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DEDICADOM ”1i here there is no vision the people perish,” There is in this ' venerable quotation, a fund of reflcb- tion for us, V ith justice, v e may say that where there is no vi¬ sion, education perishes. For the vision referred to of necessi¬ ty has to be a vision of eternal truth. It has to be something much more substantial than mere phrases throvm into well sounding speech,It has to be something much more enduring than mere flights of the imagination,It cannot be an appeal to mere emotion,It has to correspond to real substantial objects in reality. It has to exemplify the truth because it must be the truth. Since, therefore, in our day at least, the people learn to know and love the truth largely through the teachers who guide them, education itself must have a vision or the people perish.If the teacher lacks the vision how can the education he or she im¬ parts possess it? If education lacks vision,v hat v ill preserve it? Happily v e have never been V anting in that vision here at St, Mary ' s, Her teachers, the highly regarded Sisters of St. JosephjV ere personal embodiments of it. They not merely pointed it out to us. They themselves first of all possessed it. They gave it to us in the most beautiful of all ways a personal liv¬ ing by it.It was apparent in the poise and gesture of their daily lives. We sav it not ' far av ay but immediately before us in the beauty and simplicity, the devotion and self-sacrifice of their hourly occupation v ith us. They did not preach it in prose or po¬ etry unless v e mean by that that we could not help but read it in the prose and poetry of their busy,unselfish,unassuming zeal to serve the little ones of Christ, Indeed, v e at St, Mary ' s had a vision. It v as a vision which first sav the light of day in a deserted cave in far away Bethlehem. There was truth and beauty and peace in it. The Truth Itself was there in Bethlehem. Perfect Peace was there. The un¬ challenged Beauty of Eternity was there. Those who sav that Vision never were the same afterv ards. They couldn ' t be. To bring that Vision from Bethlehem to us was the beginning and the end of the very presence of ' a Sister of St, Joseph in our classroom. Every word she uttered, every line she drev , everv book she opened was for that ' noble purpose. Our classroom, therefore, had something about it, often enough indiscernible. e knew we were not merely in a classroom. V e knew that something more than the mere pur¬ suit of languages and history and science made our achaol ..days the happy v onderful days they were, 7e had teachers who had a Vision, They loved it so much themselves that it became part of them.Prom them the possession of it and the love for it came to us, t , We dedicate this Yearbook to these valiant wo ' men.We hope in this fashion to offer to the Sisters of St,Joseph one token of gratitude at least for their scrupulous care of the trust which v as theirs to show us the Vision. Me ask them to keep us in their thoughts and prav ers tliat by the Goodness and Mercy of God we may ever cherish and preserve that Vision,
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FOREWORD HAT THE memories and events v hich have taken place in the last four years of our training under the careful guidance of the faculty may not go unacloiowledged, we, the Class of 1939, have composed in this yearns Blue Mantle all our activities and achievements, hoping that our Alma Mater may in days to come, be as proud of us, as we are of her. I i...... Anna Curley
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