Oratory Preparatory School - Oratorian Yearbook (Summit, NJ)

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,gn terpretcz tion Since we, the Senior Class, during our school life at Oratory, have found that faithfulness to God includes loyalty to Church and country, we have chosen for our theme the motto on our school shield - Fidelimr. To this end we have been trained: to keep our faith and trust in God, to remain true to ourselves, to our Church as founded by Christ, and to our neighbor wherever we may meet him. Furthermore we wish to keep to an ideal our instructors have had in directing our educational progress, and which Cardinal Newman, priest of The Oratory, has expressed so eloquently. 4. One main portion of intellectual education, of the labors of both school and university, is to remove the original dimness of the mind's eye: to strengthen and perfect its vision, to enable it to look out into the world right forward, steadily and truly, to give the mind clearness, accuracy, precision, to enable it to use words aright, to understand what it says, to conceive justly what it thinks about, to compare, analyze, define and reason correctly. Thus, let our motto - Fidelifas - be our theme as symblematic of our intent to be both spiritually and intellectually faithful in all things. ,, The img C'!9i'i.r1ia12 pmdzzfl of Clariytianz edlfcafiozz it flue t1zpei'1zaztfmzl 1724212 who flames, judges' and arts mmlafrztly amd comiriefzlly 272 avcordanre willy righl reatofz illumifzed by lbe f11permzlm'al light of the example and teaching of Clarirtf' . . . Pope Pius XI

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WR. CHARLES A. BAATZ, jr., BA., PILL. Cfw,'f,f,Uf:'5. Plgmir, .'uIA1fXvf1114:liL'f. Gfeek. Lxfiff f'.ImfemfmA nf The OI'dfl!I'jLIII MR. RICHARD C, XVEBER, B. A Frezzrlv. Spazmh. lfzztqfixb. Algebra Afhfeliz' D,jl'L!L'f0I'

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THE SENIOR CLASS Sftllllllfllgfl Deslan Metayer, Victor Ormachea, William Smttfd: john Denman, Donald Busch, Raymond Ga- McAuIiffe, Charles Kirk, James Cuddy, Henry Dejan. dala, john Martin, George Esposito, Louis Gadala. Bernard Trindell, Paul Townsend, Leonard Schley. CLASS HISTORY FRESHMAN YEAR 1944 - 1945 On September 18, 1944, there arrived at Oratory Prep, Summit, New Jersey, a group of nervous and bewildered boys. Since the class of 1948 bears this look of bewilderment and a nervy man- ner, the above group mentioned and this class may be said to be the same. As freshmen we were at once astonished at the upperclassmen, especially the seniors. They, in turn, were puzzled by our microscopic group, which at best boasted a few individuals whose arms and legs exceeded the size of the rest of their bodies. We were introduced immediately to a very thorough and extremely painful initiation period which came to a merciful close the following September when we were officially recognized as sophomores. We soon grew accustomed to life at the school and the warm feeling of friendship be, stowed on us by the priests and faculty. We well remember the long hours we wrestled with algebra and Latin, either plugging with rad- icals or marching with Caesar to conquer the Gauls. The war was on then and HitIer's march was being halted. Many of our seniors graduated in january and went off to war. This was Oratory's contribution to the war effort. This year saw the introduction of our new laboratory which was generously donated by the Mothers' Club. The months rolled by and soon the warm breezes of spring were upon us. We departed happily in june, proud not only that we were no longer the fearful freshmen, but also that all of us had passed with flying colors. I9