Sacred Heart Academy - Beacon Yearbook (Vinita, OK)

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And since that time each year The portals of our school have opened wide To welcome other soulsg And always has its ,highest aim remained To hold aloft the beacon light of Truth To guide and mold the lives of those Who come within its realm. It knows full well that these short years Of character formation are more important far Than all the years to come, for the welfare' of The Child, the Church, the State. And still they come, and still our school Sends forth each year a few to meet the strife of life But never does its interest in them die. It watches as from afar the course each takes And if news comes that one has strayed away From the path of truth the Beacon Light has made It causes sadnessg And then a prayer goes forth that they May see the error of their Way, Repent, and turn again to Truth Before it is too late. But there are others who give pleasure By the work they do and by their endeavor To spread beyond the limits of the school The rnaxims and the truths they learned therein-

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041455, Of U65 wean Years ago a noble nun envisioned Myriad souls of children seeking Truth, But no one came to their assistance And they were left to their despair. Among those many souls were those in Oklahoma whose other home had been taken to satisfy the greed of con- querors. And they were sent to this new land where all was strange And still no help was given. And then the good priest, Father Versavel, Was sent among these poor forgotten ones, And he appealed for aid to bring to them The message of the Prince of Peace. And Mother Drexel's heart was moved with pity, But it was pity joined with love Divine that filled her noble, selfless soul, And her great love of God and fellow creatures could not stand idly by, But bade her give of all she had and even self To satisfy in some small measure this thirst for know- ledge of the Master. And Father Versavel received An answer to his eager plea for aid. Pm sending help-go build, and teach, And care for those so dear to Christ. And Sacred Heart Academy became a part Of their great scheme of leading souls to Christ.

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, I emo 'za Jifofe As we prepare to leave Sacred Heart Academy, we look ba-ck over the four years we have spent together as a classg and we realize that there have been triumphs and failures, regrets and pleasures, work and play. As an aid to keeping fresh in our memories the outstanding events of our senior year, we have endeavored to portray them in this first volume of The Beacon as a year book. May it serve as a means of binding companionships about to be severed into lifelong friend- shipsg may it help us when failures come, as failures do come in every life, to remember how we laughed them away at Sacred Heart Acad- emyg may it recall to our minds the quiet hours provided in our days or retreat when we tried to prepare for the futureg may it make us grateful for our opportunity of an education where the thought of God was woven through each day by teachers whose life is consecrated to their task. With these memories of our Alma Mater, where all activities, re- ligious or purely social, had but one aim - the formation of a truly Christian character in each-we present our Beacon. CLASS FLOWER: Pink Carnation. COLORS: Blue and White. MOTTO: Find a way or make one.