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

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St. John erchmans Sooiet .-- ' Fr. Ignatius toils to teach these faithful servers the five rudiments of Latin responses. J. Murphy and D. Connelly prepare to serve Mass. There is more to belonging to the St. John Berch- mans Society than just serving Mass, as D. Watts, P. McCormack, D. Wisniewski, J. Jaworski, P. Callahan, and D. Deubell can tell you. Mass in the school chapel every morning at eight am. We hear this announcement every day. But who serves these Masses? The answer is the members of the St. John Berchmans Society. It is a group of students instructed by Father Ignatius. They learn all the proper methods of serving and assisting the priest before, during, and after Mass. Besides being a group for veteran altar boys, it also trains new boys in the procedures for serving Mass, say- ing Latin prayers, and singing Gregorian Chant.

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f-X N ---2-E-as-.,.... 2 wi. 1'-. -2.3, ' 1- , a- , Here is the other half of the members of the Third Order rder In our nuclear age, when we must work together or elsef' the model United Nations helps to instill in the students a deeper, more realistic understanding of the problems facing the world today. Then again it also helps them to better understand the particular problems of the country they represent. This year several students became amateur experts on Ru- mania, the nation assigned to Baker-Victory. Attending local assemblies kept our representa- tives busy and politically alert. In addition to the communist bloc meetings, the students participated in the General Assembly at Erie County Technical Institute. Under the guidance of Mr. Samuel Cogswell, the students benefited socially and added a good deal of enjoyment to their scholastic year. odel United Nations Our Model U.N. handles world problems. Mr. Cogswell, B. Snyder D. Schmitt, G. Riedel, B. Sutkowski, M. Barth, P. Fox, M. Wolcott

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Scribbler's 1 Club Our young authors are vvriting their impressions as set to music. The Scribblers have had much enjoyment in the past year. They are an organization specializing in writing creatively with the hope of having some of their works selected for publication. In the past year they have followed a planned program of field trips to such places as the Boston Hills and Letch- worth State Park. Besides the fun of being among their Carol Duhan recites a humorous piece of verse. friends on these trips, the Scribblers were inspired by the trips to put what they saw into good creative writing. The Scribblers were led by Sister Immaculata, a writer herself, and chairman Patricia Pruenal and secretary Dianne Witczak. Perhaps someday one of these Scrib- blers will become part of our chi1dren's English Litera- ture course. 41