Academy of the Immaculate Conception - Pax Yearbook (Ferdinand, IN)

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CfS..9lf.Cf Paladin Studies The year 1938-1939 will go down in Mission annals as a banner year at the A.I.C. Five Paladin Study groups were organized. Three Freshmen Round Tablers with three Seniors as Chiefs-Martha Hentz, Wilma Davis, and Marcia Feder-did excellent work in the Indian and Negro Mission fields and in Communism Studies. Meetings were held every Thursday evening during free period. The Sophomores chose as their mission investigation, the missions of China and India. Betty Rose Eglofl' was permanent chairman and leader, and meetings were held every Tuesday afternoon free period. Sister Moderator led the Junior class in Communism studies. Four meetings were held during English class hour, and the remaining six during free time. 'Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances' Honor for victory valiantly won, Paladin Leaders may now sheathe their lances, Theirs is the conquest, their work is well done! The Sophomore group were the first to present their achievement program. The entire Paladin group of sixty-two were presented in the opening chorus, The World for the Sacred Heart, and in two original parodies composed by our Sister Moderator. These mission parodies were written to the music of the Notre Dame Victory March and to Jingle Bells. The program was dedicated to Pope Pius XI and to Pope Pius XII. Discussions covered the Religious Cults of India, the Caste System, the Untouchables, the Bengali Boy, Living Conditions and Social Customs of China, the Life of Blessed Theophane Venard, Patron of Chine e Missions, and a personal letter from the Rev- erend Robert Greene, M.M., a former J asperite now stationed in China. The Indian and Negro groups decided to make their pleas for their chosen mission fields direct and in the costume and color native to their adoption. So we find Martha Hentz all dolled up as Sister Tekawitha of Saint Ann's Indian Mission presenting a day in the mission school. Her pupils were very intelligent and the school visitors, Father Ambrose QRuth Grafj, and the good old Indian, Tom Smith, fJean Kamerl gave excellent characterizations. By a peculiar coincidence, Martha was out on an ad- collecting trip when the program was given for the Sisters, and much praise is due Doris Gallagher for carrying through Sister Tekawitha's class. Doris must have man- aged well, for the consensus of opinion was that the Sisters hadn't noticed any dif- ficulty in the act, and were quite surprised to learn that there had been a substitute. Nerve, grit, readiness to help out, and humility-that's what it takes to be a Crusader. One of the biggest problems facing the Catholic Church today is the Negro problem. Why doesn't the Negro enjoy the same privileges as do the other races? Why are there so many persons prejudiced against US Colored Folks?. . . These were some of the questions discussed by the Negro Group in their public achievement. With the words of Archbishop Floersch of Louisville as a beacon light: The purpose of the Catholic church is to bring souls to Christ, and the soul has no color, the Negro Paladin group blackened their faces and held a Mission meeting with Sister Mary Claver 1Wilma Davisj, a very distinguished Colored nun as Moderator. Some illuminating statistics were given, problems, discussed, direct challenges made in the first person: We the members of the down-trodden race .... Zelma Wethington, President, gave a scholarly talk on the life of Blessed Martin de Porres, South American Negro lay-Brother, for whose canonization we are praying.

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