Johnstown Central Catholic High School - Memories Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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MEMORIES TI-IE FACULTY Reverend Thomas Cawley, Principal Reverend James F itzgibbon Reverend John G'Leary Sister Mary Assumpta, S. S. J Sister Mary Francis, S. S. J ............. Sister Maria, S. S. J ...,....................... Sister Marita, S. S. J .................................................... ............ Sister Mary Damian, R. S. M ........,..,. Sister Mary de Lourdes, R. S. M ............ Sister Marie Therese, R. S. M ............. Sister Mary Virginia, R. S. M ............. Baden Baden Baden Baden ......Dallas ............Dallas .................Dallas .,....................Dallas Sister Marie Celeste, S. C ................................ ..,., .,.,,,,.,,,,,. G r eensburg Sister Edith Marie, S. C ......................... .............. G reensburg Sister Mary Marguerite, S. C ............, ..........,.., G reensburg Sister Mary Gregory, S. C ...................... .............. G reensburg Sister Clementine, S. C .............. ......,........ ,,,,,,,,,,,.,, J o liet Sister Mary Celestine, O. S. F .............. .....,........ J oliet Sister Mary Hilary, O. S. I7 ............ .................................. J oliet Sister Mary Blandina, O. S. F ................,.... ............. M illvale Sister Mary de Chantal, O. S. F ......... .. ............. Millvale Sister Mary Vincentia, O. S. F ........... ............. M illvale Nine

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MEMORIES PRINCIPAUS MESSAGE The fact that some boys in this year's class have already gone to war , the certainty that military service awaits ing, and actual combat, many of them-all this adds a note of most un- usual solemnity to com- mencement this year. For some the prospect of military service may hold out the promise of great adventure. Would to God there were noth- ing more involved! Un- fortunately, over and . above adventure, there is grave danger, intense .E suffering, and g r i m death. And even this is not all. There is yet serious apprehension-a fear that this terrible destruction and holocaust may be entirely in vain-a fear that in the very process of fighting to defend our freedom and to win freedom for others, we may, not only fail of this worthy objective, but even extend the frontiers of enslavement. While we ale actually engaged in a struggle to preserve the finer things in our civilization, there are forces at work even in our own land attempting to destroy the very foundation on which that civilization rests-forces inimical to religion and defiant of God-forces of hatred and intolerance and injustice and greed. And these forces are not be- ing opposed. Perhaps it were best to describe this chaotic state of present day society the world over as the violent pains of a civilization spiritually fiimished, dying of religious starvation. Hence, while some of you will be called upon to take part in the military struggle, all must be conscious of your duty to play a part in the more important struggle that involves religion against paganism. The motto that has influenced all our endeavors to prepare you for this com-- mencement of life with new responsibilities is FOR GOD AND COUN- TRY. From now on that motto must cease to be largely theory for you. It must find practical application in your daily life, in a much fuller sense.. Those called to the colors will respond with courage and will serve with honor. But all must realize that you can serve your country best by serving God better. And while the paramount duty and critical need of the hour is to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's , you must not forget that, not only now, but always, your first duty is to render to God the things that are God's.,' REVEREND THOMAS CAWLEY Eight most of those remain-

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MEMORIES SISTER MARY VIVIAN, home room Sister of our Senior Boys and head of our Social Studies Depart- ment, died at the Franciscan Moth- er House in Joliet, Illinois, on Au- gust 18 last, at 1:25 A. M. Death came suddenly and with only a half hour of warning. Sister had been resting in the iniirmary for two weeks, preparatory to returning to Johnstown for her twenty-first year. Her death came as a great shock to this entire community. She was the last of the four pioneers -Sis ters who came here in September, 1922, for the first opening of Cath- SISTER MARY VIVIAN, 0. s. F. olic High School. During her 20 years of service, Sister Vivian carved a name for herself which will be held in benediction for generations to come. She had a most exceptional talent for working with boys. The hundreds whom she helped to prepare for graduation and for life had come to look upon her as indispensable to Catholic High School. Catholic High, they felt, could never be Catholic High without Sister Vivian. On June 18, 1943, Sister Vivian rounded out twenty years of ser- vice on this mission, with the graduation of the seventeentii Class-the 95 in the class bringing the grand total of graduates to approximately 1400. Five days later, on June 23, Sister was in Joliet basking in the sunshine of human kindness and divine blessing that were her special portion on the occasion of her Silver Jubilee. Two months to the day from the date of her last commencement, she died. It was an undoubted mark of divine favor that Sister Vivian was permitted to live to celebrate her Silver Jubilee, and it was a mark of special divine favor that she was summoned to give an account of her stewardship while at the Motner House in Joliet. The measures taken by tne students and alumni to pay their re- spects at the time of her unexpected death bore eloquent testimony to the great esteem in which Sister Vivian had been held. One item alone is most indicative. Approximately ONE HUNDRED MASSES were of- fered for the repose of her soul. Early in the year a beautiful bronze plaque was erected on the door of Room 200, occupied so long by Sister Vivian and her boys. The plaque bears this inscription: In Memory of SISTER MARY VIVIAN, O. S. F. 1922-1942 presented by the Alumni Association Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, And let perpetual light shine upon her. Ten