Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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Mission Fields in Alaska

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Th eine Two HERE in the remote fastness of the Alaskan wilderness is pictured a priest of God working diligently on the medium of nutrition to keep the body and soul one, this that he may continue his vigorous efforts to bring the word of Christ to the peoples of the frozen north. His pensive mood is symbolic of the Christian Brothers of the Manhat- tan faculty who have labored long and tirelessly in order that the food for the mind received by their student charges will direct them along a way of life that will lead them to the eternal happiness of heaven. As these Christian Brothers lecture and teach day after day during the college year, they sincerely hope and pray that the knowledge of Christ and His Church imparted to the students who sit before them will be repeated by these students in fields where men of God have not as yet trod. It is the necessity of the Catholic laity, as much as the clergy, to do all in their power to spread the teachings of Christianity. The Christian Brothers of Manhattan have done their part of the work with all the zeal and faith required to make distinguished Christian gentlemen. It now becomes the responsibility of the men of Manhattan to carry this knowledge to those far- flung parts of the globe in which they will become citizens of the world.

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INCE 1944 the history of the college has heen inextrica- hiy hound into the hte of Brother Bonaventure Thomas. Called in the most trying Clays of the war to direct the policies of Ntanhattan, it has heen his thought and action that have forseen the prohtems of the peace, have provided for the necessary expansion and have heen engaged with the possihiti- ties of the post war situation. tnclefatigihte in his attention, Brother Thomas has envisionect the new opportunities anci has devoted his energies to their realization. Carrying over from his teaching ctays here at the coitege, a vivid appreciation of its place in the ectucationat system of the Brothers of the New York District, Brother Thomas came here in Septemher, 19414, from Lincoln Han, where his direc- tion hact successfully molded there the new experiment in hoy guidance into one of the most commendahie projects with which the Brothers have heen connected. Charged with the prohiems of a ctecimatect student population, he has taict soiici foundations for carrying the work forward, as welt as for the fuitest possihie participation hy the cottege in the opportunities created hy the war. Today with his program of expansion piannect to meet the needs of the returned veteran as wen as the constantly increas- ing high school graduate students. Brother Thomas looks for- ward confidently to the days of peace and security, with the Icnowtectge that he has conscientiously ctevotecl himself to the task and that uncter his direction the Future of the couege is hright, its inihience expanding, its program tuner and fresher than it has ever heen hefore. 28