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

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8 The Xavier PROLOGUE GREETINGS EVERYBODY! This is Station S. X. A., broadcasting from our studio, at the best High School in Rhode Island, located at corner Pine, Claverick and Foster Streets, County of Providence. We here extend our cordial greetings and this book, the thirteenth issue of “The Xavier. Read, good people and you shall see, What we, ninety-three, here offer thee. Merry things, happy things, gloomy ones, too. And all with a greeting, most hearty to you. Alice M. Charnlcy. June, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-nine

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The Xavier 7 CLASS OF 1929 Motto: Quocumque Deus Nos Vocat Class colors: Blue and White CLASS OFFICERS President, Frances E. Steffy Vice President, Pauline L. Gormley Treasurer, Mary L. Dardis Secretary, Mary C. Casey STAFF Editor-In-Chief—Frances E. Steffy Associate Editors Pauline L. Gormley Frances M. Lynch M. Isabelle Powers Art Editors Alice M. Charnley Mary L. Herdegen Alice R. Mulvey Martha R. McPartland Margaret E. Baron Grace W. Beirne Marion J. Gilmore Beatrice E. Moreau Margaret K. Stone Margaret H. JTowey Business Manager—Mary C. Casey Eloise A. Burns Mary L. Dardis Assistants C. Venita Danis Mary D. McMann EDITORIAL STAFF Sitting, left to right: Margaret E. Baron. Frances E. Steffy. M. Isabelle Powers Standing, left to right: Grace W. Beirne, Pauline M. Gormley, Frances M. Lynch, Marion J. Gilmore June, Nineteen Hundred and Tivcnty-nine

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The Xavier A Tribute to Our Principle — for Her Golden Jubilee This year has indeed been an ideal one for the students of St. Xavier's Academy. Two great events took place. The dedication of our New Academy and the Golden Jubilee of our devoted principal. Sister M. Eulalia. Through Sister’s untiring efforts of generous labor our new school was made a necessity, then a reality. For thirty years she has worked and striven for the success of the Academy and the present day growth is her reward. Mercy Day, a day which every St. Xavier girl loves, was doubly dear this year, since it was our loving principal's Jubilee Day. The Academy girls all attended Mass in the Convent Chapel for Sister’s intention, and the Mass was celebrated by Rev. J. P. Gibbons, Pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, in Ashton. Father Gibbons was one of Sister’s former pupils. After Mass the girls adjourned to the hall where a fitting program was given in Sister’s honor and a purse of gold was presented to her. In behalf of the Student Body, M iss Isabelle Powers recited the following as an expression of the girl's love and appreciation for Sister M. Eulalia: ‘A double blessing is a double grace,’’ the poet Shakespeare tells us. And this we realize fully to-day as we observe two glorious events of our beloved Academy—the feast of Our Lady of Mercy and the Coldt-n Jubilee of our devoted Principal, Sister M. Eulalia. “How fitting that this, the beautiful feast of Our Lady of Mercy, a day so dear to the heart of every Academy Girl, should be the day on which we are privileged to honor her, who has brought the Academy to its present glory, to pay homage to her, who, year after year, has honored Our blessed Mother by conducting our annual pilgrimage to Our Lady’s shrine in tlie beautiful Convent Chapel. Dear Sister, under Our Lady’s inspiration, then, we ask you to accept our greetings, to allow us to rejoice with you on this, the golden anniversary of your consecration to Jesus in the Order of Mercy. Fifty years a Sister of Mercy! And thirty of those years given to the service of our Academy. Great, indeed, is our cause for rejoicing to-day! We rejoice with you, first, dear Sister, because of the unusual gifts ot intellect and of heart that God has granted you; and then because ot tne unusual generosity with which you cultivated those gifts and lavished their Iruits upon ail who were privileged to come under your guidance. Rarely does one enjoy in a lifetime the happiness of seeing the Iruits of one’s labors, but this blessing is yours, dear Sister, to-day. V ou have watched the growth of the Academy, you have loved so dearly all these years, until to-day you see the beautiful new building a real necessity. And not only have you seen the marvelous material growth, but, too, you have witnessed the increasing efficiency of your dear girls as they have gone out, year by year, and taken their places professionally; or, as they have returned, year by year, to consecrate themselves to the service of Our Lady of Mercy and her Divine Son. June, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-nine