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

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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

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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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