Notre Dame High School - Crusader Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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UNDERCLASSMEN Page 54-89

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FACULTY Page I6 27 SENIORS Page 28 53 gm M Hi Q' , Pg ' c e w-P

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In the Cross School Life Triumphs The essential fact of Christianity is the Resurrection and not Redemption. But as Bishop Sheen curtly reminded: There is no Easter Sunday without Good Friday. And thus we see on the Notre Dame emblem the cross stands prominent, retaining as it were its eminence of Calvary over redeemed man. It is a cross fleurettee in silver which reminds us remotely of the forma- tive ecclesiastical stages of New England, and proximately of our Superiors and teachers whose greatest Faith is that they have abandoned all, taken up their cross, and followed Christ. The Seniors are tenderly remembered in the loving, suppliant call of the Doceat Mel They call to their school and to Her, Notre Dame of Good Counsel, to fill them with the sources of human knowledge and divine wisdom. The Torteaux or discs, four in number at the top of the emblem, are a symbol of the under- classmen. They symbolize the Authority to which students must submit with respect, but also the eager incentive to spur them on in their ideal of becoming educated Christian gentlemen.