St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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Zin Memoriam WILLIAM CARDINAL OCONNELL l859 I944 'r 1S the great prxvrlege of St Sebasuan s Country Dav School to have been one of the long ser1es of educatlonal 1nst1tut1ons wh1ch were estabhshed by Wrllram Cardmal OConne1l dur1ng h1s POHIIHCHCC As a matter of fact St Sebastlan s was the last of the Cardmal s schools Durlng the first months of the Schools CXISCCUCC the lxttle band of students used to observe the Cardrnal s car slowly mov1ng through the p1les of lumber and masonry as he watched closely the physlcal progress of the renovatlon of the former Newton Country Day School From t1me to t1me we learned that H1s Emrnence had sent for the Head master to revlew carefully the scholastlc progress of the School Frnally on a bleak day rn that first wlnter Hrs Emlnence came to St Sebast1an s to v1s1t w1th the students It was perfectly obvlous to us that he was 1n farlrng health Nevertheless he addressed the lrttle group of students with force and great v1gor urglng us to prepare ourselves for the cr1t1cal days wh1ch he assured us lay ahead He then blessed us wlshed us well and departed We never saw h1m aga1n We sensed however that he reta1ned h1s 1I1 terest 1n the School to the end The generos1ty w1th wh1ch he constantly 1mproved the phys1cal propert1es of the School 1nd1cated that very clearly When the sad day came wh1ch brought the news of th death of the Cardmal Archbrshop we knew that we had lost not only our Founder but our paternal Fr1end Gur hllal prayers w1ll ever be wlth h1m May he rest 1n peace I I - . . . . , I I I , . . . 1 ' 1 . , . , . , . 1 . . , 1 ' 1 1 . . , . . . 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 ' ' 1 1 - P ., 1 , .

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i ip , AW I If ff aaaa aa , ay af af W vw'-iliill X if .2 9gez9 X1 'us I 4 gy 9 T is with great loy and heartfelt devotion ,C 0 that we dedicate our first yearbook to our new Archbishop His Excellency Richard A ' Cushing D D It is particularly easy for us to do this with entire sincerity because we have all come ' to know our Archbishop during the years which preceded his elevation to the See of Boston. As young boys we heard ' him year after year in our parish churches pleading with Q-'N , it 0 on, after His Excellency had become Auxiliary Bishop of X . -. N, Z 1 I J ' 4 f I f 4 lf 9 bvyp y Z f f - I ' 9 W fa I 2 Za I alla' . I WZ? A if .. 'wig .' f H li 2 'x r ,,,,,, ,f' X ' li ex' T ' J Q- J V' A Ti , - 4 4 . ,, , , I 737 V i .nip X ,f ly.: 15 6. . . !,YXZ.i, 1 EC . fn ' is Lulu. , , , , : asp ' ,ll : ,nn D , l . ' x A ,-,,'7f . A . H . . '. ' '. af 3 , U ' f, 'Q f XJ ' lv on . 'l ' Boston, he administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to X' x 1 most of the members of the class of '45. By that time he L Q had come to typify in our minds the highest and finest ideals .' of the priesthood of our great Church. When therefore AL J our Holy Fat-her, Pope Pius XII, named Bishop Cushing to I succeed Card1nal,O-Connell as 'Archbishop of Boston w H at once became intimate participants in the wave of con ' tagious joy that swept over the Archdiocese. The Mass of Thanksgiving, offered up in our chapel the day following the J announcement, stirred us all to a deep realization of the providential and happy lot which had placed us and our School under the care of a great priest, a zealous missioner M and a profound lover of Catholic education. t In dedicating this first edition of The Arrow to His - Excellency, Archbishop Cushing, may we presume to wish him God's choicest blessings during what we hope will be . C,-xfa a long, happy and fruitful episcopate. , . r ' gbswwm-mow NU N '- extraordinary effectiveness for the Catholic Missions Later