Salve Regina University - Regina Maris Yearbook (Newport, RI)

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e cnanging Jail Listen . . . With faint dry sound Like steps of passing ghosts The leaves, frost-crisped Break from the trees And fall. Spring The austerity of winter dwindles now, Green Leaf buds bulge and yellow catkins bloom There can be no one unaware of how The earth puts by the liturgy of gloom, For the heart-waking utterance of spring. Winter On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its wary woof; It paves with pearl the garden walk, And lovingly round tattered stalk And shivering stem its magic weaves, A mantle fair as lily-leaves. Seniors The Lord is thy guardian; He is beside thee at thy right hand, The sun shall not harm thee by day, Nor the moon by night. The Lord will guard thee from all evil. He will guard thy life. The Lord will guard thy coming and thy going Both now and forever.

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IT IS WITH genuine appreciation and sincere gratitude that we dedicate the nineteen hundred fifty-five Regina Maris to our chaplain, our teacher, and our friend, Reverend Gerald F. Dillon. In this, the twenty-fifth year of his ordination as a priest of God, we are happy to have shared in his ministry as educator and priest. It is in these two functions prin- cipally that we have come to know his zeal for us academically and spiritually Within these two aspects much has been accomplished in our regard, much in the way of interest in the college as a whole, much in the quiet endeavor, in the passing word, in the gesture of loyalty of which we are totally unaware. In his contact with us here at Salve Regina College, he has opened many doors for us — the door to wisdom in the philosophies, the door to God in theology, the door to grace in the sacraments and in the Mass. There have been many vistas laid open to us, many illumined pathways, many steps pointed out with discretion and prudence, much given that will direct our choices in the highways beyond our ken. It has been Father ' s privilege to announce to us the good tidings of the unfathom- able riches of Christ that we may be strengthened with His power to have Christ dwelling through faith in our hearts. This has been the beginning and the end for all the efforts that have been made, the words that have been spoken, and the doors that have been opened. Thus, in this year of 1955 when the key to the doorway of life will be given to us on our commencement day, we should know wherein lies the way to peace and to tran- quility. Our best expression of appreciation and esteem lies, therefore, not within the sound and rhythm of words but in the manner in which we shall follow other paths to further wisdom and to deeper grace. Therefore, in the background of all our thinking and of all our acting there will stand, clear-cut and unshadowed, the image of one who in our college years integrated for us the breadth and the length and the height and the depth of the way to the kingdom of heaven. ' ' Reverend Qerald £ ' Dillon