Mount Carmel High School - Oriflamme Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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C'- 6LClfL tials of their faith and its application to themselves. The principles which the good nuns have inculcated in them from their earliest days in school are further ex- plained and enlarged upon. Second year students are given a thorough course in Grace and the Sacramentsg Iuniors study Christian morals, and Seniors are taught Christian apologetics that they may be prepared to defend their faith ln addition to religious instruction there is a definitely planned spiritual system of training Holy Mass 1S celebrated every day at a time convenient for the students Fresh men and Sophomores attend Mass during their fourth period on Tuesday and Iuniors and Seniors attend Mass on Thursday After Mass a short instruction is given on some point of current spiritual interest to the students ln order to encourage fre guent reception of the sacraments of Pen ance and Holy Communion confessions are heard every day during the noon period and all day each Friday The first Friday of each month is gen eral Communion day Confessions are heard the day before and provisions are made for the students breakfasts after Mass On Wednesday students are urged to attend the noon devotions in honor of Our Lady of Mt Carmel During October the Rosary is said every day at noon in the chapel and during Lent the stations of the Cross are recited each day An annual retreat is held for each class under the guidance of a member of the Carmelite Order experienced in the handling of boys and Well versed in the problems of adoles cence Tn order to make practical the principles classes four years ago Carmel organized the Sodality of Our Lady of Mt Carmel affiliated with the Chicago Inter Student Catholic Action This sodality aims to lead its members to greater personal holiness and to prepare leaders for every walk of life The Knights of the Blessed Sacrament pledge themselves to receive Communion once a week The Religious Bulletin stressing points of Catholic dogma or morals Written in a REV LEQIDQLD ZECH REV NICHOLAS STARSENIC fh BRO BROCARD HAUGHLY C k BRO PHILIP PRICE BRO PETER THOMAS VILLERS BRO MEL WALSH C k qt-.Q W - l . ' I . Com-,ll Lofj,-, O. Carm., Mu emcffc I 5 I I I I I I . . O.Carm.. ler O. Corm., Prefecf . . , 7 ' , ' of Catholic Action learned in the religion n'I' ' ll 0 . I l O. Corm., fer Cami., Engineer - I I I f ' I W .L-If ' - - r '45 1 I E I f xx ff eil Ee '

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film fy rnerclal or a general course The cornmer clal course was estabhshed th1s year ln thelr th1rd and fourth years the students have several electlve subJects All courses are str1ctly college preparatory l-llstory and Engllsh are requlred 1n fourth year but the student IS offered h1s cholce of Chemlstry or Typewrltlng and of Latln Spanlsh lournahsm C1V1CS Economlcs or Comrnerclal Law Th1s method demands a unlformlty that 1S for the good of all and yet allows a varlatlon sulted to the develop ment of each boy s partlcular talents and deslres Four tlmes a year grades are glven monthly ln each sublect and are governed not only by the amount and quallty of work done but by the monthly examlna trons whlch are a part of each course Quarterly and semester marks also glven are deterrnrned chlefly by the examlnatlons 1n each sublect Honor cards are merlt awards glven each month to students who carry a nlnety or more ln all sublects for that month Students who have a monthly average of nlnety or more 1n a subJect and who pass the semester rellglon examlnatlon W1ll'1 a grade of elghty f1ve or better are exempt from examlnatlon ln that subJect Thus the school demonstrates to the student a w1ll1ngness to recognlze and reward h1s best efforts