St Agnes Academy - Veritas Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Damuzn, tht Ltptr Damxen, the leper by John Farrow IS a splendnd bxography of 3 noble character of the last century The book 15 well wntten and thoroughly enjoyable told rn an mterest mg story book way rather than m dull bnographxcal manner Damxen the Leper tells the story of a young Belglan Joseph de Veuster who saxled for the Hawauan Islands as a nuss1onary before he was ordamed He adopted the name Danuen at the novmate He was ordamed 1n Honolulu and served various par1shes untxl 1873 Then upon hearmg that a prnest was needed for the leper colony at Molakan he volunteered h1s servxces When he arr1ved the leper colony was 1n a p1t1able condmon The lepers hved m huts that scarcely protected them from the elements They had nexther suiiicnent clothxng nor food When they were sent to the leper colony these lepers were supposed to raxse thenr own food But only the healthxes were able to walk around so lt was rmpossx ble for them to raxse thexr own crops The colony was unsanxtary and dnsease ndden The water was at a great d1stance from the l1v1ng quarters and few 1ndeed were able to carry It back to the colony Water procured under such dxiculnes was used only for drmkmg never for cleanmg Morals d1d not exnst ln the colony -or so you mrght say because to the majorxty moral1ty was unknown These were the condltxons that confronted Father Damxen-enough to make a lesser man leave ln despaxr Father Damlen cared not only for the sp1r1tual welfare of hxs lepers but also for thenr temporal needs He dressed thexr wounds burlt many of the1r cottages made thexr coflins and dug their graves He pleaded w1th the government to send h1s lepers more food and clothmg unt1l the government d1d He pnped water to the colony buxlt a hospxtal and a church and kept up an unceasmg flow of reforms He labored alone 1n the colony for many years Then he h1mself contracted the had become a leper an ass1stant was sent to the 1sland He was followed by others who wlshed to devote thelr lxves to helpmg the lepers Dam1en dxd not rest mn the knowledge that hrs work would go on He kept workmg even when the d1sease had gone mto the worst stage He worked untnl the last days of Ins lxfe He dxed ln 1899 among lus frxends and fellow lepers After readmg Damzen the Leper I am xndebted to John Farrow for a better appre c1at1on of my good fortune nn havmg health and a better appreclatlon of the motnves that caused a man to l1ve h1s hfe 1n the terrxble envxronment of a leper colony w1thout desxre of temporal gam Thxs hfe of Father Damxen made me realxze what great sacrxfices are motnvated solely by love of God MARGARET MOLLOY 39 THE REAL ME She is so mxld and gentle And how are they to think 0 I once heard sazd o me, The secrets o my heart? And then I yearned to tell them Or how are they to dream 0 Iust how I wxshed to be My soul s exquzszte art? They do not lznow what ancles So Ill not try to tell them My soul and mmd do hold For God wzll surely see They do not know my wandermgs The depths pathos and wonders In adventures yet untold That make me the real me BOBBIE JOHNSON 39 KEY TO PICTURE OPPOSITE H3 g Gold Dust Twms Inseparable Popular Pastnme Naughty Naughty! After the game was over 7 I spy K t one purl two Lonely' Tree D cllers As long as there 5 the two of Capt on nmposs ble' Caught On parade Open season . , , . . . . , - ' 9 s - , 3 I , . 3 ' 3 ' 3 l , . . , l . ,, . ,, . . . . , - . . . , , . , . . ,- . . . . . , . :W 1 - . . . . , . ' l 3 , . 7 ' 3 , . ' I 3 3 disease, after laboring twelve years at the colony. When it was learned that Danuen a - 1 . . . , . . . , . . , , . e S . 3 3 ff - -- f ,H f ' f . , . . f ' I 3 . J . 3 3 3 Y 1. l 2. ' 3. 4. ' 5. 9 6- , 8. ni g ' 9. . 10, w ll. ' us IZ. 1 ' i . 13, 14. . 15. 16. Shot

