Holy Redeemer High School - Campanile Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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SENTINEL V01 XI Holy Redeemer High School, Detroit 9, Michigan, March 31, 1966 No. 6 Early Buzzers Trap Panel on Quiz iEm Holy Redeemer was outscored by its opponent, St. Ladislaus 0n Quiz 'Em On The Air 780-640, or an average of three questions. The participants Leonard Nosal, Mary Abela, Sandra Pomicter, and Ramona Misiunas, together with Mr. Shirkey who coached them, spent much time and put forth much effort, but it just wasn't quite enough. According to the panelists, the schoolfrom Hamtramck took more of the chances on early buzzers, while the Re- deemerites hesitated to run the risk of penalties. The winner usually has a choice of a movie projector or a record player, and the runner-up must take a record player . Since St. Ladislaus already had a movie projector they chose the record player. As there was only one projector and one recordplayer in the studio, the judge asked Mr. Shirkey if the school would ac- cept the projector. Needless to say, Mr. Shirkey said, Yes! Even without a victory, the work was not in vain, since for most of the Re- deemerites it was the first time they had been in a television studio. As they en- tered the studio, they were greeted by a questionfrom the St. Ladislaus panelist. Why is Africa cool? As yet no one has that answer. Both panels received their preliminary instructions from Miss Bernice Thayer, one of the judges. She immediately rec- ognized Mr. Shirkey as the son of one of the Detroit News Photographers. K utkus Repeats Senior Mindaugas Kutkus, two-year top winner in the Michigan Math Test illus- trates the elliptic graph. Are we supposed to know about the latest sales, too? Sandra Pomicter and Ramona Misiunas confer while Mary Abela and Leonard Nosal discuss sports news in prepara- tion for their debut on Quiz 'Em on the Air. The party was then taken to the taping room, where the panel boxes and tele- vision cameras were set up. What impressed, or rather, alarmed the panelists was the fact that most of the foam covering on the panel box had been clawedoff byformer nervous contestants. After thirty minutes of quick thinking, and some forgetting, the final buzzer put an end to the 1966 Quiz 'Em. State Math Honor Last year, Mindaugas Kutkus scored high on the Michigan Math Test, but this year he broke his own record. He placed thirty-eighth out of more than 27, 000 stu- dents who took the first part of the test. Any Math student was eligible to take the first part of the test but only 1169 of the participants remained eligible for the second part. In his second year as a finalist Min- daugas reached the top two-tenths of one percent missing a Math scholarship by only two points. Most of the students in the competition had the advantage of special advanced math courses. Redeemer does not offer this type of course but his teachers main- tain that Mindaugas has done a great deal of extra study on his own. A creative mathematician, Mindaugas plans to havea double major in Math and Physics atUof M, and afterwards hopes to help in the space effort. Students Attend Model UN The University of Detroit has invited Redeemer's delegations fromfour coun- tries to attend the seventh annual Model UN. The countries represented by Re- deemer students are India, Cambodia, Mongolia, and the Dominican Republic. It will be a three-day stand, from the 25th to the 27th of March, with regis- tration, speeches, and meetings. One question that will be discussed is the Legal Aspect of Peaceful Uses in Outer Space. Others concern security, trusteeship, economy, and humanitarian problems. Keynote speakers will be G. Mennen Nilliams, J. Paul Phillips, and some real delegates to the UN from Iran and the Congo. Girls Miss West Side Title. A successful basketball season for the Girls' Varsity and Junior Varsity ended with a near championship. In the finals of the St. Alphonsus Basketball Tourna- ment the Redeemer Varsity was defeated by St. Alphonsus 14-13. The J V team was also defeated by St. Alphonsus 20-9. Both Redeemer teams ended the season, ranking third in the CYO League. The Varsity was unable to participate in city competition because they were un- able to find a sponsor.

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8 SENTINEL me vs I .w Freshmen Frances Losoncy, Patricia Taraban, Christine Markey, Claudia Polski, and Kathy McCarthy display a few of the glory banners that transformed Room 312 into a miniature Vatican Pavilion. Glory Banners Unfurl Frosh Religious Spirit The Freshman girls have discovered anewway of expressing and interpreting some of the most challenging ideas and ideals of Christianity. They are making Glory Banners. A Glory Banner is an attempt to ex- press by means of symbols, the great themes of Love, Service, Peace, Life, Christian Witness, and Commitment. The medium is usually cloth, or felt, or any material that would constitute a banner. Letters and figures are affixed inacolorful design. Some of the banners are artistic, some of them are colorful, and all of them are meaningful. One girl presented the word Love in letters of varying sizes to show the dif- ferent degrees of love, and she formed a large Chiro out of chains, in which All Christians Are A Link. :qu'r ARRIED Mr and Mrs :Donald Ziemba wage The Glory Banners are displayed in Sister Louis Gillet's room. Sister got the idea last summer when she vis ited the New York World's Fair. Huge Glory Banners hung from the ceiling of the Va- tican Pavilion. One freshman girl remarked that al- though the banners were simple to make they requireda great deal of thought be- fore a subject was chosen. After you have finished it, she added, you just don't forget about it very soon. The idea stays with you, and it grows. May I7 Set as Night of Moonlight and Roses Moonlight and Roses! That will re- mind many people of more than a song after the night of May 17. It is the theme of the Junior-Senior Prom. The Prom will be held at the Whittier Hotel in Downtown Detroit. Dinner will be served in the Crystal Ballroom. Bob Durant's Orchestra will highlight the evening. Although the final number of prom- goers has not yet been tallied, an early estimate indicates that it will surpass last year's record of 118 couples. Dooley Kits for Viet Nam: IMade in Redeemert The Thomas A. Dooley Foundation has asked Redeemer students to cooperate with them in an endeavor to fulfill a need in Viet Nam. The Foundation has been asked to provide the children of Viet Nam with 350,000 Dooley Kits. A DooleyKitis a small cloth bag made from scraps of colored material and con- taining useful items such as combs, soap, toothbrushes, bandaids, washcloths, and pencils and writing paper. Small toys such as rubber balls and plastic dolls are very acceptable. The bags which give joy to Vietnamese children are named after Doctor Tom A. Dooley, who labored as a doctor among the poor people of VietNam, and who died of cancer, after giving his life to those who needed him. Sister Josepha and the Sewing Classes have adopted the project enthusiastically and Dooley bags are being made by the dozens with remnants of cloth from the dresses, suits, aprons, and even granny dresses made by the Class. Sister Berchmans, moderator of'the Catholic Students Mission Crusade has taken on this project and hopes, with the cooperation of the entire school, to reach the quota, and even to top it. AII I Have to Give Anonymous If the sun, moon, and stars, If the glory of a dew drop, Of falling snowflakes, Of a lone sea gull Were mine to give you, I would give them all to you. But to share with you the beauties ., of'the Lord ' Is all I have to give. If knowledge, wisdom, Understanding, Peace of mind, great joy, Few sorrows, Were mine to give you, I would give them all to you. But to wish you perfect happiness Is all I have to give you. If time, life, and evermore, If a body mind and soul Were mine to give you, I would give them all to you. But to love you always Is all I have to give you.

