St Marys High School - Green and White Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Monsignor ALFRED G. THOMPSON Superin tenden t The St. Louis Catholic High School Asso- ciation is very fortunate in having Monsignor Thompson as its administrator. His efforts in enlarging and modernizing Catholic High Schools of the city will be fully realized in the erection of the six new Post- War High Schools. Eight years of loyal service to Catholic Students merits reward to him. FATHER JAMES E. HOFLICH Assistant Superintendent To an assistant go the unthankful tasks necessarily connected with such a position. Father Hoflich is owed the thanks of each student for his observing interest in their behalf. His one year of fruitful service as Assistant Superintendent proves his usefuUness to the modern Catholic student.

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His Excellency Archbishop John J . Clennon With religious indifference so rampant throughout America, our beloved Archbishop has struck at the root of the evil by furthering the religious education of the youth of St. Louis, through his diocesan system of intellectual development. South Side students are deeply grateful to him for persevering efforts in this line and assure him of their future cooperation in his post-war school building program for the Catholics of the archdiocese. They are thankful that God has granted him sixty years of fruitful service as an ambassador of Christ, and they wish him many years of continued interest and zeal for his flock, and South Side in particular. 6]

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OUR PRINCIPAL Bro. Julius J. Kreshel TO THE CLASS OF 1945 Felicitations to the Class of 1945 on your graduation from South Side Catholic High School. Parents, teachers and frieii s are proud of you because you have realized the high hopes they had placed in you. At this time you ore mindful of the persons and agencies that made possible your opportunities: your parents, your pastors, the Achdiocesan Catholic High School Association. With the years you will recall with an ever increasing gratitude the devotedness of the many teachers with whom you daily associated. You go forth from us to shoulder serious tasks in the immediate future. Upon your generation will rest the burden of winning the war and of constructing a new world order. You are equipped to make distinct contribution to the world as it will be. You have faith, faith in an intervening Providence, faith in supernatural values, and faith in the brother- hood of man. You believe in the dignity of the individual, his birthright of freedom, his eternal destiny. Go forth, then, with great confidence to carve for yourselves your several careers. Serve God and Country. Be true to the ideals that you have learnt to know and love. Leaven your future environment with those same ideals. Congratulations to the Class of ' 45 and to its editorial staff on the production of this year book. In it you will find enshrined some of the pleasant memories of persons and events that were yours at South Side Catholic High School. With the accumulated years, these memories of class room and campus will gladden your hearts anew and will spur you on to become more and more what you are right now, upright and virile Catholic men. Your teachers wish you all success. Their prayers and their blessings attend you as you march down the corridors of time. Brother Julius J. Kreshel, S. M.