Villa Maria Academy - Frontenac Yearbook (Frontenac, MN)

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The Jumors Hove Us nn o DILEMMA l Elther we go to the dance or we do not If we go to the dance we prove that we are very worldly mmded It we do not go to the dance we prove we are wall Howers Enther we are wall flowers or we are worldly mmded Elizabeth Fancy 57 Exther you are ln a hurry or you are not ln a hurry If you are not m a hurry you are a lazy person just takxng lnfe easy If you are m a hurry you have been ldle too long lettlng work pxle up Therefore you are either lazy or given to ndllng Maxme Romm 57 Exther a person dres when he xs young or when he IS If he dnes young xt ns because he xs of no use on earth If he llves long xt 15 because they do not want hlm m heaven Elther he IS of no use on earth or they do not want h1m m heaven Barbara Norgorden 57 Older Snster Maybe I stand alone when I say that older sisters are the most wonderful compamons one could have Thats what I rhmk now but naturally I have not al ways thought so Squabbles' Luckxly nothmg worse than a black eye a broken finger or a chipped tooth ever came out of If Another thxng that my older slster llked to do was to ponder over a number of mag azmes whxch were palcl for wlth my allowance and when my father asked whose magazmes they were she could very convenxently say that they were nune I was told that there was good m everyone I thought she mrght have some too so I looked for xt After a few years of bemg away from her I began reallze that xt was the llttle shortcomxngs I mlssecl most I was always glad to see her durmg the vacations As she advanced on to hugh school and then to college I looked up to her wxth admlratxon and trxed to follow rn her footsteps Soon we began to do thxngs together I suppose Ill never forget the txme when she told us of her rehglous vocatron Then we began preparmg her for the long years ahead Never before rn all my hfe have I heard so many welrd names as those we teasxngly suggested for her future name ln relxgxon Following these laughs there came the sadness of partmg I know that there wxll be no more vacatxons spent together nor any more hghts nor any more long One of Many I am happy to be a member of a large famxly be cause my parents brothers and sxsters are all so won derful Though we have become separated during the years all seems the same when we are together I can see my father slttmg on a tractor or readmg a book always ready to help wxth our problems Then there IS Mother putting food on the table or gxvmg us the advlce we need I pxcture Helen the oldest of my sisters feeding and caring for her four small chrldren They call me auntxe ohn IS next laymg the cement blocks IS his business m order to support hrs four chlldren Rita watches over Mlke and waxts for the day when her soldxer husband can come home from Korea I cant forget drlvmg hrs milk truck and runnmg the small farm for hxs Wlfe and three chlldren Mary Ann comes next She was the first of my sxsters to walk down the Vnlla terrace 1n 48 Oh yes time does fly L12 has much to do wxth just her lnttle Gall Marv IS home now after serv1ng rn Korea Clarlne some of you remem ber graduated from the Vnlla ln 53 Lxttle oey will keep her occupied I see George the first of my brothers to wear the umform of our country Barney ns home helpmg Dad I neednt look far to see Dlane and Carol because they are here at school with me I look back and see all of us gathered around the table that IS large enough to seat fourteen I remember the happy tlmes we have had Can you not see why they mean so much to me? I hope and pray that when God calls us from lxfe we may be reumted ln Heaven Dons Ostertag 56 To Eoch Hrs Ten T e ut Ten T1 Llf Rewo rd went our to seek One they loved only five prepared slept soundly He came only Hve had cared All ten had had the same Good thought 1n mmd But only Eve went nn And Eve were left behmd Marilyn Merrick 56 consolmg talks But I wrll always have her example of courage and loyalty to follow and will always take prlde m berng her llttle sxster I also know that where ever she goes whatever she does she wlll always be the humble servant of Chrnst and my lovable bug sister Theresa fudge 56 I 1 1 ' 3 ' . - 7 ' ' ze - an Y ' ' u Q sa - ' V ' . . , I ' v 1 . . . QQ ' 7, J ' ' ' ' . - 1 l 9 9 l . . . tt - ' rx . v , . . ' ' Joe - ' ' ' ' ' 9 - ' . . . , - - 3 - - 1' , - 2 9 - Ill Ill lk . . . . . , , - , . . , . J not y0Ul'lg. . . . . . ' 9 , . . . . , . . . . -h . . , Q . , . 1 , . I ' l ' 1' 1 9 - ' 9 1 7 , . . h 7 ' ' - B . ' 'll . . s ,' B . 7 . v . ' , to 1 . . . . , .1 . . , , . h . 9 I I . - . . . . . . , - ' 9 1 f - tx f n . . , 9 s 1 15

