OLeary High School - Envoy Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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ARCHBISHOP BEST WISHES FROM MAC DONALD HIS GRACE My congratulations and my thanks to all O ' Leary teachers and students on the splendid progress made up to the present time. Such results would hardly be possible without working and pulling together. This cooperative spirit should always prevail in your school. I believe it will. A sound tradition once started and based on truth and common sense, is not easily lost. Life is hard in recent years for those whose High School educationi was neglected. Such neglect is like starting life on a shaky foundation, something that was quite possible a generation ago when nearly all labour was unskilled, but extremely difficult in recent years, and becoming more so as we advance in this age of science. We wish you all to enjoy success and happiness. For this the secret is industry and application all through life and particularly in Junior and Senior High School years. Most of us can recall our own years at school. They were not always pleasant; but those who made good use of them were deeply grateful later on for the lessons learned through hard work and self-denial. This applies whether answering a call to the priesthood, the religious life, or secular pursuits. All of them deserve serious and reverent consideration. The priesthood and the religious life are not the easiest walks of life. Neither was the path chosen by our Saviour to show us the way to happiness and genuine security. What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole.world, and suffer the loss of his soul? The fact that any particular walk of life is not easy should not deter us. The Lord who calls us can, if we ask Him, make even the hardest way both pleasant and fruitful. There are thousands of vacant jobs these past few years, because most men and women shun those that entail hard work and self-sacrifice, -- the very things that would build better characters, better homes, better schools and a better world. Sincerely in Christ, Archbishop of Edmonton.

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And in his quiet way he does a wonderful job. Archbishop O ' Leary It was in these simple and sincere words that Archbishop O ' Leary paid his personal tribute to an eminent educator -- Mr. Austin O ' Brien. , In gratitude for the latter ' s unwavering interest in our high school, its staff and students, we offer a joint dedication of the first issue of the O ' Leary ENVOY. On July 1, 1961, Mr. O ' Brien retired from his position as Super¬ intendent of the Edmonton Separate Schools, after an active administration of thirty-seven years. During his term of office, he was renowned for his traditional respect for high academic standards, coupled with a modern regard for better methods of teaching. We, the students of O ' Leary High School, are daily reaping the benefits of his faithful adherence to his responsibility in spearheading the constant progress of the Edmonton Separate Schools.

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CONGRATULATIONS FROM HIS EXCELLENCY BISHOP SAVARYN Dear Graduates: With this first edition of the O ' Leary School Yearbook, it offers me great pleasure in extending my sincerest congratulations to the first graduates from this new house of learning. On your graduation day you experience an inner satisfaction that you have accomplished great things and you shine with a readiness to face the life of your own responsibilities. I wish you happiness in whatever walk of life God wishes you to choose. Your days will be pleasant and secure if you weave into the pattern of everyday living the principles of Christian living, the knowledge of which you have acquired during your school years. Then your life and the lives of those around you will become richer because of this wonderful treasure you carried away with you from O ' Leary High School. I hope and pray that Christ may be for you a lasting source of light, peace and every good. Neil N. Savaryn, Bishop for Ukrainian Catholics.