St Johns Preparatory School - Prep Shadows Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Qi' of ia 22 f EQ iw. 5,2 paul' , 7,472 Lf ' ' W7 f , W if fa. W, , fa -W, gg,-mf ' ,WY , ' f ' nfl, f 4. ww 4: 4, ,ffm ' X 5 k,V, ,, ,fa ,,,, , , - ,,,, , new -' W THE central image is a lamp of knowledge, setting on top of three books. The lamp is burning, the books are labeled Scientia, Humanitas, Religio. lt is the seal of St. John's. This small image is surrounded by a circle, and in the circle four Greek words- Luchnos, Kaiomenos, Kai Phainown. These Greek words are taken from the Fifth Chapter of St. John's Gospel. It is John the Evangelist referring to St. John the Baptist, and the says, He is a bright and shining light. Let's leave the Greek slogan of the seal, for a moment, and pick up each of the books which lie beneath the lamp of knowledge. The first book is labeled Scientia. This word means knowledge, a knowing, understanding, today's know how. The priests and professors have given their very best to be sure that we got the best. From this point on it's all up to you. Don't let the light go out, but keep it burning and shining. f Let's turn to the second book under the lamp of knowledge,-its title Humanitas -its meaning: human nature, humanity, the human race, man- kind. Of those who are able to exert an influence over you, some will be good: others bad. Your influence must not admit these two alternatives. It has to be an influence for the good. Therefore, as a true St. John's man, it is essen- tial that you be a burning and shiriingV'lIight. ' G Let's pick up the third book. Its title- Religio. Its definition might be conscientiousness, a sense of right, moral obligation or duty. For you as graduates of St. John's Prep, this last book Religio is all of these and much more. lt is a way of life. You have seen religion in action. Now it is up to you to put it in action, that is, in your own actions. ' Asfyou go out from St. John's, each of you represents a bright and shining light. While you keep your lamps burning and shining you can attract, you can show the way and you can dispel the murky evil in the world, but once. the light goes out you are useless, and the world can do nothing better than stumble over you. Once again, it is all up to you. ' , Asfyou leave St. John's you carry, in your own hands lamps that are bright and shining. There is one lamp- for each of you. There is one person who can keep ifffbright and keep it shining. Remember, it's all up to YOU.

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7 A HIGH SCHOOL career is a wondrous experience! At no other time are so great forces at work in the development of the individual. We here at St. John's are supremely fortunatehto have spent this transversal period from boyhood into manhood under the guidance of manly priests and priestly laymen.. But as all good things must eventually pass into the realms of memory, we, the students of St. John's, have published these memoirs of Joe Prep as he spent his Senior year-to preserve these ever-coveted recollections from the ravages of time and fading memories. Take them: read them: live them again, not with a realization of an early youth now spent, but with a mind towards the eternal reward for which all our life is a preparation. For life, like a shadow, is but a dark reflection cast by the finite, just as these Prep Shadows are but a reflection of the bright and shining light which symbolizes St. John's.i X 5 x in , Q X' X if , 'A ,,., sw k -, - X s , x.,ti,- s as we M milk , xvxx mzxbclw . ,iw cegyx , . js 'Www