St Francis de Sales High School - Accolade Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Ma , YOUR EXCELLENCY: As befits knights to their lord, the first graduating class of St. Francis de Sales High School respectfully offers to you the first edition of the ACCOLADE. The measure of our gratitude to you grows with the recognition of the tremendous debt we owe to you. Uur school had its very beginning in your desire that a college preparatory school for boys be established in the diocese of Toledo. It was at your invitation that the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales accepted the administration of St. Francis. With your ready consent and interested support, the drive for funds was launched and completed. Your participation in the ceremonies of dedication and blessing of the school structure hon- ored us and lent to that occasion becoming dignity. During these three years we have been aware of your attention to the growth and development of St. Francis. We look forward now to the privileged moment when we receive our own accolade from your hand. We pledge to you complete obedience, constant loyalty, and filial reverence. Through the intercession of our own Bishop-patron, we beg for you the graces demanded by your exalted ofiqce. Please accept our grateful homage. 4 THE CLASS OF 1958

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The Very Rev. William A. Stahl, O.S.F.S. And to Father William Stahl we wish to offer LADE as a symbol of for his devoted labors the Catholic youth of der Father Stahl the the ACCO- our gratitude on behalf of Toledo. Un- Oblates First came to Toledo in 1943 as mem- bers of the faculty of Central Cath- olic High School. Then in 1947 Father Stahl founded Camp De- Sales, and upon completing his term as Superior he went to Detroit where in 1950 he founded Salesian High School. Father Stahl returned to Toledo to serve in his present po- sition as the founding pastor of St. Pius X Parish. ln the fund-raising campaign preceding the construc- tion of St. Francis, Father acted as honorary co-chairman. At present he is a member of the Oblate Provincial Council. St. Francis had its real beginning with the arrival of Father Stahl in Toledo. His energetic labors, pro- viding abundant example of the in- terest of the Oblate Fathers in the training of boys, resulted Hnally in this line new school. In Father Stahl we see a true model of the prayerful activity characteristic of St. Francis de Sales himself, and through him we wish to thank all of the Oblates who have helped us by their teaching and example. The class of 1958 bows to Father William Stahl in grateful and rev- erent acknowledgement. WVe fer- vently hope that he may remain to enjoy with us the rich fruit of the seed plated by him. St. Francis de Sales, patron of our school and of the Oblate Fathers, was Bishop of the Diocese of Geneva, Switzerland. During his lifetime, he was responsible for the conversion of some seventy thousand, wrote pro- lifically on matters of devotion and founded the Order of the Visitation. The eminence of his writings was recognized when he was declared a Doctor of the Church, and, more recently, as Patron of the Catholic Press. St. Francis is also Patron of the Deaf. Young men can have no better model than that found in his masculine virtue and genuine scholarship. We pray daily that his intercession may bring us closer to Our Divine Lord.