Elmira Catholic High School - Victorian Yearbook (Elmira, NY)

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Elmira Catholic High School Annual schools not do for a child, because it is these missing things which show the difference in the schools of the Church and those of the State. In the first place, no reference is made to religion in the syllabus. That matter is left to the student, the state is not interested. VVhile they are taught the value of good citizenship, such teaching cannot hope to bear the fruit which results from it when given in a religious nature by teachers who love their students and do all in their power to make them good and just. From this we should see and at once realize the great necessity of Catholic schools, their value above public schools, and their need in the world today. -- John Rogers '40 MAY Once a year Spring comes our way, And with it comes the month of May, May in all her flowery splendor When birds their beautiful songs render. The whole earth is wrapped in green, Making a most picturesque scene, The Blessed Virgin's month so dear, Fills our hearts with joy and cheer. K. Maloney '40 . CARTOONS People must laugh and cry if they wish to enjoy life fully. Without a doubt cartoons help them to do this. A graphic illustration will at times bring forth guffaws of laughter or tears of sorrow. Adults as well as chil- dren chuckle over the antics of some famous comic or weep as they look at the miserable poverty depicted in an artfully drawn cartoon. Nearly every newspaper and magazine has sections devoted to worth- while sketches by renowned cartoonists. These artists draw practically everything, from a picture of a wolf at the door to one of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin as The Three Musketeers . In a nationally known magazine during election time, President Roosevelt was sketched as a seal with the nation's voters as fish being gobbled up by him. Now when you ask some people what an elephant is they will jokingly reply a Republican. They will also tell you, if you inquire, that a donkey is a Democrat. Since 1873 when a cartoonist conceived the idea, these two animals have stood as symbols of America's major political parties. A Re- publican will say the elephant has more strength and the Democrat will answer but the donkey can kick harder. So, you see what that cartoonist started. XVar is destructive, peace is progressive. Cartoons showing the dam- age wrought by war and the progress by peace have greatly influenced the American people. Here again the old proverb the pen is mightier than the sword, comes into play. Pictures impress people more than words, and so cartoons will always be an excellent means of conveying ideas in a concrete way. - George XVebb '40 l 7 4 l

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Elmira Catholic High School Annual President ....... Vice-President .. Secretary ...... Treasurer ...... Eugene Barrett Grace Carozza Donald Casey Edward Connelly John Daly john lfrvin Catherine Ford Donald Frawley Jane Furey Virginia Gantert Lucia Guthrie Charles Hall Mary Hughes CLASS OF 1940 Class Officers Mary Kamas Geraldine Kane Catherine Marie Kelly Josephine Kinsley Sheldon Lewis Margaret Mack Margaret Mahoney Kathleen Maloney Mary Catherine Margratt Frances O'Herron Margaret Page john Rogers james Ruddick EDUCATION . . Virginia Gantert . . . . Catherine Ford . . Patricia Sandore . . . . . . . George XVebb Josephine Salvatore Patricia Sandore Nicholas Savino Helen Shults Leo Sweeney Marilyn Thompson lilizaheth Tinkler George Underwood john Vetter joseph XVeaver George XYebb Francis XYeingart For uhaleizfer Cfliholics do in promoting and defemlihg the Catholic School for their children is u genuinely religious uorh and therefore an imporia-ht task of Catholic Actionf' - Pius Xl. XYhy does the Catholic Church labor so unceasingly in its education. of youth? XVhy is it so desirous of having all Catholic children attending Catholic schools? For the simple reason that if our boys and girls are to grow up into perfect Christian men and women they must receive some training other than that offered by public schools. The only way in which such special training can be obtained is attendance at Catholic institutions. But, you say, how has the Church the right to dictate the methods of education we should use? This is very easy to answer, for did not Christ say to his apostles, Going therefore, teach ye all nations, baptizing in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghostu? These words plainly express Christ's opinion on the subject of learning. NYC would not ignore His words if jesus spoke to us individually, but yet many people do that very thing by refusing to give their children the benefits of a Catholic education. XYhat do Catholic schools do for a child? From the student's enroll- ment until his graduation he is taught the fundamental principles of Christ's own religion. But the system goes much farther than that. Pious teachers instill in their wards the importance of good Christians to the sin-hllcd civi- lization of today. XYhen they leave these schools they realize that they should five in harmony with the laws of God. This realization usually forms a good character which goes into the making of a perfect Christian. ln considering public schools one might better ask, XYhat do public i 7 3 i

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Elmira Catholic High School Annual WHAT NEXT? The face of the earth has changed greatly in the passing of time. Much of this has been brought about through the efforts of science. Today we have at our disposal and command things that our forefathers would not even have dared to imagine, because they would have seemed so prepos- terous. Let us suppose that-say, about one thousand years ago, someone made a statement like this: Some day people will see and talk to each other across land or sea. XYhat would the answer to his statement have been? Certainly the people of that time would have said that he was crazy. Now taking a jump of nine-hundred years into the future, suppose that another man, more cultured and civilized were to make the same statement as the first man. XVhat do you think that the answer of his listeners would be? It possibly would be that he, too, was crazy, True, the man who made the statement one thousand years ago is dead and gone, and so is the second man. But now, in 1928, ninety-one years after the second man's statement, someone again uttered those startling words. This time he not only stated the fact but proved that it could be done. Some day people will see and talk to each other across land and sea, certainly has become true when -that super-marvel, Television, or the annihilation of distance for the eye, was invented. This new invention was based on three ingenious devices, the Photo-electric cell, the Neon-tube, and the Scanning-disc. But Television was now in its babyhood, and like many other great inventions needed much research work in order to perfect it. In 1936, Television was being used commercially in Great Britian, Italy, and Germany, to a certain extent quite successfully. It will soon take the place of Radio, in many respects. It will be in the United States for commercial use in the fall of l937. It is obvious that Tele- vision will play an important part in the Commercial and Industrial side of the world in the years to come. Television, an accomplishment desired through the ages of time, and having in store future advancements for this world, certainly deserves the title of being, a benefactor to humanity. - Nicholas A. Savino '40 CLOUDS As I stood and watched out the window I lifted my glance to the sky And chanced to glance on the soft, white clouds Like so many swans gliding by. Then rapt for a moment I stood there And saw a bright fiery ball Peeping over the shoulder Of a fluffy, snowy wall. Oh, how I should like to be up there Floating by on those blankets of down While the golden rays of the sun VVould melt away all my frowns. Helen Shults '40 I 7 5 l