Mendel Catholic High School - Monarch Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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My Dear Class of 1979, It is a pleasure to congratulate you on your individual and collective accomplishments. Each graduating class has its own personality. Each class has its unique characteristics. When some classes graduate, the faculty breathes a sigh of relief. With others, it is a painful experience because there is some irreplaceable quality or presence that is lost. You are probably saying, Please tell us quickly where we would be considered. So I will. You are the type of class that will be greatly missed. Each of your four years, the faculty has had high praise for you, and the receiving teachers looked forward to instructing you. Our sadness, of course, is a compliment to you. and it is something that gives us consolation to know that you have been good leaders. You have given us every hope to expect future greatness from the mem- bers of the class because you have gained much from this good rapport with the faculty and staff and have matured and grown in wisdom and grace in your years as Mendel men. Congratulations, then, on what you have been and what you are. The future should hold no fears for you because you have had a good foundation with self-sacrificing parents, with a vision, who have made it possible for you to receive a Christ-centered, sound education. So, really we are not sad, but glad, to have known all of you and each of you. Your faculty at Mendel is proud of you and confident that the Class of 1979 will continue to excell as complete and integral Christian gentlemen. With them. I ask God's continued blessing on you. Sincerely, I Rev. John R. Gavin, O.S.A. Principal

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Dear Mendel Men, We, the editors of the 1979 Mendel MONARCH, would like to present to the Graduating Seniors, the student body, and the faculty, the 1979 Mendel Catholic High School Yearbook. We are truly pleased with this year's book, and we hope that you enjoy it. For the Seniors, this is your last Mendel yearbook and we especially hope you enjoy and cherish it for years to come. We have spent many hours working on, and improving this book. Although we hope that there are no mistakes, if there are, they are not intentional, and we hope that you will overlook them. We also hope that you will approve of the changes we have made in this year's book. We have eliminated a few pages which we felt the students did not particularly care for, and we have lengthened the sports section. Our apologies go to those students who did not get their pictures in this year's book. In most cases this was not our fault. Also we regret that we were unable to include things like baseball, tennis, graduation, and proms. But we wanted this book to be a part of THIS school year, so we had to make early deadlines. Whatever your reaction to this book, you will know that the remembrance of Mendel will have caused it. We hope that the MON ARCH plays an important part in that memory. f XDGJLQCTYX X X 'MW Qvwovwbm' ' 0 fi V Jfdwmf

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