Tillamook Catholic High School - Academic Yearbook (Tillamook, OR)

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Jw 'L l il ww Baccalaureate Sermon Dr-LrvFRFn BY Rrv B BIOFFFNIIPIIR Pastor o 91 qanzslaus Palzsh Portland For other foruzdatron no man can lay asus or lVIv de rr Cr rdu rtes Accordrng to the records you are gr adu rtrng today The peculrrr frct of the matter rs that you haye been graduating for 1 long time On that dry not so long rgo yyhen all decked out rn rmmrculrte yuyenrle outfits each of you was led by your mother to the front door of the parish school 'md there turned oyer to the gentle gurdrnce solrcrtude and care of the kindly nun you yyere rctually graduating You see graduation rs not so much an eyent of one day as rt rs a deyelopment oyer the space of many years To graduate means to take steps The child of 10 12 or 14 months rs 1 lryrng prcture of r gradu rtc See hoyy th rt child borne up by the protecting 'rrms of its mother rs trvrng to stabrlrve and syncronrze the strength of lrmb with an innate sense of balance The brby walks alone W hen your mother pen ned that lrne to vour grandmother, she drd more than merelv grye rnformatron, she wrote and signed your first graduation diploma As a process, graduation might b likened to that long, rugged and wrndlng trarl that leads from school lrfe out rnto lrfe's school The grammar grades, hrgh school, preparatory college and the unr versity follow one another lrke so many numbered hrlls on the road that conducts Paar' Four to that fuller 1nd more complete lryrng be rs the graduate arrryes he stops md like the alpine clrmber he looks brck ind then rhead gauging for the moment hrs prog ress thus frr ind c rrefully reassuring hrm self for the clrmb th rt lres frrther on You young men md yyomen hrye passed those first rollrng foothills rlong this ro rd those of vou who hrye conquered hrgh school st rnd rtop the steeper hrlls 1 brt her on H re rt rs th rt r tr rye from the other srde of the range coming up from the vrllev of lrfe and experrence meet you I rm indeed glad to meet you here I rm gl rd to hold tryst yvrth you to yorn with you rn the companronshrp of the rord lor just r spell after whrch I sh rll rgrrn pursue my wry and vou go yours Thc tact that I meet vou thrs mornrng, lice to frce with vorrr eyes tr rrned upon higher hrlls proyes th rt vou rre rmbrtrous You ue young md rmpetuous and erger to go on and I know somehow the ques trons you would ask me How rs the Rordl Vy hat sh rll we find rhe'1d Are we on the rrght road ' 'Is the Journey' yyorth yyhrle ' How rs the desc-ent on the tar her srde 'What lres rn the ya ey below Lrke Martha rn the gospel story' you are plainly concerned about many things And my answer to all of these questions rs just half the answer of the Sayrour to this same Martha One thznq Is necessary To that I would add another S ou me your !'!IllI1J77lP7lfn H3 . . . . .- ' f c . I .- , ' . U . . ' 1 . ' V' - , C , but that 1L'hA1'l'h is laid wlrirlr is Christ yond the divide. Upon each successive peak J QI C '. Il, 11.5 is ' ' ' .', .' .', 2 4 - n ' I, L1 2 1 2 r , z ' V1 z . 1 z ' , ' ' ' ' ' - A s I . ' V . . t1.V LV '2 Q i .2 - ' V KVKV -' ' - s K - ' 1 1 . . ' 1 V 'V - V 1 ' ' i 2 ' 2 ' K . K t v 1 1 4 v 1 ' V V V V ' . 4 4 ' ' ' g L . Lv 1x1 . ' l K1 i 'S s 1 Z ,hd ' 1 1 . ' 2 .' ' . ' 1 V , . X 1 y V I . I Z I 1 1 I A 1 1 I I C 1 1 . 1 1 ' ' V ' V . ' V 1. V V . ' ' 5 1 ' ' 4 , , , -, fart ' . e ' z I, 1 'z ' ller' nl I C v 1 ' , ' S . . 1 ll Y I . l , K v 4 ' I v 1 1 , ' ' ' z ' 3 1 . ' . ' ' ' . ' . .' X , , , , , U, . . 5, . 1 lg ' ' ' - 3 ' ' ' ' ' ' . 1 .' . ' ' .' z 1 z ' L -V L C . 1 . .' .' .. ' ' I , , x 'l - ' v 'L' ' ' r ' . Q z ' ' z -' - -I . -2 . v V- G . 3 .5 2 '- -' ' 2 ' - ' .' ' ' ' s ' .' z . 1 ' z ' ' - . K - .V .1 1 AV 1' 1 , ., Y Z ' I, I Z , V 4 ' ' 1 V . ' V ' , , , , n . '. . ' ' A S I a u . V l v V L I H y ' . L I V 1 1 Y' V v u 1 :Y L6 Y ' 'YK LI X 1 - - . - 1 . . z ' : . . ' ' ' ' ' ' V -' - ' 4 1 ' . r r' V' - A - ' '. .t . ' I . ' K. ' V ll t. X ' ,fm K1 1 c ' , ' e ' , K K 1: .1 1 - ' , ' , .2 h . , A .