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How Youth Con Counteroct Commumsm In the U SA OMMUNISM, the enemy of the whole world, IS spm nmg her web over all the independent countrxes, Her mfluence IS felt even ln the stronger nations, and the Umred States IS no excep tnon Commumsm rn the United States IS almed at youth, since xt 15 the youth that wxll make the future e1ther weak or strong Amerlca will he what xts youth are, and smce we are tomorrows leaders a great responsxbxlnty 15 thrown on our shoulders Are we prepared to take thxs respon s1b1lxty'7 If we are not, then lf IS about tnme somethmg be done about II One of the most lmportant weapons to use xn our hght against Commumsm IS a sohd foundatron for Chrxstnan lwmg This foundatlon beglns at home and IS contmued durlng the school years, bulldrng up to what we wxll be The abxlxty to thmk for ourselves IS a necesslty m that we will be able to reject Commumsm ourselves and perhaps to be mstrumental rn persuadnng others to do th1s also To get youth 1n xts formatrve years IS one of the objectlves of the Commumsts It IS durlng our teens that we make up our mlnds as to what we want out of hfe If we choose a lrfe of virtue, or vlce, If IS en tlrely up to us That xs why xt xs xmportant to flll our mmds w1th the good so as to keep evll out The whole Commumst party 15 glamorlzed for us, and because we do not know how to weed out the right from the wrong, evxl IS permitted to grow Thus converts to the Commumstxc cause are made So by all means, a good Chrrstxan educatlon ns one of the prlmary weapons to use m flglitlilg the web spread over the United States by Commumsm The effects of educatlon are lastmg They can never be taken away Another target of Commumsm IS the Catholrc Church The Church xs keepmg the hght of farth burn mg rn those countrles whlch have been taken by Com mumsm and are enclosed behmd her xron curtam She IS fightmg to keep thxs athelstrc demon out of the free countrres of the world We Cathohc youth, therefore, through Holy Mother Church, have a great chance to counteract Commumsm Youth who have fallen mto C0mmUhlSf1C habxts usually need other youth on then' own level to pull them out of lt Any adults who try to talk to them are old fashioned but when youth see someone thexr own age domg the rrght thmg and havmg just as much fun domg xt they begm to wake up and see the lxght the lrght of God, not of Lucrfer Commumsm employs smart tact1cs w1th regard to then' orgamzatxons, for example, Amerxcan Youth for Democracy, sounds as though xt mxght be the name of a wonderful organxzatxon Even after we have at tended a few meetings we can still be taken ln by the smcerlty of the orgamzers and we find rt hard to be lxeve that lf IS afhllated wxth Commumsm and ms any thmg but democratlc Thls 15 the same way w1th other organizations Taken at face value they look very honest Youth must beware' We must mvestxgate all organxzatnons before we conslder holdxng membershlp The young show off rs easy prey to Commumstxc hands Youth have a cravmg for excltement, and to satrsfy thus cravmg, the Communxst leaders urge a group of fun lovmg teenagers to oppose certam gov ernmental procedures The Communists wxn out agam In order to oppose these orgamzatxons we, the youth, must set up our own organlzatlons But we must orgamze for the promotlon of Chrxstlan ways of thmk mg A few can begm a good orgamzatlon to flght Commumsm, but xt takes a steady mcrease rn mem bershxp to keep rt actlve Commumsm works chiefly on those people who are consldered outcasts by makmg them feel lmportant It IS our duty, as the youth of Amerrca, to reach these so called excluded ones first and to make them feel wanted tn the rxght kxnd of orgamzatons Any good Catholxc club, we can be sure, flghts Commumsm' There are many of these around the country The parxsh most hkely has one, or maybe our nearest Catholic school does Do we belong to any of them? Are we gettmg the most out of our educa tlon so that we can tell the right from the wrong? Are we showing by our example that we are not only taught these thlngs, but also that we know how to put them to practlcal use? If not, we are mlssmg out on our chance to counteract Commumsm m the Umted States Elzzabellv Fancy, 57 ,...1-1 Moll Coll The squlrmmg starts bout half past two A twlddllng thumb, a tappmg shoe Books seem dry and the bram 15 weak Only in shouts are we able to speak Classes over, now starts the war Who wxll be first to Mothers door? Tensron h1gh anxrety too' The maxl trams stuck Ill cry w1th you Yvonne Cloutxer, 57 xx . ' 1 . - -' - '- A -. f I . ' . D n 1 . 1 ' . this world today. It is through this ability to think Q - u t I D Q jg . L- ff - ' ,LS ' . - ' t , n 14

