Villa Madonna Academy - Ros Maris Yearbook (Villa Hills, KY)

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li 'lt 4' Gia :'s1r'x-if MUSIC AND POETRY USIC and poetry together w1th love and romance help to make up all that IS beautlful and lovely ln l1fe Poetry 11ftS the ve1l from the beauty of the world whlch would otherwxse be hxdden and throws over the most fam1l1ar objects the glow and halo of lmagmatlon Muslc wlth xts beautl ful tones dlvme harmomes and per feet melodles soothes the fevered mmd of man and 11fts hlm from lower depths to hlgher and nobler thoughts and actlons The man who loves muslc and poet ry can scarcely fall to derlve lntense pleasure from nature wh1ch to her devotees IS all beauty to the eye and mus1c to the ear Yet nature has never set forth the earth IH so r1ch a tapestry as dxvers poets have done nor Wlth such pleasant rlvers fru1tful trees sweet smellmg Bowers or whatsoever else may make the already too much loved earth more lovely From the smoklest c1ty the poet w1ll transport us as xf by enchantment to the fresh a1r and brlght sun to the murmur of woods and leaves and water to the rupple of waves upon sand and enable us as 1n some dehghtful dream to cast off the cares and troubles of l1fe The poet 1ndeed must have more true knowledge not only of human nature dial but of all nature than other men are gxfted w1th A stranger once asked for perm1ss1on to see Wordsworths study The mald answered Thls IS my master s llbrary but he studles ln the fields No wonder then that na ture has been sald to return the poets ove Call rt uam they do not err Who say that when the poet dres Mute nature mourns her worshrpper And celebrates hrs obsequzes There IS too a muslc of nature the song of the blrds the whlsper of the heavens the wall of the wlnd or the sea Musxc 1ndeed often seems as lf lt scarcely belongs to thls materlal un1 verse but rs A tone of some world far from ours where musxc and moon llght and feelmg are one IS language mcapable of express1ng any thlng coarse or xmpure There IS no doubt that D1v1ne Provldence created our great masters and poets Wagner Gounod Beethoven V e r d 1 Mxlton Tennyson and Shelley for the express purpose of furnxshlng the world wlth celest1al harmomes and verbal melo dles A great poem IS a fountaxn for ever overHow1ng wrth the waters of w1sdom and dellght Musxc IS the ex presslon of d1v1ne asplratxons In thls ense 1f ln no other we see that musrc - 1 Je ig-,fl 'A .E Y Ti' -. ' A4 e Jr- if A 11' Af: - - l 'xv '- r 3.4 .-- ' , o Y Y -7- V4 or fx'- f ' e e W 6 m e M , ' , . . . . - - w . . . H . . ' 9 . . , . y . . 1 YY 9 ' - . . . - y . . . . . v . . .- 1 . I V - 'I - . ' . Q . , , . , 3 ' 1 l U Y . . v - n ' Ki . Q Q ' , ' ' ' . It ' a I I - - ' , y - 1 u . . . n v . s . n v v 1 9 ' ' ' , S . . ' . uyf 1141 nfl ' lrl

