St Paul High School - Paulist Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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Vw FOREWARD As we approach the last important event of ourhigh school days -- GRADUATION, we realize thatwe have reached a mile- stone in the spiritual, intellectual and physical progress' of our lives. It is our fervent hope that the perusal of these pages will recall to our minds the ad vantages we have had in a Catholic education. Our duties to God, to our Country and to our fellow men have been clearly outlined and we trust that this knowledge will make us better citizens ofourbeloved country, and worthy of etemal citizenship in Heaven. . if ix

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Dear Graduates: We offer you our sincere congratulations and prayer- ful wishes for future success as you are graduated from St. Paul's High School. There is about all such occasions an aura of genuine excitement and suspense, a mingling of hope and apprehension, regret and exultation. The origin of these emotions can be traced to the experience of an all-pervading NEWNESS: completion of a task, the setting out upon new endeavors. When a thing is new, it isasource of great joy to all the beholders. After something new has been completed and is ready for use in the interests of mankind, there is always some sort of dedicatory ceremony to solernnize the event. A great ship quivers on the runway to the bay. Months of gruelling, painstaking labor have gone into the stately lines which mark her a queen. Strength to scorn OUR ASSISTANT PASTOR the most savage storms and beauty to beguile the ocean Father Mullen C. PP. S wastes are hers. Proudly she awaits the call to serve. Those men who built her feel their breasts swell, and their hearts pound as the launching reaches its climax. Someone dashes a bottle of champagne against her bow, the restrain- ing blocks a.re pulled away, and like a child rushing into his mother's arms she embraces the sea. Pandemonimri breaks loose. Deafening shouts and applause follow her from the shore. and from all sides the whistles of her sister ships in the harbor join the celebration. A dream has come true. Something NEW has been done. A NEW ship and a NEW voyage begun. For men nothing could be more thrilling than that. It is undoubtedly one more evidence of the immortality of the human soul, this celebration and gladness at the new. Babies have been born from the time of Adam, monuments have been erected ever since the Tower of Babylon, rivers have been bridged, frontiers conquered, great achievements brought to pass. All bear witness to man's etemal struggle for the NEW. History records that an empire which becomes complacent and rigid in its ways loses its spirit of enterprise and has begun to grow old. Soon it will crumble before the NEW enthusiasm of new peoples. With humans ageing is invariably connected with a progressive waning of interest in the new. Yes- terday becomes more important than tomorrow. The memories of the past stir the weakening pulse of old folk much more kindly than plans for the future. Rest is their watchword. For them life on this earth is drawing to its finish. Yet even here it is the certainty of NEW and ETERNAL life after death which casts about our elders its holy protection and often by God's grace leads them to pursue their Catholic faith with greater fervor than Q Continued on page opposite the Class Prophecyy

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