St Agnes School - Lamb Yearbook (Rockville Centre, NY)

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If our ideals are noble and beautiful so will our character he elevated and firm. Education leads tus to form beautiful ideals. Our ideals illld 'standards 'originate in ourselvesg we ourselves are guided by them thru our lifetime. Each personality has its individual and distinct ideals and standardsg consequently, there are Various types of personality and individuality. To quelcli one's individuality is to crush the iire and fervor of one s life. God did not bless us all with a particular and striking talent, but we must develop those that we have., take advantage of every opportunity, live up to our idealst never lessen them, and if necessary raise them. And if We cannot realize 'our ideals we should at least endeavor to idealize the real. Yet, we must not allow our ideals to rule us:, We must rule our ideals. cLOl1,, may our aims be high And ever lead toward that bright land, Wliere none shall say, 'Good-bye'f' Margaret Zemetra. 27

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We: Are All ldealists 5'The situation that has not its ideal was never occupied bv man. So said tl1e learned Carlyle. .Yet, it is not difficult for inferiorimental- ities to realize that there are few persons in the universe who have not been, at some time or other, tmental architects who build castles- in-the-air in Wollderlaxid. Ideals-we are confined 'to the beautiful' ones-are aspirations that come straight from the soul, they are the imaginative embodiment of all that we hold ideal. They are of the 'astull' dreams are made off? all pinkish, like a sea shell, rosy as a sunset, and bright as a sunbeam. We must., if we would live nobly, he idealists. lnevitably, thru all our minds, visions, dreams, aspira- tions ambitions, suppositions and fancies constantly hover and flutter. Some make their mark on our conscious mind, others are but momen- tary, ephemeral, passing quickly, leaving no mark or scar of identifi- cation. Every creation, invention or composition appears first as an ideal, a conjecture of some creator's, inventor's or composer s mind, before it develops materially into the real. The inventor visualizes in the recess of his imagination his invention, his ideal, and traces it step by step i11to the world of realism. It had its birth in the world of idealism before it was realized in concrete existence. Take an archi- tect. Perhaps his ideal is to build a certain type of home or a massive, solemn business structure. He plans for years and knows exactly the lay of each corner and inch of his ideal structure., but it is years before he finds that the product, the child, of his mind is to assume material form. He watches with increasing pride the advancement in the build- ing and his joy culminates 'in its ultimate completion. His ideal is realized. God is the Supreme Idealist. Prior to tl1e creation He had formed a mental image, an ideal of the Universe with its rational and irrational animals, its vegetation, its Iirmaments and its waters and gradually this product of His idealism was developed materially., We all have an ideal, an ideal personality, perhaps an intellectual andhinoral and comely unit, a paragon of perfection, whom we hope to meet some day or whom we already know and on whom we model ourselves. Perhaps we take the virtues of one we know and add them to the attractions of another and produce a whole more beautiful and perfect than any conjecture our own imagination could conceive by itself. That is 'how authors form their attractive and appealing characters. They could not possibly unfold the various types and specimens of human nature from the volumes of their minds, if they did not study various natures and form characters from the character- istics and. virtues of several living personalities. 26

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Class Wiill A We, tl1e Senior Class of 1927, being of a sane and sober mind flet us hopej do hereby bequeath on this day, the 16th of June, in the year of our Lord 1927, all our scholastic knowledge to the class of '28. - A few individuals wish to leave something to the school as a memorial to their name, never to be erased by time. Marion Elberfeld wills l1er superfluous height to Millicent Munch. Filvina Walkei' joyfully leaves all her scientific knowledge, chem- istry in particular, to Elizabeth Hickey. Josephine Schilo leaves her abundant mass of golden curly locks to Genevieve Burns. Eleanor Busch and. Helen Smith have expressed their desire to have Eleanor Regan and Majorie Hunt Qtwo trustworthy pupilsj ful- fill ,their precarious position of watering the iiowers. We hope that they will not follow the example set by their predecessors of perform- ing this duty .once a week. 'Margaret Zemetra wills 'her 'coat Yhanger, which now resides in the wardrobe, to the member of the class '28 who crosses the Senior threshold with a fur coat.-Thelma Higgins. Helen Kiley, our president, wills her executive ability to Joseph Dowler. Helen Carlin has lately advertised that she is willing to leave her lunch box with all its contraptions to Mary Toole. Jacob Koehler, Bob Fisher and Charles Edgette have renounced their joint ownership of the History Book and have willed it to any Senior Trio who may follow in their footsteps and get away with it. Richard Edel has decided to leave l1is knowledge of French vocabu- lary to his brother, Frederick. He has expressed a desire to keep it in the family. fPossibly as an heirloomj Marion Myers leaves her old gym bloomers to Marie Cashman. May l1er athletic prowess go with them. 28