St Francis College - Motus Yearbook (Biddeford, ME)

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' JimmFagameFto us from Miami, Fia., H15 shorb- t'i . nugg; w1h us, kes us wish he had come sooner. :5: -His deep FSOuthern drawi, his handsome physique comman , 1 ts got attention in gnd out of St. Francis. DoF 't F;T that Maine.1oves you as well as Flor1 a,- :1:'Rog1g:h3315erved with distinction as poet . laureate of St. Francis, emerging 51F the most un-EL IFEoments and in f5:'stfang;e sEEplaces with : usua new stanza of'h1siamb1o verse. Thou h loqpacious: merits :;5;;r by nature, we feelFRosie says mudH tha seerus considerafIBn. 'IFgentlemen wh6'1n spife.::. What would happen if . . . Peter Barry would lose his Webster ? Louis Pelletier would fall in love? Arthur Anstiss wouldnlt have a boat? Hervey Poissant would Join the cub scouts? John Vezelis would get married? Paul Rosie Randall would suddenly swallow his tongue? Richard Renaud would lose his touch with girls? Lucien Dube would become a French prof ? Raymond Lagace would get a crew cut? Yvon Levesque would lose his glamorous complexion? Joel Bouchard didn't have gongectiogg at Mt. Merici Academy? There were no artist's supplies for Lucien BarOn? Hood's didn't hire Jean-Louis Bourret to break their milk bottles? Jim Alwin didn't have his baby blue eyes and his southern drawl? l Clement Auger flunked Trig? ! There were no sacristy handy for Val to rush to? I If Bob Parenteau had no novel in study? l l P CLEMENT B. AUGER l

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For success, we must endure hardships : This is our motto, translated from Latin, Ad Augusta per Augusta , and chosen by the class of Forty-Hine. It is to this phrase of simple, yet philosoPhic truth that we must how our heads in humble acknowledgment. Years have passed and years have come: each bringing its own share of trials and tribulations to be coped with. Whether we were aware of the fact or not, this motto lived within us. For, did not every hardship endured bring forth its eonsolations? Was not the following day brighter? Everyone agrees that reading an exciting novel surpasses the monotonous memorizing of Latin vocabulary; but realizing that the task must be done we set aside all pleasures and begin doing the task assigned. it was not the fear of getting a zero that frightened us- no, rather the knowledge that we, we alone, would be the losers. In leaving our ilme Hater, we shall all strive to reach the heights of our ambitions with these words in mind. Who knows when, but each or us will meet his supreme crisis. Perhaps as a priest, lawyer, doctor, or what have you, the time will come when we must face facts or run away as eOwards. Upon the arrival of this dreaded day, we will be ready; for, our days at St. Francis have prepared us. Closing this bried account of our alas: motto, I know that as the God-given pillar of fire guided the Jews in the desert, so will Ad Augusta. per Augusta. guide us. JOHN FRANCIS VEZELIS This class of 1949 has chosen the most significant and the most beautiful flower as its class flower. The rose, which represents friendship, reminds the senior to love his parents who in their great love for him made the enormous and numerous sacrifices that are a nec- essary part of every young man's training. What influenced them to do this was the hope that we would benefit from this devotion in many ways. As we graduate we feel that an important result is that we have learn- ed to love and to be friends of learning. Our class flower will bring to memory the patience and friendli- ness of our professors during our four years at St. Francis, four years during which they toiled relentlessly among us. But notwithstanding these trials and hardships, they succaeded very well in giving us not only a desire to learn, but also a greater facility to understand our classmates and fellowmen. The rose of friendship will ever remind us of the strong bands 01' comradiship we built during our stay here, bonds of friendship neVer to be bro en. The yellow rose, signifies the value or wealth of knowledge.