Seneca Catholic High School - Trojan Yearbook (Seneca, KS)

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ibeobcafion Ad Te, Maria! To you, O Mary Mother of God, To you we lift up our hearts. Take us entirely We pray you Into your holy hands and Keep us safely forever. In a World from which you hear so much of fear and evil . . . In which the prayers of the oppressed and the persecuted arise daily . . . We come to offer the prayers of the gladhearted, the unpersecuted . . . For it is still Maytime in America. Before school, during the day, in evening hours, Hail Mary, full of grace, keep us yours, We dedicate this 1949 Trojan to you, thanking you for the joy it encloses . . Ashamed that we have so often forgotten the sorrows of others, Asking you to help us to live so that where there is darkness now There may soon be the light of your presence. We keep a holy hour for Cardinal Mindszenty. 4

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CACLIJQI' SETTING AND CHARACTERS A The Faith Which is Our Glory The story of some of this book's major characters begantwelve years ago with the first school Mass we attended in this church. Since that September morning, many of our school life's major events have taken place here. A church steeple against a blue sky in October, when the last of the leaves were falling . . . a cross pointing high in the sky on snowy Christmas nights . . . the sound of the bell ringing out our Baccalaureate morning: throughout the Trojans' school career Sts. Peter and Paul church has stood for peace and sta- bility. It has been that place where we took -aim for the days work and inspiration for tomorroW's challenge. Seneca Catholic High clothes her- self in the rugged beauty of fifty-four years of daily service and in the blithe young charms of trees in spring fo- liage. She looks old from the tramping of many feet on her venerable stair- ways. But her heart is young with the newest Freshman and happy with the happiest graduate. 5