Redemptorist High School - Almarre Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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... - - W, I .,T, CIERARD BARNETT FRANK BAUER ROBERT BUCHHOLZ RICHARD GIER HENRY HUGHES JOHN KILLIGER JOHN KENNEY JOHN I-vANE JAMES LAGE JOHN MCCARTHY WILLIAM MALONE THOMAS MARTIN JOHN QUINLAN EDWARD RIEDERER LAWRENCE RIEKE CHARLES STANLEY MARY ELIZABETH BROWN ROBERTA COFFEY EDWINA CUNNINGHAM FIFTH GRADE JANE DUMORTIER EUGENIA CRANCKE HELEN GIBBONS BERNICE GRINDINGER ANNA MAY HARRINGTON LILLIAN LEARNIHAN MARIAN MEAGHER MARGARET MGFADDEN HELEN MUENICH MARGARET MONAGHAN MARGARET MARTIN MARY OIBRIEN JOAN PAGE MARY LOUISE PROLIST AGNES RYAN CHARLOTTE ROACH MARY BERNICE SAGE MARY STANLEY ANIELIA SCHAEFER DOROTHY THURMAN MARY LOUISE RILEY MA RY ELIZABETH DOOLEY THE CHILD'S UNIVERSITY The mother's knee is the child's university where all the virtues which form character are learned. No other person except the mother can make such a lasting impression on the heart of a child, for the simple reason that the child loves no other being in the world so much as he loves his mother. The lessons learned during childhood, during those years when, like soft wax, the child's heart is so plastic, so easily stamped, are never wholly effected. Happy is the child whose mother impresses on his tender heart, more and more deeply, the Image of Cod. JOHN KILLIGER, Fifth Grade. MY SCHOOL DAYS I was very anxious to start to school. I started at the age of five and a half years. Sister William was my first teacher. I made my First Com- munion when I was in the first grade. While I was in the second grade the priests were making plans for a new school. The new school was built while I was in the third grade. At recess we took great pleasure in watching the men building it. We were very anxious to move into it. The place I like the most is the auditorium, where we have gym and wonderful entertainments and plays. When I was in the fourth grade I was confirmed. I am now in the fifth grade. I am looking forward to graduating from both the seventh grade and the high school of Redemptorist. ANNA MAY HARRINGTON, Fifth Grade. I- L L I L-, Y? .Villefy-jim'

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' I 1 1 THE SISTINE MADONNA In our own public library of Kansas City in the Nelson Art Collection, is a beautiful copy of the world s famous masterpiece-Raphael's Sistine Madonna. Although the mother of the artist died when he was a little child of eight, K 52, H 1 1 yet her loving and beautiful face was well impressed on his young mind. It was she that was his inspiration for the face of the Madonna. The large, green curtains which we see in the picture are those of his own studio. One day as he sat thinking over his picture, and how he would paint it, the curtains seemed to part and between the two of them he saw the Blessed Madonna holding in her arms the infant Jesus. The two figures we see kneeling so devoutly are those of St. Barbara and Pope Sixtus, the pope of that time. There seemed to be such a large, empty space at the bottom of the picture. As Raphael was wondering what he would do, he looked toward the window and saw two street boys looking in at him and his work. Though dirty and tousled, they had the reverent and adoring gaze of angels. It was just what the artist wanted. He put wings to those little boys and placed their cherub heads at the feet of the Madonna. MARY E. Doo1.EY, Fifth Grade. MOTHER Never a sigh for the cares that she bore for me, Never a thought for the joys drifting hy: Her one regret that she couldn't do more for me, Thoughtless and seljish, for Mother was 1. Oh, the long nights that she came at my call to me! Oh, the soft touch of her hands on my brow! Oh, the long years that she gave up her all for rne! Oh, how I yearn for her gentleness now. Ever devoted, yes, that was the way of her, Counting her greatest of services smallg Words cannot tell what this old heart would say of her, Mother-the sweetest and fairest of all. P' Q . Nhlrfy-six A 'W 9'