St Francis Xavier Academy - Xavier Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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REVEREND FATHER DOWLING

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THE XAVIER OUR RIGHT REVEREND BISHOP 1IGHT Reverend and Honored Bishop, I am happy to be chosen by our class president to address you in the Xavier, before we say good bye to our loved “Alma Mater.” It is our right, long aspired to, to have this opportunity to tell you our hearts’ gratitude, and to thank you for the advantages we have derived from your generosity and munificence during our four years of High School. In return we present this third volume of our Year Book as a small tribute. It is our sincere regret, beloved Bishop, that you will not be able to preside at our graduating exercises, but we hope our deprivation will be your gain in renewed strength and long jears of health and happiness. Your respectfully obedient child, Eugenia Toohey.

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THE XAVIER TO THE REVEREND FATHER DOWLING EVEREND and dear Father Dowling, as the school term of nineteen hundred eight is nearing its close, we the ’08’s recognize that there must come with it, for us, an end to your valued and instructive talks, which as we look back, we find fraught with the pith and substance of all higher things; so in this, the third edition of our Year Book, The Xavier, we take advantage of this occasion to thank and assure you of our sincere appreciation. Very respectfully, Class ’08. Per Eugenia Toohey.