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

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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.

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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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YCS helped Christian social awareness Observe, discuss, reform-whether on the local, state, or national level-this is the credo of the Young Christian Students. Annually expanding its apostolic objectives, the club has carried out many activities which were conceived at the weekly discussion sessions. In October, members celebrated a private mass in the Oratory with Reverend Roy Selenske, receiving the Holy Eucharist under both species. lntensely conscious of the worldis unfortunates, the YCS sponsored a white elephantv sale in November, the proceeds of which were sent to Jesuit missions. Throughout the year members sought to increase their social awareness through attendance at week-end training sessions. The club concluded the year with a medical drive for the Tom Dooley Foundation. While. YCS members eagerly par- ticipated in many worthwhile programs, they invariably emphasized the importance of their weeklyr meetings, for it is through the animated exchange of ideas that members best learn: to bring about effective Christian social changer in the everyday societyl in which they live-P , p T P y Scanning an article in the YCS magazine which highlights the theme for the year, Review of Life, are oflicers Vice President Pegeen Downey, Secretary Joanne Quinn, and President Lou Ann Gartner. Future Careers Club ofhcers-Vice President Pat Belisonzi, Secretary Louise Badaracco, and President Patti Pierce examine guidance materials. This new addition to HA's clubs achieved immediate popu- larity with the girls. lnstructive films on skiing were offered at the meetings until the first trip to Great Gorge in january. Most of the girls, though out- fitted like pros, trudged oil to the beginners, slope. After sev- eral subsequent trips here and to Hunter Mountain, they were ' ready for the beautiful sun and powder snow at Gore Mountain, when the club concluded its yearis activities with a weekend trip there in March.