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

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Page 1 1 Pep, vigor, action and dynamic intensity. Spice well with a wonderful humor, absorbing enthusiasm and a heady zest for good, clean fun and Catholic Action and you have a personage who, suspiciously enough, resembles our dear pal Father Marx. We must admit that he puts us to shame with his own youthful vim and vigor. Perhaps in remembrance here, we should use stiff, grateful words, but it is quite out of keepf ing with the man himself, so we will drop them. We're going to miss those jokes, those long, ribftickling stories that only he could build up to a masterpiece of suspense with surpassing skill. They say we are quite young, and that the best parts of our lives lie ahead of us, but Father Marx has made these high school years so full and rich with longflived, happy experiences that we won't ever be quite able to forget them or him. A lively spirit of comradeship and camaraderie is what he leaves us and it is .1 great, endearing gift. We cannot wish him anything better than a life full of happiness in serving God. Perhaps his Grail has been sought for and won. If not, let us say, in the words of Tennyson about Sir Galahad, O just and faithful knight of God, ride on! The prize is near. Whenever we think of our dances, basketball games and social events vxe must invariably think of him, for he was so much a part of them. We can truthfully say of Father Marx, that he put the Pep into Pep Meetings. Some writers say that they love to capture the man and picture him as he is. We'd like to have one of them tell how vigorous, how full of dash and cheer our good friend was. We, who came to know him well, marked how the black eyes danced as did the spirit within. And yet there was so much earnestness in his desire that through fun and companionship, we come closer to God and His Blessed Mother. Wherever we go, whatever we do in whatever land we find our' selves, we will remember those happy, wonderful days and the man who made them so-!Father Marx! REV. BENEDICT MARX. Athletic Director K

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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

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Page I2 School Ofhcers james Murphy Dorothy Boehnlein Mary Dietz President Vicefpresident Secretary Treasurer james McKenzie James Murphy Dorothy Boehnlein Mary Dietz James McKenzie