Dominican College of San Rafael - Firebrand Yearbook (San Rafael, CA)

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THE FIREBRAND EDITOR Patricia Conlan Business Manager Marjorie Robello Business Staff Margaret Collins, Mary Elizabeth Selleck Art Editor Frances Garibaldi CONTRIBUTORS Barbara Alexander Eleanor Bernardis Rene Brooks Rose Carbone Mary Lou Fitterer Kathryn Franks Patricia Franks Marjorie Hansen Alice Irvine Margaret Leonard Odette Cadart-Loomis Marguerite Lussier Janet McDonell Marilyn Myers Marguerite O ' Reilly Grace Pope Mary Helen Power Juliette Repetto Shelagh Scoville A. Beltran Irwin Shone Helen Sweeney Louise Hagmaier TYPISTS Margaret Leonard Mary Helen Power

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EDITORIAL THE FIREBRAND, which first appeared in nine- teen twenty-three, next year will celebrate its silver anniversary. During this quarter century it has come to represent a significant part of what makes the Dominican College of San Rafael: to each graduate four compact books that hold within their brown covers the dignity and essence of our college. In that first Firebrand the editorial said, in part, We are calling our Year Book The Firebrand, not because we hope to set the world on fire with the burning brilliance of our writings, but because the flaming firebrand is a symbol of truth— burning truth which consumes all falsehood— and a peculiarly Do- minican symbol. The Dominican Order all over the world, has for an emblem a dog, bearing a firebrand, and for its motto Veritas . From this seal and motto, we have draivn our seal with its flaming firebrand and our motto, ' Veritas fax ardens ' . Neither do we, twenty-four years later, hope to set the world on fire with the burning brilliance of our writings . We have not aimed so high, and yet our goal is almost equally difficult of attainment, for we have sought to captur an intangible— spirit. The spirit of the college is many things to many people. To some it is Shield Day, or Christmas carol-