Sacred Hearts Academy - Aymerian Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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ULV 7940 amma A full half century has passed since the painters, musicians, and poets of the Impressionist school dared to express their own thought and feeling through the medium of art. Their masterpieces have survived the scorn of their contemporaries and the indifference of their successors, to claim in the twentieth century their just due of appreciation and understanding from a circumspect world. Taking note then, of the present popularity of Renoir, Monet, and Degas, 0f Debussy, Faure, and diIndy, and 0f the poet Paul Verlaine, now joy- fully accepted as our own, we, the graduating class of 1940, have chosen their theme for ours. We present in this, our yearbook, 14mm, the gateway to our impressions of four beautiful, fleeting years. We feel that in no better way could we capture and imprison their happi- ness and heartache, their sweetnesses and sorrows. This is not a mere record of our activitieseit is the private journal of each member of our class. Herein are contained our personal reactions to events, to people, and to places, and the sentiments and emotions they have evoked and Will evoke for us, to whom they are so dear.

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QJQCZiCGzQCZ $0 . . . OUR DEVOTED TEACHERS . . . THE RELIGIOUS OF THE HOLY UNION OF THE SACRED HEARTS For all the things you are we thank God with all the fervour of our souls. To us you are a shining figure of hope, because in a mael- strom of bitter hatred and flagrant disbelief you live in selfless charity and firm, undying faith. You are an ideal to us, because, despite a vain and sceptical world, you have succeeded in finding and following the perfect ideal, Christ. Simplicity . . . Humility . . . Dignity . . . Justice . . Tolerance . . . all of the fairest virtues blend to form your common de- nominator. Yet, just as in complete submission you are truly free, in your voluntary self-annihilation you are all the more distinct and definite personalities. In four short years we have come to see in each one of you some endearing, individual trait. These are the things we shall remember, even as we have loved you for them. Old world gracious- ness and lofty idealism . . . heroism and humour . . . the clearsighted serenity of the contemplative . . . cool logic coupled with a wide-eyed look . . . dynamic action and joie de Vivre . . . unhurried movement and quick understanding . . . master talents for friendship and subtle dist cipline . . . terse, dry wit and inspired narration . . . llesprit Gaulois, vital and sparkling . . . comradely laughter and a sunny atmosphere . . . compassion and keen perception . . . But now, sensing our total inadequacy to put each of you into words, we draw back. We dare not venture further. It would mean firnprisoning you in truisms and platitudes, and that, we could not bear. 80, following in your footsetps, we turn to Mary to plead our case with God. For only He can bless you as we would wish you to be blessed. We who have known the inspiration of your example, the benediction of your kindness, and the largesse of your intellect, can find 'no earthly thing worthy to express our gratitude to you. Only through this eternal bond of prayer may we hope to thank you even in half :measure for all you have given us by being all the things you are.