Alvernia High School - Alvernian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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C rx-un ALVER,NIANi Marie Kioebge, Olive Kottkc, and Mary Ann Schorsch examining homes in Pamphville. 'Pamphville MONG the best methods for the defense of Religion there is none more suited to the present age, and none more efficacious than the Press. The Press is the work par excellence. lf there was reason for Pope Leo to advocate the matching of the Catholic press with the secular in his day, when conditions were not half so fatal to faith and morals as in the age in which we now live, what would he declare if he were living? Realizing that Alvernians are living in an age when everybody reads and when editors and authors write what people want to read, the Literature Committee, under the leadership of Mary Berry, encouraged the support of the Catholic Press during February by erecting Pamphville-the villa of pamphlets. Sodality headquarters were magically transformed into a delightful village, with winding roads, devious paths, running brooks, and charming homes akin to some fairy suburb. Each dream house with its occupants represented the home of famous characters from famous pamphlets. To inspire Sodalists and to acquaint them with the true culture and philosophy found in Catholic literature, the Literature Committee also launched the project of a Gallery of Living Catholic Writers. Along the wall in room clippings containing biographical and bibliographical data, letters and photographs, believed that if students' the books on the library 106, the committee posted and original manuscripts and autographs. The committee interest in worth-while books cannot be aroused by seeing shelves and publicized on the bulletin board as good reading, perhaps the personal Contact with the authors might bring about the desired effect. PAGE 'I Ol FORQET 'rl-nw Wnnrr avian THE 'row' IN 'rms swamp niuvr. NEVEQr SENIQRS.g gg 5

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PAGE 100 THE ALVERNIAN Slanding flrfi Io righij --Mary Alice Schowalter, Rosemary Cella. Srufed Qlefl fo rigblj -Virginia Preglow, Genevieve Healy, Marian Daly. Soclalitg Officers O PROMOTE the Cause of Christ in the hearts of the socialists by inculcating the four loyalties: Loyalty to the person of Christ, Loyalty to the Church of Christ, Loyalty to the social reign of Christ, and, Loyalty to the cultural reign of Christ, the Student Spiritual Council, composed of Genevieve Healy, Rosemary Cella, Mary Alice Schowalter, and Marian Daley, referred much of its work to four standing committees. These committees provided and sponsored programs of appropriate activities or projects. There is not space for more than mention of the various committees--the Eucharistic Our Lady's, the Apostolic, the Literature, and the Social Action-directed by Sisters Digna, Lois, Edelwalda, and Paraclita. The Publicity Committee kept the Sodality bulletin board attractive and worth While, acquainting the students with Sodality activities and publishing these activities outside the school when necessary. The work of the Social Action Committee lay in caring for the poor and sick by offering them whatever help it could in the line of food and clothing. The Catholic Literature Committee aimed to interest the students in good literature, and to recom- mend and place within their reach the best books and magazines. The Braille Com- mittee, active enough at Alvernia to be a separate organization, worked quietly and generously to provide reading matter for the blind. The periodic magazine, stamp, and tinfoil campaigns, conducted by these committees of the Sodality, met with tremendous success as did the annual medicine, textbook, and candy udrivesf' Food, clothing, and toys brought delight and comfort to countless homes at Christmas and Easter. ST PATRICK PARTY. ROOM 203 MUST HAVE SPENT THAT DAY GATHERING STAMPS

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PAGE THE ALVERNIAN Members attend tenth anniversary reunion. Alvernia Ladies' Pluxiliarg A RETROSPECT CATTERED through all the countries of the land and standing as monuments of intellectual genius and human tenderness are the structures of wood and stone, fashioned by unselfish lives that time marks in bold relief. Viewed even through the shadowy veil of the Past, the deeds of these men inspire generations with admiration, courage, and loyalty. Such are the deeds of the Alvernia Ladies' Auxiliary, these kindly benefactors who returned to Alvernia on October 4 to keep tryst with the ten silver years, glorified by the dull red of toil, sanctified by the crystal whiteness of prayer. A lavender haze of memory tinged with golden glints of glory wisps itself about those years from 1924 to 1935 in the annals of the Alvernia Ladies' Auxiliary. In that first beginning of a Greater Auxiliary, a group of zealous women mutually formed the nucleus of the large organization that, at its zenith, numbered 1,000 members. They pledged themselves to aid the teachers in making Alvernia the best place next to home, where a patriotic heritage, a religious atmosphere, and an incen- tive to continue studies would be tinged with romance-a romance of noble womanhood. Among the major organizations at Alvcrnia none has kept a fairer vision, none presents a surer record of God's blessing than her Auxiliary, which has made such rapid growth in the short space of ten years. THE LONG FILE MOVING SLOWLY DOWN THE AISLE DURING RETREAT, WHEN EACH