Augustinian Academy - Augustinian Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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DRAMATICS The Fabulous Dukes, Augustinian A scene from the Passion Play, Augustinian Postulant Band Academy quartette 0ur Academy seeks to develop graduates who are capable of coping with life's drama. Since a successful man must be able to feelat ease on the public platform, our teachers encourage us to develop and express our dramatic talents. Under the capable guidance of Father McIntyre, we have formed a Dramatic Club both to learn and to practice the art. This year the Dramatic Club presented the Passion Play as its main feature. Many entertaining skits were also produced for the Christmas, Halloween and St, Patrick's Day celebrations. A small band was organized by Jim Clark who plays the trumpet. He is accompanied by Phillip Brannigan and Frank Shea on the violins, Joseph Wimmer playing the piano, and Dennis Sullivan on the accordion, This Year has certainly brought out the 'hidden dramatic talent of many, 38

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SPIRITUAL, INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND SOCIAL The library is a place of pleasure and profit to all the students. Here, Father McIn- tyre, Moder ator , John Duddy, librarian and Larry Clark are engaged in catalog- ing. Our high school course is spiritually, intellectually, morally and socially beneficial to the students. Since our school is also a seminary, we are favored with a well-rounded spiritual program. Mass is said every Friday for the Day Students as well as during Lent and Advent when the students may attend daily Mass. On the First Fridays the entire student body assists at Mass, and the Blessed Sacrament is exposed throughout the day for adoration. Since ours is a small Academy, its social advantages are great. Whatever your vocation or avocation may be. there is ample opportunity for its development. Both Day Students and Postulants participate in the athletic pro- gram. The Augies have a regular schedule of outside competition in both baseball and basketball. In this way fair play and sportsmanship so vital in the game of life are developed. The journalists ofthe Academyhave an opportunity to engage their talents by working on the school publications. Those interested in newspaper work devote their efforts to the monthly school paper, Inter Nos, while the entire Senior class takes part in producing the Annual Augustinian. As the various holidays occur during the school year, they are celebrated by a Gaudeamus produced by the postulants, to which the entire student body is invited. Music, wit and numerous short skits make the affair en- joyable for all. Such are the various advantages our academic course affords. 1 l The recreation hall is the place to spend hours and hours of enjoyable games. A1 Ziccardi is lining up a. shot while John Duddy, Vincent Fer- retti and Marshal Halphen watch. I 37

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DAY STUDENTS' CL B The Day Students' Club is comprised of all the day students of the Augustinian Academy. The primary purpose of this club is to unite the day students and to promote better understanding among them. Although this is the main day student group, from it branch out many other clubs and societies. First comes the Student Council, the judiciary and stu- dent representative function of the club. Next is the Sanctuary Society, a group formed with the purpose of fostering religious devotion among the day students, and of sponsoring the religious exercises in which they take part. Also we have the boys who bring themselves together in a body on First Fri- day to receive Holy Communion. This group, the First Friday Club, is one of the most active organizations of the school. It is readily seen that the aim of the Club has been realized this year more than any other year, and that the Club was a success in every sense of the word. 39