Loyola High School - El Camino Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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MTH ll WllllLul Mll Sullull We read un the hustory of ancuent Rome that when a noble Roman matron was asked by some vusutors to show them her uewels she pounted to her grow ung sons who were wuth her and saud These are my yewels Wuth a great deal of truth can the Faculty of Loyola themselves sons of lgnatuus Loyola pount to you young men under theur charge and say wuth equal prude These are our uewels The uoy whuch fulls our hearts at seeung those under our tutelage develop physucally mentally and spurutually us somethung whuch only a mother or a father can know To see our young men luvung up to the expectatuons whuch theur parents have of them to know that they realuze by theur attentuon to theur studues the sacrufuces theur parents make for them to sense that they are guuded by deep reluguous pruncuples un theur attutude toward lufe us a great reward undeed for us whose luves are consecrated to the educatuon of youth un the Socuety of Jesus At no age ut seems to me us thus progress more surely seen than un hugh school years These are the formatuve years and as the tree us bent the old sayung has ut so does ut grow Youth when rughtly guuded has hugh udeals youth embarks on a noble crusade And for the most part ut us durung the years of hugh school that those udeals wull be durected along the rught path for further development un college and un the world or they wull be shattered altogether and wull head along a contunuung downward course There us so much pessumusm un the world today Youth us umbued wuth ut and that not unfrequently by theur masters un school If those who are sup posed to guude the youth of our natuon themselves thunk that lufe us futule uf they can see nothung but the present moment and after death only black obluvuon uf they are not convunced that God exusts that to Hum we must render an account that thus lufe us but an antechamber to lufe eternal that there are fundamental pruncuples of moraluty which never change uf the masters l say are un the greatest perplexuty themselves about man s destuny us ut any wonder that those under theur charge are gropung vaunly for some thung substantual to clung to or that they cease to grope altogether and guve themselves to a lufe of mere gratufucatuon of theur senses? We feel grateful that you young men of Loyola have been durected rughtly we have a fatherly prude un the way you have corresponded to the teachungs you have heard here And we urge you wuth all the vugor we can command to clung to those udeals un spute of what you see and hear round about you You wull never regret ut ln a warrung world whuch us goung mad because ut has lost those very udeals the only hope us a return to fundamental pruncuples of fauth and moraluty both un the unduvudual as well as un the natuon May God bless you Senuors who are leavung us and keep you always You are our uewels our uoy and our prude QAMMAQ llfwa., s 5 Tlnrteen I , - - . . I H . H . I I I . . . ' H - ll I I 1 I I I I ' I I I ' I I I I ' I I , I , I , . 1 . ' ' . . . I I I I I I . - , I I I ' , . V I

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Twelve FR EDWARDJ WHELAN SJ President

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Sn l naffas loyola lgnatlus Loyola a young nobleman and soldler pon dered as he lay recovering from has wounds the useless ness of has years as a soldier glvnng all for what must some day pass compared wuth the herolc lnves of the saints spent for the only lastlng Kingdom The realuza tron grew and he arose a new man wlth a new goal l-le burned wuth the desure of makmg hlmself and others true soldiers of Christ the Kung He began at once wsth a year of prayer and penance at Manresa Fourteen years he spent nn preparatuon studyung an the schools and una versatles At Pans he won to hrs cause seven bnlluant students of the University and on August l5 V534 they vowed Poverty and Chastity and to lnve theur lives In lgnatrus and has companions placed themselves at the service of the pope and svx years later the Constntutvons were approved establnshmg the Society as a new rellguous order whose members wlth a vow of obedience to the pope were deducated to any work for God s Greater Glory The means lgnatuus used to brmg others to look upon lufe as he dld were hrs Splrltual Exercises a series of med: tations on fundamental truths leadung to sublume henghts of sanctity Thelr purpose was and IS today In the hands of has followers to free men from unordunate affections and enable them to fund and do the wull of God an their regard Because of these Exercuses St Ignatuus has been made heavenly Patron of Retreats s 1 I - I I . I . . ' , - I I ' I - I ' I I I I apostolic labor. Thus the Society of Jesus was born. I I . . . , . I I ' I , . . . ,, . . . ,, . . I - l I . , .