Sacred Heart High School - Vine Leaves Yearbook (Vineland, NJ)

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Ready to pluck the fruit and to taste the pleasure of four years of spiritual and academic planting, the class of 1959 pauses to reaffirm its place in the Mystical Body of Christ. Just as the young vine clings firmly to its organism before branching out on its own, so we TABLE OF CONTENTS now reach out to spread our luxuriant growth upon an ever-shrinking world. Enlightened by the root of Faith, we have chosen for the theme of our record- book the words of the Seed-Sower, I am the Vine; you are the branches.” In an age when the ideas, hopes and dreams of our nation, are literally, as well as figuratively, airborne,” we se- niors desire to reflect on the still higher ideals that are inspired by familiarity with heavenly verities. Knowing that man has always sought in some manner to identify himself with the Divine, the Sacred Heart graduate epitomizes the realizable truth of that dream—his place in the Mystical Body of Christ. Our mystical membership has developed and perfected our natural faculties by co- ordinating them with the Supernatural. Our Catholic education has embraced the whole aggregate of human life, spiritual and physical, moral and intellectual, individual, domestic and social, with the goal of elevating it according to the teaching of Christ. Following the Divine Exemplar, we wish to pass on to others Ijnclertlt 42 aASeS acuity 3 6 Seniors f- aefe 14