Manhattanville College - Tower Yearbook (Purchase, NY)

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REVEREND MOTHER HELEN LUCAS 1880-1944 We have lost a great soul in Reverend Mother Lucas. She who had stormed heaven for a tortured world has left us, and the sorrow of her going has touched each one at Manhattanville. She, truly, was in the world, hut not of it; the inner happiness she possessed so securely was given to each person with whom she came in con¬ tact, however briefly. Hers was a soul that strengthened and beauti¬ fied Manhattanville with love; and her spirit, because it was so surely founded on that love of God, will never leave Manhattanville. 7

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MERE BERTHE LECROIX 1868-1944 Depuis quarante ans Mere Lecroix enseignait ici avee ce devoue- ment, cette flamme communicable, cette bonte toute penetree d ' in¬ telligence qu’admiraient tous ceux qui l ont connue. Elle a ete un symbole vivant de la France traditionelle, elle a passe a Dieu dans les jours glorieux de la liberation de son pays et de l’avene- ment d une France Nouvelle nee de la douleur et de Fheroisme et de la fidelite, et qui contiendra le passe dans une magnifique floraison de jeunesse et d ' esperance. Mere Fecroix aimait la jeunesse et la jeunesse Famait. Elle s’est devouee de tout son coeur a son oeuvre d’enseignement et d apostolat. Elle a porte toute sa vie un grand temoignage. — M. Jacques Maritain 6

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MOTHER GRACE C. DAMMANN 1872-1945 The door to Mother Dammann’s office is always open now, but no one waits in the front hall to see her “by appointment”. For in February Manhattanville lost her guidance, her understanding, her love. Yet in a larger sense that guidance, that understanding, and that love are with us still and will be always. “Do the Truth in charity”; that was what she taught; that was her life. And many people have heard and will remember. For them she cannot die. Her strength lives on in her beliefs. That she was a profound influence for good, we of Manhattan¬ ville, past and present, know. Her grasp of Truth, her ability to distill Truth from reality were among her gifts to us. She held a place that is vacant now, that will perhaps never be filled. But hers was a life lived for God and others. We knew that; and so our sorrow is tempered with a joy. Knowing her has been our privilege. We have loved her for what she has given the world, for what she has given us; we have loved her for what she herself was. She wanted for us only that we live the Manhattanville ideal. For her the highest tribute can be simply that we keep that ideal as she has left it. 8