Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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ST. VINCENT (le PAUL SOCIETY ONE of the few campus organizations that remained active through the war-time period, the St. Vincent de Paul Society has for a long time held honors as the most active and the most charitable group at Manhattan. By means of such events as the Christmas entertainment, the Old Clothes Drive, the two-week Mite Box campaign and three Tea Dances, the Society has procured $1500 and more than a hundred articles of clothing, all of which was distributed to various char- itable institutions. Officers of the Vincentians for the past year have been Eugene Calure, Donald Bridgetts, John Winston and Robert Paolini. OUB 6QAt lets get HOT? ' STRtCKEM chusbeK » EBRDPf «tt«k0K «B.»J«« ,(» tt«f fi « JW£13L Ik. ftH n 171

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SOCIETY FOR INTERRACIAL JUSTICE ITS history dating back only to January, 19 i6, the Manhattan College Society for Interracial Justice has grown in prestige to the point where it is already one of the lead- ing Catholic Action groups on the campus. The idea of an organization here at Man- hattan dedicated to the better understanding of the racial question grew out of a confer- ence of Manhattan Delegates to the National Federation of Catholic College Students. Brother Benignus accepted the moderator- ship and together with President Richard G. Smith and Vice-President Milton Todmann the three have seen the Society progress in fulfilling its principle purpose: the orienta- tion of Its members on the existing conditions of bigotry and discrimination and the repu- diation of such conditions in the light of Christian ideology. A continuous study has been made of the possibilities of alleviating the problems studied. The results of these studies ha e been made a ailable to the stu- dent body m bi-monthly open meetings. As a lo al commission on the subject in the N. F. C. C. S., the Manhattan Interracial Group worked in close cooperatK)n with the National Commission on Interracial Justice at Manhattan ' ille College and also collabo- rated with the DePorres Interracial Society of the Archdiocese of New York. 170

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CATECHIST SOCIETY UNDER the leadership of President George Leach, the Catechist Society has just completed its busiest year. As well as enter- ing the new field of combating juvenile de- linquency, the Society has maintained its tra- ditional mission at St. Cecilia ' s Parish in Harlem, Sunday and Tuesday classes at St. Roch ' s in the lower Bronx, Sunday school in the parish of St. John the Martyr in Manhat- tan, direction of recreation and clubs in the Casita Maria settlement of Harlem, and dis- cussion clubs in St. Thomas Aquinas Parish. An Intercollegiate Conference on Cate- chetics, which met on the campus on Palm Sundav, March 30, was sponsored by the Society and was responsible for the inclusion of a course on Catechetics in the College curriculum. 172