St Xavier High School - Xaverian Yearbook (Junction City, KS)

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PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY 1917-1963

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PREFACE In retrospect, the 1963-64 school year was a kind of magic. Memories in kaleidoscopic color and pattern recall the swiftly changing facets of school life. 1963-64 was different.. .new faculty and student faces, and the consequent adjustment. . . The year was like other school years. . .the usual classes and school activities, prosaic and challenging at times, but now turned to magic by memories wand. 3

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy after serving three short years as the nation's chief executive dies, the victim of an assassin's bullet in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963. In these few years, however, he showed the world the image of a man dedicated to his duties, to his family, and to his God. He measured up to the dignity of his office, and earned the tribute and prayers of all the people of the world. He died before he could be judged a great presi- dent by his contemporaries, but he could have become one. His excellence was many sided. Recently he re- marked that the rewards he had found in his work were those depicted in the Greek definition of happiness:”... the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. One of the most intelligent and attractive of the thirty-five presidents of the United States, he had personal distinction. The world as well as his country is the richer for it. May he rest in peace!