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

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-8 -l8 Past Present Seniors e In T and Curriculum Underclassmen 62- Contents Activities ,g -ministration 32 76-

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nnn-u-ummjmm u... THE PURPOSE of every yearbook is to record for the students, in pictorial review, their school yearis activities, personalities, and events. The 1956 X-RAY fuliills this requirement. Everything of importance that has occurred at St. Xavier during the past school year has been accurately recounted in the X-RAY. The most significant event at St. Xavier during the past year was the celebration of the one hundred and twenty-iifth anniversary of the schoolis founding in Cincinnati in 1831. For nearly one and one-quarter centuries, the Jesuits have instructed and guided young men who have come to Xavier. During this same period, the city' of Cincinnati has prospered and grown to its present size and fame. Since the growth of Cincinnati and that of St. Xavier have been synonymous, the 1956 X-RAY portrays the parallel expansion of the city and 0f the school through a combined history of the two, accompanied by appropriate photographs and engravings. Due to the anniversary, therefore, the 1956 X-RAY has been divided into two sections: The Past and The Present. In the first division of the book, the reader will iind a concise analysis of the schooPs growth, from 1831 to the present day. He will see a picture of the first structure, the Athenaeum, and several pictures of the present building. He will relive Xavier school life of the past, with the seemingly peculiar rules governing it. Intertwined with this brief history is a literary and pictorial synopsis of the'growth of the city during the same period of time. In the second section of the book, The Present, the reader will find the account of the life at St. Xavier during this past year. This account, we believe, is an accurate portrayal of the faculty, of the students, of the activities, and of the events which, when rediscovered in, the annual in future years, will evoke a hood of memories of happy times spent in work, prayer, and play. The 1956 X-RAY combines the old and the new, the past and the present. The staff sincerely hopes that it will meet with the approval of you, its readers. the long history of the school

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Cincinnati, 1831. The Queen City was then a young river town on the Ohio. At this early stage of the city,s life, its first permanent school was opened. The Athe- naeum, Seventh and Sycamore, the beginning of a great tradition.