John Bapst High School - Bapstonian Yearbook (Bangor, ME)

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FACULTY BOYS, DEPARTMENT Brother Samuel, C.F.X., Principal. Speech, English, Debate Coach. Brother Dennis joseph, C.F.X. Religion, French, English, Faculty Adviser for CBUSADER and BAPs'roN1AN. Brother Leo Francis, C.F.X. Religion, Shorthand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping. Brother john Evangelist, Religion, Latin, Mathematics. Brother Michael joseph, C.F.X. Religion, English, History, French, Coach of junior Varsity Sports. Brother Canice, C.F.X. Religion, English, Latin, History, Vocation Director. Brother Patricius, C.F.X. Religion, Mathematics, Geometry, Chemistry. Brother Stanislaus, C.F.X. Religion, Physics, Mathematics, English. Mr. Nathaniel Crowley. Athletic Director, Coach of Football, Basketball and Baseball, History, Civics. GIRLS' DEPARTMENT Sister Mary Carmel, Principal. French. Sister .Mary Eulalia. Religion, History, Economic Geography. Sister Mary Teresita. Religion, Latin, Geometry, Algebra. Sister Mary Ermina. Religion, Stenography, Typewriting, Bookkeeping. Sister Mary Acquinas. Religion, Chemistry, General Science. Sister Mary Teresa. Religion, Latin, English. Sister Mary Monica. Religion, Stenography, Typewriting, Bookkeeping, Busi- ness English. Sister Mary Raymond. Religion, History, Algebra, Commercial Arithmetic. Miss Iosephine M. Proiita. English, Speech, Director of Dramatics, Faculty Adviser for CRUSADER and BAPSTONIAN.

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Greetings! May the yearbook serve to keep fresh the memory of the many happy and fruitful experiences of high school years! Bnorrmn PASCAL, C.F.X. BROTHER SAMUEL,S MESSAGE The students who volunteered their time in the preparation of this ANNUAL wanted to give you a lasting souvenir of your school days at john Bapst. The pictures of your classmates will remind you of happy, congenial companionshipsg the group pictures, of school activities maintained and promoted for your social, physical and intellectual welfare. May the memories revived remain forever green, may they rejuvenate your spirit and strengthen your loyalty. VV e would not have it otherwise. But more especially, we do wa11t this ANNUAL to keep alive something more tangible and precious than mere scholastic and sporting activities. XVe Want it to remind you in the uncertain years ahead of the Catholic traditions and truths which are your heritage and which you have been called upon to exemplify in your conduct. It was these abiding traditions and truths, so vitally necessary for your temporal and eternal peace and contentment that actuated your parents and co1'eligionists to build john Bapst High School. All other matters are transi- tory, the truths of religion are unchangeable and eternal. Unless you are faith- ful, then, to Cod and to His Commandments, unless you show and lead the Way by virtuous living to men and women in darkness and doubt, you are untrue to your Christian heritage, the sacrifices of your priests and parents, your teachers and benefactors will be, insofar as you are concerned, wasted. Let this ANNUAL remind you of your solemn and sacred duty to win eternal salvation for yourself and to promote, by your example, the kingdom of God in the hearts of your fellowmen. Tn the Graduates, Your day is here, Catholic women and girls. Public life needs you. These words of Our Holy F ather, Pope Pius XII, spoken in an address to the Catholic women of Italy, are a challenge to every American girl. During your four years at john Bapst, you have learned the real meaning of woman- hood, and the important part which woman has ever played in the history of mankind. Until recent years, it was generally agreed that the place of woman was in the home and nowhere else. Today, her place is indeed in the home, but circumstances have made it imperative for the modern woman to move into public life as well. It is your duty, then, as Catholic girls, and especially as graduates of a Catholic school, to take your rightful place in the world as it is today. The question is not that woman should abandon the home, but rather that she should be ready to combat the evils which threaten to destroy the sanctity of the home. You must, therefore, be aware of these evils. That is, you must be well-informed, intelligent Catholic women. Far from ending on graduation day, your education is just now be- ginning. The day is more fittingly called Commencement Day. To use once more the words of Our Holy Father, woman has today an intellectual and doctrinal mission, to study and expound the place and role of woman in society, her rights and duties. Only after this study will Catholic women be ready to carry out their second mission, that of direct actionf, Your mission is a lofty one, Craduates of 1946. Under the guidance of Mary, the Perfect NVoman, may you become real women. the restorers of home, family and societyv. SISTER NIARY CARIXIEL T. 5

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MYLES PHILIP M CMANUS Although Myles McManus was in Bapst but two years, there is a special reason why he should be singled out. Myles, a fine student and athlete, left John Bapst at the end of his sophoniore year to study for the Xaverian Brotherhood at Saint joseplfs Iuniorate in Peabody, Massachusetts. Since then, he has gone to the Sacred Heart Novitiate at Fortress Monroe, Virginia where he is drawing closer to his desired goal as a Brother of Saint F ancis Xavier. We all know that it won't be long now, and we hope that some day he will be back at John Bapst on the other side of the desk! e