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

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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

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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 CLASS OFFICERS President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Stephen Marshall Eileen McConaughy Betty June Hupf Joseph Gradwohl Helen Bach Julia Babal Helen Bach Jane Bopp Betty Coyle Leona Diamond Francais Dietz Milcirefb Drobnick James Eekenrode Robert Fisher CLASS ADVISERS John Osmar MEMORIES STAFF Dorothy Gaydos Charles George Joan Glaney Joseph Kiniry Jean Kurtz Irene Little Catherine Mareinko Stephen Marshal Mlary McCabe Eleven Jean Kurtz Joan McCann Betty McCloskey Gerald Mock Gene Olek Marie Rodkey Donald Seitz Betty Stemrner Catherine Ann Thiel Virginia Weaklancl