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Galltrg nf tmuruts Sq PICTURE ONE Although for centurues poets have been vnrutung about the sumplueuty, modesty generosuty and beauty of maudens none I have eser read expresses all the qualutues un the abundance that thus classmate of ours possesses Although she never speaks voluntaruly her actuons express her thoughts sympathues, and desures better than most of us could put unto words Her actuons are guuded by demureness You never see her runnung up the staurs or shoutung from the thurd floor Dont get me wrong however She doesnt go about lookung grave or sober She enjoys the joyual sude of lufe as well as the rest of us Of her generosuty I need not speak because anyone who knows her knows of ut The same can be saud of her deyotuon Ixot a day passes that she does not make a yusut to the chapel Unfortunately I do not haye contact wuth her outsude of school so I don t know her lukes and duslukes I do know however that she us not very athletucallv uncluned but she enjoys a game of basketball or tennus now and then Novs for her external appearance I-Ier small stature us topped by dark brovsn haur that us cunnungly curled I am presumptuous un sayung that her eyes are brown, but I haye notuced that they are crowned wuth lashes so long and dark that they are the envy of many who gaze upon them Her mouth us small, and tends to be rather straught As tume goes on as tume wull many others wull be charmed as I haye been wuth the grace of Nisutv Nhcwx Author PICTURE TWO It us almost umpossuble to belueue that mv fruend and I are n our last y ar of hgh school Why ut seems luke only yesterday that we were scared Freshmen bewulderd by the routune and svstem of our first hugh school year But now we speak of complucated chemustry terms and conuugate French yerbs luke Frenchmen Yes we are decudedly Senuors wuth a caputal S Yet she us stull the same old fruend wuth a cheerful word ard a kund smule :md stull there lu ks a gleam of muschuef un her eyes for she us always ready for some fun Her unterests :ure quute varued extendung unto reluguous musucal and athletuc actuvutues She us an actuve member of the Sodaluty and us a member of the St Agnes Orchestra and of the Glee Club Ir regard to athlet cs h r favorute sport us uce skatung She lukes movung puctures and un partucular some of the handsome actors that emote on the sulver screen She us a yery energetuc person and us always hurryung to her vuolun lesson or trvung to finush the belated hustory outlune before the final one oclock bell Every day when the ten thurty five bell rungs for study peruod you can see her walkung toward the lubrary and when she enters wu h a gav smule lughtung her face the Lubraruan rauses a Warnung finger and warns thus slught figure wuth her brown curly haur and twunklung blue eyes that Thus us not a socual but a study peruod Thus we see her every day and we thunk of her as a gxrl who us f ucndly to eycryonc and a yery actuye member of the senuor class ANGELA Mutccro flufluor PICTURE TI-IREI' A charmung person yet not un the way of sophustucatuon us thus classmate of mune If I told you of her stature you would be sure to know so Ill duspense v-uth fo maluty and dusclose some of the more un famuluar characterustucs Thus Muss us yery yery fond of perfume not any un partucular but all un general She del gluts un usung a new kund each week She has a yen for fancv puns and bracelets It seems that every tume her mother goes to town she brungs Muss a bracelet or trunket of some sort As for Latun and Spanush she seems to haye consuderable duthculty un catchung on to her assugnments Euth r she gets the two muxed or she forgets one I understand on good authoruty that noyels and fictuon Cpoetry tool are slughtly borung to thus young lady because her fayorute type of readung us mystery storues As far as poor Chaucer us concerned Im sure she thunks hum yery unnecessarv She us quute an orator on the subuect of Luttle Susters and what to do for them Nluss X can apprecuate a good poke but sometumes she us a luttle late to catch on but then we all are at tumes Do you krow what her name can bt' If so I vsush you d please tell me Cftrusuuxt Dau Author PICTURE FOUR Th s classmate of mune us tall, dark and beautuful She vbea s her haur un a long curlung ooh I-Ie' tom pl uon us oluye and she has the dark brown eyes that usually go wuth that type of skun Her eyelashes are unusuallv lung but aren t the procuuct 01 .1 ter' ewt s ore She has nuce Engernauls and yery attractuye h nds vu h long fingers Her souet us soft and sometumes d avylung She wears a vurust watch wuth a black band on her left wrust KEY TO PICTURE OPPOSITE VI-IFN XLE WERE XERY YOUNG I Nhdonm Dgy 1938 ' Commencement 1938 B Other pucturts Tappung Round the Calendar Pageant ' , I 1 1 ' . 1 1 . . . , , 1 - 1 - 1 1 ' . 1 1 - 1 1 , 1 1 ' 1 ' Q . 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