Incarnate Word High School - Star Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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no man 3' edaoaffbn 119 campfefe fb' K ffzesfeffonf February 11: French-born Sister Hilaire, poses lor the camera on this the cen- tennial ot the apparition of Mary the Mother oi God, at Lourdes, France. Sister Hilaire, affectionately known to resident students as Angel of the Dorm has this message for all her little friends: Develop devotion to Mary and she will cover you with her mantle of mercy wherever you are . May 2: lt's Prom Day! And it's so very good to be alive! lt's May time too and the music and the laughter should go on and on. But Proms last only one fleeting evening. For Seniors it's the last high school prom. There will be other dances, yes, but never again so much togetherness as now. Otto Richter of Central Catholic, Ianice Fournier and Pat Bluhm seem to be aware of just that too. May 12: Mary is crowned again in that beautiful and simple ceremony we hold each year in the outdoors. Rosary, hymns, Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Again we ask her to be Queen in our hearts, Queen in our homes, tender Mother in all our needs. May 22, 23: The final exams are in full swing now. Heads are bent, pens scratch out the answers right and wrong. We write, be it for weal or woe - but write we do. Results are duly re- corded in office files and on student report cards. If we have done well, it's a visa to better times: it ill . . . Suddenly, we're ill! May 27: The Seniors graduate from Incarnate Word High School. Other halls of ivy beckon. But IWHS bids them adieu as students. Iuniors become the new Seniors. Sophomores become serious-minded Iuniors and Freshmen no longer feel as little as others regard them. . .and so it goesl..

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a door wfffz no xi use fo fr fha yyafzffz: yafe of nowhere Z? Af JT! Because we tend to coniuse per- sonality with that which is purely phy- sical we buy luster at cosmetic coun- ters and tranquility from druggists and pay fabulous prices for both of them. We dip into etiquette books five minutes before a party and come up with an artificial look, This nonsense Shakespeare referred to when he said The soul oi this man is his clothes. lt is not a bad thing to wish to be pretty and to be well groomed but a Texas sunset will put your 1958 Paris red to shame. And there may be DEEP MAGIC in latest lotions but how does it measure up to a Vermont win- ter? But comparisons are odious and hence no more of them. Iust this. We are what we read. and when we get the uncontrollable urge to look and feel better, let us in- dulge in reading the very best. Books are great people at their best and to live and move among the best books is to teach ourselves to surpass our- selves. When we read the best we take on some of the greatness of others. We live in a world of significant ideas, a world decent and livable. Because we are by nature artists we will begin to copy, and eventually we shall be sig- nificant people. Of the making of books there is no end, said Solomon in his day and time. He would have found that com- ment materialized to a bewildering ex- tent today. Books are all over the place. Most of them are not worth the flaming dust jackets around them. Lite is too short to waste time on them. We will never be bored ii we walk with the witty and the wise: if we can hear Plato's voice and sit with Christ: if we bring to our fireside Cather and Swift, Shaw and Dostoevski, Ronald Knox and Augustine, I. F. Powers and Mauriac. Books are a racket says the cynic. Books are the gifts of the gods says the idealist. In a sense they both have something there. Books can make or break a man. 25