St Mary Central High School - Renard Yearbook (Menasha, WI)

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THE PRIEST RT. REV. MONSIGNOR JOHN J. HUMMEL He needs no introduction because he is no stranger. He is Monsignor Hummel and our loved, good friend. No one person upheld and advocated chivalry, the purity and courtesy of knighthood, exemplified in Sir Galahad, as has our Right Reverend Pastor. Eightyfone years of serving God and denying self! A challenging record for any knight! We might call him our spiritual advisor, but we, like him, do not like highfsounding names. He was our spiritual friend, counselor and Father. We like to bridge- the formalities and call him Father, in the truest sense of the word. He was a constant source of strength and security to us. As the poet so aptly describes Galahad, His strength is of ten, because his heart was pure. The Holy Grail he has taught us to seek is perfect Catholicism. Unfailingly, unswervingly, his life has been a challenge for us to follow. Under the blue and white banner of the St. Mary he loves, we have been taught by him to be better Christians, devoted children of Our Blessed Lady, and not only to be good Catholics but to live Catholicism. That'sums up his work-that is the man-Right Rev. Monsignor Hummel, our beloved Pastor. May our Blessed Lady beseech her Divine Son to shower His blessings upon him. We can say no more, let it sufiice, in conclusion, to say-We love him deeply! Page 9 MONSIGNOR HUMMEL His years are full and rounded He sought and would not fail Life's greatest treasure-he won it' Each day he lifts that Holy Grail

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Uur Lady The Sweet Madonna Stands guardian of the campus And vigil keeps Of dear St. Mary's. Night and day, As the years roll by She stands waiting . . . Watching For us, her clients . . . Her children. She listens to our tales Of happiness . . . Cut tales of woe. Oh, Sweet Mother, pray for us Now And in the days to come. Protect us With thy mantle of blue. Help us to live Like Jesus Like you . . . Sweet Mother Mary Remember us . . . Always. Page 8

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REV JOSEPH A. BECKER, Principal To no one man do we owe so much as to our beloved Principal, Rev. Father joseph Becker. There has been no day but that he has not had our best interests at heart, no minute of any hour of that day that he has not been with us in spirit. Perhaps, as we leave this our loved Alma Mater, we will feel quite lost with' out him. To him, we may apply the words of Holy Scripture He will be with you at all times. He has sent us out, well armed, in quest of the Holy Grail, whatever that goal in life may be. He has given us the armor, he has given us the weapons and the steed, and of his own rich, practical knowledge many times over. When our Rev. Principal meets his God, he can truthfully say of us, in the words of Sir Galahad, For them I battled till the end, to save them from shame and evil. It is our sincere prayer that our Lord may grant him the Vision of the Holy Grail. It behooves us, to say in closing, that our hearts are overfllling with a deep, satisfying certainty in the knowledge that his has not been a work in vain. His challenge, Know your Religion, will become our weapon because it has been his unstinting, steadfast intention that our lives should be filled with the truths of Christ and with the things of Christ. Yes, Rev. Father Becker has sent us out as other Galahads to conquer self and the wicked world. By living good, holy lives . . . that is the only way we can repay him gratefully . . . that is the only way Rev. Father Becker would want it. We THANK YOU. Page IO