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In September of this aca- demic year, the student body of St. Ignatius was forced to take a stand. Not more than a week after the bombing in Birmingham, Ignatians were faced with the challenge of committing themselves on the issue of racial justice in the United States. And they did, in large numbers, perhaps giving an example to other Catholics. For we have been accused of being rather tardy to assist the Negro in his fight for equality. St. Ignatius expressed its sympathy by showing up at the public demonstration downtown at the post office last September. A few days jater, more than three hundred fnatfcns ea?h e iey ecffctr tne rj ice of the “Mass for' ham. With these demonstrations, St. Ignatius High School had risen to the cause, taken a stand, and spoken for what it believes in. It was a beginning. The example of student leaders awakened many an S.I. boy, for the first time, to the urgency of a question that in- volves the teenager here in San Francisco, at S.I., as well as adults and children on the other side of the continent. America must work toward the solution to this serious question now. For the an- swer, we inevitably turn to the meaningful words of Christ. Because we feel that these events are of extreme importance to every student at S.J., we the editors and staff of the Ignatiau dedi- cate this book to the prin- ciple that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
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St. Ignatius High School Office of the President 222 Stanyan St. San Francisco California (94118) SK 2-S727 To the Graduates of. the Class of '64 and To the Members of St. Ignatius High School Student Body. You are indeed fortunate to be advancing in your education during a most challenging era. This was the theme of the address recently given by one of the principal speakers at the An- nual Jesuit Alumni Administrators' Conference. He said, New forms of government, new social sys- tems, new economic systems, new political systems, new nations, new states have literally trans- formed the face not only of Europe but of Africa and Asia as well. Not even Philosophy, which deals with the perennial, nor Theology, which deals with the eternal, have been untouched by the winds of change which have been blowing fresh as zephyrs through musty corridors, . .. I doubt that any similar period has furnished such abundant proof that change is the law of history. This is what makes this world so exciting a challenge. Those who refuse to accept change and who think they can freeze the status quo will be tossed aside as the waves of history sweep re- lentlessly forward. The challenge is to stay on the crest of the wave, to accept the dynamic charac- ter of history, and help mold and shape the future.” Here is where the challenge of leadership is flung to you, the graduates of this year of ’64 and to you who will soon be graduates in the not too distant future. This was the spirit of St. Ignatius, to face the facts and to adapt accordingly. This was the spirit of our beloved Pope John XXIII who summoned the Ecumenical Council to bring the church up to date.” You cannot sit idly by during this, one of the most challenging eras of his- tory. You must be informed and armed with knowledge and the truth. You must be fearless in applying truth and science to the needs of our times. To quote once again from the address referred to above, the problems of this world are eco- nomic, social, political, anthropological, cultural, philosophical, theological. Their number is legion, but I think they all fall into two main categories. These I call the two chief problems of our time: (1) the problem of peace in a thermo-nuclear age when war means unimaginable cosmic destruc- tion; and (2) the problem of the anguish of the poor, the millions of forgotten poor in our af- fluent society, the hundreds of millions of poor in less affluent societies of Latin America, Africa, Asia. The anguish of those who hunger, not merely for bread alone without which man cannot live at all but by which alone he cannot live either but who hunger too for know-ledge, freedom, dig- nity, justice, love. Who hunger for the beginning of schools and the ending of servitude, the rec- ognition of rights, the repudiation of racism, the tearing down of segregated arrogance and the building up of human communities.” The challenge is yours. I know- that you will more than meet this challenge and provide the leadership that is so sorely needed. May God bless all of you abundantly.
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