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on we continued to be nourished in the ever-exchanging waters of rich friendly smiles and as the Junior Blooming Season was coming to a close, we were ready to produce our fruit. THE FRUIT In our Senior Year, we were really amazed to learn how much joy and contentment came from the returns of our early training. . . . And the flower brought forth the fruit.” For three years we tried our utmost to respond to the inspirations of grace ever deepening our roots in the Immaculate Heart of Mary, ever strengthening our rods in spirit of Mary, ever drawing energy from the divine rays of the Real Presence for our lives to bloom with the fragrance of the Marian” spirit. In the Senior year we learned too that our budding, flowering, and bear¬ ing was not and must not be of short duration. Our growth in Mary was a perennial one, and the fragrance of our lives extends throughout all seasons and all years. We are, therefore, not only bearers of fruit, but everbearers of fruit. Many were the fruits of joy in our last year at O.L.A. Outstanding ones however number seven. Our first and foremost joy that we experienced was one that formed the theme of our year — the center of all our actions — the MARIAN YEAR commemorating the centennial of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. From this joy flowed other joys. The second and third joy were twin joys; these came concurrently: — the gracious visit of Mother Mary Simplicita, the Superior General of the Felician Sisters who officially opened the Marian Year at the Academy with the opening of a beautiful blue-room oratory. The splendor and solitude of the oratory brought us daily to the feet of our Queen Mother. Our fourth joy was one of devotion. A group of our senior students were privileged to take CCD (Confraternity of Christian Doctrine) teacher training course at Hartford, Connecticut, and on certain days of the week traveled to nearby schools to give religious instruction to release-time classes. Our fifth joy we experienced on the school campus at the foot of Our Lady’s Grotto. We were all a part of an impressive ceremony — Dedication of St. Bernadette. Our hearts were filled to capacity with a joy that cannot be described, for the grotto, our sacred spot, gained more grandeur with the beautiful imported statue of St. Bernadette, and the bright flood lights set in to illumine the resemblance of Our Mother, who is Our Life, Our Sweetness, Our Hope. Our sixth joy gave us many rich and cherished experiences. These we gained on our senior trip to Washington, D. C. The memories of our seventh joy shall ever bear fruit. It was the crowning jewel of our life and growth in Mary. — GRADUATION.
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The Root-The Rod-The Flower-The Fruit THE ROOT The seeds which were planted in our youth began to take root in September of the Jubilee Year 1950, as thirty-two of us, rather jolly yet somewhat frightened Freshmen, entered the portals of Our Lady of the Angels Academy. The time was not long when the Angelite’s Way of Life” became our way of life. The virtues and ideals of Our Lady were daily set before us and we slowly yet tactfully tried to absorb them. But in order to give our roots full growth in the Freshman year, the ground was thoroughly shaken and watered by a special process — INITIA¬ TION. This rite reddened ' our cheeks, strengthened our school spirit, and made us proud bearers of the O.L.A. uniform and emblem. Freshmen studies and numerous school activities throughout the year nourished and fortified our roots which were to bring forth, in the following year, the ROD. THE ROD The sunshine of friendly smiles, although ample, was not sufficient to insure growth and sturdiness. Our rods were to challenge winds and storms in the Gallic wars with Caesar and in the complicated interpretations of Euclid’s theorems. Our rods too were to bear witness to the immense struggle America put up to attain political and cultural independence and to defend the dignity and proper respect of human rights. The sophomore year was indeed a challenging one. One difficulty sur¬ passed another. One responsibility followed another. The many assignments differed one. from the other only in type but not in degree or intensity. Yet all tasks ran the same course — the Mary Way, the way of courage, truth and goodness. At the end of a hard Sophomore year we emerged stronger in our resolve to walk the path of righteousness. Our rod came forth” bearing the bud which in turn was to blossom into the flower of our Junior Year. THE FLOWER The Junior year was a beauteous one. It was the year of our budding and bloom. With our roots deeply embedded in the Immaculate Heart of Mary, with our rods made hardy and strong through Sophomore training we took our rightful place in the ranks of upperclassmen. Our buds of Angelite ideals slowly burst open with our selection of our life’s motto: To Jesus through Mary; through the Queen to the King,” and with the impressive Ring Day preparation and ceremonies we reached the apex of our Junior year bloom. Ring Day was the embodiment of the very spirit of the Academy. From then 22
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