St Clement High School - Anchor Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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www ir Q4 H' Clffblkg SAINT CLEMENT HIGH SCHOOL WEST SOMERVILLE 1952-1953 Sister Mary Brenda, Principal Sister Mary Alberta Sister Catherine Marie Sister Mary Hughita Sister Mary Ladislaus Sister Mary Madelon Sister Mary Mariarita Sister Mary Padraic Sister Mary Pauline Sister Mary Sylverius Sister Mary Thonnasette 3

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. ' -X ,. ' Riggs .S LSR 1 sfptQfiri?'sif , 1 315 Sufi' 5 Avfif' if V, jggi' fffgg-gli? NAS! it . 1. 9 ffzZ:.fr:.Q f ifw ' :SM gg: ggiiiiilsi-sjsiiaftisidkffgxgg '-.riislfifv . gy-frat Qfivl, leckca fion Pianistl Organistl Commander in the United States Naval Reserve! Exemplary priest of Godl What a fitting personality for the dedication of the Year Book of the Class of 1953 of Saint Clement's High School, West Somerville. Reverend Jerome P. Gill, born in West Newton and graduated from Boston Col- lege, was ordained a priest at Saint John's Seminary, Brighton in May 1934. After a short curacy at Saint Patrick's Church, Roxbury, he was transferred to Saint Cle- ment's, West Somerville, where he labored faithfully and zealously during the past- orate of the Reverend Thomas F. McCarthy. With developed ability and skilled ease, he taught plain living and high thinking, and encouraged the parishioners to acquire for themselves intelligent self-mastery and self-direction. He seemed to have the unique ability to take simple words and breathe into them charm and potency and so clothe them with immortality. His deep love of country--intensified by chats and correspondence with his brother, a graduate of West Point and now a Colonel stationed at Shape, Paris--prompted FotherGill to enter the United States Navy asa Chaplain with the rank of Lieutenant .g.Q in 1941. He saw active service both in the States and in the South Pacific, and was dischared in 1946 as a Lieutenant Commander. He now holds the rank of Com- mander in the United States Naval Reserve. Following his discharge, Father Gill returned to his duties at Saint Clement's where he is actively engaged as director ofthe Holy Name Society, Holy Name Bowl- ing Team, and the Ushers' Club. Our Annual Parish Reunion bears glowing testimony to the fact that he is a master of management and detail. Father Gill has charge of the Sophomore Religion Classes in our High School. In this role his reasoned arguments and enlivening suggestions for developing a deeper ad- herence to our cherished Catholic Faith will live with us down through the years. In fact, I am sure that even when the hinges of memory have begun to rust, we, his pupils, will turn back affectionately to this Man of God who taught us to look from the greed of earthly pleasure to the desire of heavenly treasure. So, dear Father Gill, from the Class of 1953: Ad Multos Annosl ANNE LOUISE MORRISSEY .5