St Johns Catholic Academy - Eagle Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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THE EAGLE Nine W ll gi n 5 Q er -cg? ' L ' A.'.'.'.',lfQ fy.. nv . Flin, ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC ACADEMY On either side of the stone steps leading into St. John's Catholic Academy can be seen in bold relief the numbers 1882. YVhat does this date signify? Let us go back in retrospect and see that day in eighteen hundred and eighty-two on which the corner stone of this building was laid. Father Guerdet was then the pastor of St. John's Church! the diocese of Syracuse was not yet formed. Perchance to some of those present on that day, a vision of the succeeding years may have been given. The following year saw the building com- pleted, saw the teachers, the Sisters of St. Joseph, saw the first pupils, entering the portals of St. John,s Academy. How many pupils since that first day have entered its doors? How many, having received the honors of the school, have continued their studies in higher institutions of learningg how many dis- tinguished citizens of Church and State have trodden the halls of this same St. John's? Can the inHuence of this Academy, one of the oldest Catholic schools in the city, be measured? Probably notfyet its students of almost half a century, given a Catholic educa- tion, lnust have left their impress on the com- munity in which they have lived. Truly these students realize fully the debt of gratitude they owe to those teachers, who con- secrating their lives to the glory of God, have taught them the real duty of Christian youth. For no artist ever had a vocation so noble, so blessed as he who moulds the youthful soul. God continually calls unto Himself, the saintly ones whom He has chosen to do His work. Yet time will never erase the memory of those who led these scholars to the home of a Chris- tian education. VVe, the class of '28, trained in principles of honor and love, principles which like a fan on smoldering embers of a iire, have ever kept alive in us the spirit of Christian youth, are enabled to have a greater devotion to the institutions and ideals of God and of Country. RAYMOND H. BILLS.