St Dominic Academy - Dominica Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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APPRECIATION me thu! 1 trmt 2 zen unto ju tm tl um at vlan for ull ftermtx HE students of St Domunuc Academy express sentnments of love respect and admuratuon to the Faculty to whose unturnng efforts we owe our scholarly achnevements All through our Iuves the noble example of our beloved teachers wall be an snspurataon to us and we hope to manifest to the atnon of Relnguon nts meaning nts Influence and nts worth :nculcated nn the students by the Susters of St Domnnuc Today we promise you dear Slsters to use every opportunity to enhance and render active IU word and deed our pnceless gnft of Faith DOROTHY FREEZE F Th 5 'nl ' 111 , S x I . ml! All ' world, unto which we now go forth, the deep apprecie

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DEDICATION HENEVER a great .numph has been achieved or a coveted trophy won ut us the Inherent habnt ot man to seek out those whose ettorts have made the vuctory possuble IU order that they may be lauded for thenr noble deeds So ut as with us the Class of l937 of St Domunsc Academy as we recenve the coveted trophy ot our diplomas and as we enjoy the victory ot Commencement We ments a realxty and who an the tour happy years wnthln the protecting walls ot Alma Mater have guven us the prnceless treasure of a Cathollc educatuon To our parents those herouc men and women closest of all on earth to us who have brought us In the days of our youth close to the arms of Jesus and Mary we humbly and gratefully deducate thus record of our hugh school years EILEEN McGUlNESS I I I ' I ' I I look to those who have made our accomplish- I ' 1 I I , ,

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WORLD PEACE EDITORIAL E the common people of the world want peace We want to have the shadow of death and destructuon removed from the realm of pass: bIlIty and Its place taken by the spIrIt of tranqullllty and brotherly love We do not want to see the youth of our natIons offered as holocausts on the bloody altars of the god of War We saId these thIngs nIneteen years ago when the most harrIble war In all hIstory came to a conclusIon wIth a death toll terruble to contemplate Yet today we fInd wars and rumors of wars The sItuatIon IS appallIng Wlth all our cIvIlIzatIon wlth all our culture we stlll have to revert to a prImItIve method brute force In order to settle arguments between natIons Let us conslder the foolhardIness of thus method ln the fnrst place It ls not the natuon whlch IS correct In Its contentuons that wIns a war rather IS It the natIon whuch can muster the greatest fIghtIng forces A glance at any Modern HIstory wIll QIV6 credence to thIs fact Furthermore the natnon conquered rarely takes the defeat gracefully but rather Immedlately after the so called peace treaty has been slgned beglns preparatIons for future wars Oh not openly perhaps but In secret Then In a few years It lS ready to fInd some excuse to fIght agaIn Dlsregardlng these facts what proflt does the VICTOFIOUS natlon acqulre from a war? The World War I thmk IS one of the most Ironuc examples Amerlca won the war sand the munltlons mokers gleefully as they counted the mIIlIons of dollars they had made Amernca won the war crued the Gold Star Mother as she stood at her son s grave IN Flanders Amenca won the war sand the unemployed veteran on the bread lIne and the dIsabled soldner In the hosputal Yes yes Amenca won the war but she won wIth It hundreds of thousands of graves In Flanders and In Arlnngton countless crushed and broken bodIes to be cared for fIfteen mIllIon unemployed and a depressIon more terrnble than anythIng In her hIstory Why therefore should we wash to rush headlong Into further conflnctsp Surely It IS not to see our sons and our brothers and our sweethearts march off to meet Death In a battle ID whnch If not dyIng cruel deaths on a forelgn battlefIeld they wIll certaInly not come through unscathed lf they escape physIcal Ingury theIr souls wIll bear the scars of the horrors they have wIt nessed We certaInly do not wIsh to engage In a war In order to swell the coffers of those wholesale butchers the munItIons makers Nor do we want to expernence another depressIon lIke the one from whuch we are Iust emergmg Sx 1 1 ' , . 1 y . , , . . 1 1 1 1 ' ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 11 11 - - - ' 1 . , , . 1 . , , . 11 - 11 - - - - - 11 - 11 - ' I 1 - 11 - ,, . . . 1 1 - - - 11 - 11 . ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 , . , . 1 1 , . I . ' 1 1 , , I