Saint Alphonsus High School - Arrow Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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The question Do you really love Christ? will ring in our thoughts and apply to our actions for many months to come. Reverend Thomas McAnoy, chaplain at Rosary High School and our retreat master, challenged us with stirring words to form strong convictions that would enable us to reach the horizons unlimited that lie before us. Religion, Reading, Retreat Up-to-date references in the library find students ready and willing to use them for their religion classes. A junior, John Demers (extreme left), offers helpful suggestions to sophomores Robert Whitlow, Margaret Kilmartin. Susan McCormicIc. Geraldine Kuczyns and Mary Alice McKenna. The Van Antwerp Catholic Library in the Chancery Building is a fruitful source for pamphlets and periodicals related to units of study in the Senior Religion class. Miss Jessie Gerbig, librarian, suggests a publication to Patricia Kelly, Bonnie McGann and Chester Jatlcoe that wou'd be a ready reference for them. 22

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 Not bad, comments Barbara Trudell as she returns Barbara Zawacki's English theme. Timothy Groske brings the tape recorder to life with the voice of Basil Rathbone dramatizing a scene from The Raven. Freshman English students Carol Lechowicz. Claudia Keller. Carol DeLaronde and Ann Livo listen intently as they follow the words of Poe in their texts. As English III students reenact a court scene from The Devil and Daniel Webster, Tom Gillissie. playing the role of Daniel Webster, ousts the devil, Bob Hathon. who has been found guilty of an attempt to possess the farmer's soul. After delivering the verdict, jurists Don Jankowski. Jim Potoczak, Jim Carney, Mitch Sysko, Mike Dodge and John Sierota are on hand to see that the decision is effected. 21

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Rouse Reflection, Resolution Religion is not just a thing to be known — but a life to be lived. Therefore, the prin- ciples learned in the religion classes are not restricted to class recitations but are diffused into the lives of the students in every activity. The fulfillment of these prin- ciples will be intensified and strengthened as our students meet the obligations of their adult lives. An atmosphere of serenity and peace is evident as Christine Fiedor and Robert Pietraniec kneel in silent adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Their missals seem to be momentarily forgotten as they reproduce in thought the formative principles for life given them by the retreat master. Get up and be baptized and wash away thy sins, calling on His name. Freshman Religion students Christine Shoup, Gary Rosinski, Walter Walsh, Cynthia Sudnick, and Joanne Stasie attentively observe Father Page as he demonstrates the sacramentals used in the admin- You are the light of the world ... so let your light istration of Baptism. shine before men could well be the resolution drawn by .Christina Klein and Nicholas Gientke from their first high school retreat. Father McAnoy’s words have set the pace for their spiritual and intellectual develop- ment as young adults. 23