Ravenhill Academy - Mariale Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Some Important People Father D'Arcy lectures at Ravenhill fQmQfyCvnYfmL Q fr Jw- Sify 2-.UM BISHOP HEENAN Father P. Peyton, Family Rosary Crusade director speaks at Ravenhill Dr. Dorizas, from the University of Penn' sylvzmia, at Ravenhill 41

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Some Important Letters . . . and A LETTER FROM GERMANY Aerzen, Oct. 10, '50 Dear Mother: I received your parcel some time ago. 1 have had an accident and could not write. Now I am well again and want to thank you. Please, do not take it amiss if I ask for some' thing else. I could not go to Holy Communion in Breslau, where everything was destroyed and the Poles and the Russians took hold of the country. And now it is not possible as my mother earns very little. Could you please let me have a white dress and a pair of white shoes? And perhaps also a candle. I would like to go to Holy Communion on Low Sunday. I know that God will hear my prayers and grant them. God bless you. Gratefully yours, BARBARA BLASCHKE Indian Institute of Social Order, St. Vincent Street, Poona I. April 28th, 1951 My dear Rev. Mother: I feel ashamed of my very long silence. You must not think that this is due to indifference or forget' fulness. I can never forget your kindness nor fail to appreciate the immense favour you have done to me by setting apart the 3rd of each month for adoration for my intentions. Every day I pray for you, and for your community. I have to inform you that there is a very big change in my work and status. I have had to leave Loyola College in January as I have been appointed Director of a new Social Institute which Fr. General wanted to be established as a common work of all the Jesuit Missions of India and Ceylon. The Church must play its part in the establishment in India of a just Social Order and in the struggle against Atheistic Communism. For this reason our Society is very keen on the success of the new Institute and it is for that intention above all that I ask you to pray earnestly. Be sure that I continue to depend on your prayers and shall never forget you at Holy Mass every day. Yours sincerely in O. L., J. D' Souza, S. J. Bremen, den 16. Juni 1949. St. Elisabethhaus, Kohlhokerstr. 22 Rev. Mother Frances Ravenhill Academy, Phila. Dear Rev. Mother Abbes Frances: I can not tell You my happenes as I became that lovely Parcel, wich You had the goodnes of sending to me. With al my Hart I thank You for the good thinks, as ther is Caffee, Tea Zucker and the nice tin of White Cream, wich I will et with our dark Brot, because we have not much Fetto. Butter. A nice Tasse of Caffee dos our Schwiiche gut and will do good my Nerven and then we have seldom Fleich for strenthen the hold Body. On can by everething if You have the Monny, but we are alle poor People. I have only 6 D. M. in the Monts for my Poket. Griisse in Ergebenheit Rebecca Kruger Bishop's House, Weetwood Lane, Leeds 6. 22nd April, 1951 Rev. Mother Superior, Academy of the Assumption, Ravenhill, 3480 West Schoolhouse Lane, Germantown, Phila. 44, Pa. Dear Mother Frances Margaret: It was kind of you to write sending me the promise of your prayers. I have the happiest recol' lections of my lecture in Philadelphia and I hope that you will pass on to all my friends a cordial blessing in my name. Wishing you and the community continued success in your great work. I am, Devotedly yours, John Carmel Bishop of Leeds

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DEATH OF MOTHER ETHELBURGA Mother Ethelburga, who had been held for two years in a Japanese prison camp at Los Banos, in the Philippines, was brought over to the States in 1945, where she won the love of all who knew her at Ravenhill. Last October 26th, she died after a prolonged illness. She left to us an example of her saintliness and her patience in suffering. JUDY HAWTHORNE, XII Class LA PRINCESSE DE CLEVES Par MADAME DE LAFAYETTE This review was given by Jane Smith at the French Contest held at Temple University in April. Jane won Second Prize in the Fourth Year French Group. Congratulations! Vivant au dixfseptieme siecle, quand toute la literature etait Seals et pas realiste, Madame de Lahiyette plus ou moins surprit la France par la publication de La Princesse de Cleves. On peut meme dire que la vie de l'auteur est un peu ref flechie dans le livre. Cependant, je ferais une digression si je parlais de ses alliiires personnelles a ce momentfci. Enfin, comme j'etudie l'histoire de cette epoque, ce livre m'a donne une bonne vue des moeurs du dixfseptieme siecle. L'histoire se passe en France sous le regne d'f Henri II et de Catherine de Medici. Mademoiselle de Chartres, l'heroine, etait une demoiselle de cette periode, tres bien elevee. Sa mere dirigea toutes ses actions at Vegard des formalites de la Cour. Comme elle etait tres belle, le prince de Cleves lui olfrit sa main, qu'elle accepta. Bientot apres son mariage, Madame de Chartres mourut laissant sa fille triste et solitaire. Malheureusement, Madame de Cleves s'eprit de Monsieur de Ne' mours, un jeune hoinme tres en Hiveur a la Cour. Il s'eprit aussi de la Princesse qui, malgre son inf clination, rebuta toutes ses avances. Quand 9 cherchant l'avis de son mari, elle le lui dit, il devint triste et tres jaloux. Apres quelques mois il mourut d'une hevre mysterieuse. Croyant, enfin, qu'elle serait libre de suivre son inclination, le duc de Nemours supplia la Princesse de l'epouser aussitot que la bienseance le permettrait. Mais elle attribua la mort de son epoux a son inclination pour le duc, et lui nia ce dernier bonheur. Elle se retira au couvent Old elle passa ses jours en vivant tres saintement. Le theme de l'histoire est celui d'une femme vertueuse tfichant de vivre d'une vie normale et d'eviter les tentations du monde. Le livre est de valeur non pour sa langue simple ou son intrigue peu compliquee, mais pour l'exacte peinture des emotions et des motifs des caracteres de l'auteur. Le monde sera longtemps endette 5. Madame de Lafayette puisque c'est elle qui s'arracha au style de convention et donna a la France une simple histoire, peinture iidele de la vie humaine. JANE SMITH, XII Class APRIL April-you hypocrite why are you crying And why are you saddened so? April, your tears are not from your grieving For winter died long ago. April, your face has gone grey with dreaming Your eyes hold the shadow of pain. April, your woe is not for believing I've no sympathy-dear-for your pain. April-your Whimsy in dreaming and sadness Know none of man's practical ways. April-Myour liking for mystical madness Has filled all your dreamfdusted days. April-you wistful, you tearful old dreamer Your face has pretended your pain April-you Vagabond whimsical schemer You think we are fooled by your rain. CONSTANCE HORTON, X Class