St Michaels High School - Crusader Yearbook (Crowley, LA)

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VALEDICTORY THEY CONOUER WHO BELIEVE THEY CAN THEY CONOUER WHO BELIEVE THEY CAN--SUCH AN APPROPRIATE MOTTO FOR THE SENIOR CLASS OF I950--THE MID-POINT OF THE CENTURY. WITH NEW, MORE POWERFUL, AND GREATER FIELDS TO CONQUER, IN MEDICINE, RADIO, ELECTRONICS, AND ASTRONOMY, WE MUST ASSUME OUR RESPONSIBI- LITIES AS TOMORROW'S LAW-MAKERS, TEACHERS, SCIENTISTS, AND THOSE OF OTHER PROFESSIONS OF EQUAL NOBLE RECOGNITION. ,OUR MOTTO IS IN PERFECT KEEPING WITH OUR CLASS COLORS AND FLOWER, VIVID SCARLET, SIGNIFYING UNDYING LOVE AND COURAGE3 EXOTIC GOLDEN, IMPLYING ITS CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH THE GOLDEN AN- NIVERSARY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. IN CHOOSING THE GLADIOLUS AS OUR FLOWER, WE EMPHASIZED THE PRACTICAL PHASE OF OUR INTELLECTUAL TRAINING, SO TO SPEAK, AS THIS PARTICULAR FLOWER SEEMS TO BE THE MOST FITTING FOR ANY OCCASION. OUR OWN PROMISING CITY OF CROWLEY, TOGETHER WITH OUR DEAR ALMA MATER, HAS JUST OBSERVED ITS GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY. THIS IS AS IT SHOULD BE, UE FEEL THAT SINCE SUCH EVENTS ARE GIVEN DUE PROMI NENCE, WE ARE JUSTIFIED IN REJOICING IN OUR HAVING COMPLETED OUR HIGH SCHOOL WORK AT THE HALF-TURN OF THE CENTURY, AND MORE, DUR- ING THE HOLY YEAR- TONIGHT, WE ARE GRATEFUL--GRATEFUL TO OUR LOVING, DEVOTED PARENTS WHO WERE AN INSPIRATION IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS WHEN THE OUTLOOK WAS RATHER GLOOMYQ OUR DEEPEST THANKS TO OUR DEARLY BE- LOVED PASTOR, MSGR. MOLLO FOR HIS SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, TO THE SISTERS, WHO HELPED US THROUGH THE NUMEROUS ADVERSITIES WHICH WERE PART OF OUR SCHOOL LIVES, AND ON THIS OCCASION, WE OFFER OUR HUMBLE GRATITUDE TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, MASTER OF ALL TEACHERS IN YEARS TO coME, WE WILL OFTEN REVIEW THE TIMES WE HALKED THE CAMPUS or ST. MICHAEL'S, REMEMBERING CLASSMATES, LITTLE QUAR- RELS, FRIENDSHIRS, AND INCIDENTS WHICH WILL BE sToRED AS SACRED TREASURES IN oUR COLLECTION or MEMORIES. As A CLASS, WE ARE LEAVING OUR SCHOOLS BUT IN SPIRIT, WE SHALL EVER BE PRESENT TAKING PART IN THE MANY ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL HELP IT TO REMAIN AN OUTSTANDING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION. EVEN THOUGH WE TRY TO MAKE oUR ,DEPARTURE A Jovous ONE, A TINGE or SADNESS IS BOUND TO ENTER, FOR AS A POET ONCE SAID, 'SILVER FoUNTAINs HAvE MUD AND THE MosT BEAUTIFUL or ROSES HAVE THORNS, AGAIN WE SAY, WFAREUELL, ST. MICHAEL'S, WE THANK You AND WE SALUTE voU.' QM IWQ -g.T HZPII. jiiilgggiiix --ROWENA HAINS