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2 SENTINEL March 31, 1966 T 00 Soon IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 1984-- Twen ty Years WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY These are the principles ofasociety, a Utopia, in George Orwell's book, 1984. This future generation lives in fear of mind investigators, the Thought Police, who vaporize anyone who questions, who feels, who loves. An advanced dictatorial unit, The Inner Party, seeks to supress man to an unperson, seeks to stereotype him, by elimin- ating his individual nature, his will and his freedom. It seeks to supplant God with Big Brother. Is this 1984 so different, so far-fetched from now, from 1966? Of course, our government isn'tBig Brother, but what about man himself. Is he not in his created society, trying to embrace theseprinciples? What is accepted? 'What is in? and What will people say? are allrealities of our conformist society, of our group worship. No longer is man valued for himself, but now we, the children of Eve, fall on our faces and cry to our god, Society, I needacar. I must haveamink. I must be rich, or successful. Have we unknowingly made our own demanding, consuming, greedy, Big Brother? This Big Brother we have created has already made the rules for 1984 of our own Utopia. He has made his extremist, his passivist, his conformist war parties in the all too fertile soil of the teen, the young idealist. His generals are the staunch adults of the militant fifties. WAR IS PEACE Policies of the generals: Kill or be killed. To get some place in business you have to step on people, and you gotta get what ya can. Is not this peace to many people? Is not this the law of our peaceful society? Do we not commit crime and enjoy it? How often do we mutilate the feelings and the hopes of others and just brush it off? How often do we knock people down and say, in effect, You're stupid. Our answer: Very often. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY Policies of the generals: Don'tthink! Don't speakout! Keep quiet! It's accepted so what's your problem? Isn't hiding under the blanket of society, freedom to many? Are we content, so content, to remain secure and happy with what the crowd demands ? Is it not good to be a vegetable--non-thinking? Is not this slavery freedom from the pain of the world? Our answer: Yes! IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Policies of the generals: If you know too much you're dangerous. What do the gangs think about school, knowledge, culture? How often is the brain ridiculed? How often do people rest in self-satisfaction of their knowledge? How often do they refuse to face the truth? Our answer: Very often! These policies show man's nature being vaporized. The murderer is Society. We do things for the wrong purpose, for money, for status, or for power. We have seen all too clearly the apathy of today's rank and file. Murders, rapes, gang fights go on, and people are complacent. Do we not call men like ourselves, niggers? Our answer: Of course! How long will this go on? Will we continue to live by these principles? Will we re- main apathetic when someone is being knifed? Or, will we fight when someone is attacked. Will we be willing to give our lives for others ? Will we finally stand back, look, and see what we are doing? Our answer: It remains only a question! Grape Juice - Wanted Television commercials are often con- sidered ridiculous because of the exag- gerated situations they present. Some commercials, in contrast can be sized up and found quite true. Everyone who at one time or another has watched television has seen the com- mercialinwhicha woman and her family have become listless and have slumped into the valley of fatigue. Their method of revival is to drink a glass of grape juice. That same valley of fatigue is now catching many a Redeemerite. The set- ting is perfect. There is no spring pro- duction to get excited about, there are no tickets to sell, there are no more games or players to cheer for, the weather is warm, there are less than forty days of school left, and no one feels like doing very much any more. The fourth and last quarter of the year is beginning. It is the last opportunity we will have to perk up and aim at fin- ishing the year off well. For the seniors, that letter of accep- tance from the college doesn't mean that the Admissions Office will close its eyes to your final marks. For everyone else the school year that is marred by end of the year slump can never be regained. We have no glass of grape juice that is powerful enough to revive us, but we do have willpower, whichif put to work can do tremendous things. All the energy we can muster should be aimed at finishing agoodschool year with, ifpossible, even more enthusiasm than we began it with. EDITORIAL PAGE No. 6 Seanel V01. XI Published Monthly Co-Editors Lester Goodchild Ramona Misiunas John Emig Barbara Brombach Jane Camilleri Susan Parker Gerry Durocher Duane Pennebaker Lynn Neeley Sister Alphonsus Lay-Out Editor Page Editors Sports Editor Business Mgr. Typing Editor Adviser