St Francis College - Motus Yearbook (Biddeford, ME)

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gfnifeh Safafes $enaie WASHINGTON, D.C. EDMUND S. MUSKIE MAINE January 1963 Class of 1963 St. Francis College Biddeford, Maine Dear Friends: Your graduation year is one of special significance to your olmo mater and yourselves. This is 0 high point in your own careers marking the end of years of prepara- tion and the beginning of years of opportunity for service. It is a noteworthy year for St. Francis College marking a triple anniversary for the Franciscan Fathers, your high school, and the College. As you leave St. Francis, you will carry with you the benefits of Fine academic training, but more important you will have the example of your teachers who put faith and service ahead of personal gain. Your lives will be successful if, in the years ahead, y0u live up to the traditions of this school and if you put into practice the ideals you have been taught here, I ioin your teachers and friends in wishing you well in the years to come. May you grow as St. Francis continues to growt Sincerely, Edmund S. Muskie, U.S.$. Edmund S. Muskie 13

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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

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14 John H. Reed STATE OF MAINE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Al' 1; l'STA JOHN H. REED GOVEQNOR The Graduating Class Saint Francis College Biddeford, Maine Greetings: It gives me great pleasure to extend the official greetings of the State of Maine as well as my own personal best wishes to the members of the graduating class of Saint Francis College. The year 1963 is indeed a significant one in your College's history, marking 05 it does the Tenth Anniversary of the chartering of this institution, the Twentieth Anniversary of the first high school graduation and the Thirtieth Anniversary of the coming of the Franciscan Fathers to Biddeford. Maine is proud of its fine institutions of higher learning and the contributions which they are making continually to prepare our young people to assume positions of responsibility in a changing world. I am confident that the 1963 graduates of Saint Francis College are well prepared to meet the challenges of adult life and that you have profited by the excellent opportunities which this fine College has oftorded you to gain greater knowledge. I wish each member of the graduating class of Saint Francis College every success in his future endeavors. Sincerely, M$L John H. Reed Governor