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

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omnes ONT. The President's Page The measure of the success of a school is often found in the support of its alumni. If this is any indication of the job that San Antonio Academy is doing, I feel that we can be justly proud of some vital statistics. Of our student body of one hundred fifty boys, twenty-three are sons of former students, but thirty-seven others are legacies whose grandfathers, uncles, cousins, or brothers went to school here also. The remarks, made in passing that are sometimes said with em- barrassment (because most men are not only embarrassed by praise themselves they are also embarrassed to give it) indicate that there are in addition to our alumni still those who are grateful for an under- standing of their son in a personal way, for the character of those to whom they intrust their sons, for the warmth, the concern, and the earnestness of those that give of themselves to teach, and most of all for the tenets of faith, patriotism, and love of God which seem to encompass it all. The men who teach here are still of a caliber to dislike sham, to be indifferent to salary, and above all to believe in the best of their often none-too-zealous students. These are the men whom I would eulogize for not just instructing in the so-called “book-learning” but instead for the character, spirit, desire, ambition, confidence, ad infinitum, that they have instilled in each of their students. In the Latin words, nulla vestigia retrorsum, translated “no steps backward,” one might well find the underlying philosophy of our school, our faculty, and particularly of our students. Their desire to achieve new goals in all fields will remain constant. PAGE 9 ee eee OF

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eS ee oe 7 a ee Major W. T. Bondurant, Jr. PAGE 8

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— 9 Ss Ke re eo Mr. Joseph D. Giambruno Headmaster PAGE 10