Johnstown Central Catholic High School - Memories Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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FATHER CAWLEY: We pledge our loyalty to you, who have, by your example, pointed out to us, during our four years at Catholic High, that no task is too difficult, if we wish to attain the heights. As we have no costlier gift to offer than the prayer of loyal hearts, in gratitude, . . . “We would pray that every hope of thine that love and zeal command Will stay thee for the burden that is ready for thy hand; To teach—Christ’s best love was for Humanity— And that true Life is ever found in Christianity.” The Senior Class of 1937

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REVEREND THOMAS CAWLEY PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE “Thou believest that there is one God? Thou dost well; The devils also believe and tremble.” (James II, 19) The great Napoleon once said that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. The Psalmist says: “The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God.” Yet, in all parts of the world today, false prophets are going about, not only denying that God exists, but brazenly warring against God. They are laboring with diabolical zeal to banish God from the hearts of men once and for all. Cunning deception, terrorism, false promises—these are their weapons. Some they deceive; others they intimidate. Should they come into power, they propose to visit death upon all who practice their belief in God by public religious worship. Young ladies and gentlemen of the Class of 1937, are you conscious of the gravity of this menace to our social order? Do you know that belief in God is the one dogma on which our very civilization has been founded? Are you aware of the fact that you are blessed with the true faith only because numberless martyrs, in ages past, suffered death in order that faith in God might live? Are you in turn willing to make sacrifices to preserve that faith for mankind in ages to come? It is not inconceivable that you may one day be asked to die for your faith. But if you should be required only to live for it, I beg of you, so live that others, because of you, may come to know God, to love God and to serve God, so that thus they may merit the unspeakable blessing of seeing God face to face for all eternity.

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Reverend James Fitzgibbon FRENCH AND DRAMATICS As French professor unequaled; as dramatic teacher superb; as a loyal, trusting, cheerful friend un- surpassed; therefore we here pledge to Father Fitzgibbon our gratitude and lasting appreciation. Reverend John O'Leary RELIGION We are grateful to Father O'Leary, our religion professor, for the stand- ards he has placed before us and the instructions he has given to help us maintain these standards.