Principal Dr. Katie Baal (left) and our Mighty Macs!
the origins of "Inscape"
The 1964 yearbook first coined the term “Inscape,” beginning a 60+ year tradition that has now carried over to this publication and our student-run magazine. For six decades, the word “Inscape” has been synonymous with compelling storytelling and the meticulous recording of our history, providing snapshots of our students’ lived experiences.
“Inscape” was inspired by a quote from Gerard Manley Hopkins: “Beauty of inscape is unknown and buried away yet how near at hand for those with eyes to see it and to call it out again.”
As the 1964 yearbook reflects:
“Inscape is a pattern formed by its people - each a unique person, each a part of the unified whole. Its classrooms - alive, the atmosphere charged with the electricity of learning. Its activities - magnetically drawing like interests together. Its apostolate - reaching beyond the school, extending McAuley enthusiasm, living in Christ.
“Inscape synthesizes these bits of colored glass which make up the patterned mosaic that we know at McAuley. Turning its pages, kaleidoscopic, fragments fall into place and there before you - tangible expression of the intangible essence that is McAuley.”