St Marys High School - Bluebook Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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J 5 g, QE! r f--s all What are Little Boys Made of? What are Little Girls Made of? When we were little children, we heard the nursery rhyme which answered these questions by telling us that little boys are made of snips and snails and puppy-dog tails' and that little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice . Now we would like to pose the question, What is a senior made of . We will then attempt, through the medium of our yearbook in pictures, drawings, and writing, to show what goes into the making of a graduate of St. Mary's. As you turn to each new section in the book, a drawing in Checkerboard fashion symbolizes the department in that section. The graduation hat of a senior on the opposite page symbolizes that each of these things helps to form the ideas and ideals of the graduating senior. As you know, people generally act out their ideas whether they are good or bad. It is for this reason that our Catholic school system seeks to educate its students in all phases of life, spiritual, social, mental, and physical. Only then can it rest assured that its students are well trained for all of life's responsibilities and many of life's jobs. In an effort to see how the seniors will fare, take a look at the ideas that they get from their high school education. The first place where ideas are born is, of course, in the classroom. No matter what subjects a person takes, he leams truth - truth which is the basis of ideas. Every class is important but some even more so than others. Nevertheless, all of them must be mastered. A solid youth does master them because he realizes that education is but a prologue to the real play of life. He might complain more than his share, but he doesn't mean it. Deep down inside he loves his books because he realizes that they enoble him. Secondly, he gets ideas from his social life, from pep meetings to dances, from class exchanges to football games. These are good ideas because they are the ideas of youth who have not yet tasted the bitterness of deep responsibility but still know that life often expects difficult things. From associating with his classmates, a student obtains food to nourish his ambitions, his dreams, his hopes, for youth has a way of encouraging that is all its own. Thirdly, a student gets his ideas from God. Youth is not always the carefree, con- science-free time that adults sometimes profess to remember. A really strong youth spends many minutes of his teen-age life with his God because he knows that all too soon he will be sent into the adult world with a diploma stuck in his hand and be ex- pected to take his place in the ranks. He goes to God for strength, for hope, for courage. Such is the optomisitc youth of today, of yesterday, of tomorrow. They have cer- tainly been given a well-rounded education, it is up to them to use it. However, where they use their learning is 11012 so important as how and why they use it. God grant us, the youth of America, the strength, the courage, and the perseverance to do always what is best for God, for world, and for self. ia l 1 limi' fx lid' , a 9 A ' 1,77 w ' w -'F f ll l ll at 'FND n 8 '- 6 cs.,-x Y a

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The fate of a nation lies in the lives of its youth. Therefore, it is up to the teachers who form the minds of youth to train intellects and wills to seek the good for God, world, nation, and self. We of St. Mary's thank God for having given us those who have dedicated their lives to this important task. We know that we owe to the priests, the Sister -Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and to the lay fac- ulty, the knowledge and thinking power that we have acquired. We students who have benefited by the training we have received owe to our teachers a debt of gratitude which can never be repaid. We can best thank them by making the best possible use of what they have given us.