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Wrthout Compromrse We Would Not l-'love Our Constrtutron Wlaera our early Arnerrcan ancestors lfrrst concerved the rdea of a goyernment for the people and by the people, they lenew rt would not be smooth sarlrng Wrtlr the tery rdea came the shadow of drsagreement because of varrous standards and feelrngs The Fathers ol the Constrtutron had therr chorce of abandonrng the seed of freedom and lettrng rt dre or stay nag wrth rt and nu trrrrng rt to eventual maturrty Now our otrgrnal thrrteen states consrsted of large states, small states, free states, slave states, rndustrral states, and agrrcultural states The North was free and rndustrral, the South was slave holdrng and agrrcul tural 'Ihese d fferences needed smoothrng out before any permanent steps toward freedom and unrhcatron could be taken The Southern states wanted as much representa tron as the small states who pard a thrrd of the natron s tax and supplred a thrrd of the manpower for defense Compromrse was the only way to satrsfy both srdes Actrng wrsely Ellsworth suggested drvrdrng Congress rnto two houses the Senate, or upper chamber and the House of Representatives, or lower house Two repre sentatrves from each state would be sent to the Senate, whrle the members of the House of Representatrves would be chosen accordrng to populrtron Actually thrs drd not hnd agreement wrth erther srde but even tually the plan was accepted Surely wrthout rt, r e would not have our Constrtutron lollowrng thrs, came arguments on what rs the populatronw' hlany drd not consrder the slaves as part of the populatron whrle, on the other hand, many felt that srrace the Negroes lrved and worleed, and were born rn the Unrted States, they must be consrdered as crtrzens In compromrse, three fifths of all Negro slaves were counted All 3L1ll'1OI'1fy SGYS Olll COIISYLIUIIOII 19 21 bundle of COIUPYOIIUSC Every frnal CIEIUSC IS 21 COI'l1pI'O!l11SE benyamrn lqranlelrn says, God governs rn rl e affarrs of men lclamrlton stated that the small states lose equalrty, but wrrh therr loss, crtrzens would keep freedom H calls the Constrtutron a contest for power, not for lrberty Iqrnally Nlason thought, Ought we to sacrrhce what we know to be rrght rn itself, lest rt should prove favorable to states which are not yet rn exrstencew These are the vrews of learned and experrencecl men Thrs does not mean that all compromrses are rrght but that the rdea rs good Wfhen God made man and placed hrm on earth, He gave hrm an rntellect and a free wrll Each has the power to reason Each has n rvrdualrtx 'll rs gr es man the rrght to form a rrpress hrs own oprnron Indrvrdualrty malees rt rmpos srble for all men to agree In such matters as farth and morals, man rs endow ed wr lr a dehrrrte rnstrnct of rrght and wrong In these there can be no comprornrse Wrtla thrs we see that among men harmony can only be attained by compromrse Srnce wrth farth and morals man cannot compromrse, there must be unrty to counteract wrong Therefore, where men are gathered together, a unron of states wrth a government to lceep law and o der rs necessary Consequently, a Constrtu tron of man s rrghts, lrbcrtres, and restrarnts had to he made for the peop e of the Unrted States Now there arrses the questron, Wrll compromrse weaken character? It rs sard that a thrng worth be hevmg rs a thrng to be upheld Thrs rs correct as far as the aforementroned farth and morals rs concerned, brrt personal oprnron rs drfferent Strckrng to ones guns may merely be stubbornness To grve rn , or sacrrhce somethrng helpfur to you for the good of an other, rs strong character The great document of our Amerrcan belrefs rs certarnly made up of compromrses Can we say rt con tarns no mrstakesfg Certarnly we can not, but we can the strength of unrty and frrmness of belrefs that she now possesses If all men had held only to therr oprnrons and a satrsfactory agreement had not been made Amerrca would have no Constrtutron Sharm O tourLe 57 To Jrmmy In thrs troubled world of ours XVe hnd but httle Joy People find rt drfferent ways, And mme rs a httle boy lVlost people dont thrnle much of rm But th y really dont understand Wa he rs and how he rs And how rt was Gods pl To malee hrm just a crrppled boy, A precrous httle fellow Wfrth heart so lrght, and spurt brrght And courage strong and mellow Courage to carry on and on In hrs httle world of sadness, Courage to forget hrmself To grve to others gladness Ye rn thrs troubled world of ours We frnd but httle joy And mme rs rn the dear, pure heart Of a httle crrppled boy Kathleen Moran, 57 . . i . 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