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

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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

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CONTINUATION OF SALUTATORY-- TONIGHT VE LEAVE THE PROTECTION OF OUR SCHOOL WALLS TO TAKE OUR STAND IN A VAR-SCARRED WORLD, STILL TURBULENT, STILL UNSETTLED, STILL DAZED AFTER A NIGHTMARE IN THE THROES OF A GOD-OPPOSING POWER. Is IT STRANGE IN VIEU OF THIS THAT A STRAIN OF SADNESS SHOULD CREEP INTO OUR REFRAIN OF JOY? YET, UNTIL THE ACTUAL DAWNING OF OUR TOMORROW VE CAN REJOICE, AND WE ASK You TO STAY AND REJOICE WITH Us, FOR, BECAUSE You ARE OUR FRIENDS, WE WELCOME YOU ONCE MORE! --LOUISE RONKARTZ U