Divine Redeemer Academy - Pinetum Yearbook (Elizabeth, PA)

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Theme Community ff it is the destruction of the sense- and often the fact-of community, of human dialogue, of the thousand invisi- ble strands of common experience and purpose, affection and respect that tie men to their fellows. Community is ex- pressed in such works as neighbor- hood, civic pride, friendship. It pro- vides the life-sustaining force of human warmth, of security, and an awareness of one's own significance in the ac- cepted association and companionship of others. Community demands a place where people can see and know each other, where children can play and adults can work together and join in the pleasures and responsibilities of the place where they live. The whole history of the hu- man race, until today, has been the his- tory of community. Yet this is disap- pearing, moreover, at a time when its sustaining strength is badly needed. For loneliness breeds futility and desperation, it cripples the life of each man and menaces the life of all his fel- lows. Robert F. Kennedy Community is where one is more than oneself, thanks to the others, where one has need of others in order to be oneself. Because there are others who expect something of you, who be- lieve in you, hope in you, you become bold enough to be as good, as tender, as humble, simple, obliging, and gener- ous as their approval has encouraged you to be. Louis Evely l 9