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

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REV. JOSEPH EGAN The Class of '27 wishes to express its gratitude to Reverend Fa-ther Egan for the many interests he has shown us, both socially and scholastically. His appearancezin class is always greeted with pleasure. It is our earnest wish that God will grant him all his desires and keep him in good healthg and we hope to be able to repay by our prayers the favors he has shown us. 9 ,

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Brhiratinn We, the Graduating Class of 1927, gratefully dedicate this St. Agnes first Annual to our be- loved pastor and friend, Right Reverend Mong signor Peter Quealy. We appreciate and thank him most earnestly for his paternal watchfulness and his never-ceasing interest in the welfare of every pupil. Our respect, love and admiration for him is as D 4 ' 'cDeep as mid-ocean to sheer mountain wallsv. As our parting sentiment we wish from the depths of our hearts that the patroness 'of our school, the pure St, Agnes, will ever be his pro- ZGCKTCSS and i7lt8TC9SSOT.

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FORE Worm The igreat French patriot Danton, who said, 'Tet France be free, though my name were accursed, and who devoted his wonderful talents and the untiring energy of his short life to the overthrow of Bourboni-sm and the establishment of the Republic, in emphatic burn- ing words declared that, after bread, Education is the first need of a free people. Education, as we understand it, is not merely a knowledge of books or a collection of facts or dates carefully stowed away in the tablets of an unerring memory, or of - 21: it ik Words of 'A learned length and thundering sound That amaze the gazing rustics ranged around. It is the due preparation of the individual for the future that lies before him. A It is the gradual evolution of all those latent talents that help to promote, and the efficient restraining of all those propensities which are calculated to tell against, the success of the child in his future career. ' It is the means, tl1e only means, but the all-powerful means whereby one is enabled to enter i11to the possession of these good- temporal and eternal things which Providence intended that he should secure and enjoy. It is the aggregate of all those influences, physical, mental, moral and religious, which give growth, grit and consistency to the texture of the individual character, which educe and train to the highest per- fection the several senses and faculties, andyimpart to the individual an inward strength and power whereby he may clearly know and efficiently do his duty 'to himself, his family, his country and his God. Such being the scope and aim of Education, it must needs be both secular and religious. If there be a God above us, if eternal years await us in the world beyond the grave, and if our condition there depends, as we know it does, upon our conduct here, it is plain and obvious that the religious element in education is as far above the merely secular as Heaven is above the earth. Hence itis of paramount importance for the Christian Pastor, who is solicitous not only for the eternal salvation but also for the temporal welfare of the citizens com- mitted toi his care, to devote himself unsparingly to the cause of educating and moulding the youthful mind and heart. It should be remembered, and a mere cursory glance through the pages of our history will show, that 'less than a century ago all the - 7 V: