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

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1 the joy of conversation 2 Man loves to congregate. 3 Man ' s indtvidiiality remains, even in sports. 4 Clasped hands — sign of friendship. 5 Feet express many things.

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Atheistic Communism Creates an Island East Berlin becomes an island at the very heart of Europe No man is an island; no man can stand alone. This is perhaps as basic a fact as a student must learn in school life and again later on in the wide, wide world. Two monolithic giants. Mili- tant Communism and Western Democracy, have shattered the unity of our troubled planet to such an extent that no one can be neutral. This cleavage has found concrete and barbed- wire e.xpression in the monstrous Berlin Wall. While the Wall physically seals off Berlin from the free world, symbolically, it is a wa e which threatens to advance and to engulf the earth. Stone, steel and concrete can stop bullets, shrap- nel, tanks, trucks and people to a degree, but are the communist overlords so naive as to think that a wall can stop ideas, the spiritual offspring of the human spirit and intelligence? We are firmlv convinced that the verdict of historv will be No! Faculty Studies Activities Athletics Students Seniors Senior Directory Index ¥ r 18 30 40 64 94 134 166 172 Ijfi St. Francis De Sales High School • Bancroft Parkside Toledo. Ohio ' olunie 6

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Can Man he a Fart of the World This is the joy of living. Man is happiest when he is associating with others. Even when with others he -preserves his individuality. No man is an island! He is born into a family, and so he is from his tenderest years by this very fact a social being. As he grows up, his religious, social, cultural and business or professional life becomes more complex and far-reaching. To live is to become involved or, as existentialists put it, committed. A Christian gentleman regulates this aspect of li -ing with charity, understanding and generosity. Yet man is, in a ve y real sense, an island. In the secret recesses of his own soul is his island where he is really himself. This island he reveals to very few, to God and to those he loves very deeplv. It is his citadel of individuality in a sea of social frenzy. It is this fortress of the soul that enables a man to escape fusing with the faceless ones. And still preserve the sacredness of his individualit} ?