Manhattan College - Manhattanite Yearbook (Riverdale, NY)

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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

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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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CATHOLIC STUDENTS ' MISSION CRUSADE [INDFUL of Christ ' s command to go, therefore, teach all nations, the Man- hattan Chapter of the Catholic Students ' Mission Crusade strives to imbue Manhattan men with a love of the missions that will be kept down through the years. The organization functions through the class promoters who collect the dues of the society from the men in their Religion classes. Further funds for the missions are collected from tea dances, the performances of the Manhattan Players, and other campus func- tions. The Missions received over live hun- dred dollars from the performances of The Queen ' s Husband, and this money, plus that collected at the college raised th e totals for the school year to well over two thousand dollars. Several excellent missionary priests talked to the student body at the Friday religious meetings held during the year. Like the war heroes returning from the battle field these heroic missioners return to America to inspire us with their modest tales of life among the heathen. The most important part of the work of the Manhattan Chapter of the Catholic Stu- dents ' Mission Crusade is the stimulation of Manhattan men to pray for the success of all Mission ' Work everywhere. ' Without prayer we could know all about the missions, we could give money until it hurt, we could listen to talks all our lives but the Missions would not prosper. It is with good reason that Brother Denis, the moderator, regards sincere and earnest prayer as the founda- tion for all the work of the Catholic Stu- dents ' Mission Crusade. 173