Annunciation High School - Annunciata Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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IN MEMORIAM ROBERTA MAILHOT EDWARD JOSEPH KENNY Our Heavenly Father, leaving a void in the hearts of our Faculty and Student Body, called two of our classmates to His Divine Kingdom this past year, Roberta Mailhot and Edward joseph Kenny. Edward, unable to complete his junior year with us passed away August 9, 1942. During his three years at A.H.S. he had been considerate and kind to all. His quiet, unassuming manner, won for him a multitude of friends. He was serious and refined, and his cooperative and dependable spirit, accompanied with his traits of courtesy and generosity, will live in the memories of his schoolmates. Roberta jean Mailhot became ill at the close of her junior year, and passed from this world to meet her Creator, Nov. 23, 1942. She will always be remembered for her charm, her gracious manner, her coyness, and her ever willing spirit to give a helping hand. Roberta was versatile and fun loving, and her amiable disposition and friendly smile secured a warm place in all hearts. It won't be quite the same at Graduation this year, as we had all prayed and hoped, but we know that Roberta and Edward will be with us spiritually. We will remember them in our prayers, and at the Last Judgment Day, when the final graduation takes place, we hope to be reunited. Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them, O Lord, And Let Perpetual Peace Shine Upon Them. May Their Souls Rest In Peace. FRANCIS Lucc.-x. .51

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Left Io Righf: Arthur La Croix, A557 Prefeez: Russell Slaper, Preferzg joan DePascal, See1'elary.' Maureen Cluskey, Treasurer. OUR LADY GF GRACE SODALITY Prefer! ....,,.......... RUSSELL SLAPER Vice-Prefeer . . ARTHUR LACROIX Serrefary . . . JOAN DEPASCAL Treamrer , .,... ...... M AUREEN CLUSKEY Hail, Molhel' mort pare! Hail, Virgin 7'61If1ll'7lC'Il.l Hail, Qneen with lhe Jian Ar a cliaelezn erozrnerl. Ahozfe all the angelf In glory unfold, Standing next fo the King In a Z'6,fllll'6 of gold. O Mother of nzereyl 0 Jiar of the zwave! O hope of lhe guilty! O light ef lhe grave! Through thee may we cofne To the haven of ferr, Ana' Jee bEdZ'67Iy.f King In the mnrlr of the hlerf. Ojfiee--B.V.M, On April Ist, fifty freshmen were received into Our Lady of Grace Sodality. The ceremony consisted of the reception of the candidates, the Act of Consecration, and the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The candidates were addressed by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor OlBrien. The annual Xvestern New York Conference was held at Kleinhans Music Hall on April -ith. The Convention, a source of inspiration to all sodalists, was attended by over 2,000 students. Throughout May, daily devotions were held before an altar of the Blessed Virgin. The Litany was recited and ri hymn to our Blessed Mother was sung by the entire stu- dent body. On the last day of May, the students paid Our Lady homage by crowning her, Queen of the World. May she ever guide and counsel her children. JOAN DEPAscAL. 3 I

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THE POPE IN MCDDERN TIMES This Addrerf war written by Frawrir Llzcra, and delivered by him at the Annual Knights of Columbus Oratorictzl Contest on May 9, 1943. Since historians disagree about the actual date when Medieval gave way to Modern times, I feel at liberty to begin my discussion with the accession of Pope Leo XIII and to trace the influence of the Papacy down through the ages to the present Pontiif, Pope Pius XII. Leo XIII ascended the Papal throne at a time when the world was rampant with a wide subversion of truth on which the foundations of human society must repose. Contempt for the laws of morality and justice, and insatiable greed for worldly power, obscured the vision of man and led him to ignore his eternal destiny. Civil disobedi- ence and license reached a climax in the assassination of Alexander II of Russia. Almost every government in the world was either covertly or openly hostile to the Holy See. In Germany, the Kulturkampf of Bismarck violently attacked Holy Mother Church, and that man of blood and iron declared he would never follow the road to Canossa , and that the Church in Germany wouldnot be ruled by any foreign potentate. Leo, with majestic calmness, wise diplomacy, and indomitable courage won freedom of con- science for the German Catholics. Later he was called on by the Kaiser to act as arbitrator in the dispute with Spain over the Carolina Islands. With the brutality peculiar to petty tyrants, a like persecution of the Church was raging in Switzerland. In France, the government was markedly anti-clerical, and those who opposed the Republic, chiefly Monarchists and Conservatives persisted in identifying their cause with that of the Church. Leo, perceiving future harm to the Church through this movement, urged the Catholics of France to resign themselves to the existing govern- ment. The Church whose mission is divine, and embraces all times and places is against no system of government which guarantees the rights of the individual. Later, the Pope addressed an Encyclical to the French people in which he reiterated the same principle, namely, that the individual has full liberty to prefer one form of government to another, provided none is opposed to sound reason or the teachings of the Church. Leo XIII was a sovereign without a kingdom, yet his vigilance and concern for the welfare of God's children embraced all lands. In Africa, the infamous slave traffic was still in existence, so Leo embarked on a new adventure to break the abominable power of the Arab slave traders. He dispatched more and more missionaries to that Dark Continent, and appealed to the sense of justice of the- European Powers who were exploiting the natives. Gradually champions of human liberty rallied to the call of the Pope, and worked for this common cause until slavery was abolished. When the United States took over the Philippine Islands, the secularization of the schools did not escape the watchful eye of Pope Leo. He requested the President of the United States to send a delegate to Rome to arbitrate concerning the property of the Church and of the monastic orders. 33