Sacred Heart Griffin High School - Dominicus Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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SPIRITUAL COUNCIL FOSTERS STUDENT APOSTOLATE The Spirilual Council, organized lhis year under The direclion of Sisler Mary Virginia, aims +o develop personal holiness and endeavors To lrain lhe sludem' lo acfive Calholicily. lls work is largely carried on by various commi+'rees lo which +he enfire sludenl body belong. The aclivifies of lhe Commillees have been varied and inleresling. A large box of cancelled slamps was collecled lo assisl' The missionaries. Girls inleresled in conlemporary liferalure found lhe worlc of Calholic aufhors fascinaling. Grealer devolion Io Our Lord and I-lis Blessed Molher was losfered, and a spirilual Chrislmas gill. composed of Triduums of Masses and Holy Communions, was senl To 'rhe I-loly Falher. Al' Chrislmas lime an enioyable Mixer was sponsored and loys were col- lec'red for poor children of The cily. llems posled on lhe bullelin board lcepl The sfudenl body informed of nalional Calholic news. On March 6, Jrhe Council sponsored an all-school assembly program which consisled of lableaux depicling various evenls in 'rhe life of S+. Thomas Aquinas. Pafron of lhe Council. Through worlc on various commiflees, members of The Spirilual Council are learning Io be efficienl Calholic leaders in lhe world of lomorrow. Prefecf MARY JANE HALPIN Assis+an+ Prelecf Making a visil To The Our Prefecl lceeps us busy, Carlon of sfarnps ready for MARY ORTMAN chapel. missions. Secrefary MARY CATHERINE Home s TN COMMITTEES Mary Gerber-Social D Oh K LW I 070 Om - IBYO p ure Mary Doqrfler--Euchorisl Bertie Word-Publicifv Ed lly O dv nc Kg - ur LC: Cafherine Hosvick-Mission Q6

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Secrefary-Sisler Mary Marguerile Treasurer-Sisfer Mary Mildred DEPARTMENT OF HOME ECONOMICS Lucile M. Granf DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS Sisler Mary Clarissa Sisfer Ri+a Rose DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Piano Sisfer Mary Alberl' Sisfer Mary Ursula Orches'rra-Voice Sisfer Mary Ursula Page IS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION Lucile M. Granl' DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE Sisfer Mary Edna DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH Sisler Mary Isabelle LIBRARY Sis+er Agnes Clare Sisler Michael Marie RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION Reverend George A. Windsor Reverend Thomas Connolly zeal in helping us fo acquire fhe spiriiual and culfural qualifies of ideal Academy gurls

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GOOD SCHOOL MADE BETTER BY STUDENT COUNCIL Our Mayor Says: Remove gcloshes Be on lime S S miwlg. . We are lhe Sludenl Council ol S. H. A. Modesly prevenls our saying how really imporlanl we are: bul may we boasl a lillle? Since lhe school was already bigger lhis year. we resolved lo make il bel- ler. Thus delermined, Rilo Sullivan, our Mayor, and lhe Cily Com- missioners, Lorella Kunzweiler, Mariorie Cashin. Belly Sidles, and Helen Reynolds chose a corps ol compelenl helpers lor lhe special deparlmenls and slarled work. Mary Louise Casey, Scholarship, decided lhal lhe mosl deserving should be decoraled wilh an arlislic silver A. Threalening, caioling, marshaling ranlcs and assemblies wilh lairly good resulls. Leah Schuh lullilled her Chiel ol Police ollice. Grace lv1cMullan, Public Properly, grieved over any mulilalions in- side or oulside ol lhe building. Fire Chiel Margarel Henry wolched lor lire drill opporlunilies. Virginia Quinn and her crew benl over large volumes, and consulled lhe wise lo lind good lulure oullels lor our various lolenls. We learned aboul lhese al inleresling assemblies insured by lhe ellorls ol Ellen Weilzel, Aclivily Chairman. Eleanor Jean Walsh, Publicily, and her helpers, soughl lhose deserving ol praise or blame and hinled lhem on lo perleclion. Dorolhy de Monde's Courl ol Honor dulies did nol weigh heavily upon her, bul lhe culprils lcnew she was in lhe olling if need lhere was. lmelda Ryan wilh her group, assisled by Sisler Rila Rose and Miss Granl, helped lo launch a broader alhlelic program. Perhaps we learned a lillle ourselves, and we hope we have helped lo malce an already good school beller. Page I7