Loretto Academy - Laurel Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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In the office. Sister Joan Clare, Vice-principal; Mrs. Atterbury, Sec- retary; and Sister Venard, Prin- cipal; work doubly hard running the old school and planning the new one. Father Fitzsimons, Senior religion teacher and school chaplain, helps all students toward a better under- standing of God and His place in their lives. I hel ieve, therefore, in the Today, and I try to make my life For the chemically in- clined. Sister Ann Michela gives encour- agement and help when the watched pot doesn't boil. 8

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of someone who loves like that. We are here, laughing, studying, learning, sharing and loving, together. Growing together, up and out of Loretto. The finality of it- up and out -but this is what a school is for. We come from our own separate worlds into a common world, a world physically encompassed by a red brick building, yet given unmeasurable bounds as we become part of it. Even as our numbers have out- grown the classrooms and our education has outgrown the books, so we, too, out-grow Loretto's high school environment. As a gentle and loving final handclasp, we leave— Seniors. We forget the hard words, the angry dicourage- ment. We forget the unsold chocolate bars and the undeserved detentions. We forget the petty things we did to each other. We realize how banal it is to worry over such trivialities as the indifferent teacher or homework left undone. How trivial in a world that is hungry, bleeding, and dying. How trivial in the light of God s uncompromising love for us. So some of us leave, while others are even now counting the days till September. But we go. . .bound by love, committed to love. Love of God and love of men. Leaving, we will never forget, but will re-evaluate things in a new light. The distance of years and miles will give our vision dimension, and like the Little Prince, we learn that as we are bound by it, so we are responsible for what we love. Our light is your call. Our good is your aim. Love is your spirit. Loretto is your name.

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UPPER LEFT: Sister Michaeleen provides her French class with all the ad- vantages of the language lab. LOWER LEFT: Cleaning up the art lab after school are Sister Eugenie Marie and her students. MIDDLE RIGHT: Mrs. Raach and Sister Helen Marie plan next year's advanced litera- ture courses in the English office, otherwise known to students as the Lower Regions. LOWER RIGHT: Mrs. Bosch gives expert advice at a rehearsal for Seven Nuns in Las Vegas. A joy to myself and A pleasure to those about