Elms College - Elmata Yearbook (Chicopee, MA)

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Sister Rose William President Catholic Liberal Arts College “Blessed indeed are the young leotnen whose minds mature and expand in schools of superior education, in which science and religion ad- vance hand in hand, where heaven speaks as well as earth, where God reigns while teacher instructs and pupil learns.’ We four himdred and fifty Elmites are now among these young women whom our first president and co-founder Bishop Thomas Mary O’Leary thus termed blessed. 6

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His Holiness POPE JOHN TWENTY-THIRD AND His Excellency THE MOST REVEREND CHRISTOPHER J. WELDON Chancellor of the College of Oi r Lady of the Elms on the occasion of his recent “ad limina visit. 5

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Sister Helen Clare Dean of Studies I Sister Helen Joseph Registrar We are enrolled in a Catholic Liberal Arts College with Onr Lady of the Elms for onr protectress and model and with well-trained Sisters of St. Joseph, capable Diocesan Priests, and staunch Catholic lay leaders as instructors. Under their guidance and direction, onr adoles- cent minds learn to live more fully, to take responsi- bility seriously, to develop God-given talents, to distinguish the weapon of truth from the wide- spread errors of mankind, to be well-bred and courteous — ladies of Our Lady of the Elms. Blessed will we be now and hereafter if we are loyal to these teachings, for endowed with the intellectual and spiritual graces of the type of women our Alma Mater aims to develop, we will be women rich in intellectual interests and capable of making a full and generous contribution to the world’s work, whether in the ranks of Religion, in the classroom, in industry, or in the home. “Culture without religion, always incomplete and perilous, is especially so in woman, of whose life the priceless ornament must ever he the graces of religion.” 7