St Joseph Commercial High School - Parmentier Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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'JRTUNATA FRANCES SAVERESE aint James Pro-Cathedral D ffm ,mu of nrlislir fame Jrfunala we aflcl your name. L I LEIQN FIARY SEIFRIIZIJ 1int Epllrem zlrivfe Henry in, disguise mo of lzislory in ,mr vyzfs. I I DRNELIA CATHERINE SHANNON isitntion we of music, lovv of song 7? AiCOlllliP,, IIGJPV UI, flflv Iollfl. p I P , . . I I ARGARET ALOYSIA STRONG mint Anthony Padua will last ever and long I0 happy Iaugfzlor of Iwargio Slrong. I I .xzAmf:Tn I3RlDGET TIIOINIAS mly Name iiling eyes. dancing feel eflys' pirlure is fllus Conlplvle. I I NA RITA x'YAN LASCH int lxhxttlmew once is golden so llwy tell P Iwlivvv lllis fils Edna very well. SENIORS OF JANUARY, 1941

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FRANCES BIARY PoI-ITo Good Sllepllercl Your rlignify woven IIIHII CIIGFIII rmrl gracv llelp you in Imsinvss fo hurl yoI place. I I CZATHERINE IAUUISE CQUINN Cxloofl Shepherd Surcvss in business is llvrc fo slay Led by a scholar like our UKIQIU. I A IXIARIE CIKTIIERINE REIZIJX' Saint Saviour Tall and sweet is our fwarie, To lim land of success, sim has the ke A I DoRoTIIY BIARGARET RINCIQ Saiui lxlary Gate of Heaven A smile tlzafs soft and eyes of Hua XVI' hurl and uclnlire ill a girl like you. . ' YV? I I INIARGARET AIIELAIDE RYAN Visitation Vivavious, with' anrl mosf mrofreo Xvlmrv fwargarvf is. no gloom will In I I .AGNES AIARY SANIIS Our Lady of Perpetual Help Two lilflo words of Agnus we speak Ono is gentle, ffm oflmr nwvk. SENIORS OF JANUARY. 1941

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a . O O C When a master crallsman lays down his tools at last and says lt is done. it is with a leeling ot deep regret that he sees the fruit ot his labor passed to the world to be tried. So, we believe, St. Joseph must tcel to see his children enter the business world to be tried, tested and approved. The theme of his workmanship was the development in his subject of a strong sense of loyalty to duty. It is most essential that we young graduates going forth into the world should ever have belore our eyes this ideal, it we ever wish to attain happiness in this lite and the lite to come. Nothing is impossible to those whose guide is duty. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low Thou must , The youth replies 1 can . f- EMERSON Duty can, to many. become an unbearable burden or a joylul incentive to greater things. To us, it can only be one: tor joy is never n burden. We have been trained throughout our high school years to embrace duty as a guide on the road to success. A person without duty is like a llower without the sun, lor neither has much motive lor living. At this moment, we are preparing to enter a world where duty plays a very prominent part and wc are contident that our training will carry us through, to ultimate victory. Through the untiring efforts ot our beloved teachers we have come to that phase ot lite where we look forward to our incumbent duties us a means of attaining our place in this pattern ot lite. The old lite is behind us. and now we look forward with eagerness to a new one where duty is the chief stepping stone, Not only to ourselves do we owe the duty ot striving for success in whatever Field we have chosen tor our vocation, but to our parents we owe the fruits and enjoyment ot our achievements. Many may choose to become secretaries: some perhaps will enter other commercial lields ot business: and a chosen few may be called to the higher life. Whatever their ambition, each has her special duty relative to her choice, and her true success will depend in large measure on the extent to which she tullzills those duties. We are achieving our external salvation by recognizing and fullilling our duty to God, our country and our neighbor. The great poet Milton has said that a complete and generous education is that which tits a man to perlhorm justly, skiltully and magnanimously all the atztairs both private and public ot peace and war. Our education then has been complete and generous, tor our spiritual lite has been ted with the truits ot the Holy Ghost. and the grace of his gilts, while our intellectual lite has blossomed forth under the guidance ot our reverend Faculty. St. Joseph, too. has inspired in us a great devotion to duty, and a just performance ol ull our tasks. To our parents we owe our sincerest gratitude and our greatest loyalty. From experience. they knew that the foundation ot a lull successtul lite is laid in our formative school years and our future success would largely depend upon our past training. They have spent unsparingly ot their lives, their fortunes and their happiness. to give us the best that lite can olzter. To them we cannot say we are grateful, it is not enough. We can only hope that our future lite, the success we attain, the pure joy we bring them will in a very small measure repay the trust they have placed in us. Their sacrifices are written in love, deep in our hearts. To our dear teachers, the members ot the Faculty, we leave the hope that their work will continue to be fruitful. Through their kind labor we have acquired the knowledge necessary for a successtul pursuit ot the bubble ot success. Their deeds will never be forgotten by the Class ot 1941, and we shall always hold a special hallowed spot in our hearts for them. No tribute seems worthy enough, so we simply say -.GDII Bless YOILU Dear fellow Graduates : Tonight we enter upon a new order. No longer will our daily actions he guided by our teachers. But hereafter, we ourselves must distinguish between right and wrong. One ot the greatest philosophers ot our times, Monsignor Fulton Sheen once asked, Hvvhat is the purpose ol living? it lille has no other goal than dust, then it is built upon selfishness. But it lite is moral, and the way we live determines our existence in the next world, our lite is right. So let us graduates try to preserve the ideals carved out by Saint Joseph. so that when we lay down our lives, we may close our eyes saying, We have seen our duty and we have done it. We have observed the motto 'lte Ad Joseph, and we have followed him up-Up to God! -1 LILLIAN KEARNS