Central Catholic High School - Towers Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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St. La Salle distributing food to the hungry. Christian Brothers and St. La Salle taking vows. The early Brothers and their founder before the Shrine of Our Lady. The humility of St. John Baptist de La Salle is easily seen in this portrait. The humble saint gave away his vast patrimony to the poor so as to set an example for his followers. X 3- .., a fx My Q The glory of St. La Salle in heaven is probably above conception of the human mind. After the vast amount of good work he did here on earth, we are sure he has a high seat in heaven.

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St, La Salle urs YEAR we are celebrating the 300th An- niversary of the birth of St. john Baptist de La Salle. In addition to this, we are commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his canoni- zation. For this reason the year 1951 has been dedicated to him and called the La Sallian year. Here at Central, we take pride in acknowledging him as the forerunner and founder of our own Christian Brothers. We can be sure that St. La Salle's most ardent desire was to see Catholic young men aspire for a place of high esteem in this world, while constantly progressing in the path to their eternal goal. The cherished hope of this dedication is to pro- claim to the world the admirable attainments brought about by the earnest endeavors of this Godly man. The educational world thinks of him merely as in Glory the founder of the Christian Brothers. However, this is but one of his many accomplishments. Too few realize that, but for St. de La Salle and his many followers, education would still be in its dark- est stages. During the early years of his life, St. La Salle saw that the schooling of young men was in an extremely sorry state. He determined that with the help of God, he would set about to remedy this. And remedy it he did. Today the fruits of his labors are manifold throughout the civilized world. We of Central can be certain that we are re- ceiving an education in which we are learning to seek out the soul. The more one learns in science, crafts, and letters-or anything for that matter- the closer one gets to God, who is the fountain of all knowledge. St. La Sallels righteous influence has motivated every phase of our school life.

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it L,.,,,. , News 17575. t . .33 ,Tip 7 ,,hV 1 wmmmn Recently, Pope Pius XII in his Papal Brief, pro- claimed St. John Baptist de La Salle, Patron Saint of All Teachers. In his life span of about sixty years, he accomplished more in the iield of Chistian education than anyiotherrman. This saintly person was the first to inaugurate the idea of visual aid in the instruction of students. Another novel idea of Sty de LaSalle wasjthe segregation of boys into classes of equal ability and to provide the same textbooks for all boys. His educational principles of the seventeenth century are the educational prin- ciples of today. The criteria of modern education owes its existence to this saintly man of Rheims, the Father of Modern Pedagogy. E W o .V 5 IS 0 m T0 u g 0 ut PM