Marquette University High School - Flambeau Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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HILE we have grown, this past year, and advanced towards manhood, progressing in the living spirit of our school, we have been guided. This guidance has come to us by word and ex- ample of our teachers. Teachers , is the word, not instructors, for the aim of Catholic educa- tion in a Jesuit high school dictates a closer communion with the students than is realized by mere instructors. It is natural, therefore, that we have come to know and be known by these men who guide us, and that a bond of great worth has arisen between us. Even after we have left our high school days far behind, we will, if only occasionally, reflect with gratitude on the efforts and sacrifices of these men to prepare us for our quest for a place in the world and in heaven. During these crucial, formative years they are not only our teachers but also our counsellors, helpers,

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students who are its inheritors. Thus, inescapably, it is at once thoroughly Catholic, profoundly Jesuit, and unashamedly Milwau- keean in its outlook-and forever young. It is a mysterious amal- gam, having aspects of the social and the civic -initiative, self- sacrifice, loyalty, enthusiasm, achievement-which are comple- mented by faith, hope, love, zeal, humility-its moral and religious qualities. All are measured and supported by the Cross to insure, for the future, well- balanced Catholic citizens, who shall al- ways live in the company of Jesus. This spirit is constantly being developed and variously manifest- ed in all phases of student life at school: in the classroom and in the laboratories, on the field and on the court, in front of judges and in front of audiences, but principally, and most inspiringly, before the Blessed Sacrament in the chapel each morning. And the sight of more than 900 young men, offering themselves-their efforts and their ambitions, their talents and their virtues-to their Lord for His greater glory, as- sures the onlooker that this spirit derives its power and its vigor from Him whom they serve in their studies. Such is the purpose, the char- acter, and the effect of the Mar- quette spirit. Every school wor- thy of the name aspires, it is true, to this kind of spirit. But we, the faculty and the students of Marquette, may justly proclaim, in humble pride and with fulfilled hope, This is the spirit of our school. j- 'a',jY -1,-3.41 . 1 , l 1 ,E-R., -.'- - .. S .,, , ' Q yi' I it

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friends. And in the Jesuits We recognize a way of life which perfectly reflects the spirit of our school-a life marked by zeal in labor, strength in comradeship, and humility in achievement. From them we have learned to love that spirit and to live by it. Among these men there are a number with whom We know perhaps a still closer bond. They are those Jesuits who, in a way, share in our state of life: those who are, as we are, stu- dents. Masters in our school, they are learners in a greater one. And they look not to gradua- tion but to ordination. To these, the scholastics of Marquette High, and indeed to all those dedicated men who have ever traveled the arduous road to Holy Orders in the Company of Jesus, and to all those who shall ever follow in that glad allegiance, we dedi- cate this book.