charity.' Charity, as manifested by the illustrious Founder of Diman Vocational High School, is assuredly one of the highest inherited virtues among the noble sons of Alma Mater! i No Poet would dare to so mingle sweetness and strangeness, simplicity and pecu- liarity, sublimity and pathos, as Charity mingles them together! The Poets' conceptions r either stand out from the common virtues of men as exceptional cases, or else lose their distinguishable individuality altogether! A But Charity is at once, a grandeur and more beautiful thing than the creation of ' the Poet. it is,like a grand ennobling deed, which Providence itself performs, as the years go on, with an eloquent, dramatic gesture of love, from man to his fellow man! lt Charity is the true rule of life, and here at Diman, is actually resident among us t in countless ways. lt often leads a hidden life, and silently averts calamities encircling our future careers. lt almost holds our fate in control, and renders her might more be- nignant than her effect would have us anticipate. lt bridles the earthquake and tames the pestilence. it guides men on Earth, which is always quivering and dipping, turns the wild floods at their more perilous angles, casts aside the wrath of the Heavens, which would have scathed life . . . or limb . . . or property! 3 lt beautifies the rough way of life, even while it bids us tread them as the Destiny from which there can be no turning. A- Last of all, Charity is itself the love of mankind, causing life to be softer and more bearablep making all that is.noble within us, God-Like and more beautiful: and iust when life seems unendurable, opens a way to let the Sun shine throught opens a way to let us clown on a sudden bed of roses, without thorns, as if it were some Heavenly ' elixirl' '. . . Surely, no greater Gift, could Nlan possess . . ' ' -- F yr It l I S4 - -s 41.-

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DEDICATION To Mr Martin H Delahanty Jr Instructor in the Science of Auto mobile Mechanics who has been the embodiment of the lofty ideals of the entire student body of Duman Vocational Hugh School for two decades in has chosen field Who has spread the influence of his high service ln Vocational Who has been a counsellor an instructor and a true friend throughout the many years and to the many more students whom he has taught and befriended' Now as we face the supreme test of life we fully realize that he has taught us by precept and example not alone the materialistic values of living but in a nobler sense the imperlshablllty of moral and spiritual virtues In the perfection of our ObIBClIV8S To hum we shall be nmmeasurably grateful! .l l . t I .I . . . - I . . i Education through several generations, transcending all boundariesg I - I . I I , . I I I . I . . I . I . . . . , . I 5