South Bend Catholic High School - Victorian Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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Class Prophecy qContinued from Page Twenty-Twoj tomb digger at a cemetery. It will be a grave matter - his customers will wind up in a hole! Loretta Ruszkowski and Jean Gaszewski . . . whether it should be banking or school teaching will depend on the principle of the thing. If they should lose interest in one they can study the other. L. Nowakowski . . . A lady Senator from Missouri. Passing bills should be her liking, since in school she was an expert at passing the buck! Joe Hartwick . . . An heir to extensive timber lands in Western Canada. He will ship lumber to the principal parts of the world-a wood-pecker. Modest Wendowski . . . Upon leaving school he'll bounce into a rubber factory, where he is apt to gum things up. This may be a wee bit stretched. Gertrude Nowakowski . . . Vice-President of' a concern manufacturing pins and needles. If her product won't sell she will be stuck with them. Roman Kowalski . . . He will be in the glass business where he should get his share of breaks. Though in school he was a first- Glass-student he'll find the job isn't what it cracked up to be--this is a hard one to see through. Ed Szaulewicz . . . A railroad engineer that will be easy to keep track of as his work will keep him tied up. In good shape from the constant training, Ed had better follow a clear track, as he usually doesn't give a hoot! The Victorian Lucille Maternowski and Jane Kujawa . . . will be associated with a cannery. The great responsibilities will keep them bottled up. If either should get canned, it would be quite a jar! Gertrude Chelminiak and Gladys Ncwal: . . . will operate a natatorium which will be fiooded with swimmers, who should have a whale of a time. If they're not careful of deep water, they will be sunk! And I do mean Gertrude and Gladys. Zenobia Orszulak and Yolanda Kielton . . . Will be intrusted with the care of a bee cul- ture. The output cf honey will be rather low since these bees are pretty STINGY. But it will be class A honey . . . out of a HB culture? Mary Jane Poore and Loretta Starczewski . . . will operate a factory manufacturing artificial flowers. If business blooms, visitors will be welcomed at the plant. Offices will be centered in the main stem! Irene Lepkowski . . . After several attempts with the same formula, produced either an un- satisfactory fortune or none at all, and at times a good past rather than the future was exposed, and rather than I should tax myself to the limit, let us relax and before we near the end of our journey, recall the pleasant memories of four years of true fellowship, the last of which will soon fade away into the great past, where the future of our forefathers is already delving in deeper and deeper and is as historical as this prophecy will be to our descendants. TIME MARCHES ON! IRENE LEPKOWSKI Page Twenty-Th ree

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Class Prophecy This article is not the product of any wit. Thoughts were strained to the very last idea to make the predictions herein as positive as the weather report, to satisfy the curiosity cf our friends and classmates, and it should be judged wholly as a by-product of abnormal progress of my classmates. The following predictions are not merely my own opinions, but are based upon a sound formula developed through knowledge and re- search of the intricate perplexities of forecast- ing, and were arrived at as follows: your golf score and geography grade, minus your tele- phone number over four, squared, times tem- perature of the day, divided by the house num- ber, times auto license number, plus radius, divided by 13-1313 all of which was so confus- ing that I had to ask my mother. The answer then, I used as the key to an index of famous autobiographies, whose life the corresponding number is destined to slave through. The expected contributions from Eddie Cantor and Jack Benny were disappointing, so the inserted gags had to be thought up by myself. Now, for the march of time, the laugh of today, the truth of tomorrow, old man fu- ture, and lady luck hold in store for . . . Ed Dulcet . . . I-Iere's. a problem full of doubts. Let us say he will drench America with the world's most delicious coffee . . . it will be quite a grind! Virginia Rozewicz . . . A woman doctor that'll put you in stitches. Her financial suc- cess will depend on her patience ! Al Ciesielski . . . A barber with a new type of clipper which will cut barber expenses in half. A thrifty fellow, he'll make sound in- vestments of his savings! Cecile Rozploch . . . An atmosphere which will reverberate with music of her own com- positionf The key to her success will be on the organ. I Pa gc Twenty-Two Kenneth Oshinski . . . His High-Strung Ha- waiian Guitar Band will swing in every town! Joseph YVisniewski . . . Owner of a soap factory. XVhether he climbs the heights to success will largely depend on the Lather. If his business is a washout, his next start should be a cleadi one! Jean Szuba, and Geraldine Rybicki . . . After great pains they will pull through as dentists . . . a position they should fill for a long time. They'll prepare a special artificial tooth paste for false teeth! John Torzewski and Ed. Kush . . . Both can succeed as electricians, if they will make the proper connections. John especially loves light work . . . if one should fail, the other will be shocked! Genevieve Strozewski will supervise the experimental