Academy of the Holy Angels - Echoes Yearbook (Demarest, NJ)

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The Senior retreat at Long Branch is planned in advance by -Sodality Treasurer Ruth Fattori, Prefect Terry Glynn, Secretary Anne Gilroy and Vice Prefect Cathy Moes. Deeply concerned with the spiritual Welfare of all the students, the Sodality seeks to foster personal holiness through devotion to Mary. Renewing their dedication to the Sacred Heart, homeroom presidents lighted symbolic candles at an October 25th Sodality assembly. The emphasis shifted to the social on October 18th as freshmen and sophomores attended the annual mission dance. The feast of the Immaculate Conception was commemorated again this year at an assembly Where Senior Sodalists spoke on the various shrines through- out the World consecrated to the Virgin. An early Father-Daughter Communion Breakfast held on March 16 created a special occasion for angels and their dads to participate in a formal event. The Senior Retreat gave the girls a last chance for silent meditation before leaving Holy Angels. The still damp sand and crisp surf of Long Branch proved an ideal spot. The exchange of officers on May 16 guaranteed the continuation of this, the oldest spiritual organization at AHA. Sodality cultivated spiritual growth Two and one fourth cookie and eight and one third ounces of soda per couple were rationed out at the Soph-Frosh Mission Dance but nobody at this table seems to mind the meager fare.

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Preparing for private Mass in the Oratory are Liturgy Study President Barbara Duggan, Secre- tary Pat Dennison, and Vice President Ellen Brink- worth. Liturgy Study Club delvea' into the rites of worship The Liturgy Study Club is an organization dedicated to under- standing the contemporary Church. Club members come closer to this goal at every Friday afternoon meeting through animated dis- cussions on timely issues. Christmas saw the group sponsoring a card drive for the prisoners of Sing Sing, and representing the Christ who Will come again in the Clee Club holiday assembly. By Way of im- plementing the recommendations set forth by Vatican Council II, the club members attended an Ecumenical Symposium at the Greek Orthodox church in Tenaily. Finally, the Liturgy Study Club rounded out the yearis activities with a late spring assembly.

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CCD hebed spread the word And your guardian angel sits right there, points CCD President Terry Spola as she and Vice President Laurette McNeill and Secretary Marianne Clarke conduct a model class with Kathy Rosenkranz as pupil. Chatting with members Moira Fynn and Rosemarie 'Motta is Rev. L. Denebow, one of many speakers to address the CCD. In the field of catechetics, the young laity are assum- ing increasing importance. To prepare students to help the Work of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in their local parishes, the Holy Angels CCD offered a course in teaching techniques to its members. Girls learned the importance of audio-visual aids and their most effective use as they presented model lessons at the Weekly Workshop meetings. To enrich their own religious backgrounds and to gain an insight into the practicabilities and possibilities of the CCD program, club members heard several guest lecturers address them on various phases of the CCD and kindred topics. Some of the speakers were Rev. Ioseph Flanagan, CCD Di- rector for Saint Theresais in Cresskillg Rev. Leonard Danebow, who pilots the CCD program in Fort Leeg Sister M. Geraldine, a Missionary Helper of the Sacred Heart, who does extensive Work with exceptional chil- dren, and Rev. L. Kim, now With the Bethany Methodist Church in Fort Lee, who spoke of his recent missionary work in Korea. As a combined public relations gesture and publicity measure, the CCD sponsored an assembly on April 25 at which members presented the organiza- tion's functions in graphic detail.