St John Fisher College - Jo Roffs Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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VERY REVEREND CHARLES J. LAVERY. C.S.B.. PH.D. PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE 12

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CHANCELLOR OF THE COLLEGE JACOBUS Dei et Apostoucvk Sedis Gratia EPISGOPUS ROFFENSIS My dear Men of 1962, When you came to St. John Fisher four years ago, it was my happy privilege to welcome you with the Mass of the Holy Ghost. The successful completion of your course of study would indicate a very generous response to our prayer on that morning in September, for those gifts of the Holy Ghost and your cooperation in using them have brought you the diploma of your Alma Mater. The story that began with that Mass reaches now a happy conclusion. In the more magnificent story which now begins, the same Holy Spirit is ready to direct every step of the way. All that God asks now is fidelity to the ideals of your school. Of that fidelity we are happy to feel deeply confident in the case of each of you. May Alma Mater be always as proud of you as she is today. Your devoted father in Christ ,

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ST. JOHN FISHER COLLEGE ROCHESTER 18, NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE PHESIOENT Much has happened to the world since you entered St. John Fisher College and began your studies toward the degree which you are about to receive. Historians say that the Modern Age is over and man has entered a new and unknown period. You will have much to do in shaping its course or being affected by it. Man now has the power in his hand to travel at unbelievable speed in outer space and to communicate around the world almost instantly. At the same time man is preparing to defend himself from the results of his own discoveries by going underground! Shadowing the world is the horrible possibility of peril and cataclysmic terror for millions of people. Is it not a paradox that one can conquer outer space but cannot live on the earth for which God made man to be master? The fault lies not with science but with our reason and our will. In the days ahead when man will apparently face his neighbor in hostility and maintain a feigned peace through the threat of nuclear war, people will look up and wonder. In the spirit of your patron, St. John Fisher, we pray that you will follow his way to peace: this is eternal life to know Thee, Jesus Christ. God alone can protect man from man at this moment of history. Either we will serve Him in spirit and in truth, or we shall be enslaved by the idol we have made with our hands. It is your glorious opportunity and obligation as graduates to be advocates of truth in a confused and suffering world. 13