Mount St Marys College - Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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5 S 1' 10.5 lx 1 0 x WW 54 'Q +'. 1 Q ff: JOIN with the Senior Students of Mount St. Mary's, in paying tribute to Mother Marie de Lourdes, C. S. J., and ln acknowledging the splendid service she has rendered as Page Four President of the College. As your third issue of THE MOUNT coincides with the Centennial of California, we rejoice in the heritage conveyed to our State through the efforts of the Franciscan Mission- aries. They planted well in the soil of California the spirit of faith which has been constantly watered by the devotion of loyal and devoted followers of Junipero Serra. May God in His mercy bless both the land of our State and its population. ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELES

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wif, WW yep. :xg QV -.P an 73' ll ilfrfxlf ,LA L:-N f rm. xi ,3- jo Wlofher arie :Je o!I0llPflQ5 We dedicate this book to you, Who with gentle yet compelling spirit Have imparted the depth of your own loyalty and love To us who share this Mount. We dedicate our work to you Who have dedicated all your works to God for us. we .gzniom My Dear Girls, When you entered Mount St. Mary's College four years ago, you read on the first page of your college bulletin: The purpose of the foundation of Mount St. Mary's College is to offer to young women an oppor tunity of receiving a liberal education in an environ ment conducive to the development of sound Chris tian Principles. You did not, at that time, dwell too seriously on the real meaning of that paragraph. Freshmen never do. But during your precious years of study you have developed a background of knowledge and of values which have given you a sense of perspective, and you now look on Mount St. Mary's as a symbol of the highest and best in culture and sanctity which makes for that complete education spoken of by His Holiness, Pope Pius Xl, in his Encyclical on Christian Education. There is a great difference between knowing truths and living them, my dear Seniors, and so, I repeat in this written message what I have so often given you verbally. This philosophy of yours is not a decoration-it is a weapon. Use this weapon to combat the spiritual problems of the day. All your faculties, all your tendencies-even your passions- can be developed along the grooves of Christian per- fection. The world's greatest need today is holiness. Choose your pattern among the saintly women of history-a Theresa, a Catherine of Siena, a Joan of Arc, or a Little Flower, if you please, but be a saint, each one of you. God love you, every one. This is the daily prayer of Your devoted CSTJILW ywarfe ffe olillflfcllyj Page Tlznc

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Ca Afornia By Margaret O'Connell Knoell '41 California, you are a church, adobed once, rebuilt with gold on dusty graves, fertile with the faith of Spanish monks and Indian races - graves catacombed beneath the cities - each a kneeling place upon your soil. Your pillars are the curving cedars from the south, Redwood pines, and pale- scarfed firs. Your carpet-moss is yearly plushed. Your windows are stained-glass of thin clouds filtered through with sun. The hill-sides are your altars banked with flowers- Buck-brush Holly, Owl-faced Clover, Azaleas, Asters from Sequoia, Lupine bluer than Brodiaea, chaliced Poppies flattered by the lighted tapers of the Yucca. The landscapes are your panels, symbol-filled and laid with pious folded Palms, with olive boughs and wind-shy corn that tans beside' the gold-gowned orange, fat-throated doves, the locusts and wild honey. Swing the incense, Wind, from your flower-filled censer. The sacrifice is ready! Let high-priests come with purpled wines from grape-vine meshes, with sun-flushed plums and apricots, brush-brown fowls and muff- clad sheep, cotton smoothed to altar laces. Bleach wind-cleaned wheat for breaded hosts. We take of your Communion. ilfleffgj R 'Wx 1 'ff' xi' is X i K' T fx i ca Xu .tk X. X X , i I T l l f y A . X ini ini. i .lk ,,. -f.:,1:-'fe-'f- C1Il' Y if -57 V V 'V 9x ' ' I A My 'I I ' nfxfiwff 2:9 , Q N ,INmw,'v,,,......efZi- fav Jfjv A W , . .5,...if3'1 Y , SWFWWXY. , 'f' H eff J In VA' X Miami Injvv -fm X ' ' ' V K X .T rx s gl., . ,, '- f vc 4:7 L, Mfg WT.. ' ,J,.nf...!, -fb fQ,fTi TZ: A f fe., .L W4 -e -.f . fl 77 Cad ornia, you are a church... The senior class of Mount St. Mary's College has chosen the California Centennial as its theme for the T949 issue of The Mount. California, a poem by Margaret O'Connell Knoell, '41, will carry the theme verbally while drawings by Katherine Williams, '49, will illustrate lines from the poem which localize the theme at the Mount. Page Five ,-.-.....---f