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

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SISTER M. AGNES CLARE Latin SISTER M. ASSUMPTA Music TH( SISTERS This is the first time in the history of our school that photo- graphs of the Sisters have ap- peared in the yearbook. Hence, a word of explanation might not be out of place. Why have they not appeared before, and why do they appear this year? There is much to be said in answer to the first question. Generally speaking, I believe if is true that Sisters are opposed to photo- graphs, that is, photographs of themselves, especially, if they are to appear in the market place. There is something about this which jars against their sense of religious propriety. There can be a note of vanity, too, in photographs, and, determined as they are to .scale the heights of sanctity. Sisters want no part of anything like vanity. Then, in •he novitiate they heard much about dying to self and to the world. They took'this message seriously, as was to be expected, and the admonition keeps ringing in their ears all through life. Moreover, there is the matter of permissions to be reckoned SISTER M. CLEMENT Science with. Technically, religious have no will of the'r own. They gave it up when they took the vow of obedience. Obtaining permissions is often inconvenient and

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FATHER THOMAS F. CAWLEY FATHER JOHN C. O'LEARY

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SISTER MARY CORDIA Latin SISTER M. DAMIAN English sometimes impossible. And so it is that it has not been customary at Catholic High to print the photographs of our Sisters in the yearbook. Why then are the pictures in the book this year? The answer to that is simple enough. This is a jubilee year. Exceptional things happen in years of jubilee. At least, that' has been our experi- ence. It has been an exceptional year in the fullest sense of the word. It was in deference then to the wishes of the jubilarian who has written these lines and in recognition of the silver jubilee of the school itself, that the Sisters agreed to mortify themselves con- cerning the objections they had to photographs, and all became of one mind for this special occasion; the Superiors graciously concurred, because of the unusual circumstances—one of these Superiors, it is interesting to note, Mother M. Lucina, O.S.F., was on the original staff—and the photographer did the rest. When the school first opened in September, 1922, four Sisters comprised the staff, namely. Sister Mary Augusta, of the Sisters of St. Joseph; Sister Mary Genevieve, cf the Sisters of Mercy,- Sister Mary Lucina, of the Sisters of St. Francis (Millvale), and Sister Mary Vivian, of the Sisters of St. Francis (Joliet). The last named was the SiSTER MARY de LOURDES English and Librarian