Northeast Catholic High School - Falcon Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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QT UR PHILOSOPHY of EDUCATION is ThaT which has ever bei The Philosophy of The CaTholic Church. We may define educaTion as Tl' guidance of human developmenT or The Training of The whole man, so uniTed To body. wiTh all his faculTies whefher spiriTual, inTellecTuol, 4 physical. A person is educaTed primarily by self-acTiviTy, ond, Therefon The Tuncfion of educaTors is To guide Those under Them To achieve T The full all The capabiliTies of Their individual personalifies. To parenTs belong The righf and duTy of educaTing Their childre The office of The school is To complement The work of parenTs and ' fulfill The funcTions which They delegofe To iT, buT noT To usurp The righTs. ln This Democracy of ours, all pupils of high school age should hai The opporTuniTy of a high school educafion. They should have an 0 porTuniTy To selecf courses cooperaTively wiTh The aid of parenfs al Teachers. The school should offer Them various pupil acTiviTies whii They may freely choose, and in which They are given a chance To devel: iniTiaTive and leadership. For menTal discipline, sTudy hobiTs, learnir habiTs, and culTure, The TradiTional academic courses are unrivalle New and modern courses should be presenfed boTh for superior sT clenTs and lor Those who eiTher cannoT or will noT achieve menTal grow' from The TradiTional academic subiecfs. Teachers should use new and modern meThods in Their insTrucTio as well as The old Tried and True meThods. They should be willing ' give new suggesfions an honesT Trial, buT They should noT lighTly Thro aside any old meThod which experience has proven successful. ln dec ing wifh pupils, kindness ond paTience raTher Than severiTy, should l: The rule, in order To win The confidence and esfeem of The pupils, 1 well as To achieve resulTs in characTer developmenT. They should sho a greaT respecT for The souls of pupils. Religion, Therefore, should E correlafed wiTh all oTher courses. The obiecfive is-To Teach The boy whaT To believe and do To sax his soul-To aid him To form good habiTs-To imparT such informafic as will arouse his inTeresT and inspire such appreciaTion as will lead hii To conTinue his sTudies in college or oufside of college--To produc good ciTizens in a Democracy, who will Talce an acTive and infelligei parT in iTs acTiviTies ond who will worlc for The benefiT of socieTy l: realizing ThaT a naTion's welfare depends upon The soundness of i family-life-To develop sound bodies Through regular class periods healTh and physical educaTion, and by inTramural and inferscholasf sporTs-To develop fuTure leadership by giving The boy an opporTuniT lby parTicipaTion in school acTiviTiesl To display his TalenTs, iniTiaTiv and originalify-To sTrive To aid The pupil To develop by acquiring healThy personaliTy, and individualify. Such is The purpose of Nodhea: CaTholic High School.

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oQ'6l6!QP:5Ail0 Docfor Bonner, Superinfendenf of Cofholic Schools in Philadelphia, shows a decided inferesf in The doings of our school. AT our Gradua- Tion exercises iT is a real Thrill To be honored by his presence. The impressive figure of The RighT Reverend Monsignor John J. Bonner is one To which The CaTholic sTudenT can loolc wiTh pride and appre- ciafion. lf is due To his unfiring efforfs and un- ceasing forfifude Thaf The Philadelphia Diocesan school sysfem sfands Today, a symbol of True Cafholic educaTional spiriT. DocTor Bonner is a naTive Philadelphian, who was ordained in Rome, Since l926 he has de- voTed himself unselfishly To The Taslc of advancing CaTholic educaTion in Philadelphia To The pealc of SUCCESS. And he ilCS Silcceeded. He is nafionally recognized as one of The foremosf educafors of our Times. l'lis guidance is evidenT in The organizafion of our scholasTic ideals info The grand insTiTuTion we enioy Today. IT is The greaTesT of iTs lcind in The counTry. For almosT eighTeen years God has blessed Dr. Bon- ner's endeavors and broughT fruiT To The vines he so carefully nurTured. IT is because of his labors and successes ThaT we can Take advanfage of CaTholic educaTion here aT NorTh Cafholic. We, The graduafes, who lcnow so well The benefiTs of such an educafion, say sincerely, Thank you, Dr, Bonner. We earnesfly hope Thaf your prayers will be answered by proving ourselves To be The men you wanf Us To be.

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eckcafing we jagron is our greal ioy. Mere words cannoi 'Fully express The senlimenls of gralilude and esleem 'rhal are in our hearls for ihose whom we hold so dear, bu+ a few of our 'rhoughis may find 'rheir way info lhese pages. We cherish lhe 'rhoqghl of having known lhose men who have so zealously and sell-sacrilicingly given us lheir 'rime and energy fhai we mighf incorporale in our lives fhe spiril and docfrine of S+, Francis de Sales . . . 'lhe spirif of kindness, meekness, hurnilily, and generosily ralher Than fhaf ol harshness and severifyz 'rhe docfrine ol sanclily in all walks ol life so lhaf if we choose 'ro be a doclor or welder a mechanic or priesl, soldier, pilof or engineer, we can be 'rhe besl ossible one by doing our ordinary iob exiraordinarily well. We know lhal we P can be men of prayer no mailer how diverse are our dufies. We are conscious ' h loo, +ha'r we are on lhe Threshold of a new era. Wilh 'rhe rrainung we ave received we are confidenl 'rhal we can, in no small way, help build 'rhe world of fomorrow. Our apprecialion an an s o p our lives in The years 'ro come. We know fhaf is whar +hey want H is lhen wifh a deep sense of loyally and sinceriiy lhal we proudly deducale This, lhe l6Th annual, d +h k + +hose res onsilole will only be lendered by to The 0blate Fathers of St. Francis :le Sales