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

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'THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ARRIED along by the impulse of past year's successes, and aided by increased interest of a broader segment of alumni members, C the Alumni Association of Cathedral College has a favorable re- port to make forthe year 1941-1942. The Alumni News, begun as an experiment, was so well received, and evidently enjoyed, that it was continued as a permanent publication. Not striving to be literary nor attempting to imitate the tabloids, it steers a middle course and achieves a dignified newsiness . lt reports items of interest regard- ing our alumni, such as honors which come to them, work they are doing, new projects contemplated or begun. For lay alumni, especially, it is the place they look to for announcement that one of their friends has been married, or has become a father-for the fourth or fifth time-as has happened. This year, particularly, it will be welcomed all over the world wherever our boys are engaged in military service. At the annual meeting in lanuary 1942, held during the vacation of the Seminarians, the election of a new board of officers took place. We Were very fortunate, particularly, in the choice of Father Iohn O'Connor '31 for the office of President. The other officers elected were: Mr. Martin Kaiser '19 and Mr. Charles Vogel '36, Vice-Presidentsg Mr. Martin Bergin '40, Secretary, Rev. Ioseph McGroarty '34, Treasurer, Mr. Francis X. McDermott '27, I-listorian. This new set of officers promise to be more than satisfactory successors to those which were headed by Father Swarbrick '26 and Father Sutherland '27. The Reichert Fraternity founded early last year as a lay group within the Alumni Association had a most successful year. Besides the increase of meme bership from B2 to over 150-though now seriously depleted by Uncle Sam- and the increasing attendance at meetings, the Fraternity has affected the development of a fine spirit of fellowship among former students of Cathedral College, now laymen and Working at all sorts of jobs and in all the professions. Particularly noticeable and praiseworthy is the agreeableness shown between the oldster of the early classes and the youngster of the later ones. The meet- ings have been unusually successful, featuring generally a talk, sometimes informative, sometimes entertaining, by a well-known speaker. Indicative of the type of talk is one given in April, during Easter Week, by Mr. Francis X. Keenan, a lawyer, on the topic, The Legal Aspects of the Trial of Christ . The enthusiastic reception to this talk is a fine index of the character and attitude of the men who make up the membership of the Fraternity. Similarly this is shown by the success of the Corporate Communion and Breakfast on April 26, 1942. Despite the loss of over thirty men who are in the armed forces of our country, fifty men attended. Monsignor McHugh celebrated the Massg Mr. William A. Clark, Principal of lohn Adams High School, gave a most thought- provoking talk on the obligation of Catholics to help win the war and to win the peace that will follow. As we close this article we look forward to the last activities of the year: the Iune Alumni Reunion, and the Fraternity outing in the early summer. MR. FRANCIS X. MCDERMOTT, '27, CATHIEDRAL 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

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ATHLETICS IN ARMIS CONTENDUNT SED SEMPER AMICLH O11 Mm four! the vofztexi ix played but rafzcor enter! 7101 . . . Editor of Athletic News Ieremicrh F. O'Brien, '42 CATHIEDRAL COLLEGE ANNUAL