department of a blotter factory, which work should be quite absorbing. Wanda Liwosz will inherit her great grand- father's chicken farm, which will include some pretty . . . tough birds. At least she won't have to start from scratch. I hope this isn't a foul tip! Esther Pajakowski and Sylvia Sosinski . . . With an eye to the future, will develop a de- pendable bristle-less brush to compete against the toothless combs which might be quite popu- lar during the next era, an age of worry! Loretta Lewinski and Gertrude Hazinski will buy considerable stock in a packing con- cern, whose future is at steak. Let's hope it isn't a bum steer! Leo Wallish will operate a meat market. Any idea that he will give meat away free of charge on Saturdays, to stimulate business . . . is a lot of baloney. Henry Gudynowski . . . will begin as a The Vic'torian

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The Need of Religion in Education In our present day, the most critical period which makes or breaks the human being is the transition from childhood to adulthood, the time when the young adult is at the cross- roads of his life and will be compelled to meet and solve his problems with dutiful responsi- bility and mastery. inevitably, the steadiness and firmness of his success depend upon his early acquired foundation during the dear old golden rule days at school, his education. Was it an ade- quate one? If there was no religion in his curriculum, his education lacks completeness, in fact, the vital and most essential spark of life is absent. He may have had sufiicient nourishment for the body and ample food for his mental capacities so that both were Well developed and functional, but if the soul should remain unfed, it would starve and so would the true essence of life. Religion is not something added to educa- tion nor something apart from it, but it is an education in itself, which forms the center about which the other subjects are grouped and the spirit by which they are permeated. It gives us a divine enterprise of righteousness and love that will be carried out among our neighbors through the years to come. Train- ing in religion furnishes the best motives for conduct and the noblest ideals for emulation, moreover, it will guard and build the bundle of habits upon which our character and ulti- mate success will depend, materially, and pri- marily, morally and spiritually. The students in Catholic schools are taught to keep a radiant faith that every wrong can be made right and every right can be made. He will be inspired by the faith that the divine good will is operating for a better human so- ciety and will seek to be an ardent helper in the beneficial enterprise of righteousness and love, and the explanation of the true mean- ing of life and man's ultimate end. -GERALDINE RYBICKI Seniors Tribute to Their Alma Mater Four years have passed since the class of 1939 first entered the doors of South Bend Ca- thoiic High School to serve a short but im- portant period of apprenticeship before going out to take up their work in the World. These four enjoyable years have been the source of numberless fine friendships and a great many good times. But they have been also the source of something much more substantial and consequential. The development of a young American citizenry that is conscious of the fact that it has definite duties to perform, and guarantees to perform them. To some these duties consist primarily, if not solely, of a mere passive obedience to man-made law, while attaining as much worldly prominence as possible. To these people our high school would be functioning at its best if it should turn out a student capable of behav- ing himself in society and advancing to the highest realms of his vocation or profession. They are not so much wrong as they are in- complete. They look truth right in the eye, but they are too shortsighted to see it. Here is where South Bend Catholic High fills the breach between truth and secular education. A well-known Catholic university in this country declares that the three-fold emphasis in Catholic education should be on spiritual, mental, and physical development. That the spiritual element is placed first is especially Page Twenty-Four significant today because it stands out as never before, a brilliant badge universally identified with Catholic education., Again, the secular educators are not so much wrong as they are incomplete. What they propose to turn into the world is a half-educated man. He has been taught only that he has a mind and a body: consequently, he develops and perfects and cares for only his mind and his body. Not even knowing that he has an immortal soul, how can he be expected to attempt to care for it? Here, then, is the whole concept of Catholic education. It not only teaches men to behave and to make something of themselves, but it also urges them on to something more im- portant-the salvation of their immortal souls, man's highest destiny. And so it is that we are at once sorry and glad to find ourselves graduating from South Bend Catholic High School. We are sorry be- cause we find it hard to detach ourselves from a life we have learned to love and cherishg we are extremely happy because we realize that there are greater and more fruitful years of Catholic living and Catholic action ahead. To our parents and our teachers we give heart- felt thanks for the truly wonderful opportunity with which they have presented us. God grant that we may continue to live lives worthy of the real Catholic. ESTHER PAJAKOWSKI The Victorian w