Mount St Marys College - Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Dorothy O'Callaghan, Prefect of Our Lady's Sodality, always ready, willing and fully capable. odalit of 0ur Lad D IE UM PER MZ-IRIAM Mount Saint Mary's College Sodality stems from a small band organized over four hundred years ago in Rome by John Leonius, S. J. In his period of reformation and counter-reformation, sodal- ists met the challenge of the times so well that associations of a similar nature spread from Rome to every part of the Christian world. Today Catholicism and Communism are at war. Are modern sodalists going to do battle for the cause of Christ in the way demonstrated by the first sodalists? Our Holy Father, Pope Pius XII has well expressed the need for sodalists today in these words, 6' . . . the model of a Catholic which the Sodality has set itself from its beginning to form, has perhaps never so well corresponded to the needs and contingencies of any time as it has today, and no time has needed it so urgently as ours. ' The Sodality of Our Lady aims to foster in its members an ardent devotion, reverence, and filial love towards the Blessed Virgin Mary. Through this devotion it seeks to make its members sanctify them- selves in their own particular state of life, and zealous to save and sanctify their neighbor and to defend the Church of Jesus Christ. Mount Saint Mary's College Sodality cooperates whole heartedly with every parish and archdiocesan enterprise which is within its scope, in order to train sodalists for future parish activity when they finish college. Directed to this aim, Our Lady's Committee fosters devotion to the Blessed Virgin. The Eucharistic Committee is concerned with the Christ of the Tabernacle in every activity from First Friday devotions to making altar linens. The Literature Committee disseminates food for the Catholic mind through maga- zines subscriptions such as Sign, The Catholic Digest, America, Extension, The Catholic Mind, and Todayis World. This committee motivated not only our own campus Book Week, but also the arch- performs many spiritual and corporal works of mercy. Its efforts clothed some of the children of Italy, fed some of the children of the world, sent books to the Philippines, and brought help to many places in the world through the steadily increasing pagan baby fund. The Publicity Committee acts to keep all Sodalists informed diocesan Book Week held at the Mount. The Apostolic Committee on Sodality activities. Peggy Wylie, Treasurer: Ann Hall, Vice-Prefect: Dorothy, Anita Morrison, assistant vice-Prefect, and Pearl Butier, Secretary, a few minutes before a Sodality assembly. Committee Heads-l. to r., Shirley Teichman, Litera- tureg Marguerite Biggs, Puhlicityg Hallie Bundy, Eucharisticg Adelaide Spuhler, Apostolicg and Wini- fred Gegg. Our I.ady's, at the newly erected shrine of the Little Flower.

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tudent Council ll hs.. , Class Presidents: Top row l. to r.: Adelaide S p u h l e r, Sophomore: Betsy Knieriem, Freshman: Front row, Patricia Borchard, Seniorg Re- gina de Coursey, Junior. Organization Presidents: l. to r.: Muriel Rochefort, Red Cross: Winifrecl Cegg, N.F.C.C.S. Representative-g Patricia Cisler, W.A.A.: Dorothy 0'Callag1han, Sodality. Student Body officers at case 'QW' X! Club Presidents: Front row l. to r.1 Gladys Trask, SWES: Lois O'Con- nell, Press. Top row: Hallie Bundy, Science: Erin Mahoney, Eusebians: Shirley Teichman, Education. f 5. 'Ok - Ny. T be MX 1

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x M H. 7. 1 I if Segal-K 5 l. E' k' 5 z ,, , r i' 1 ,G 1. 'F g, 113 The student body assisting at St. Patricks Day Mass followed by a kelly-green breakfast. The members of each committee functioning in specialized ways as part of the Mystical Body of Christ try to live through the help of the Sodality that life which Christ Our Lord has expressed even to each Mount girl today, 'll am the vine. you are the branchesf' ,vw Pat Reisner. Peggy Vlvylie and Mary Do- lores Buckley collecting donations for the European relief fund from Gloria Padilla and Julia Horimoto.