To graduate and to recelve a dlploma the student must have slxteen credlts A cred1t 1n a subJect IS obtalned by complet mg satlsfactorlly a course of th1rtve1ght weeks f1ve perlods a week Besldes the exempt1on pr1v1lege mentloned above an added 1ncent1ve 1S to be found tn the medals awarded to the boy ranklng hlghest scho lastlcally 1n the school and to those of hlgh est standlng ID each of the1r several class years ln add1t1on gola medals are glven to those students who excel ln varlous subjects These awards are made at the Commencement EXGTCISGS held at the close of the school year Slnce the a1m of the Carmellte Fathers lS to prepare the boy for problems wh1cl'1 w1ll confront hlm ln later l1fe rehglous ln structlon and tra1n1ng play a most lmpor tant part 1n the currlculum The Freshmen are grounded ln the essen 5 RTV HUBERT MCCARREN RVV THOMAS STHASSER O C M fh REV RoD13R1cK HURLEY REV CQNRAD HALL PefefofSfdesRelgo e REV ONEN COTE R f MAURlCE ANDERSON O Ca 9 E-'lk' QWE I I . . . . I W i I I I -4 v A.. v - . arm., Engffsh- CJ emaffcs O. Carm., Lafin 1 . . . - I I , , I I - I I I ' I O- Cwfn-I ' . O. Corm., Sci nce ' ' ' ' r c u 1 - 1 1 n 1 I I , , . I , I - . . 1 . ' , K sv . O. Corm., . fm., . , , Prefer! of Dfscfpline-Latin Pfefect of Religion-E11 fish I - . . ! ' Lg-A' ir' ' , , XX . -L , F N Q I ef J '

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BRO RICHARD PARADINE O BRO IUDE LINNEMAN BRO IOHN COUGHLIN f . A Q1 . y I BRO STANISLAUS REYBITZ th BRO ALOYSIUS DERUNTZ O MR MICHAEL MURPHY PF 591122145 IC., l rt I tl7l C' OQLCUL K style Wh1ch will appeal to the students 1S publrshed every Wednesday Reahzrng that many of the appurte nances to a complete educatlon are not to be obta1ned from books alone the faculty has planned and rnstrtuted an extra cur rrcular act1v1ty of such a Wlde scope that some phase of 1t 1S sure to appeal to every boy The ORIFLAMME the offrcral school yearbook has repeatedly won state and natronal recognltron and has come to rep resent the best 1n hrgh school Journahsm The staff of the ORIFLAMME 1S p1cked from the hlgher ranklng Engllsh students and 1t 1S certarnly a Justlfrable pr1de enJoyed by the parents Whose son has by hrs ab1l1ty merrted a place on the ORIFLAMME staff The Carmel Lrte a student publrcatron now rn 1lS fourth year 1S typrcal of the sp1r1t of Carmel Every phase of school l1fe and school act1v1t1es IS consrdered The Carmel L1te rssued br Weekly 1S recerved Wrth great enthusrasm by the students The Lrbrary under excellent superv1s1on has grown from a mere handful of books to eleven thousand reference volumes and three thousand books of f1ct1on A tra1ned l1brar1an 1S rn constant attendance The members of the Art Club assrst great ly 1n arous1ng rnterest rn school affarrs through therr posters and slogans The Dramat1c Club 1S composed of those boys Whose h1str1on1c talent and ab1l1ty to act have banded them together The1r annual presentat1on IS always one of the h1ghl1ghts of the school year Thls year the Glee Club 1n conlunctron Wllh the Glee Club of Mercy Hlgh School successfully presented the Chocolate Sold1er To those students who are g1fted mus1c ally the band and orchestra prov1de an opportun1ty to pursue the1r avocatron un der the skrllful gurdance of thoroughly tra1ned musrclans Cognlzant of the problems and tenden c1es of adolescence the Carmehte Fathers have 1nst1tuted a ser1es of partles and dances sponsored by the varlous organ 1zat1ons rn the school Through these the boys are glven an opportun1ty to learn soc1al adJustment These soc1al events are I - CONT?-, Pfefeff O. Ccrm., Ma emafics ' ' I I ,I I I I A ' 1 l ' I 1 ' I I I I O. CGVITW.. MUS C . Carm., Secretory , , , I ' L 'Q - II I ll O. Carm., Afhle fc Manager Physical Director ' ' I i I - , xi'A Xb . I I l I 7' 'f 3 ' - I ft. 1 ' C, ,K x , .. ff'