St Johns Academy - Aquila Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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CHARGE T0 .I U NIORS Today, as the illustrious Class of Forty-one stands on the thresh- hold of departure from good old S. J. A., about to go forth from the halls of our Alma Mater into a world where our own sense of responsi- bility is to be substituted for teachers and rules, we are filled with a sense of obligation to outline for the group who so hopelessly aspire to fill our shoes certain rules of conduct which if followed with care should have the effect of making life very much easier for teachers and others who unfortunately must bear for one more year their unwelcome' presence within these walls. Need you ask of whom l speak '? Let us look back to a September morning of 1938, the opening day of school. Well it is that we Seniors l'QlllQ1lll7Ql' that day. lnto these halls we came as Sophomores, with our position of superiority over all the other classes firmly established. But on that same day into these halls 031118 the Class of Forty-two, a group of wild-eyed, terror-stricken individuals, one after another, wearing a facial expression which bore the immaterial label lost',. Though your numbers seemed endless and though we scanned each face for the sight of even one who might under our careful guidance and direction for three years emerge a likely prospect to be trusted to carry on the traditions of scholarship, deportment, punctuality and ability estab- lished by the Class of Forty-one, our efforts were fruitless. There you were, future candidates for the present Junior class, poor, bewildered, unsophisticated, homesick children thrust upon us, devoid of even the slightest vestige of intelligence. Of course we who are about to leave you, realized the responsibility which Fate had so heartlessly wished upon us, and we rose to that responsibility. VVe consoled you with words of wisdom and encouraged you to bear up and carry on despite your shortcomings. We even took some of you out evenings in an en- deavor to improve you but, alas, the task was impossible. This year, as in all the years that we have been with you, in all matters of any importance which have been performed here, we have led and you have blindly followed. iWe need not recall the many out- standing demonstrations of your absolute and undisputed inability to carry on in this institution where we leave off. But the Class of Forty- one would fail in its duty if it failed to charge you to return to S.J.A. in September of this year, determined to live up to the ideals which we have set for you. The question of what is to become of you without us