Mount St Mary Academy - Mercian Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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I Jixmzargi , ' 5, A,,,,,N mH - ,I Q x C9uIlIL L J ,Ly ..:1.n-,- : I- F. If it .I Q L. .1515 SC-ROLL PUBLISHED ANNUALLY BY THE SENIORS OF MOUNT SAINT MARY'S ACADEMY LITTLE ROCK 51 ARKANSAS Editor ........, .. ,,,..,, .. Associate Editors ...,. ,. Business Manager ........ Feature Editor ........ News Editors .......... Club News Editors ...,,,.,...... . ,............ .,..... . MAR IORIE MEEHAN ........CAROL KEENAN, Lois WILKIE ...,.......MARY HELEN THOMAS IONES ...............PAT CLARK, IEAN SWEENEY ..BILLIE BOWLEY, MARIORIE HARTZ Art Editor ............,.... ....,,..,....,..,,,.......,..... - ...IANIE SKINNER Circulation Managers .,..,,,.,. MARTHA RAUCH, MARIANNE LYONS Advertising Manager ,..,.. .,,,....,.......,,... . ...,.... MARY ANN LUCAS Associate Adv. Mgrs ...,,...... Faculty Adviser ......... HIOHNNIE Ross, PAT MULHOLLAND ..........SISTER MARY IMELDA, R.S.M. DEAR GRADUATES OF THE CLASS OF 1946: IT SEENIS like yesterday that I saw the members of this class arrive at Mount St. Mary's, timid, curious Freshmen seeking to be oriented. I saw you, faces aglow with expecta- tion, standing in line to register, receiving class assignments and books. The years have passed swiftly and I see you, your high school work completed, ready to leave the halls of Alma Mater, dignified, cultured young women. Such a transformation can be brought about only by the sound educational opportunities that have been yours. No human eye can see beyond the present. The future is hidden from us by a kind PROVIDENCE. But it is yours to make of it what you' will if you put your trust in GOD and plan your life in accordance with the sound principles that have been set before you by your devoted teachers, who have given their lives to GoD's service in the Heldiof Catholic education. The world has other plans for you and will do all it can to induce you to abandon your sound Christian principles and to substitute its sinful practices with their counterfeit pleasures and their subsequent anguishes of body and soul. Science has uncovered many marvelous discoveries and inven- tions that make life dangerous because the moral levels have not kept pace with the scientific levels. The goods of this world taken singly or collectively can never make you truly happy, because the longing in your soul for happiness can never be satisfied except by the possession of the Supreme Good, which is GOD. Today, as you go forth, anxious eyes follow you. They are the eyes of your teachers. You are the result of their labors and prayers. If you fail, they feel, in a sense, that they have failed. Put your reliance in GOD and depend upon the help of HIS BLESSED MOTHER and you will not fail. Most of you are sodalists and you have promised before GOD'S altar to be worthy children of MARY. You have entrusted your lives to her keeping and she will not fail you in the hours of temptation and trial. The Bells of St. Mary's will continue to ring after .you have gone. Please, GOD, the Belles of St. Mary's will hear them in their memories and will be mindful of the' anxious watchers in the Mount, whose eyes are on them as they pass down the vista of the years. A chord is snapped asunder in every parting. Meet again, we mayg will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more as if the interval had been a dream? I hope so, but such meetings are rare. In the meantime, may GOD bless you and keep you always. Very sincerely yours, THOMAS L. KEANY Chaplain iirti? A TRIBUTE TO ALMA MATER: THE SWINGING IIENDULUM of the chapel clock has brought to a close the Final and happiest year of the Class of '46, Since the fall of I942, we have traversed the halls of our beloved Alma Mater-fondly called the MOUNT. During our four years we have enjoyed many glorious hours. To our friendly SISTERS OF MERCY we are indeed grateful. The hours they toiled to develop in us the qualities that make for noble, Christian womanhood have not been wasted. Having been equipped with the sound principles of knowl- edge-spiritual, mental, and moral-we shall be able to meet and solve whatever problems may present themselves. Our training has been made even more complete as we have dedicated all our activities to the BLESSED MOTHER OF GOD. We wish to express our appreciation to SISTER MARY DOROTHEA, our Superior, to SISTER MARY MARK, our princi- pal and sponsor, to SISTER MARY IMELDA, our co-sponsor, and to MSGR. T. L. KEANY, our spiritual adviser and athletic coach. Now the time has come for this Class of '46 to sorrowfully depart, but we leave you with this thought: THE BELLES OF ST. MARY'S They are staunch, they are true: Loved Alma Mater, they are loyal to you. -M. MEEHAN

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