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

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GRADUATING CLASS ’63 SALUTATOR IAN Membership in the Graduating Class of 1963 (the first to receive its complete Senior High School training at O ' Leary) is a privilege I fully appreciate. But I cherish even more the honour of being chosen to extend greetings to you who have come to partici¬ pate in this happy occasion. I use the word ' participate 1 designedly, for with¬ out your co-operation, your encouragement and your patience this day might have never been. This evening ' s flowers will fade; life ' s music will change its theme and its tempo; the graduates will go their various ways, but there will always remain the memory of a happy graduation day, made still happier by the presence of you whom it is our good fortune to call ' friends ' , and to whom it is a pleasure to say, Welcome! MARY BOBROWSKY

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WE PRACTICE 2. First Friday Mass. 4. Holy Communion. OUR RELIGION I. O ' Leary ' s gift to the United Fund. 3. Santa ' s Helper. 5. Mass in the Greek rite.

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VALEDICTORIAN I am given the honour to say farewell to you on behalf of the 1963 graduating class. We young men and women are the first to complete the three years of senior high school at O ' Leary. We now stand upon the threshold of adulthood, confidently facing the nebulous future with hopeful hears and al rt minds. We have reached the apex of twelve years of education and are very grateful for the in¬ stitutions and people that have brought us this far. Only by the Grace of God have we successfully completed these years, and many of us are now ready to proceed to institutions of higher learning; others among us will step out into the business world, challenging it with youthful vigor confident that our education has been of the highest caliber. Tonight is a night for reminiscing, for looking back over these last three years. We all remember our Glee Club activi¬ ties, the Revue, Intramural Sports, Interscholastic Sports, the Prom, Exams, and even Dententions! Some of us worked on the Orbit Staff, others with the Yearbook staff. These and the many other experiences are dear to us, and it is with regret that we are leaving them. Before we leave our Alma Mater, we must reveal our gratitude to our teachers, our parents, and our pastors. First among these are our parents. They gave birth to us, nourished our bodies and our minds, clothed us, and instilled in us our basic love for Jesus and Mary. This year, many of us will be leaving our homes, and we fervently thank you, our mothers and fathers, from the depths of our hearts. We are also grateful for the wonderful education that our teachers, those present and those past, have given us. It is they who have instilled in us these last dozen years the knowledge and perceptiveness we now feel we have acquired. We are especially lucky, we Catholic students, for special religious orders have been founded for the specific purpose of our education. In O ' Leary we have the Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Saint Joseph, along with a corps of devoted lay teachers, teaching us. We are very grateful to these people who have dedicated their entire lives solely for the education of Catholic Youth. The priests we have known these past few years also receive our gratitude.. Through them we have received special graces without which we would not have been able to continue. They have administered the Sacraments to us, guided us, counselled us, and increased our love for God. They have helped us much in the past, and God willing, they will continue to do so many years into the future. There is yet another parent I have neglected to mention and that is our country, Canada. This wild and widespread land is our home: we suffer with it and rejoice with it. It is a stronghold of democracy, where one ' s basic freedoms of religion, speech and ownership are not violated. Twice in this century Canadian soldiers, our fathers and grandfathers, have fought on foreign soil to preserve Canada ' s liberty and integrity, and if necessary we shall be honoured to do the same. The time has now come for us to take our leave of O ' Leary, but fare¬ well does not express the true sentiment of our hearts, for O ' Leary, YOU will never fade from our memory. MAURICE DUSSEAULT