St Marys High School - Blue Mantle Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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TRIBUTE TO FATHER RIORDAN Whoever has come into contact with Father Riordan can readily understand the position he holds among the students and faculty of St.Maryfs.His careful guidance,his sage phil- osophy and words of kindly wisdom have made it difficult to pen a tribute applicable to his worth. There is much about him that is superlative as a friend,a priest,philoso- pher and gentleman. We could fill page after page with his accomplished deeds and still remain afar off from achieving our objective. The greatness that has been told of him com poses a small minority of the vast amount of excellent qual- ities that he possesses. The old,but ever true saying,that speech is silver but silence is gold can readily be spoken of him. For his eager willingness to aid us in all our concerns we pay him our highest respect.For his humbleness in keeping these matters only to a selected few we indeed admire him. His noble deeds are never told by him,for of them he remains mute and silent. He seeks no reward of praise, no esteem of glory or any recognition of honor. We regret that we are not gift- ed with the pen of Shakespeare in order to express adequate- ly what our hearts desire. It displeases us to speak of our own inability. with great sorrow we acknowledge our defect and submit our token of perpetual appreciation. with meek simplicity,therefore we offer our humble tribute and in the words of the poet we say . . . . HThe dearest friend to me, the kindest man, The best condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies .

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OUR PRINCIPAL Behind every enterprise there must be a driv- ing'force, a motivating power that makes it what it is. The dynamo behind every achievement of St. MaryYs can be found in the unassuming person of our beloved principal, the Rev. John P. Donahue. His singleness of purpose,ten- acity to his ideals, his fearlessness in defending them, the logic with which he does so, must of necessity win for him the respect and admiration of all who come in contact with him. His grasp of every phase of school life is astounding to the ordinary man, for here is no ordinary man,but truly an exception. Never a day goes by but he is helping someone, scolding or praising as he sees fit, with an uncanny ability of suiting the method to the situation. Each and every student is his spirit- ual child and his personal friend, and it is a friend- ship we shall cherish all our lives for its depth and sincerity. And when we look back on our school days,one of our dearest and most vivid memories will be that of Father Donahue,working incessantly for the good of those whom the Lord has placed in his care, teaching them by his inspiring talks and the example of his own life, to become what he so sincerely desires us to be, what he himself is in its fullest sense, a friend of Jesus Christ.