Roger Bacon High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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photograph by Frofer Joel Costa, O.FKM.

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THE BIG BROADCAST OF l948 In a figurative sense - with no undue strain on the imagination e we are calling Roger Bacon High School a radio-television station. From our own studios we are telecasting THE BIG BROADCAST OF '48, one huge production which incorporates all the individual programs of the school year with each and every one of our 850 television artists participating. We are sending it over our station whose call letters have been designated as R B H 5. Go to any ordinary radio station and you will find comfortable studios from whence eminote the broadcasts. In our particular location at station R B H S, we have 22 studios e- we call them classrooms e and 3 executive offices, wherein our Executive Directors and Program Managers may work in executive privacy. In our 22 studios you will find that programs are continuously conducted cn a regular broadcasting schedule beginning at 8:25 and signing off at 2:15, Monday through Friday. Frequently, special rehearsals extend after the sign-off for programs which will be re-videoed at a time more convenient for a large audience. The Telecasts of evening entertainments are made that way. Way over on the left side, where you cannot even see it in this picture, is the control room. Here the engineers and announcers, who will be seen later, observe the screening and 50und track in the rough and decide what is to be transmitted to you, our audience. In trade jargon these engineers and announcers are known as members of the TROUBADOUR staff. The studio itself was officially opened in 1928 by the Franciscan Fathers. Since the construction was only almost done, rather than completed, the building was not put into actual use until 1929. In October 1929, the Rev. John T. McNicholas, whose picture you will see shortly, officially dedicated the high school to the cause of higher Catholic Education. So Roger Bacon High School came into being as a member of FES lFranciscan Education SystemJ In 1929 there were 305 students in the whole school; now over half that number graduate yearly. This then, is Station R B H S. Keep tuned for the BIG BROAD- CAST OF '48 which follows shortly. ET DOCTRINA ...... an education must have as its endeproducts holiness and wisdom. Therefore, the process, begun In instruction and book-learning, must continue for one's whole lifetime.

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In the thirteenth century Francis of Assisi, founded Franciscans. He, himself and finer than that which daily life, so he renounced and devoted himsehc en- poor and afflicted. St. upon a strict rule of man led a very simple ally for his great and God's creatures. M 24M Lest we be carried away by the mastery of twentieth century won- ders, such as television, and all we call modern times, let us pause and reflect upon this saint, who six hundred years ago found a goal in God toward which the world is still groping. As genuine proof of the great work done by the members of the order of St. Francis, we need look no further than our own school. In- deed the saintly ltolion must be deeply impressed as he looks down upon the members of his order e our teachers e and sees how they devote their time and efforts in training us, the Catholic youth of today. Our yearbook shows us as we are e not self assured youths out to trample the world, but seri- ous-minded men, intent on follow- ing the counsel of St. Francis, who was one of history's greatest ex- amples of man following the way of life. a pious young Italian the religious order of the wanted something deeper he found in his routine all his worldly possessions tirely to the aid of the Francis based his order poverty. This humble lite and is known especi- unselfish love for oil of