Catholic Central High School - Catholicon Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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Y' An informal moment .... 'll tson, Mary Mahoney, Father Sweeney Ruth T1 o 7,g S'JQ Mi , Howard Bennett and Ned Conway Retreat choir .... Father had the ability to make a serious point through a humorous story. The retreat had one theme and that theme was love-the infinite love of God for man and the searching love of man for God. Father Sweeney told us again and again how important we are to God and how vigilant we must be to justify that importance. The first conference was a general one, but as Father continued he took each problem an individual Catholic ordinarily encounters and treated it in as average a manner as was possi- ble. For those who had any particular question, however, he was avail- able between conferences for a private talk. The three days went by in an atmosphere of silence, silence that was golden because it was fruitful. On Friday morning the senior class went to Communion in a body, and almost before we knew it we were at two-thirty conference that afternoon. Our retreat was over: we were at peace and alert to new beginnings. We ned again that Catholic life can be beautiful when it is lived should be lived. had all lear as it

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Father Sweeney ieminds us ..... The four retreats we have made here have been fruitful ones. We have been counseled by such delightful retreat masters as Father Rooney, Father Barrett and Father Carra- bine, each of Whom understands youth as it wants to be understood and loves youth as it wants to be loved. Our senior Retreat Mas- ter, Father Justus Sweeney, had all the ad- mirable qualities of these three rolled into one. Behind scenes with Father Janis .... Art Doringg Tom 0'Brien, Howard Bennett and Dick Collins. Speaks for itself- and for us .... R ecollcction ' 1 Hurt eiiection I3 arnestn-ess pphcixtion rust in GOD

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esiv 76 Zak? Cl F' Rf, U l h ll ll, Colleen Re ' O'B1'ien, Ruth Moore, Evelyn Tyll, Peggy Reardon 'Killa Reiniger, Betty lNIol'rone, and Rita O'Lea1'y llllllllllg' off stencils .... ofhtteaf The secretarial practice class consists of an active group of girls and boys who are interested in commercial studies. Many of these students act as secretaries to members of the faculty, do mimeograph and stencil Work for school activities, and act as typists on The Triune staff. The ambition of these stud is to become future secretaries and typists in world. ents the busin GSS