St Johns College High School - Taps Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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. . . 1953 They come from the streets and the avenues, the parkways and the suburban roads into the imperial view of the Capital city-then west to Thomas Circle, to the military academy which plants daily the seed of America's strength in the heart of the nation, to the preparatory school which molds boys into citizens, soldiers and gentlemen, which is St. John's College. They come from o'er the city, joined in the great common denominator of St. John's, learning with one mind, one purpose: to do iustly, to walk humbly with my God. Hear and see, then-the majestic story of a year at St. John's. THE DEMUCHACY

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i 1 UUAHDIA S. . . LE DHHS. Below, His Excellency, Archbishop O'Boyle, flanked by One hundred and three years ago, the Arch- bishop of Baltimore and Washington invited the Christian Brothers to establish a college for young men in the nation's capital. Since that time, St. John's College has maintained a record of service to the Archdiocese, and since that time, St. John's has counted among its warmest friends the hierarchy of Washington. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Archbishop Patrick I0'Boyle, D.D., became Spiritual Shepherd of Was ington in l948. His xcellency received his college education at the Christian Brothers' college in Scranton and hc is the only American Ordinary who wears a relic ol SI. John Baptist de LaSalle in his Pectoral Cross, visible in the photo at left. O O l I I members ol the Latin-American hierarchy, passes through the guard of honor formed by Cadets at thc annual Pan-American Mass Thanksgiving Day. x .-