St Thomas Military Academy - Kaydet Yearbook (Mendota Heights, MN)

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Senior 'panned ‘Tfteteaye The time has come, all too soon, that signals the severance of our physical relationship with St. Thomas. Sad words, these. And yet the bonds of comradeship shall serve to link the future of all inseparably together. We shall harbor within us a spiritual kinship, for surely a part of us shall always remain bound up in the visions and recollections of the sacrosant halls of the campus, of drill, of the Senior Parade and Baccalaureate Day, of friends, of all the little things that gladden the memory and fill the heart with tender reminescences. To transform our emotions into words that best represent our feelings, as we realize how we shall miss the people and events that were so familiar that we took them for granted, is a task which only resoluteness and a keen sense of our indebtedness to these same people and events, for the pleasures and knowledge they have garnered for us, could overcome. We shall forever remember with pride and awe those who have provided for us the benefits of a sound education, who have unceasingly bent their efforts so that we might be well prepared in all capacities to take our place in society and that we might contribute our share in the scheme of things. The fruits of their work shall be reaped in our successes. This is a meager reward for them, but to that end we shall ever strive. We may console ourselves in part by partaking, as alumni, of the pride that the growth of our school shall constantly engender. We must look forward, with anticipation of renewed friendship and all that friendship connotes, to many delightful reunions. We own that our faults were many and varied. Xo lamenting can lessen our errors but we do hope and expect that those who tread the path after us will find the going made easier by the lessons learned from our mistakes. In all earnestness we desire that all of the successes that have been ours, and those, too, that fortune denied us, shall be lodged in the records of the underclassmen. You have played your parts well, and as we retire from the center of the stage and enter the wings we leave knowing that the main act is in more than capable hands. We venture forth into a changing world well equipped for any eventuality. May our graduation become the harbinger of a new world in which God’s peace will reign supreme once again. May all of our schoolmates escape unscathed from the present conflict. Inexorable time admonishes us that our moments are waning and we must say farewell. May we meet again.

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Senior @Ccte4, Pie idetU ?£.. ratten Handball king ... all conference guard . . . Lieutenant Colonel . . . quiet manner . . . slow smile . . . summa cum laude . . . perpetual friend . . . success in life. Activities . . . Biologians '42 . . . Kaydet Staff ’42. '43. ’44 . . . Eagle award ’41, '42, ’43, '44 . . . Officers’ Club ’44 . .. Booster Club '43, '44 . . . Debate team '42, '43 . . . Football '42, '43, ’44 . . . Corporal ’42 . . . 1st Sergeant '43 ... Lieutenant Colonel '44 . . . Freshman Crack Platoon . . . Crack Platoon ... 8 Honor Awards . . . Honor Private ’41.

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. ’W k'ld •• SENIORS Eugene A. A miner man Never waste a word Dormant six man «rid team .. Mr. Westlinc's friend.. .The white hope. Ambition ..Civil Engineer. Thomas J. Hall is Tireless Plugger for everything St. Thomas”... That Lounge dance.. .“Aw for Kri yi.” Activities: President of Intramural sports. Chair- man of Social Activities Program, Tennis '44. Freshman Crack Platoon '41, Crack Platoon on Skates '41. Crack Platoon ‘43. A mbiiion... West Point. 28