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

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Under the guidance of Our Bishop 1HROUGHOUT THIS year, as well as the years since its founding, our college has been fortunate to have the kindly and wise episcopal guidance of our Most Reverend Bishop, His Excellency Russell J. McVin- ney, D.D. Under his watchful care, we, the class of 1955, have progressed along the path of learning in subjects both spiritual and secular. Although Bishop McVinney could not be with us at the commencement of our senior year at Honors Convocation because he was in Rome, we felt- that he was with us in spirit. At another commencement — the commencement of our lives as Catholic col- lege graduates — he will be there to encour- age us as we face our new horizons and to award us the degrees for which we have strived. Therefore, it is with fond and grateful hearts that we shall always remember our bishop in connection with our college days.

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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

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Th LHROUGHOUT our years at Salve Regina, there has been a guiding hand that has never failed to direct our paths on the right road to future happiness. The administration has made possible lor us the truth and knowledge which will be our means to this future happiness. Only after we have crossed the threshold into eternity will we be able to fully appreciate what they have so graciously done for us. Mw ' MistratioH -