St Sebastians School - Arrow Yearbook (Newton, MA)

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, HIS EXCELLENCY l l N 'Al I' 0 fx Js! Z?sN-HZ., NJ N O 9 T IS the privilege and honor of the Class of 1947 Q A to express anew the loyalty and devotion of the 1 A A boys of St Sebastian s to our Archbishop. It has been made perfectly clear to us always both di- rectly and 1nd1rectly that Archbishop Cushing is not only the actual head of our school but that he IS also our inspiration and friend We have lived for four years in the light of these heart- ening facts It is now our obvious duty to declare our appreci- ation on , We are grateful to His Excellency for the atmosphere, sur- charged with faith and zeal in which we together with all the f other young people of the archdiocese have lived and had our being We are grateful for the forceful policy of constant edu- cational improvement which has given to us a profound confi- dence in our academic background We are grateful for his care i and solicitude which have provided us with all that is best and AJ 1 most helpful during our preparatory years We are most definitely grateful for the inspiring words of approval and blessing with which he greeted the students and friends of St. Sebastian's at our last graduation ceremony. We are happy to take advantage of the present opportunity to ex- ' , press our sincere thanks. We are indeed loyal to His Excellency. a ll X. t 4. J , And we are sure that our loyalty can best be manifested to ' f him by our loyalty to St. Sebastian's, his school, of which we are I arf' and hope ever to be most loyal and deserving sons. ' . f X I U V J' X Arrhhiahnp Gluahing J Q iff l 14:-vf'::..1? 'I ' - J .MQGN YT A U -X -M 1 all-r ,g, ive-,A lakh, . , . i 1 +P - . ' Ta E . , . . f l J . ' - . - .- l. ' ag , X r.,, 9 fa -.,,,v-A . xvf UW 'il 5Nu5 NA 'Uw,f- D

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l'Innnr in 1351111111 lllunnr in Bur riff' ? N presentrng thrs hrstory of our four years at St Se f bastran s we wrsh to pay a specral trrbute of gratrtude p R1-4 -2 1:1 and affectron to our Headmaster Very Reverend 'Lf Charles D Mclnnrs It was he who first welcomed us to the School and pornted out the goal for whrch we were to strrve Srnce that day he has exerted an rnfluence over us that has been rmpell rng and constant and rn the course of whrch the relatronshrp of Teach er and Puprl somehow transcended ordrnary bounds and developed rnto recrprocal frrendshrp Furthermore we have come to realrze that the unrque sprrrt whrch permeates St Sebatrans and elrcrts the deepest loyalty from the student body has emanated from the balanced rdeals whrch he has set to regulate the Schools program Last Summer when the announcement was made that the Holy Father had rarsed Fr Mclnnrs to the rank of Papal Chamberlarn we realrzed that the honor was conferred upon hrm rn recognrtron of hrs outstandrng servrce to the Church durrng the twenty five years of hrs prrestly career Whrle we were not prrvrleged to have known hrm rn hrs years as a parrsh assrstant and semrnary professor we can easrly prc ture hrm laborrng as zealously rn those sectrons of the Lord s Vmeyard as he drd rn establrshrng and developrng St Sebastrans That our young School has already been granted affrlratron wrth the Catholrc Unrversrty of Amerrca and has had such phenomenal success rn placrng rts graduates rn College can only be attrrbuted to hrs educational rdeal rsm and hrs convrctron that work conquers all obstacles For hrs rntense personal rnterest rn each one of us we are deeply grateful and lrke the graduates before us we shall avarl ourselves of rt rn the future as we have rn the past Of the happy years spent under hrs rnfluence we are genurnely apprecratrve and memory wrll enable us to relrve them rn the days that are to come Frnally as the only ade quate compensatron for hrs rnstructron and example we shall strrve to lrve our lrves rn such a fashron that he wrll be proud to harl us as worthy sons of St Sebastran s 6, a 5, 1 x + S 3 .Q .5 ,q' ssAf-Wxs N Y My u - . - 'A rr. X5 9 br '97 . 4 J. 'Q ll-X 1 W, if tr , Sli 4, .f ' . . , - ' 3 , . 9 ' ! 7 ' Y , . . . . . , . 1 9 ' . . ' . , I Q - , ' l . 1 0'1- J. . er. - P V . , v 'Y- . ll,