Regis College - Mount Regis Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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Commencement The great day dawns- -Baccalaureate Sunday — the beginning of the end. A solemn processional forms on the Parterre. Seniors resplendent in their academic robes wend their way to Chapel. Here is the realization of a life-long dream, the culmination of our college career. “As travellers look back at eve, When east- ward darkly going, To gaze upon that light they leave, Still faint behind them glowing” . . .so we, too, turn in retrospection upon our happy college days, joys too exquisite to last, yet more exquisite when past. The future beckons invitingly; and, strengthened by our Catholic ideals, we look forward with bright hope in our hearts, confident of making our place in the world. Ave atque vale — the beauty coming and the beauty gone. The Crown in Sight, the Climax Near, and Glory All But Won — Baccalaureate Procession

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At Glorious Counselled in Wisdom, Fortified by Grace Regis women go forth to face the realities of life, enshrouded in the glory of a Catholic education. We stand now on the narrow isthmus between two seas — the past, the future. But as the future unfolds its mysteries, we shall note that real happiness consists in our abilities to estimate life at its true value in the plan of God. Fulfillment of the Pledge of Greatness

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Characters In a panoramic recollection of associates stand out the individual members of the Faculty, torch-bearers of the priceless pearls of wisdom and culture. Serving as bridge-builders of Christianity, they erected lives dominated by principle. Dignified always and humble too in the employ of the Master, “gladly wolde they lerne and gladly teche.” Seniors follow, academic in garb, emblematic of the culmina- tion of fruitful endeavor, the King’s eldest daughters. Juniors in eagerness to perpetuate the trade of nobility cross the threshold into a degree of mastery, clear-eyed and stalwart, with becoming demeanor. Hastened by insis- tent notes of the Tower chimes, the journey- man Sophomores proceed with valor to the rank of upperclassmen, our courageous and light-hearted sister class. Unfaltering, the apprentice Freshmen hie past, now seasoned grain in the timber of arts and sciences, for- saking their embryonic positions to become full-fledged characters in Regis literature.