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

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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

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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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10 The Xavier “For all the blessings that have been ours, or that may be ours through your holy influence, dear Sister, we thank you; and we pray God ever to continue to grant you His loving care and His lavish gifts of heart and of mind that you may, throughout all future years, attract souls to His love and service. May we ask you to find in the prayers of our Spiritual Bouquet, as well as in the gold of our Material Bouquet, just a tiny tinge of the love, the joy, the gratitude, that fill the hearts of every one of your children on this, the Triumphant Day of your Golden Jubilee. M. Isabelle Porvcrs OUR NEW SCHOOL What greater sight could have greeted our eyes on returning from our few days’ vacation than this splendid edifice of St. Xavier’s Academy? Never was any assembly of girls more curious or eager to look on its walls than we. At last our dreams of our new school had come true. It is almost impossible to describe the beauty and convenience of our new Academy. The well-equipped gymnasium and auditorium allow ample room for student activities. The large, bright rooms give the students great comfort. The whole school consists of all that can be desired for an educational establishment. We hope our new school will bear as honorable a name as has the old building, and we hope that the present students will help to uphold its name as well as their predecessors have done. Helen F. Cronan. June, Nineteen Hundred and Tl»enl )-ninc