Mater Dei High School - Knight Yearbook (Breese, IL)

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Sister Mary Alphonse, S.S.N.D. Senior Homeroom, Chemistry, Biology, Science Club. Sister Mary Bryan, S.S.N.D. Sophomore Home- room, English, Speech, Dramatics Club. Sister M. Carol Ann, S.S.N.D. Publication Home- room, French, English, Mater Dei Lance. Sister Mary Charles, S.S.N.D. Music, Art, Mater Dei Chorus, Band. Sister M. Denis, P.H.J.C. Freshman Homeroom, Algebra, Geometry, Pep Club. Sister M. Gerard, P.H.J.C. Junior Homeroom, Social Studies, World History. Sister M. Leonard, P.H.J.C. Junior Homeroom, Li- brary. Sister M. Lorraine, P.H.J.C. Freshman Homeroom, Geometry, Advanced Algebra, Trigo- nometry and Solid Geometry, College Preparatory Math, English. Sister M. Maris, P.H.J.C. Freshman Homeroom, Physics. General Science Advanced Algebra, Science Club. Sister M. Roselda, P.H.J.C Freshman Homeroom, Spanish, American History, World History, Spanish Club. Sister Mary Susan, S.S.N.D. Senior Homeroom, Bookkeeping, Secretarial Practice, Typing. Sister M. Timothy Ann, S.S.N.D. Sophomore Home- room, Home Economics, Homemaking, Biology. Sister M. Veronica, S.S.N.D. Sophomore Home- room, Biology, Bookkeeping, Religion, The Knight. Sister M. Xavier, P.H.J.C. Freshman Homeroom, English, Religion. SISTER MIRIAM, S.S.N.D., assistant principal of the high school and superior of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, puts Mater Dei and its students first in her interests, whether it is preparing them for college scholarships or teaching them English, check- ing attendance or encouraging the band members, the paper and yearbook staffs, the speech contest- ants, and the basketball players. SISTER M. ANTONITA, P.H.J.C., assistant principal of the high school ond responsible for the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, gives her all for Mater Dei in terms of scheduling, supervising, teaching English, and general interest in all that concerns the Clinton County Catholic High School. ADMINISTRATION 5

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DEAR GRADUATES: You stand now on a summit in your life. Graduation from high school ends for you what has been an arduous but fruitful climb. Proud and erect, you are able to search the past from your lofty station and see the richness that is yours, won by grace and gifts. Like St. Paul, we at Mater Dei give thanks to God continually in your name for that grace of God which has been bestowed upon you in Jesus Christ; that you have become rich, through him, in every way in eloquence and knowledge of every sort, so fully has the message of Christ established itself among you. With a humility akin to that of your Blessed Mother, you are able to say in all truth that He Who is mighty has done great things in you. The gracious providence of God for each of you is so mysteriously profound that I can but sketch it briefly. You were born in a country splendidly constructed for your fullest growth and development: for only justice and freedom can be the soil rightly tempered for the maximum realization of human potential. Your parents, imbued by faith with a deep sense of obligation toward your soul and body, cored for you as a trust from God and thus sought to provide for you whatever you needed for the development of your soul and body, mind and will. Your parish priests and religious worked unceasingly to nourish your soul with every possible grace and to feed your mind the solid food of divine truth. Your teachers opened to you the whole world, most notably the supernatural destiny, your elevation to the position of sonship by a loving Father, your function as a member of that magnificent Mystical Body of Christ and your inheritance in Christ Jesus, if you but remain faithful to His teachings. Truly you are rich. But this summit you have reached is far from the final one. There are greater summits awaiting your ready step. Many of them are crags enshrouded in mist, ridges with turns ond twists invisible to your present blinking attempts to pierce the future. There will be pitfalls and dangers, weary days and worrisome nights in abundance as you scale the heights God has planned for each of you. And yet there is no reason for hesitation or fear. You possess the finest super- natural radar to guide your steps. The great gift of faith, now developed by close study of religion, points out the path human vision cannot see. With the sureness of hope, you know that you have at your command power far superior to the task. And the surging pressure of divine love urges you on toward Him Who alone is your com- pletion and fulfillment. There remains only that you have the courage for the climb. This is our prayer for you, our graduates of 1961. Your task is great: the incarnation of all mankind in Christ Jesus. Hungered by that hope, thirsting for the vision, burning with that con- viction, we bid you bring Christ to His world. Reverend Donald A. Blaes Principal