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

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Our Saint Bernard Eight hundred years have passed since our great Saint Bernard trod this earth and so powerfully influenced all classes of people from the lowliest peasant to the mightiest emperor. But Bernard was such a powerful source of good, then as now, because of his own personal sanctity and reliance not upon himself but upon God, His Blessed Mother, and the saints. In one of his letters to his sister, he exhorts her to follow the example of the saints, which advice is just as applicable to us of the 20th century as to Hombeline of the 12th. From their lives we learn never to despair of God’s mercy which lifted them up, when they repented, of their falls into sin. They are our guides to heaven and we will not lose the way unless we deviate from the route which they have traced out for us. How they pleased God and with what obedience and firmness they walked in His ways! As their actions influenced others to good, so we should also strive to live such lives that we may animate others to virtue. We should be as burning lamps giving out at the same time both light and heat, and thus follow the injunction of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who says to us: ‘Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who its in heaven.'’—Matt. 5.16. Saint Bernard, may we always be loyal Bernardians, putting into practice the principles of our Catholic faith which we have studied under your patronage! Help us to live closely united to our loving Jesus and His Immaculate Mother so that we may never be separated from them and you throughout all eternity! res)

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The Bernardin Staff of 1950 Editor-in-Chief John Parolin Associate Editors Richard Kearney Dorothy Bastarache PUBRAR Ys LAE Features Elaine Atkinson Martha Gaumond Adria Smith David Brennan James O’ Malley Antonia Smith Phyllis Caron Francis O'Neill Patricia Woodcome Roger Gamache Ralph Pugliano Mary Wilson Biographies Margaret Bates Joan Lavalley Margaret McKenna Ann Cunningham Lillian Leger Marilyn Moquin Ann Espie Lorraine Maxfield Margaret Mullahy Elaine Gaudette Gloria Millette Theresa Reynolds Lillian Lafosse Teresa McCarthy Kathleen Scullane AR Tel ABE Raymond Bray Clara Contessa Donald Charette Frances Gauthier Joel Rouleau ADVERTISING STAFF Adrien Beaudette Grace Fanelli Gerald Leger Francis Bellafiori Paul Fleming Paul Marcoux Phyllis Casella Jeannette Gionet Janet O'Donnell Anne Doyle Anne Hare Anne O'Sullivan Lucille Dextraze Eleanor Lamkin Constance Shaw Barbara Shannon Joanne Ryan SEGRE VARIA SS TAPE Grace Andrews Rose Collura Lea Lemire Alice Belliveau Ann Connell Jennie Mazzola Dolores Bouvier Irene Dupuis Maureen Rivers Claire Caron Gladys Leblanc Roberta Stanley

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Dedicatron To you, Father Curran, we gladly dedicate our BERNARDIAN of this year. For us 1950 is a memorable year, but it 1s much more so for you, marking as it does your fiftieth anniversary in the holy priesthood of Christ, to which you have given of yourself so wholeheartedly throughout the years, and still continue to do so. May this dedication also attest our gratitude to you for all you have so generously done for us during our four happy years at St. Bernard's! REVEREND MICHAEL J. CurRAN, D.D., Pastor of St. Bernard’s and Vicar Forane