St Xavier High School - X Ray Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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lillEllUU ' Ll ii gg VERY yearbook records accurately and viv- idly the activities and events concerning the school and its students, whose thoughts, words, and deeds make up the book. To attain this goal the staff of the 1955 X-RAY has chosen to tell the story of this school year chronologically, starting with summer vacation and culminating with graduation. In planning the annual last summer, we decided to use the method to highlight the chronological sequence of the year which the ancients had used long ago to symbolize the passing of time--the zodiac signs. The first zodiac signs were developed by the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Chinese years before the advent of Christ. We have used these symbols to show the relation of each division to a particular period of the year. Thus, we have divided our book into six sections. Each section represents two months of the year and each is illustrated by its respective zodiac signs. Following this chronological motif we have abandoned the style of former Xavier yearbooks and have made several radical changes in the for- mat to adhere to it. That is, rather than have the various activities and school functions scattered throughout the book at random with very little reason other than custom for their order, we have endeavored to place each organization, group, or club in the chronological period in which it is most active. As a result of our eiforts to present an orderly, connected review of school life, we harbor the fond hope that this edition of the X-RAY will prove to be a more complete and more exact chronicle of the school year and a more enjoyable book for you, its readers.

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