Seneca Catholic High School - Trojan Yearbook (Seneca, KS)

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CACLIJQI' SETTING AND CHARACTERS A The Faith Which is Our Glory The story of some of this book's major characters begantwelve years ago with the first school Mass we attended in this church. Since that September morning, many of our school life's major events have taken place here. A church steeple against a blue sky in October, when the last of the leaves were falling . . . a cross pointing high in the sky on snowy Christmas nights . . . the sound of the bell ringing out our Baccalaureate morning: throughout the Trojans' school career Sts. Peter and Paul church has stood for peace and sta- bility. It has been that place where we took -aim for the days work and inspiration for tomorroW's challenge. Seneca Catholic High clothes her- self in the rugged beauty of fifty-four years of daily service and in the blithe young charms of trees in spring fo- liage. She looks old from the tramping of many feet on her venerable stair- ways. But her heart is young with the newest Freshman and happy with the happiest graduate. 5

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ibeobcafion Ad Te, Maria! To you, O Mary Mother of God, To you we lift up our hearts. Take us entirely We pray you Into your holy hands and Keep us safely forever. In a World from which you hear so much of fear and evil . . . In which the prayers of the oppressed and the persecuted arise daily . . . We come to offer the prayers of the gladhearted, the unpersecuted . . . For it is still Maytime in America. Before school, during the day, in evening hours, Hail Mary, full of grace, keep us yours, We dedicate this 1949 Trojan to you, thanking you for the joy it encloses . . Ashamed that we have so often forgotten the sorrows of others, Asking you to help us to live so that where there is darkness now There may soon be the light of your presence. We keep a holy hour for Cardinal Mindszenty. 4

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Sisters staffing our school for the 1948-49 term were: Sister Gemma, O.S.B. . . . . Principal: govern- ment, commercial, senior sponsor. Sister Vivina, O.S.B. . . . . History, typing, pep club, junior sponsor. Sister Celeste, O.S.B. . . . . Home economics Sister Pulcheria, O.S.B. . . . . Science, math- ematic s , sophomore spons or . Sister Nlary Lawrence, O.S.B. . . . . Music, biology, freshman sponsor. Sister Hildegarde, O.S.B. . . . . English, Latin, , librarian, sodality sponsor. Sister Mary Faith, O.S.B. . . . . English, speech, Optimist sponsor. Sister Scholastica, O.S.B. . . . . English. .740 jCLCLl,Ag Major characters in the story of the Trojans are the faculty. Growing up is serious business. But our daily school life, together with American history, sociol- ogy, the balancing of accounts, Macbeth's tragic career, and every other study fell into the pattern because the faculty helped More than 70 years in Seneca is the record of the Benedictine Order which sends teachers to Seneca Catholic High School. Here, from St. Ann's convent each morning, come the members of St. Benedict's lovely battalion in black and whitie, whose motto is Pax in a busy world. 6