Siena College - Saga Yearbook (Loudonville, NY)

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Presidentas Message My Dear Graduates: A college yearbook is a means of recalling - in a sense, reliving - one's college days. To that end it contains photographs of classmates and faculty; it records in pictures and text the highlights, and some of the trivia, of four undergraduate years. In the years to come it will be used to refresh memories of the golden years when the blessings of both youth and maturity mingled in your lives. While the SAGA will serve admirably its purpose of translating the present into the future, I suggest that it be supplemented by additional means of recapturing the past. One of them is visits to the College. If God continues to favor us, the physical aspect of the campus will change, though probably not so radically as during the past twenty years. But the faculty which has taught you will, we hope, be with us for years to come. Their interest in you will not wither with your departure; on the contrary, it will grow stronger as it tests in the careers of Siena's grad- uates the effectiveness of Siena's teaching. Active participation in the alumni will likewise maintain and strengthen the associations of college years. A united and active alumni, moreover, will do much to enhance your College's reputation - a reputation that will redound on you. Your education has been a mutual endeavor of yourselves and your College. That community of interest and purpose has forged bonds which should endure and find continued expression in an active alumni. I hope i may count on your loyalty. May God bless you always. Sincerely, 96??? 144M 435A4 37, 48.1w. Fr. Edmund F. Christy, O.F.M.

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I am pleased ThaT The SAGA sTaTT for 1958 has selecTed Tor iTs Theme ChrisTian EducaTion. IT is TiTTing in an era when God is being banned from The classroom, and a wall has been erecTed beTween The sTudenT and God. You are TorTunaTe To be graduaTes of Siena College, because God has noT and will noT be exiled from her curriculum. Pope Pius IX wroTe long ago ThaT The Church was seT by her Divine AuThor as The pillar and ground of TruTh . . . To direCT and fashion men, in all Their acTions, To puriTy of morals and inTegriTy of life, in accord- ance wiTh revealed docTrine. Go forTh, my dear graduaTes, as models of ChrisTian EducaTion, and bring honor and glory To God, CounTry, and your Alma MaTer. God bless you. Rev. Francis J. Sullivan, O.F.M.