St Joseph Academy - Sajoscript Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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MARGARET ZETTLER SANDALPHON M. The Staff Editor-in-Chief VIRGINIA HAROLD Associates MARY MARGARET DODD GERTRUDE DEIINER RUTH IIOUT GERTRUDE ANSEL LU CILLE FULLER Athletic Editor DOROTHY YOUNG Art Director ELIZABETH MCDONALD Associates DIARY JACKSON VIRGINIA J AEGER Business Manager MARY BRENNAN Advertising Manager LIELDRETH MOORE Associates Subscription Manager ALICE BLAIR Patron Committee Z: ELEANOR MIKURER CATHERINE LYONS AGNES DUNNIGAN NELLIE MAHONEY ELIZABETH BATH BIARTHA THONE, Chairman page thirteen

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SANDALPIION Editorial SOYONS DISTINGUEES IIERE is a world of suggestion in the short phrase, What is it that sets a person apart as distinguished? ls it clothes, wealth, intelligence, educa- tion? It might be intelligence, but more than this it is character. Charac- ter is sometimes defined as moral excellence. Again it is, as some one has said, susceptibility to motive. According to the latter definition, the motives by which an individual is habitually animated, are those which give color to his character. It is from this angle, we wish to view character. I Throughout the ages, character in its best sense has been the distinguishing mark of truly great personages, the grandest and the noblest among them being the saints of God. It would be difficult to say who, apart from our Blessed Mother, is the noblest, but one that appeals very strongly to Catholic girls today is the warrior Maid ef Domremy. As a young girl of seventeen, intelligent, but having no education, she was called upon to perform a most difficult task. llcavenly voices convinced her that God wished her to be His instrument in saving France. However, being human, she had a free will and had it not been for her strong faith she would never have sacrificed so much in order to follow the dictates of her Voices At their command she gave up her home, her peace, her comfort, her security. In obedience to them she submitted un- complainingly to her trying position, lived the hard life of a soldier and en- dured the horrors and dangers ef war. Through it all, we see her wearing the white flower of a blameless life , holy, innocent, and courageous. Finally, to tes- tify to her belief in her God-given mission, she made the supreme sacrifice, that of ber very life. To the end she remained true to what she felt was God's will. Today the Maid of France is honored as a saint, by the whole Catholic world, and France accords her, as Jeanne d'Arc, a place of honor in the Pantheon. Certainly she is distinguished-distinguished for her nobility of character,-for her fidelity to God. Can we not, too, be distinguished? True, the task of securing a niche in life 's grandest llall ef Fame is a difficult one, but the reward is commensurate with the labor even here below where human evaluations are so obviously faulty. XVe are told that hung around the walls of the dining hall in one of England 's oldest universities are the portraits of former students who became famous. A rule of the institution requires that all these in attendance at the university dine there at least once a week. The reason for this regulation is not far to seek. The young men to whom life is just opening are thereby urged to follow in the footsteps of those who have gone before, and are encouraged by the achievements of those who enjoyed opportunities similar to their own, to aspire to great things. If the recollections of distinguished men he an incentive to strive for dis- tinction, then no child is so well fitted to reach the pinnacle of lasting success as the one whose school days have been passed within these halls of learning where the knowledge of God and llis saints is ef primary importance. If susceptibility to motive makes for character, then the Catholic girl, if she lives up to the ideals that have been placed before her all through school, is exceptionally well equipped to achieve distinction. The lesson of the years comes back to her time and time again in the words: Be good sweet maid, and let who will be clever: Do noble things, not dream them all day long, And thus make life, death and that vast forever, One grand sweet song. page fourteen