Marquette High School - Marquetan Yearbook (Yakima, WA)

Page 6 text:

FORWARD i ,M M ' '1 ' I ' wr Mil ' .' .K ,. t M L . f -,N - ,' mb, 4 -I ,--I --- Af ,J . ,qs 17,1 f, 4 11- , The members ofthe Society of Jesus have been residing in the Yakima Valley since 1870. Their First church was a mud-log cabin. Through the succeeding years they built wooden structures. Finally in 1904 the Jesuits erected and blessed the present church, This year, therefore, marl4s a Golden Jubilee for St. Joseph's Church. Such an event, naturally, leads us back into the past, searching our history, tracing our traditions. It is a wonderful experience, this reliving the past. For, better than in any other way, it tells us what we are now, and what we should be in the future. For such a lesson in history, the few pages of this modest boolc can hardly suffice! Yet at least it is a beginning -a beginning of greater appreciation ol our past, of greater endeavor for our future, ol greater joy for our present, in this year ol Jubilee.

Page 5 text:

The I954 Edition of the MARQUETAN VOLUME X PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF MAROUETTE HIGH SCHOOL YAKIMA, WASHINGTON 1954 Editor ....... Assoc. Editor.. . .... Sports Editor. , . Business .... ........ Advisor.. ..... Mr. .Pat Cockrill .Russ Muth ...Ed I:aviIIa Dick Dietzen Terry KoresIci Bradley, SJ.

Page 7 text:

DEDICATION ln union with the whole Catholic world this Marian Year, we wish to honor in a special way Our Blessed Lady, the Immaculate Mother of God. Since this is her year, it is only Fitting that this should also be her yearboolc. Moreover, we feel there is a second and very particular reason for dedicating our bool: to her. For it is not by mere coincidence that this same year, 1954, should also be a jubilee year for Marquette, since the history of our school bears a distinctive marlc of Mary . . . ln 1846, eight years before the definition of the dogma of the lmmaculate Cont ception, the American bishops solemnly declared her Patroness of our country. ln that same year, the Oregon Territory became a part of the United States. Whether or no- the connection between the two events was noticed at the time matters little. We can feel with pride that in a certain real sense Our l.ady's First queenly gift to America was this great Pacific Northwest. ln any case, through the last Fifty years, Marquette has been the faithful squire - modeled on St. Joseph himself, the divinely appointed protector and champion ol the Queen of Heaven. May this yearbook be a testimonial of our dedication, solemnly renewed this year, to Our Immaculate Lady, Queen of America, of the Pacific North- west, of Yakima, of Marquette.