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Tl' I -1' .T 4. A fi N N, 643 I 993515 if-If-'Ce sf XY those who had gone before and pre par1ng the way for those who were to follow They were early d1st1ngu1shed for the1r scholastlc achxevements for Naoml to the dellght of her class mates carr1ed off the Rellgxon prlze that year provmg that amld all the1r fun they st1ll found tlme for studles Now well on then' way to Success thxs happy group had become renown ed at V M A for the1r mgenulty ln enterta1n1ng E s p e c 1 al ly attractlve were the1r class p1cn1cs held at Monte Cassmo and 1ts adjacent woodland whlch were the occasxon of much fun and were greatly enjoyed by the ent1re H1gh School At the begmmng of the th1rd stage of the journey Katherme was m1ss1ng from the1r number but Irene Balley was welcomed as a new member of the class Now that they had become accustomed to the Ways and customs of th1s new world through whlch they were travellng and had adopted some of 1ts conventlonaltles mstead of the1r own more Bohemlan tendencres they found tlme occas1onally for the d1gn1 fied pleasures of partles plays and movles Even as jumors they lost but l1ttle of the1r pep To them we are rndebted ln large measure for the suc cess of the Ros MHTIS of last year for It was due rn large measure to the1r efforts and unt1r1ng zeal that our first Annual was a poss1b1l1ty Few have shown or could show more 1nter est or have worked harder to establlsh It upon a firm hnanclal bas1s than has julltta At the end of thls year Aldme won d1st1nct1on for helfself by carry mg off the palms of the hlghest aver a e Now they gathered the1r forces for the Fmal stretch L1ke the great Gaellc hero who bored them so ln the1r Sop homore year they came they saw and they were conquered for they l1ke the1r predecessors had at last suc cumbed to the 1nev1table and today no one would ever suspect that our stately Sen1ors were ever those glddy Fresh1es that hlstory palnts them The1r career at V M A var1 colored and checkered though lt was IS at last comlng to an end as they round the last bend 1n the road the glow of the l1ght shlnlng on the top of the h1ll IS seen ever encouraglng and lurmg them on to Wlsdoms he1ght W1th the joy of ant1c1pat1on m1ngled wlth the sweet sorrow of partmg they eagerly look forward to the happmess wh1ch IS soon to be thexrs As they prepare to enter upon the1r separate paths 1n l1fe they leave behrnd them vacant places and achxng hearts There 1S however no sorrow w1thout 1ts con solat1on We who must contlnue along the road they have traveled shall cherlsh 1n our hearts the fond memor les of the golden hours spent together and of the happy and carefree school days vvhlch are over for them It IS the s1ncere hope of all who know them that the same success whxch has re warded the1r efforts thus far may con t1nue to accompany them throughout the1r future course CAMILLE HOWELL 76 lPage 1 uenty Tl reel aa 14 to ,ae - a 4 ,W 1 A A 1 A . - -.K , A, ag g os , I 4,jY N-'Y 1. - - xv? f , :J ,,:- Y 7 if-i,A WY f .JL Y J. f A ia' 1' 1 r y - - Y , - 1 y v ' . . . , , 1 1 9 ' - 9 9 . , - Y ' , s , n n ' . . . ' I H - , 9 - . . , 9 . . ' 9 . . . . , , . , . . , . . . . . . 1 Y . . . . . , , . y , ' 1 u ' Y V ' 1 ' 9 ' ' ci Q1 , , 1 ca - sv , - , . . , - u . , - I n 1 .l I 1.

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4 if 'T i ,.,-C A SHQFIS -JL and poetry are essentlal to human hap plness It IS true that we could 6X1St wlthout them just as we could exxst wlthout trees wlthout flowers wlthout plctures wlthout good books and wxth out any of the beautlful thmgs we prlze so much But would t be a world worth hvmg m9 Poets have always attrlbuted to mu slc a power over even the 1nan1mate 'H--rv I -o' forces of nature The power of muslc to sway the feelmgs of man has never been more cleverly portrayed than by Dryden m Alexander s Feast Poetry m effect lengthens lrfe It creates for us tlme It IS the breath and finer Splflt of all knowledge It IS bound nelther by tlme nor space but llves ln he heart and Splflt of man What greater pralse can be gxven to It than to say that hfe should be poetry ln actxon9 DOROTHEA HUYCK 45- if mLl7l-lui' '51 'iriai-AL . .,,,lll.-f M f IPage Tuenty I nel Y -, JI - itwlilf ,- '- nl 7--K Y Y-I V - ' -f .- fiog --' Q L+--s a ,Je ,, f ug. . ., so - 4 c so Q- so af-t a - Y . l ' If I V! Y 9 . ' , . , - n . I , . . . . , . i v 1 u 1 V t '25 : sig 3215 'L-7.3: H Eli.. L, if F A 'r' 9 'A A 'i'--' V the o gmc we -rin ,-,a, fglfll - ' rn, 1 -,l x , ' ' ' 2 : 7 -,, 'J x p- 'AE'-1 ' Q y'f'- I, s me ,- I-FF 'll ' 'F 'r l V 'l.,1f ' V1-1-Lf, ' 4' I 9 S l U 'l-' Jr? 23 ,f 'fri F ff- AHA ' ' e?zH-H l l L a - rig,-f 1 ,' , rl... F E755 . saga: H ..--' 'Q l 1 : Y V -- 4 - ' Q, ' ' E l 'N ' f' - '- 'P , ' 'Z 1 1 ' - - .--- 7 AU. , 1 1 fs: '- ' L, -. J',' fy v ' ' '.:.....2.n..4.n.4, -- ,Q 5 , l 'g-L., fa A f .5 nv , ' --Q .e gl- ,Y - - ' . A ' may e- t . 'Y , ' I , Nu-SQ,,.v