St Vincent Academy - Vincentian Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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.,,, si fkVINCENTIANi?cf5 A Dear Parents, The educational advantages and social pleasures of our four years in the Academy are drawing to a close, and as we approach the wide gates of Commencement, our hearts swell with gratitude toward you, who have watched over our entire course. It is your love and guidance which have made possible these terms in our school, your interest that has encouraged us during our tasks and given our triumphs an added value. Through your eiorts our years at Saint Vincent Academy have been the most filled, the happiest imaginable. And in return for all you have done we can only thank you from the bottom of our hearts, and endeavor to prove ourselves the splendid, capable women you wish us to be. May Almighty God shower your path with bless- ings, so richly deserved, and may we, your children, always uphold the shining and lofty standards which you and the good Sisters have placed before us. Our prayers and our undying gratitude are yours. In deepest sincerity, and realizing to the limits of our powers the immensity of the debt We owe you, we are, Your loving daughters, The Class of 1932. 5

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,M V 1 N c E N T 1 A GEORGE WASHINGTON 1732 ................................ 1932 Mount Vernon Tribute Washington, the Defender of his Country, the Founder of Liberty, the Friend of Man: History and Tradition have been explored in vain for a parallel to his character. In the annals of modern greatness, he stands alone, and the noblest names of antiquity lose their lustre in his presence. Born the benefactor of mankind, he united all the qualities necessary to an illustrious career. Nature made him greatghe made himself virtuous. Called by his country to the defense of her liberty, he triumphantly vindi- cated the rights of humanity and, on the pillars of national independence, laid the foundations of a great republic. Twice invested with the supreme magistracy by the unanimous voice of a free people, he surpassed in the cabinet the glories of the field and, voluntarily resigning the sceptre and the sword, retired to the shades of private life. A spectacle so new and sublime was contemplated with the pro- foundest admiration and the name of Washington, adding new lustre to humanity, resounded to the remotest regions of the earth. ' Magnanimous in youth, glorious through life, great in death, his highest ambitions the happiness of mankind, his noblest victory the con- quest of himself, bequeathing to posterity the inheritance of his fame and building his monument in the hearts of his countrymen, he lived, the ornament of the 18th century and died, regretted by a mourning world. 7