Father Baker Victory High School - Hageota Yearbook (Lackawanna, NY)

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.P.Q.R. It's Latin story time, but it looks like these girls are more interested in the tale the Hageota is going to narrate. Sister Mary Immaculate joins the group in giv- ing a few renditions of Latin songs. Latin club, moderated by Sister Mary Immaculate and Sister Mary Brendan convened once a month in the classrooms. The Club is a charter member of a larger organization known as the Junior Classical League. The purpose of the Junior Classical League is to en- courage among young people an interest in, and appre- ciation of, the civilization, language, literature and art of ancient Greece and Rome. Also, to give students some understanding of our own culture compared to that of classical antiquity. The meetings consisted of skits, plays, mythes, word ancestry, and Latin songs. Thus a knowledge and an enjoyment of Latin were instilled into the students. This year the club was divided into four sections: Latin I-Servig Latin II-Plebsg Latin III-Equites, and Latin IV-Senatores. Each group had its own set of officers, but leading the entire SPQR were Consul, Carol Nemethg Praetor, Margaret Zamorskig Scriba, Susan Stankiewiczg and Queastor, Joann Dillon. One cannot help wondering whether Troy would have fallen so easily if the stowaways in the Wooden Horse were like these pretty puellae. 32

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Down in a small dark corner of the school basement, unseen by a majority of the students, is the Baker-Victory Rifle Range. This is where the Rifle Club, our minutemen, practice the art of shooting. Under the guidance of Mr. Cogswell the members leam the safe and efiicient use of firearms. From this club comes our fine Riile Team, whose otiicers are David Soda, Robert Snyder, Ray Kardas, and Gordon Gerstner. . Besides running the approved Basic Marksmanship Courses of the N. R. A., the club has provided the excite- ment of matching the members' rille skill with that of other scholastic teams and some non-scholastic groups. If there is ever another Revolutionary War we'll have the minute- men to bring Baker-Victory out on top. Rifle Club Duke Snyder instructs future sharpshooters. ,Lggj ' 'ui mn is h - 1, 1 i FM Holy Smokes, and you want to learn to shoot! Mr, Cogswell and the straight-shooters : First Row: R. Kardas, D. D. Soda, R. Snyder, J. Soda, G. Gerstnerg Second Row: M. Feneziani, D. Nease, D. Murphy, P. Pavlovicg Stuna'ing: S, Flis, M. Pericak, J. Shanahan, R. Brown, M. Marenovic, M. MacHose, A. Szurgyi, D. Perkins, P. Aschenbrenner, M. Cogswell. M... , ., it .uf .- - - --'M' T fi

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You would never believe that these members of the Spanish Club just awakened from their siesta. Spanish Club We surely have dedicated students in this school. One class a day is not enough for the senoritas of the Spanish class. They have formed the Spanish Club to add to their enjoyment of the people of old Spain and Mexico. They make the study of language a pleasure, rather than a drudgery. The Club is moderated by Sister Dositheus. They dress Spanish Dolls, read plays, learn Spanish dances, and simply have fun with the happy language. After doing these many things, the members feel they have come to know better their neighbors to the South and across the sea. Well, we suppose girls never really lose their fascination for dolls at least not the Spanish variety. 33