Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Spring F estifva 4 HE Spring Festival of Fairchild High School was an annual event of great importance in the town of Galli-ard, Ohio. A theatrical ven- ture presented by the students, it offered the only live entertainment the citizens enjoyed since the Chautauqua Circuit was buried with VVilliam Jennings Bryan. Students grew gaunt and hag- gard from the hours of rehearsalg teach- ers got circles under their eyes like spare tiresg and education took a good licking, for classes were practically discontinued to accommodate the constant practicing. The show had gone along with only minor mistakes: the second gradels rhythm band had somehow or other gotten off the beat until it sounded like nautch dance music-which hadn't been heard in Galliard since carnivals were barred by a city ordinaneeg a fourth grade minuet had unfortunately crossed signals and the resultant bumping and tumbling looked like a scrimmage be- tween varsity and scrubs. But the high school department had gone rather well. There had been a minor flurry when the reading of the winning essay in lfnglish Composition produced a glar- ing grammatical error, unnoticed the judges who made the award. But nothing really serious had developed and the last act was now under wayg in fact. nearing its close, This final act was a bit of drama written by the Latin teacher, Nliss Humphries, a teacher of manv years in the Galliard system. Every four vears she produced a star pupil, and Galliard gained another pharmacist. This was one of her years. The scene of this sketch was laid in the Rome of the Caesars, the action revolving around the figure of .a Roman schoolmaster who risked a fatal end as lion-food by in- sisting that his students adhere to the rules of syntax and grammar. His students being the sons of Roman sen- ators. this was a daring thing to do- so the play went-for complaint to any Page Twenty Q of the fathers by his pampe1'ed students would have secured a new teacher and fed one more lion. Love interest was supplied by the passion of a senator's daughter for the schoolmaster, and the schoolmaster's true feelings for a Chris- ti-an slave. lt all ended very happily with the suicide of the patrician and the joyful union of teacher and slave-with starving lions off stage. The climax of the scene was the speech of the schoolmaster thundering in defiance, and cowing the students in- to parsing verbs in meek voices. This role of schoolmaster was entrusted to a senior named Gregory Thompkins, who rehearsed faithfully until he gave a faint imitation of a skinny llussolinig for Gregory was the frail, intellectual type in appearance. if not performance. Even at the dress rehearsal he had to be prompted so many times the act sounded like an echo. The part ,of the patri- ci-an's daughter was given to the most beautiful girl in the Senior class, and the part of the slave went to an A-stu- dent. This was the greatest example of miscasting since W. C. Fields played Hamlet at a Lamb's Gambol. All of Kliss Humphries, impassioned lines fell --v-.-..m.r+-.--V+-+-++ -.---.nv By Patricia McCarthy Q- -+40-4 -0- 'PH4'--4-JUP4 flat-Galliard just didn't believe Chris- tianity had that much pull. Somehow the scene creaked along with many promptings to Gregory until the mad turmoil of the speech to the students, The students cowered at their desks, before them raged Gregory Thompkins-and suddenly he went up in his lines. Then, with arms raised over his head shaking clenched fists, he waited despairingly for the prompter to rescue him. The prompter had turned

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Covers the Globe 0 gary and Poland are also included in the new appointments. Forty-six-year-old Archbishop Ber- nard Griffin of VVestminster, England is the youngest appointed Cardinal. Archbishop jon de .long of Utrecht, Netherlands is the first Dutchman to receive the Red hat since the Reforma- tion. Only four of the cardinals are Italian. The Italian hierarchy no longer constitutes a majority, now being forty per cent. The Sacred College now has twenty-eight Italian and forty-two non- Italian cardinals, this being the highest number of non-Italians in the history of the church. History The word 'fcardinall' is of very an- cient origin. It comes from the Latin word, HCHITIOH, meaning hinge . In early times every cathed1'al church was known as a 'lcardo , because it was the home of the Bishop, upon whom the whole diocese depended. The term was applied primarily to those clerics who were attached to the cathedral church itself and who composed the cathedral chapter as it is known today. There- fore, the word at an early time took on the meaning of principally or more eminent priest, because it was the duty of the clerics assigned to the cathedral church to assist the bishop in episcopal services and diocesan administration. Even though many of these clerics bore the title Cardinal, the formation of the Church at Rome and its districts was the model for our present college. It was not