O Dea High School - Olympian Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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4 gre r- S if Rev. Br. M. L. Crumlish-Principal 1 illnremnrh HIGH SCHOOL DAYS are over and as you leave O'Dea you take with you the sincerest good Wishes of the Faculty for your happiness and success in life. This happiness and success Will come in proportion as you, each and all, put into practice those principles of Religion and Morality that have been taught you during your school days, both in Grade and High school. Take for your example Him, who Went about doing good and who said Learn of Me . . . for I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. ClVlatt. Xl:293 John XIV:6j Following in His footsteps you will carry Catholic Action into whatever sphere of life your lot may be cast and will be a credit to your School, Church and Country. The Centenary of Catholicity, which We celebrate this year in the Northwest, should be an added incentive to each one to exemplify in himself those sterling qualities which our Catholic Forefathers manifested and Which, during the past hundred years, have been developed so wonderfully by the Catholic people under the leaderships of their devoted Bishops and zealous Priests. Your lives, moulded on this plan, will be' happy and successful and you may hope to hear on the last Graduation Day those consoling Words, Well done, good and faithful servant . . . enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. ClVlatt. XXV: 217 A, I ' -BROTHER CRUMLISH.

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Most Rev. Norbert Blanchet Eehimiinn RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED to the memory of Most. Rev. Norbert Blanchet and the other zealous pioneers who penetrated the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest to spread the light of Faith amongst the early settlers and Indians of Washz'ngton.

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I 2 I l Rev. Father William H. O'Neil, J.C.D. illlezmtge A CENTURY OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION. How evaluate it except in terms of profit or loss, of progress or retrogression! At Hrst, we might be tempted to take pride in our present day facilities of organized religious instruction, but, upon more sober reflection, we must feel regret at the loss of the solid though simple foundations upon Which religion in the past was built. Not that we would forego the century's gain in our Catholic educational system, nor that today We would content ourselves with the primi- tive tools used by the missionaries, but that we would try at the same time to recapture the simple basic principles taught by the pioneers. Our mistake has been in sacrificing the things of the heart for the things of the mind. Not so the missionaries. Periodically they visited the members of their scattered flock to instruct them and to instill in their hearts the lessons of Divine Love, but their reliance was always upon the mother and father, who would recall the lessons and engrave them upon the consciousness of their children in the simple language of family prayer and devotion. Our gains of the century have been in the things of the mind, in the building of facilities of religious instruction: our losses, in the things of the heart, in our failure to insist more upon the development of the heart of the child within the encircling arms of a devout mother, and within the warm circle of family devotion.