St Marys High School - Vale Yearbook (Clarksburg, WV)

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loyalty The Webster definition of loyalty is to be faithful and true to the lawful government, or to ones cause or creed. But could loyalty, in a broad sense ever begin to compare with loyalty to one another? Could there be any stronger loyalty than that which a student has for his school? Where can there be found a greater example of student loyalty, than that found in a small catholic high school in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where, since the firstyear of Saint Mary's High School in 19l4,there has been shown a spirit of loyalty, even until the school's final year in 1955. ln the case of Saint Mary's, loyalty reigned free for more than thirty years, and in each year there can be found one instant or more of true loyalty. In 1936 when the Stripers barely had enough to start a football team, the student body was proud of its ragged but rugged team. From the first year of Saint Mary's football team there has been true student loyalty. In the year 1940 after Sheriff Tiano had written a school song for the Stripers, they suffered a bitter defeat against their arch-rival, Roosevelt Wilson, but the student body after the game was over, walked around the main block of Clarksburg, singing Saint Mary's War Song. In 1954, on a cold drizzling night, an undefeated Stripers Team suffered another bitter defeat, in mud strewn, Doddridge Stadium. But after the game was over and the sad-faced,ha1f frozen Stripers Team returned to their school, they were greeted by cheers such as they had never heard before, cheers of loyalty, which reached into the heart of the lowest substitute and brought tears even to the most rugged of eyes. More proof of student loyalty came less than a week later when the same Striper Team that suffered such a heart-breaking defeat once more arrived in a rain swept stadium to contend with a Saint Francis undefeated team. That night the Stripers put on an exhibition of ball playing that left the near-capacity crowd in sheer amazement as they played their best ball game of the year and defeated a great Saint Francis Ball Club. Not only in sports are the students of Saint Mary's a symbol of loyalty, but they are also loyal to their school, priests, teachers, and one another as well. We feel that even though this is the last year for Saint Mary's High School, that in years to come, we will take great pride in saying that we were indeed fortunate to be a graduate of this great school. We will always remember our Alma Mater as being the most loyal of the loyal and we will always hope and pray that the spirit of Saint Mary's will never die, but that it will live on in our Notre Dame. Albert Anthony Romano 6 . -,,,. -. , LL,

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