Maur Hill High School - Maurite Yearbook (Atchison, KS)

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The privilege of serving mass is ex- tended only to mem- bers of the St. John Berchmans Society. The director of the society. Father Alphonse, makes sure that each mem- ber learns the proper way to serve mass. FR. ALPHONSE, ASSISTED BY officers John Clarkin, Jerry Wickey, and Gary Lyons, invests new members in the St. John Berchmans Society. SCHOLASTICS The scholastics are the boys who have set their hearts on serving God and are constantly working toward that goal. Although they have their own study hall and locker room, they attend the same classes as the rest of the students. Many of these future priests and brothers are leaders in their classes and are always found in school activities. The scholastics have a period of spiritual reading each night and they attend daily mass. They are under the direction of Father Alphonse who is assisted by Father Martin. Scholastics recite compline in chapel each evening as their night prayer. te

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Senedictute CLASSES mcid xur t auy te. RELIGION III concentrates on the Mass. Here, Bergman, Hovorka, Dierks, and Murrane learn about the chalice and its appurtenances. Since a student is most of all a student in the classroom, the class- room holds the highest place in Maur Hill life. Neither sports nor social activities can overshadow its prime importance. Hence the stress on learning to study--and the con- cern for improving techniques of teaching. Perhaps the major innovation this year was the introduction of the American Observer to keep history and constitution students abreast of current events. Phono- graph records were purchased for history classes. They featured the Revolutionary War and Abraham Lincoln. The sophs purchased five film strips from Life for use in their modern history class. The typing room received new typing desks, and flourescent lights il- luminated many of the classrooms. Speech class put the new tape re- corder to good use and new equip- ment arrived for the physics lab. ENGLISH IV, a classical course, valuable for future journalists or any other occupation, is under the direction of Fr. John. Studying the tragedies of Shakespeare are Underwood, Smith, Vogt, Goracke, Morrisey, Kocour, and Wickey.