Redemptorist High School - Redemptor Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

Page 14 text:

Uur Princzpal SISTER M. CAROLEEN S S N D My dear Graduates, Graduation exercises are appropriately called commencement exercises. It is true, graduation ends something very wonderful and significant in your life - your four years of high school, but it also heralds a beginning, and this is even more important. What is past cannot be changed. If you used your time well, you have nothing to regret. If you were active students, you were an asset to your school and each one of us was proud of you and happy to have you here at Redemptorist High. The future now looms ahead of you. It is yours to mold as you will. You can make active in your life the religious principles that we have tried to instill in you during your years here and become men and women of whom the Church, your school, and your country can be justly proud. Or, you can do otherwise. In the past four years, you have shown yourselves capable of accepting a challenge. Our fervent prayer is that as men and women you will not fail to accept life's greater challenge. We build the ladder by which we climb. This ascentat times is steep and difficult, but the reward awaiting those who reach the top is Infinite Truth, Love and Beauty. Sister M. Caroleen, S.S.N.D.

Page 13 text:

pg Our Pastor Dear Graduates Your senror year at Redemptorrst has been a banner year for your school All of you played a part by your rnterest your applrcatron and cooperatron Today you share the honors that have come to Redemptorrst Revrewmg your years here your thoughts must run deep Each year should have been 1nd1v1dually a personal achrevement better knowl edge of your holy Farth and your responslbrlrtres to God and to your fellow men to your parents and to your school It was your prrvrlege to attend a Catholrc Hrgh your character by now should be of the frnest for you were grven pnncrples bu1lt on eternal truth For years of acqurred knowledge should benefrt you frttmg you to apply yourselves all the more successfully to meeung the needs of thrs very advanced age I would cautlon you not to make the mrstake that you are f1n1shed You are really just begrnnrng There IS strll a gargantuan Job to be done Your years at Redemptorrst wrll prove your abrlrty You wrll have to face llfe realrstrcally But you are more favored because you have your holy Farth as an rnfallrble gurde to rrght thrnkmg and actxng May I remrnd you that the years ahead should brrng credrt to your school We want to follow you rn everythrng and we want to be proud of you Congratulatlonsl God and Our Lady love you' Father Baudry . sb - Y If . . ' I I I - I ' u Q I - - , . - 7 i . . . . . . . . . , . Very Rev. Paul Baudry C Ss R

Page 15 text:

REVEREND DONALD CONNOR C Ss R 3 Uur Prefect ...af N Dear Graduates 1957 a year to be remembered at Redemptorrst Hrghl A year of achrevement a year of champron shrp a year of progress and recognrtron rn sport rn musrc and drama rn SCh018IShlP and student actrvrty rn that hard to defrne qualrty called school sp1r1t A year when so many by thetr example showed the worth of the darly contact wrth Drvrne Grace through Holy Mass and the frequent receptron of Holy Communron And yet before another year has passed all thrs wrll be forgotten when your names are menttoned Now you must show the frurts of your educatron Honor rolls report cards and scholastrc averages wtll not help you hold a Job nor wrll last year s news clrpprngs make you a success Your God grven talents be they many few or only one are your responsrbrlrty He has sard that you may not bury even one of them IS great need of young men and women of solrd character and courage to help rn the task of restormg many ancxent vrrtues to Human Socrety Young blood IS needed to brrng back Love and Drgnrty to the human fam1ly to brtng an end to the ltne of parental thought whrch measures the chtld s educatron pnv rleges and amusements by the dollars whrch the chrld hrmself must earn The world awarts young men and women who w1ll keep alrve the spurt of Self Sacrrftce ln the fteld ofMed1c1ne as doctors nurses and technrcrans eager not so much to specralrze as to be all thrngs to the needs of all men Youth 15 needed to mcrease the number of those devoted and dedrcated to Teachrng to help restore honesty to Journalrsm to brrng rntegrrty 1nto polrtrcs from the lowest precinct worker to the hrghest offrce holder to ftght for decency rn the freld of entertarnment So many needs so few to supply them So very few who care to try What of you? Wrll the world be better because of you or worse? Safe to say rt wrll not remarn the same You have been prepared to lead as Catholrc men and women can lead by example Your Farth and your Educatron are rnseparable So too 15 your name rdentrfred wrth that of your School She w1ll stand or fall wrth you You have been taught to thrnk of yourselves as nerther supenor nor 1nfer1or to any one You must lrve as equals among equals May God help you to walk as a worthy example of your Catholrc Educatlon May Hrs Blessed Mother always be your Mother of Perpetual Help Father Connor 6 , I You go out into a world which has many needs, some of which you can supply, if you will. There