St Marys Academy - Echo Yearbook (Hoosick Falls, NY)

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The Senior boys enjoy a friendly chat with Sister Andrew Joseph. With a note of sorrow the Senior girls gather for the last time to sing their beloved Alma Mater. 24

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 A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find . . . Plutarch Sodality 1,2,3,4; C.Y.A. 1,2,3,4; French Club 2; Latin Club 1,2; Glee Club 4; Science Club 3,4; Choir 1; Library Club 3,4; Sophomore Float 2; Homemaking Club 3. JOANN K. BROMIRSKI EDWARD V. GORMAN The race by vigor not by vaults is won . . . Pope Class Treasurer 1; C.Y.A. 1,2,3,4; Latin Club 1; Science Club 3,4; Basketball J.V. 1,2, Varsity 3; Prom Committee 3; Baseball 1,2,3,4; Sophomore Float 2. 23

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RELIGION Because man is a creature made up of body and soul, the realities in his life have a two-fold aspect. Their true value lies, not in their material dimensions, but in what those dimensions stand for: their symbolic meaning. The Catholic looks upon his life, upon the ordinary, routine events of which it is composed, and sees a pattern emerging from its day-by-day happenings. In particular, he looks at his efforts to draw near to his God, and sees a grace-paved path taking shape out of the Masses attended, the rosaries recited, the good works performed. The graduate looks at his ring, a band of gold, and sees the symbol of a deeper reality: the un-beginning, the un-ending eternity of the Godhead, from whom he came and to whom he will return. He looks at the clear stone set in gleaming metal and sees a Faith, shining firm, clear and true, in a crown of Charity. What to the passing glance is just another class ring, is to the graduate a symbolic link of his life to God; what to all merely human appearances is a very feeble attempt to worship God, is to a loving Heavenly Father a child's faltering but unfailing steps down the path to sanctity.