Jesus Mary Academy - Echo Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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Relzgzon, Knowledge, and Culture the What jesus-Mary Academy offers in educa- tion is precisely what the young lady of today needs to become a Better Woman. Our school offers intellectual development through the various branches of the curriculumg it offers cultural opportunities in fine artsg it offers social training through organizations, ac- tivities, and sportsg it offers moral perfection or saintliness - the crown of all the rest - which is acquired through the daily class in religion, and through the warmth of the religious at- mosphere that permeates a convent-school. Patricia Morrison, sodality prefect, here con- sults Dick . . . Her research paper, The Drama in the Elizabethan Age is due in 48 hours.

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tl Mmm .sr QWW MHZ? 0l'l'LQl'l . . . WAQIICQ . The home is the garden where the seeds of virtue are sown, the mother, the gardener who tenderly nurtures their sprouting. There, in an atmosphere of affection and love the child first learns that the practice of virtue brings happiness. There, grow- ing up with brothers, sisters, and neighbors, the little miss comes to appreciate the advantages of coopera- tion, of self-control, of self-discipline, and of friend- liness. Home life reveals to her the great fundamental truths - that, as social beings, we cannot get along without one another . . . that we are all children of God the Father . . . that we are all on earth to know Him, love Him, serve Him, and to love one another in Him. If the family is sound and healthy, the young girl will acquire there the habits that will influence her whole life and career -- love of truth and order, of good music and literature, of thrift and purposeful recreation, of refinement and culture. When the little woman steps into school, she starts to build upon the training she has received in the family . . . She starts to build, for she alone is the architect of her own future. Her education takes place only when she herself wills it, when she cooper- ates with grace, when she cooperates with those who have something to teach her, when she 'exercises her own powers into acquiring a fuller measure of truth, a deeper love of the good, and a finer appre- ciation of the beautiful.

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f , light Combimztiofz . . . l.'Academie offre, en plus, il ses eleves, un mode-le parfnit en la Vierge Immaculee non seulement pour les annees scolaires, mais pour toute la duree de leur vie. Elle leur apprencl 21 toujours recourir a cette bonne Mere, peu im- porte la vocation qu'elles embrasseront plus tarcl. Marie, toujours vierge, sera le soutien et la force cle celles qui choisiront une carriere dans le monde ou qui reponclront 51 l'appel divin. Elle inspirera a celles qui acceptent de former le Christ dans les times, les meilleures methocles pour reussir car elle fur elle-meme educatrice par excellence. i-'vb A.-H Beatrice Garand finds time between school work and house work to keep in tune with the orchestra . . . Bea, our first violinist, grace- fully accepts invitations of any organization requesting het talent.