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SALUTATORY RT. REV. MSGR., BELOVED TEACHERS, DEAR PARENTS, FRIENDS AND SCHOOLMATES! IN THE NAME OF THE GRADUATING CLASS OF I95O, I WELCOME YOU TO OUR CLASS NIGHT EXERCISES. NEED WE SAY WE ARE GLAD YOU HAVE COME? LOOK AT THE PRESENCE HERE INTEREST YOU HARD TO REACH YOU HAVE ONLY TO REALIZE THAT YOUR T0 THE BRIM. THE WE HAVE WORKED SO PLAYED IN THE WARM, HUMAN WAY OF FRIENDSHIP--THE WAY WE ED TO UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE SO WELL AT S.M.Ho THE WAY OF MUTUAL SHARING OF JOYS AND SORROWS. HAPPY FACES OF EACH ONE OF US T0 TONIGHT HAS FILLED OUR HAVE SHOWN THROUGH THE OUR GOAL THIS NIGHT IS CUP OF JOY YEARS WHEN BEING DIS- HAVE LEARN OTHER YEARS, WE HAVE TAKEN OUR PLACES AMONG YOU. WE HAVE LIS TENED TO THE EXPRESSED HEART-BEATS OF OTHER CLASSES AS THEY SPOKE OF INTERMINGLED JOY AND SADNESS, IN THOSE YEARS, WE THOUGHT THEN, THAT SURELY, THERE WOULD BE ONLY THE JOY FOR US--TO PUSH OPEN THE PORTALS OF LIFE AND TAKE OUR PLACES AMONG THE JOSTLING, EAGER CROWD! THE WORLD WOULD BE OURS TO CONQUERI THE DULL MONOTONY OF SCHOOL ROUTINE WOULD BE REPLACED BY THE EXCITING THRILL OF BEING ONE OF THE MANY WHO SEEMED T0 HAVE SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR, SO MUCH TO ACCOMPLISHI BUT TONIGHT? TONIGHT WE KNOW THAT THERE IS A STRAIN OF SAD- NESS IN OUR JUBILANT SONG ALSO. YOUNG AS WE ARE WE HAVE SEEN THE MAKING OF HISTORY, WE HAVE EVEN SEEN THE WRITING OF IT IN THE WARM HUMAN BLOOD OF SOME WHO BUT A FEW YEARS AGO STOOD AS WE ARE EVEN NOW STANDING--UPON THE THRESHOLD OF A LIFE ENSHROUDED IN THE MYSTERY OF UNCERTAINTY. WE HAVE HEARD THE STRONG BEAT OF A NA- TION'S HEART OF TYRANNY TO PLANT THE COLORS AND HAND THE TORCH OF LIBERTY AND JUSTICE TO AN ENSHACKLED GENERATION, TO SUPPRESSED PEOPLE. WE HAVE BEEN TOSSED UPON THE SURGE OF THE TURBULENT SEA OF AN AROUSED PUBLIC OPINION, OF AN OUTRAGED JUSTICE, OF A STRENU- OUS COLD WAR. THROUGH IT ALL, THE TERROR-DAYS AND HORROR-NIGHTS OF THAT SO RECENT CONFLICT BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG, BETWEEN JUS- TICE AND INJUSTICE, BETWEEN TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD, THE PRINCIPLES, FOR WHICH MILLIONS OF HEARTS WERE BEING LIVES WERE BEING WRUNG, T ENFOLDING WINGS OF OUR ONLY TRUTH COULD CONQUE BRING TRUE PEACE. TOMORROW WE HOPE TO TORY AS BEARERS OF THE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR OUR OF WORLD CONQUESTS. A GR LITY WE CANNOT SHIRK . o oox FIRM Roof IN ALMA Munn, ST. R3 oNl.v THE Jusr BLED, AND MILLIONS OF OUR HEARTS, BENEATH THE MlCHAEL'S HIGH SCHOOL ICE OF A JUST GOD WOULD TAKE OUR PLACES AMONG THE MAKERS OF HIS- TORCH OF THAT NEWLY-WON PEACE. TOMORROW TONIGHT. No LONGER DO WE THINK WITH JOY EAT RESPONSIBILITY IS OURS, A RESPONSIBI- . THE TORCH OF PEACE IS IN OUR KEEPINGI