Regis High School - Regian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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LAB l-licks, Fox, O'Reilly, Truyillo, Winkler, Healy, Mr. F. X. Curran, SJ., Reiner, McKenna, O'Brien, Garland, Boyle, McGovern. igyyefli O Garland' anna ev' F01- MCK em rAOaefa'O ifiiflt5' R At clesk: Reiner, Boi Fox, Moderator! Lek McGovern, Healy, O,ReAHyl c enna, Truyillof Wmklery JAIME CASTIELLO SOCIETY CATHOLIC whose religious knowledge embraces no more than the don'ts in the moral law, is comparable to a citizen who regards government solely as an unpleasant re- straining force. Over and above this, the Church holds specific principles designed to elevate human conduct. To be cognizant of these principles is not merely helpful, it is requisite. The members of the Castiello So- ciety have made it their objective, with Mr. Curran, SJ., as moderator, to learn the prin- ciples and to think about them studiously. We have fully utilized group discussions and in- dividual lectures as stimulants to thought. One specimen of our work was given this year to the student body at the Winter reading of marks, in the form of a group of papers on Christian views of the State.

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ACADEMY OF MODERN HISTORY Rear Row: Lederleitner, Toolan, Moore, Wolfe, Jones, J. O'Connor. Second Row: O'Reilly, Foy, Gray, Healy, Hurley, Echandia. Front Row Owens, Mullane, Mr. F, X. Curran, SJ., Casey, Gallagher Toolan, Owens, Healy Mullane O'ReiIly, Gallagher Casey ..,...-.4 ARLY in the first half of our Senior year a new academy took its place in the field of Regis extra-curricula, lt was to serve as corollary training with the regular Senior history course, while remaining distinct, in that the required research work would have to be done in addition to the regular work. Father Burke had long realized that such an academy would be of bene- fit in broadening its members' knowledge of European affairs by a retrospect into the high- lights of the last four hundred years. He en- trusted the difficult problem of choosing mem- bers and the pleasant duty of conducting the in- formal gatherings to Mr, Curran, S..l. At each weekly meeting four members dis- cuss a pre-assigned phase of some definite period in history and after each presentation our mod- erator gives a brief criticism. On April l7, the academy, represented by Messrs. Gallagher, Casey, Mullane, Owens and Toolan successfully conducted its first public symposium before the school, their subject, the history of some accom- plishments of the Jesuits since their foundation 400 years ago. One Hundred F tteen

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Front Row: Piro, Heckel, Quirkc, Mr. F. X. Curran, SJ., Mahoney, Boyle, G. Seitz Second Row: Argue, Reiner, Winkler, Truiillo, Murphy, McCarthy, McGlone, Putz Thirfl Row' F Seitz, Cryan, Blewitt, Wohlrali, Garland, W. McKenna, Lee, Ragati THE HOMERIC ACADEMY OR most of the Regis students, the acme of attain! ment in their third and final year of Greek studies is membership in the Homeric Academy, lt was the diffia cult task of the Moderator, Mr. Francis X. Curran, Sl, to select from the seventy applicants who applied for ad- mission, twelve Seniors most suitable for the work of the Academy. The primary purpose of the Homeric Academy is to inculcate in the students a love and appreciation for the genius of Homer, The chief intellectual event of Regis' year was the public symposium of the academy, ln preparation for this function each Academician perused the text of the lliad, He prepared with special care the translation, parsing and interpretation of his assigned books. Besides this exhibition, a dramatization of the quarrel scene in the first book was presented in the or- iginal tongue. Guest professors and audience alike have expressed unstinted admiration of the work, far beyond the capa- bilities ofa high school student. Garland, Mahofiw Qosioroi ' lf' rch 10, a HQJ