St Ignatius High School - Ignatian Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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St. Ignatius and his first companions of the Society of Jesus pronouncing their vows in 1534. Six years later, the Constitutions of the Society were approved by the Church. STRIFE FOR THE CAUSE OF CHRIST THE KING Five

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• Four hundred golden years have slipped by s’nce that September day in 1540 when Pope Paul III officially established the Society of Jesus as a religious order, rhe first purpose of wh'ch was the spread of the K ngdom of Christ for the greater glory of Cod. Now, at a time when nations are spending millions in rearmaments, when civ lian coord nation is the watchword of a world in turmoil, when nations find themselves in danger of falling back into a barbarism far worse than that which oppressed the world at the time of the coming of the Redeemer, the war for Christ the K ng goes relentlessly onward, and the Jesuits are still in the vanguard. What better theme, then, m'ght we choose for this book than the recollection of a year at St. Ignat us. a Jesuit school, and the commemoration of four hundred years spent in the service of Cod by the Society of Jesus? Four

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DEDICATION ... 87 • Dedications are sometimes futile things They are so often written, published, and then forgotten. We Seniors of 1940 realize that these words may fast disappear among the nebulous memories of our youth However, m dedicating this yearbook, we have singled out a man who, we are confident, will live in our •houghts long after these words have faded and this book is lost in the dim archives of memory. It was just eight months ago that this man came to us as our first President; for. until then, St Ignatius was a part of John Carroll University. But he was not new to Ignatius, and Ignatius was not new to him As an energetic young professor of Latin and English just a few years back, he had absorbed an intimate knowledge of Ignatians and their school. Six