St Bernards High School - Bernardian Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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ee en re “at ’ = Ee a ee eee ee eS a DEDICATION To our Immaculate Mother, Queen of Angels, we reverently dedicate these pages. 13

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St, . — To Our ‘Teachers, The Sisters of the Presentation In our will recorded elsewhere in this book we made a bequest to our beloved teachers, the Sisters of the Presentation, but the bequest, composed in humorous vein, intended in no way to convey our gratitude. Let us pause here and consider the labor, toil, and sacrifice which our teachers expend day after day on our behalf. But the task does not end with the classroom strain. Many long hours of careful preparation, of examining and correcting papers, of filing records and reports must be added to the school hours. And what reward have they for these tedious hours spent to our advantage? A fine salary? We don't think so. Social prestige or travel delights? Again no, for their manner of life excludes this. What then? Namely, the word of the Master — ‘‘Come follow me,” with the assured promise of everlasting bliss. And we, how blithely and often flippantly we have repaid these pains- taking efforts to draw us to Christ? Now, with the maturity of graduation upon us, we offer in simple tribute our words of thanks and praise, with the assurance that our future lives will be ample recompense for the drawbacks of our carefree school days — and that our noble deeds will be but the reflections of the noble lives of our teachers dedicated to Catholic education. 12

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Foreword Believing the old saying that distance lends enchantment to the view, and also that absence makes the heart grow fonder, we have compiled the following as excerpts from our happy youth, with the hope that in the years to come we may linger over these pages, and love to recall the spirit that glowed and animated our high school days. . ; 14 4