St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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THE CHAPEL The source from which the School derives its motivating spirit: scene of our morning and afternoon visits, our monthly Confession and Communion, our annual Retreat, our personally cared-for May Altar. Our four years have been spent as guests in this earthly House of God, and in consequence our lives will be lived in such a way as to win eternal residence in His Heavenly Home.

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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

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Mis fit, 5 'rr T it fk rw A we A-' f- ffa gs iort X' - ' XA AINT SEBASTIAN'S School was born into a war-torn S world less than six months before Pearl Harbor. At the time that His Eminence, the late Cardinal Arch- bishop, founded our new school, he insisted that it should serve the needs of the times, and the times were definitely militaristic. Accordingly, he placed the new foundation under the patronage of Saint Sebastian, the Soldier Saint whose martyrdom came to him on the deadly wings ofthe executioner's arrows in the year 286. ln filial tribute to our valorous Patron we have en- titled this history The Arrow , as being most sym- bolical of the life he sacrificed for Christ. Furthermore, since it was the banner of the Soldier Saint that rallied us into a solid phalanx of comradeship, it is entirely fitting that we knit together the sections of this record by means of the implements that were the conjoined witnesses of his unflinching loyalty. In this spirit then we shall have occasion to refer to The Bow, The Archer, The Quiver, The Arrows and The Vanes.