until 1567 that Pope Pius V forbade this title to be used by those other than cardinals themselves. Three Ranks s The Sacred College, before the eighth century. consisted of three classesg Car- Q dinal bishops, Cardinal priests, and Cardinal deacons. In late centuries the Pope united them, gave them certain duties and privileges and made a set number of seventy, which to this day has never been changed. The duties of the Cardinal depend on whether they continue as bishops or archbishops of important cities, or whether they hold office at the Vatican. Among the privileges granted to the Cardinals is the hearing of confessions at any place in the world and of ab- solving from all sins and censures. with the exception of those that have to be forgiven by the Holy Father' himself. They may bless rosaries and other articlesgof devotion, attaching to them all the indulgences usually granted by the Holy See, and may themselves grant 'iff' 'OYWU' 'l 7ii' 'O' 'Off' 5 By Anne Quinn .1 'fl 'P -5401--'P 'IMJP 'Q' 'Q' ki- i-'14 an indulgence of 200 days. They may celebrate lNIass at sea, and solemn pon- tifical lflass in any cathedral church outside Rome. The outstanding privi- lege which the Cardinals enjoy is that of participating in the election of the Pope. - In appointing these men, the Pope had but one purpose in mindg namely, to bring about a more united world, not just for Catholics. but for men of all faiths. Page Nineieen

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nw fl! . is yt U if ll Nt llaqj lf ' .ffl l f jiu lk lk ll! ! Lf fe' i !fT? fV ! ! ! P' ' i f ffE3e , .gzVf' all ' s ' 6437521 . fps Gia two pages of the text and hurriedly leafed through to the end, seeking- seeking-seeking . , . Gregory's mind whirled like a coun- try boy at a city dance: VVhat did l say last? . . . 'You dolts, you geese, you worse than little clods' . . . clods . . . clods . , . thatls hunks of mud . . . dry lllllil . . . wet mud . . . well. anyway. mud . . . most likely dry mud . . . wet mud would be wet . . , yes. dry mud . . . and then what? . . . Oh. this is awful . . . am I sweating! VVhat'll mother think! . . . VVhat will the old man think! What'll the people think! . , . lly arms are dead . . . if they only were not over my head . . . l canlt keep waving them much longer . . . theylre dead . . . but they had to be over my head for the next line pulled them down . . . Nliss Humphries said it was the most important gesture in the act . . . but do I pull the mud down over me? . . . that,s not it . . . what DOES come after the clods? . . . a broom. a vacuum sweeper . . . Oh! Oh!!! my left arm has sunk down. ltls numb , . . Oh, thank God, the curtain is down, and my arms are down, and l'm down-and l've got to live in this town all my life!!! . While this was going on in Gregory's mind, his mother sat in the fourth row, center, and slowly went down for the third time under the waters of despair as she watched the downfall of her child as a Thespian. She was calm and un- moved in appearance as if viewing ob- jectively the failure of a perfect stran- ger. But her mind was racing: Go on . . . go on . . . go . . . on! Emphasis? , . . lfmphasis doesnlt demand that long a pause . . . A pause? . . . Rather an intermission. VVe could go home and return in this time . . . He's forgotten . . . he's forgotten . . , lvhy not be truthful with myself? . . . He just hasn't got it . . . Those love scenes . . . Ligh! . , . wooden as a hobby-horse . . . just like his father . . . all the fervor and Ere of a cook book . . . lf he keeps waving those arms any longer l'll scream . . . Uh! the audience is begin- ning to laugh! Somehow l must smile . . . grin . . , grimace . . . Oh! one of his arms fell . . . like a log . . . hels exhausted . . . Oh! there goes the cur- tain . , . Thank God! Thank God! . . . l'll have Greg fire that Humphries hag . . , hre her. . . Ere he1'! . . . fire her!! . . . fire her!!!!! ln the wings, Bliss Humphries lia- bored over the Christian slave. trying to improve her makeup so that the audi- ence would not abandon completely all belief in the pull of Christianity, VVhen Gregory forgot his lines, Kliss Hum- phries couldnlt move. For the life of her she could not move. She stood with a rabbit's foot dripping red powder, one arm firmly holding the Christian slave. Go on . . . go on . . . 'You think to pit the might of Rome against the power of the mind' . . . go on , . . go on . . . Prompt hi1n! Prompt him! . . . yell it at him . . . walk on stage and put it in his hand to read . . , Oh, the prompter has lost the place . . . look at the goose , . . leafing. . . leahng . . . leafing . . . Find it, you loon, find it . . . don't let him stand there . . , Oh, his arm is wavering . . . it's down . . . he's going to faint . . . Oh, whv did l ever pick him , . . just because his father is Pres- ident of the Board of lfducation . . . Ring down the curtain . . . the cur- tain!! . . . Oh, thank God. the curtain is down!!! The Spring Festival of the Fairchild High School was over. Inge Twenty-one