Ursuline High School - Ursulinian Yearbook (Youngstown, OH)

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l l i l 5 i 3 S E I Q 2 . e 2 2 Z E X i K 5 Father Gallagher i 3 Our highly-esteemed prin- cipal, Father Gallagher, is much A more to Ursuline students than 1 just a teacher and superior. He is rather a friend and adviserp- , at all times vitally interested in the problems of his students. Example as well as precept is Father Gallagher's method of instruction and guidance. Force- fully he points out to us the value and the necessity of self- control, and daily we see this self-control exhibited in his own life and in his dealings with us. Another striking qual- ity of Father Gallagher's fine character is his democratic at- titude. He always has a friendly greeting for everyone-on the Campus, in the h21llS- in the The Reverend Ioseph M. Gallagher, M. S. Ed. Cl21SSI'OO1T1S. ' Principal of Ursuline High School The student summoned to the oflice for a misdemeanor realizes that Father Gallagher resents the offense but sympathizes with the Offender. And he leaves the oilice knowing that he has, in his principal, a kind and understanding friend, yet one who is firm in his decisions and unyielding in matters of principle. A truly democratic American, Father Gallagher guides rather than commands. His presence at Ursuline makes us look upon school, not as a dreary work shop, but a place of glad cooperation. Intellectual, ciyic-minded, spiritual, Father Gallagher urges us to aim at fine scholarship, to be true Americans, and sterling Catholics. To you, dear Father, we, the members of Class '40, pledge our sincere gratitude and our abiding affection. ' pf ff' ' , ' 1154- 9' ' ,Jz13'A ' . rf, A it -N..- f j, - l5

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MAKING DE OCR CY WORK Making Democracy work is very much like making Christianity work. Indeed, the two problems, entering as they do into so many common areas of human af- fairs, are more often than not so closely inter- twined as to make them all but indistinguishable. Making Christianity work is not matter of line words but of great deeds. Not every man that saith, lLord, Lord' shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven. Likewise with Democracy. The devil quotes Scripture to his purpose, and the enemy of Democracy very often pays lip-service to De- mocracy with greater unction and conviction than that- which the lover of Democracy can command. But the fraud breaks down when the time for words is past and the time for action arrives. For the class of l94O that revealing hour has arrived. These young men and women have lived democratically in the give and take of school life. They love American democracy. They know what fine fruits in terms of human happiness it has produced in the past. They are aware of the dangers that threaten it at present. They are determined to retain it as their way of life for the future. Perhaps they will fail in that determination, but I rather think they will not. Let's count the angels on our side. There is probably no formula that insures success in democratic living unless it be the for- mula given by Him who taught that God is our common Father and all men are brothers: Love the Lord thy God above all things . . . and thy neighbor as thyself. 444-. L-QL,

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!- l The Rev. I. M. Gallagher- The Rev. R. I. O'Dea Principal Assistant Principal The Rev. H. I. Hofer The Rev. A. I., Cook Immaculate Conception St. Edward Rev. I. H. Archibald The Rev. C. A. Halter St. Patrick Sacred Heart BUILDI G STUDE CHARACTER Today- The faculty -priests and religious-of sound moral and intellectual attitudese- work with the impressionable minds of youth to ground them in the essentials of clear thinking and right living . . . to inculcate in them a sense of social respon- sibility and a pride in American demo- cratic institutions . . . to prepare them for citizenship in the eternal democracy. Tomorrow- The inspiration received during the four years under the direction of religious and civic-minded scholars will have given to Ursuline graduates a foundation and a character that will steer them away from the pitfalls of radicalism and anti-religi- ousness . . . an awareness of the blessings of democracy that will make them deter- mined that this government of the peo- ple, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. ' 16 Q .