Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception - Annual Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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MARYKNOLL SEMINARY MARYKNOLL, NEW YORK ' HENEVER Cathedralites get together, conversation never lags. What happened to so and so? of Remember the time when . . . are a Eisslfggsg 33 few introductory phrases which open up many interesting topics for discussion. So it happens when Cathedralites visit Maryknoll and are greeted by several loyal sons of Cathedral, the conversation is lively and memories awaken. This year we have had quite a few alumni and student visitors, all of whom have been most welcome. To mention all one would require a long litany of names. Perhaps now you may wonder who are the Cathedralites at Maryknoll? First in seniority is Roddy Green, former basketball and baseball star. He is one of Mr. Crane's boys. Roddy is President of the student organization known as the Academia, The Academia handles all athletic affairs, entertainments, and student affairs in general. Roddy is of the class of '36 and will be raised to the Subdeaconate this lune. He hopes to leave for the missions the summer after this. Beginning with his departure, there will be Cathedralites leaving for the missions for three successive years. A year behind Roddy we find Hughie Byrne and Charlie Girnius of the class of '37. Hughie is the quiet studious type. He still raises objections in class and makes distinctions and subdistinctions. He is a master at the art of punning and is occasionally found engrossed in a quiet game of chess. Charlie retaining his old love of music, but also goes in for bookbinding. ln the next class, First Theology, we have Al Smith and Rudy Kneuer of the class of '38. Al Smith has a special interest in a Catholic Action group at which the world's problems are discussed from the Catholic viewpoint and a universal outlook is maintained. Handball playing is a skill which Rudy developed at Cathedral. lust opposite the original seminary which is now the Brother' House is an interesting little old building. ln the cellar, about eighty bicycles are jammed together. These are used on Wednesday afternoons and holidays. On the first floor is the manual labor equipment-shovels, rakes, wheel-barrows, picks, crowbars, saws, axes, sledge hammers, etc. On the second floor which is the top floor, there are the electric shop, the carpenters' shop, the mechanic's shop and the bookbinder's shop. These shops not only keep many of the fellows healthily occupied, but much work is done for the benefit of the community. At present, Athletic activities have been somewhat limited. Since the end of the ice skating seasongthe ground have been quite wet so that the only reliable outdoor sport was handball. But spring is a time of hope. Since the elimination of the tennis courts, we have learned that tennis and handball courts are to be erected on another part of the property. With spring also comes the baseball season. Maryknoll is looking forward to engage other seminary teams such as Dunwoodie, Ferndale and the Iosephites from Newburgh. The well of thought is running a bit dry now, so the alumni at Maryknoll say Adieul Though far away, you are ever near us, for the spirit of Cathedral lives on in our hearts. CHARLES F. GIRNIUS, '37. CATHEDRAL COLLEGE ANNUAL

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SEMINARY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION HUNTINGTON, N. Y. 1 T Huntington approximately one hundred and fifty of Cathedral's -, . ...ggi . . . . . alumni have enlisted in a different army, one to bring upon the earth peace rather than War, and salvation rather than destruction, one to replace hatred and despair with hope and love. This is the Priestly Army oi the Catholic Church. Forces equipped with the death-dealing instruments of war can never bring peace to the world, and to the hearts oi men. This is the work of the Army of Christ. Those who began their training at Cathedral College and are now completing that training at the Seminary are destined to go out into a world sorely in need of priestly service and ot the salutary and consoling teachings of the Church which they alone can bring to the World. Hence we call upon you for your prayers that we may carry out the assignment given us as officers in the Army of Iesus Christ. Last September at the annual meeting of the Athletic Association Iohn Heffernan, '37, the newly chosen president, welcomed and introduced to the student body each of the new men of the house. Among those introduced were thirty of Cathedral's 1941 graduates as Well as Thomas Hendel, Edward Conroy, and Iames Farraher of the Class of '39, and Anthony McDonnell, '40, who came to us from other seminaries or colleges Where they had studied since leaving Cathedral. Among those singled out for special appointments thus far this year we note Denis Dore, '38, has