San Antonio Academy - Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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OS ae r. Joseph D. Giambruno oe Headmaster PAGE 10

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The President's Message During the past few months, I have been very concerned over an increasing tendency on the part of all parents to begin to concern themselves with the question, “Isn’t too much being expected and demanded of my child at too early an age?” Fathers and mothers wondered this same thing when the draft age was lowered from 21 to 18. They wondered if children weren't finishing school too early, and they finally added another grade to keep them from attaining college too soon. Always questions arise and those who would seek the hardest to foster their feelings usually can bring about those changes that satisfy their deepest convictions. Beliefs that are strong enough usually manifest themselves in concrete accomplishments. Today we live in a world that demands more of each man than any time that we can think back to in our retrospection. Our time has been one of much tension and pressure, but only few of us know a childhood that can parallel that of our children who have been raised in an,atmosphere of almost continuing war and a constant fear of atomic destruction. To most of us they are the means of stabilizing the world and solving its complex problems. If this Rito be the case, then they must bear the burden and must be far better prepared than we. Cf J, In our seventh.grade we learn the poem by Longfellow, The Builders, and we might well take our cue from one of his stanzas: “Build today, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base: And ascending and secure Shall tomorrow find its place.” PAGE 9

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