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

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dimnas ilitaru iVcabcmy $JmiI 1, iflinufftotji June 5, 1957 TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1957: It is with sincere regret that the faculty says farewell to the graduates of this class of 1957. It has been a pleasant and agreeable class. You have cooperated well with the administration and the military. You have accepted our corrections, admonitions, and advice with a spirit of genuine appreciation. We have no doubts that you will succeed in the profession of your choice, that you will learn how to make a good living; but our deepest concern is will you know how to live? Will you enter upon your college career or your life's work with a clear idea of the importance of a broad cultured background and a good understanding of the fine values in this world and the next? Will you cherish your faith and defend it in a world that is rapidly shifting to unbelief? In other words, as you go out into the world in this atomic age —a world whose future may be bubbling in some test tube this very hour —will you be worthy St. Thomas men with a sound moral philosophy of life? To whom much is given, much is expected in return, and we hope you have received much. If St. Thomas has done anything for you, beyond preparing you for college —we trust is has sharpened your realization of how important your attitude toward life is. May Almighty God bless you in the years ahead. Sincerely, The Faculty

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 All available material on the subject Indicates the general decline of usage of trite figures of speech. All right, so it does taste terrible. It is coffee, isn't it? Now truthfully, people, since you're not going to learn this stuff anyway, we might Just as well not learn it in a hurry. This excuse does look forged, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt.

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Mcsdames Laughlin, White, Alton and Deig confer with Fr. Hermes. Mothers' Club tea Fathers help out at a mixer. Mothers' Club This year, tho Mother's Club has enjoyed one of the most successful years of its long history. Under its moderator. Father Hermes, and its officers, Mrs. R. Laughlin, President; Mrs. R. White and Mrs. H. Johnson, Vice-Presidents; Mrs. H. Alton, Secretory; and Mrs. F. Deig, Treasurer, the Mothers' Club has contributed vastly to the Academy. In addition to sponsoring the popular Friday night mixers and the Military Ball, they havo this year, published a notoworthy book, Tradition of Excellence. We appreciate all this organ- ization has done for us, and give them our best wishes for the future. Fathers' Club The Fathers' Club, under the direction of its President, Mr. A. Adam; Vice-President, Mr. C. Cronin; Secretary, Mr. H. Johnson; Treasurer, Mr. A. Lethert; and the moderator. Father Roach, has carried on the fine tradition set by the club in its previous years. They spon- sor four smokers each year, as well as the Parents' Weekend, tho annual Father-Son Banquet, the Activities Communion Breakfast, and the annual talent show. In addition, the Fathers' Club provides all acadomic prizes and activities awards. Wo are indebted to them for this, and the many other things which they have done for us in the last few years. Mothers serving at the Military Ball Prof Westline answering a father's Fother Roach talks with Messrs. Adam, Reception. question at Parents' Weekend. Cronin, and Johnson.