been appointed Third Master of Ceremonies, Charles Vogel, '37, the Vice-president of the Alumni Associationp and Edward O'Connor, '38, were made manager and assistant respectfully of the general store, Leo Byrne, '38, became assistant in the book store, and Robert Hurley, '39, was assigned to the sacristy staff. Turning to one ot the most popular branches of seminary life We see that President Heffernan was assisted in the management of the Athletic Associa- tion by Daniel O'Connel1, '38, treasurer, Richard Tierney, '39, Eugene Feld- haus, Ioseph Bihler and Michael Leavy, all of the Class of '40, who directed the various departments of athletics. In the field ot athletics we have had a very fine year. The intermurai football, basketball and baseball competi- tions as well as the tennis, ping-pong, billiard and chess tournaments were entered with enthusiasm and in turn they provided sustained interest through- out the nine months of the school year. As a fitting climax to a year of spiritual, mental and physical develop- ment, on May 30 His Excellency, Bishop Molloy will ordain to the priesthood the senior class of the serriinary of whom more than twenty-five are former Cathedralites of the Class of '36 and on the following day each of them- truly an Alter Christus -will stand before the altar and offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sublime and awesome, yet not too remote, goal of every Cathedral student. We wish, in the name of all the Alumni here at the Seminary, to extend to the Class of '42 sincere congratulations upon their graduation. GEORGE V. FOGARTY, '40 CATHIEIDRAL COLLEGE ANNUAL

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SEMINARY OF OUR LADY OF ANGELS NIAGARA UNIVERSITY. NEW YORK LTHOUGH the ranks of Cathedral Alumni here at Our Lady of Angels have this year been an 1002, increase, We are still no more than two. As you can see, that doesn't provide too much material to write fag' about. There is also with us here Iohn Mcguinness, who graduated from the High School department in '39. Since we are no longer the mere readers of the alumni news, but actually are the alumni news, we ought to have a few items to relate. The biggest news, of course is that Tom Ryan will be up for Major Orders soon,- receiving Sub- diaconate this spring. ln the scholastic line. he will also be the recipient of the degree of M. A. at University commencement exercises. Another academic year is nearing its completion, a year full of activities and enterprises-already fast becoming fond recollections and memories- experienced at, this venerable institution under the patronage, like Cathedral, of our Immaculate Mother, under the title of our Lady of Angels. It seems like no time at all since we commenced the year with the opening Retreat, and then went into the routine of prayer and work, broken intermittently by free days, vacations, and the inevitable examsg not, however, neglecting the necessary recerational side of the seminarians' life:-the observance of the customs and traditions of historical Niagara-5 the culmination of the football season with the Petunia Bowl classic in the University stadium, the basketball tournamentg the annual I-landshakers' Conclave , the hikes on free claysg the occasional afternoons in the University swimming pool, the symposia on the feasts of St. Catherine of Siena and St. Thomas Aquinas, the monster old time lrish Minstrel Show staged for St. Patricks Day. Early last fall, Fr. Boland, of the N. Y. State Labor Relations Board, ad- dressed us on some of the outstanding social and labor problems confronting the clergy for solution. Later, before the beginning of the war, we were given an interesting address by His Excellency, Most Rev. Bishop O'Hara, of the Mili- tary Ordinariat. Shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, we were fortunate in having as lecturer Fr. Cannon, S.I., who had previously served as missionary in the very war area of the Philippines. Another interesting and entertaining, as well as inspiring, talk was that given by F. Daniel Lord, famous lecturer, author, and youth leader. We were doubly interested in his lecture, in so far as we would like to capture some of his zeal, inspiration and success in dealing with youth. For this year saw the inauguration of a new enterprise for the theologians. Every Monday afternoon, right after dinner, there is a general exodus, by taxi, of the entire theology department. We are whisked by the cabs to various parishes throughout Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and vicinty, there to conduct catechetics classes for the public scool children, under the recently enacted released time legislation. With expression, therefore, of our heartfelt and filial devotion to our alma mater, we offer heartiest wishes of success to the Annual Staff, and sincere congratulations to the' class of '42. RAYMOND It DAVID, ,38- CA'I'I-IEDRAL COI.LEGE ANNUAL