Roger Bacon High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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HEME The name longleur on the cover of this book may prompt the question, nghat is, or was, a Jong- leur?,g The gentleman in question was a vagabond who roamed about Europe during the Middle Ages and usually acted as an assistant to a troubadour. It was he who amused the gatherings with all manner of jest and pleasantry before the troubadour appealed to the more delicate emotions of the people with romantic lyrics and ballads. He was an humble man and, because St. Francis was of this humble, carefree type, the name Jongleur has been used in connection with him, particularly by that eminent Catholic author, Gilbert Keith Chesterton. And since we of Roger Bacon have been educated by the F ranciscan F athers, it seems highly appropriate that we should go for our title and our theme to the life of St. Francis, a life so colorful in its appeal and so lovable in its nature that many contemporary writers, both Catholic and non-Catholic, have found it a lively topic for discussion and an object of admiration.

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OREWORD In a few fleeting weeks Roger Bacon will have graduated its eighth class. And while we realize that some of the other seven classes have garnered more laurels athletically and scholastically than the class of 1936, we believe, with becoming modesty, that our group is the best that has ever been turned out by our high school. We do admit, however, our debt to those that have preceded us. They, our forerunners, have helped immeasurably in building up a tradition, a camaraderie among the students, that we have tasted t0 the full. We do believe that we have sensed more fully than any others what it means to be a student of Roger Bacon. Somehow we are aware, likewise, that our class periods were more enjoyable, that our friendships will be more lasting, and that our extra-curricular activities were indulged in with greater spontaneity and good will. And whether or not we have succeeded, we have attempted in WThe longleurgg to convey the impression that, while our years at Roger Bacon will soon be over, they will not be ended ; that this feeling of kinship with our school will not be lost during our later life.