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A tlavcllel s I'I'ldlIl conceln IN alwavs hls cqulpment The loughness of the load IQ no hlncll lncc to hlm who ls cqulpped IOI l lflllgh loulnev thc length ot the ro ld IS long onlv tol hlm who IS unplepaled and unfitted f0l long tl lvel the unceltalnty ot the wav IS dangerous only 101 hlm who does not cally wlth hlm a compass Mv den graduates' I am happy to be lble to slv to vou thls molnlng that you ue foltunlte above thousands and thou s mds of other young men and women whom vou wlll meet on the hlghway of llfe Your Ullllpfnhflt IS the best of any llong the road tm It QIT1lJOCll99 those fund :mental chllstlan pllnclples whlch allow the fullest develop ment of th it whlch alone ls gleat ln man hls lmmortal soul Wlth lts tremendous facultles of lntellect and wlll Inducatlon the word whlch 19 the knap sack contalnlng thlq perfect equlpment ls 1 word th It 19 so lntlmately bound up wlth the velv ldea of correct and noble and per tect llvlng that to neglect lts consldera tlon on thls vour commencement day were llke descrlblng to a bllnd chlld the majesty of some great rlver wlthout ever mentlon llfe of the broken waves and seethlng surges Educatlon I am tempted to say ls the most abused word ln the Engllsh language That fact alone accounts for the wrong understandlng of It by so many today In the careless shuffle of the centurles as they succeeded each other thls word passlng thru the calloused hands of new doctrlnes md false phllosophles has come to lose ltS leal meanlng Symbollc of knowledge sclence smartness and other dlstant rela tlves thls word today means anythlng but what lts tlue slgnlflcance lmplles The story of educatlon resembles ln a very true sense the story of the portralt of Dante whlch ls palnted upon the walls of the Bargello at Florence For many 36313 It was supposed that the plctule had utterly pellshed Men had heard of It but no one llvlng' had evel seen lt But plesently c lme an artlst who was determlned to find lt agaln He went lnto the place whele tra dltl0H sald that lt had been palnted The loom was used as a storehouse for lumbel and old straw The walls wele covered wlth dllty Whlte wash He had the heaps of lub blsh calrled away and calefully lemoved the whltewash flom the wall Llnes and colols long hldden began to appeal And lt last the grave lofty and noble counten ance of the gleat poet Dante looked out lgaln upon the vvol ld ot llght On euth exclllms the poet thcle IS nothlng great but man and ln man thele IS nothlng gleat but soul Men had forgotten thls great fact because they had spurned the beauty md the value of the soul The cobwebs ot heathen doctrlnes had obllter ated and etfaced ln God s creature a value and a beauty put there by God Hlmself Chrlst llke the dltlqt ln the story came to seek out and restore to llght and proper appreclatlon mans soul and by Hls con quest gave to the world the real meanlng of education namely the gradual leadlng out and development of the lmmortal and lnherent facultles of the soul the mlnd Wlth lts lntellect and free wlll Thus Iuducatlon was baptlzed wlth the baptlsm of Chrlst Who came as a teachel to teach men the solltary value ln llfe What doth It profit a man lf he galn the whole world and suffer the loss of hls own soul And slnce the tlme of Chrlst the Cathollc Church llke the vestal vlrgln ln the temple has kept the fiame of true educa tlon burnlng ln shrlnes all over the world and hlgher educatlon When Educatlon was baptlzed by Chflgt a new R was added to the three accepted rs that have come down to us as the embodlment of educatlon That new R stands for Rellgion Because of It the Cathollc Church can say to the world I know how to educate because I know the leal value ln llfe For other foundatlon no man can lay but that whlch ls lald whlch 19 Chrlst Jesus The soul zs mole than the body lust as the body 19 mole than the lalment man IS worth more than a sheep and lf God wlll not so much as per mlt even a sparrow to fall to the earth wlthout Hls permlsslon and knowledge what care and sollcltude has He not of you who are made to HIS lmage and llkeness The age ln whlch we llve today 19 a meas urlng and a statlstlcxl age Men ale bal galnlng wlth natule on the exlth Undel the earth and ln the skles above and meas urlng the ploducts that lt vvlll yleld Men ne bartellng wlth each othel fol wh It man can get out of man It 19 ln age th at s excesslvely concelned about thlngs of the wolld an age that has llghtly been called the molnlng houl of llfe when the whole world turns to gold Thls measurlng balgalnlng world asks of you young men and women What ale Page Fate 1'-JL.. l 1. ., J. 1 ' I 1 1 '1 1 I. 11 '1 1 1 1 1 - , . 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