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

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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

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be .swioof WZIHW 0fl2'f5' sfadenfs a ffzfe sense of vafaea The library sponsors book fairs to encour- age home-library building. Sampling the books are left to right: Anna Marie Engels, Marilyn Bueche, Tillie Rocamontes, Barbara Hormachea and Charlene Kurtz. Right: The library also makes available to students paperback copies oi the Christian classics. Library artist, Roxanne Lohse re- plenishes the Image rack. 'im A ,.44u-v-f WM A On the second floor of the high school is located the paradise for book lovers, the library, under the administration of Sister Clarencia, former Bookweek Chairman of the Greater Saint Louis Catholic Library Association. Ester Chavez, student librarian, assists Tillie Rocamontes in the checking out of back- ground reading for her sophomore English course.