Power Memorial Academy - Power Yearbook (New York, NY)

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MARCH 26 I952 News of the Year in Review

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In Your OPIDIOII by 'NIIKF NICNIAHON QUESTION ll hat 15 your javorzte School aictzwly ? John Gzblm Semor Room 507 Hand ball I find It a release for energy elther be fore or after a drffncult day 1n school Its a pleasure to get out on our court and get 1nto a good competl tlve game to test my fast developlng sk1ll It seems though that the sport IS looked down upon by others, but mtense competrtlon both at Power and other courts IS elevatlng lt for lt IS nelther a dull nor an unmterestmg game Even the Brothers Jorn us once m a whlle John Smzth Jumor Room 504 My favorlte IS basketball, a game I have played ,,. slnce my Grammar School days I l1ke a sport wlth actlon, and ment and precise and accurate flash thought It mvolves, just su1t me You must face never endmg tensxon agalnst often very worthy opponents, and at other tlmes old man upset trxes admlrably, to our consternatlon to poke h1s nose 1nto a game at a dec1s1ve mo ment Everyone IS kept 1n a state of suspense, and lt IS for that reason that Basketball IS the act1v1ty for me Raymond A ethaway Sophomore, Room 40 Best of all I lxke study perlod, those well known elghth perlods three txmes per week The reason IS slmple 1t1s because I thus get a chance to do some extra studymg and also catch up on any days I lost bemg absent Many belleve th1s -kct1v1ty a waste of tlme, but 1n my op1n1on a lot of good results from 1t, and the drffer ence between a hrgh and a low mark hangs 1n the balance Act1v1t1es that otherwlse would have a dlfhcult time functlonmg hke Band Press Club Sports, Glee Club Debate etc have ample tlme to accomphsh all the1r tasks 98 School spxrlt IS lackmg qulte notlcably ln Power and whatever upsurge ln that commodltv has taken place m the year and a half that has just passed IS due to the Studv or as xt IS off1c1ally termed the Actrvlty Perrod It can be a really useful forty five mxnutes N ll r Brother Wzllzam 4 Hennessy M Sc Sl' Patrick The Day We Celebrate One Samt whose feast day IS known to Cathohc and non Cathohc allke IS the Apostle of Erm, St Patrlck March the 17th IS the date that needs no explana t1on for the fame of Irelands patron has gone far beyond the confmes of the land he won for the Catholic falth Ire lands sons have brought h1s memory wherever they have gone It IS a day when Ireland s sons and daughters scat tered the world over unlte 1n remember 1ng the Green Isle of Erm from whrch they sprung and ln paylng honor to the Samt who brought Chrlstlanlty to her shores Seven c1t1es clalmed to be the b1rth place of Homer and no less than three countrles dxspute for the honor of havlng g1ven blrth to St Patrlck In h1s Con fess1ons 1n the Book of Armagh he says that hrs father hved at Bannave Taber mae But place names have been Chang ed so much 1n the course of the centurles that the town rs dlffrcult to ldentlfy One thlng IS clear wherever St Patrlck was born he llved and worked 1n Ire land and became the Apostle of her people ln such a way that she never needed another Apostle, never needed to be re converted because she never lost the F azth In rellglon she has obeyed the Bxbhcal mjunctlon and kept to the old paths, avoldmg the profane noveltles of words and the opposltlons of knowledge falsely so called, w1th the result she IS a steadymg mfluence m a dlstracted world today We have come through a welter of bloodshed but real peace seems stlll a long way off Ireland, for the most part, has been saved from the modern ldola try by 1ts unfhnchmg adherence to the pI'1I1Clpl8S of Chrlstlanlty In a world en meshed IH materlallsm Ireland stands for sp1r1tual ldeals She at least recog n1zes that the problems whlch harass the world today are not sxmply polltlcal and economxc but 1n essence sp1r1tual and that only a rehablhtatron of sp1r1tual values IS a solutlon to them llkely to be reached In upholdmg th1s standard Ireland IS destlned to play a great part 1n restormg socxal samty Whatex er may have been her mxstakes m deahng w1th materlal affalrs, she has always preserved the vlsxon splendld, the pxercmg gaze whlch looks beyond the flammg barrlers of the world to the eternal whrch are the only true founda tlons for ordered human socxety It has been customary to slng of the long lost glorxes of Erm But has she not greater glorles to come lncludlng that of helplng terrallstxc world? In these days when the hatred of wars IS dxvldlng the people of earth there IS a great need for the spmt of Falth and good w1ll that anlmated St Patrrck and those who came after hrm hrs sp1r1tual chlldren The natlonal day IS not a cele bratlon of farms but the commemora tlon of a man of peace The natlonal hero IS not a mllltary leader but a samt of God Men who are noted for thexr tightmg courage and readmess to do bat tle for the rlght venerate the memory of a samt whose fame rests not on con quest but on the hberatlon of a people from the slavery of paganlsm to the free dom of the Gospel of Chrlst St Patrlck drew other men to hlmself not by the stern force of fear but by charxty sympathy and understandmg of Chrlst He has left, 1n generatlons of hrs sp1r1tual chrldren, a host of Ir1sh Samts monks nuns and devoted lalty whose loyalty to the Church has never swerved May St Patrlck, our compasslonate advocate mtercede for us now and al ways A1zmfefiZZ..,a The Power ' A 1 - 1' y . . 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