St Francis College - Motus Yearbook (Biddeford, ME)

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QICnifeb $iaies $enaie COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES RICHARD H. RUSSELL, 6A.. CHAIRMAN HARRY FLOOD BVRD, VA. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, MASS. JOHN STENNIS. MISS. MARGARET CHASE SMITH. MAINE STUART sYMINGToN. Mot FRESCOYY euvn. CONN. HENRV M. JACKSON, WASH. 1t 51 FNN HEALL. MD. SAM 1. ERVIN. JR., N.C. IARNY GOLCWA'I'LR, A011 STRDM THURMOND. S.C. CLIFFORD P. CASE. NJ. CLAIR ENGLE. CALIF. E. L. BARTLm. ALASKA HOWARD w. CANNON. NEV. ROBERT C. IYRD, W. VA, HARRY L. thGATE, JR.. CHAEF CLERK Januar The Class of 1963 y 23' 1963 St. Francis College 605 Pool Road Biddeford, Maine Dear Students: The year of 1963 is certainly an outstanding one in the history of Saint Francis College. The history of which the College should be very proud and on the occasion of this triple anniversary, I wish to extend my congratulations and commendation to your Fine institution; your excellent faculty and you the students IMcny Saint Francis College Flourish in the years ahead in its goal toward higher. earning. With best wishes. Sincerely yours, t Margaret Chase Smith United States Senator Margaret Chase Smith X: h f A t '

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10 Very Rev. Augustine Sepinski, O.F.M. CURIA GENERALIS ORDINIS FRATRUM MINORUM PROT N R31 as 1 - ROMAtGYD - VIA s. MARIA MEDIATRICE,25 January 28, 1963 Graduating Class- 1963 St. Francis College Biddeford, Maine Dear Graduates: The year 1963 marks an important milepost in the history of Saint Francis College: it is now thirty years since the Franciscans first come to this area, ten since the State of Maine has granted Saint Francis 0 college charter. Both because of my present position as Minister General of the Franciscan Order, under whose direction the College operates, and because of personal association, since it has been my good fortune to visit Saint Francis College in the post, 1 welcome the opportunity to offer the Friars my sincere congratulations for their diligent efforts to date and to express the prayer and the conviction that even greater success awaits the College. The year 1963 also is of particular significance to you who upon graduation must seek to establish your proper station in life. It is my prayer that you will always keep before you the precepts that have been instilled into you during the past four years and that you will endeavor, whatever the circumstances in which you Fmd yourselves, to translate them into action. May the Blessing of Saint Francis strengthen you now and in the years that lie ahead. Yours devotedly in Christ, WWWW Fr. Augustine Sepinski, OF..M Minister General

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12 Very Rev. Fulgence Boisvert, O.F.M. DAX CT BOHLJM PROVINCE SAINT-JOSEPH LES PEREs FRANCISCAINS 3113. AVENUE GUYARD MONTREAL za. QUE, CANADA ABMINIIYIATION vlovnucIALI' February 1, i 963. To Saint Francis College: The triple anniversary which St. Francis College celebrates this year fills with ioy every religious of the St. Joseph Franciscan Province of Canada. With legitimate pride, they see therein the glorious fulfillment of a family undertaking. What a wonderful transformation since the humble beginnings of the first Canadian Franciscans Clt Biddeford in i933! In contemplating the marvellous fruits which the devotion, competence and steadfastness of so many of our brothers and their precious collaborators have produced, we all experience a very deep sense of satisfaction. May thanks, then, be given to God for the abundant blessings which he has showered on this institution. But also, may praises go to the clearsighted and persistent workers who, for thirty years, have assured and are continuing to assure the proper functioning of this worthy undertaking and who, todoy con- fident more than ever in the future, prepare enthusiastically even more astonish- ing results for tomorrow. As present superior of the St. Joseph Franciscan Province of Canada, I feel honored and happy to present to the entire personnel of St. Francis Coilege, in my name and that of my religious, Our esteem and admiration, the assurance of our interest and our most ardent good wishes for uncecsing progress. May heaven grant that this undertaking so dear and already so meritorious answer ever more adequately the desires of the Church and the growing needs of the oncoming generations. May it always be c1 beacon to spread for and wide, along with the more than ever necessary education, the most pure Franciscan spirit which the world so badly needs. QMWWW. Fr. Fulgence Boisvert, O.FM. Minister Provincial