St Andrews Seminary - Mapav Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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1 9 3 9 and Holy Family Leagues. At the end of the Holy Family bowling season, the doubles matches were held in which jim Lyons was one of the winning couple. We had only one interfclass game and this did not speak so well for us as we lost to the juniors, whom we had challenged. Many of the class took part in the Bowling party which we had at Saint Michael's during the Easter vacation. In the line of baseball there was only one inter-class game and that was with the Frosh, who defeated us by a fair margin-their begin- ner's luck. This is our history. Brilliant? Nofbut prof gressive and A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss.'l Therefore we shall say adieu and hope that our class will continue successfully until we reach our goal on ordination day, June 1949. Your fellow seminarians, The Class of '43-. 'TTT 'fb ' Cur Gymnasium Surely you recall that day last Januaryg you seemed so astonished at the time that it would be impossible to forget so soon. I, for my part, ref member distinctly the account of your episode just as you described it to me. It was something like this: 'LIt was just another one of those days. We had no particular thoughts except the one about the dismissal bell at two fortyffive, as we started for school like the 'whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school' At school, the second floor was not in the same condition as we were accustomed to see it. An unfamiliar obstacle met our gaze-yes, it was a stairway to the third floor. We approached this new gradient curiously but cautiously, for, whither these steps led, we knew not. At any rate, we began to climb them and, at the top, we pushed open the door and meekly peered in. The sight that we beheld was unprecedented within the walls of Saint Anf drew's. In the middle of the floor there was an orderly scramble for a basketball and a game seemed to be in progress, down at the far end of the hall, the air resounded with the solid blows administered by a couple of skillful boxers, a short distance from our feet was saw two would' be wrestlers grappling convincingly on a mat. The thought that this was our gym entered our minds but we could not believe itg we dispelled it at once, thinking that we were in a dream. Ah, my friend, you were wrong, you were mistaken and not at all in a dream. Indeed, Saint Andrews, in the seventh decade of its existence, really has a gymnasium, the desire of so many EDWARD REDDER, '40 years is now realized. The one thing that has so long been a misty Hgure on the horizon is now a reality. The story of its establishment is not intricate -perhaps, it is not even interestingffbut it is an indication of the cooperative spirit existing in the seminary today. Early in the year the proposition of using the third floor for this purf pose was put before the faculty. They heartily approved the idea and, as a result, plans for this project were drawn up. The students conducted a campaign to raise funds and, due to the gen' erosity of the clergy and laity, it was a huge success. Then the action began. The interior of the monstrous hall was torn down and slowly built up again into the fine structure which we behold today. Baskets were erected on the court, the floor was leveled, a stairway between the second and third floor was built, and at last the gym began to take on the look of general improve' ment. Later, muchfneeded paint was applied to the walls and the veneer of completion began to show itself. As yet we have been privileged to look only upon the external enhancements of our gym, but, in reality, there is something greater than is evif dent. What we see now is pleasing to us but it hardly indicates what it has in store for us and posterity, It will be in the gym, that we unload our daily burdens, here we will receive recreation when we are tired and strained from mental effort. In years to come we will always bear a deep sense of appreciation toward the initiators of such a worthwhile addition to our seminary. jftyfthree

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S A T O R A Letter From the Class of '43 Saint Andrew's Seminary June, 1939 Dear Seminarians, Our purpose in writing this letter is that we may introduce you to the class of '43. Perhaps you have already stored away in those crania of yours a few scattered details of our history, but these facts have not been presented to you side by side so that you might obtain an understand' able view of the significance of our accomplish' ments. As far as we know, there is no historian who has put our story into the annals of time, therefore, having a sense of selffpride, we shall endeavor to give you our autobiography. Let us then draw aside the curtain of time and look upon this, our short life- As all people are proud of their birthdays, so are we proud of September 7, 1937, for that is our birthday. It was 1937, as you no doubt ref member, that the old seminary building and grounds were sold to Eastman Kodak Company. As a result the school had to be moved, taking up its new and present location in the former Cathedral School. Consequently much confusion prevailed. However, though our entry was made under such a condition, we got off to a fairly good start. We proceeded cautiously into our studies, since they were entirely unfamiliar to us, and we were ignorant of even the slightest thing about them. No doubt this ignorance was the cause of such blunders as, the claim of one of our members that Dr. Jekyll was the friend of Mr. Hyde. Often our way was blocked from swift prog' ress by obstacles or in other words, tasks, which were caused by everything from tossing erasers and playing minature golf on the desk, to throwing snowballs from the window fwith Father Lyons as a spectator across the street, and playing football in the hall. If any of you are wondering why there is a big dent in one of the lockers, wonder no longer, because it merely marks the place where a former member of the class, Ralph Brower, was buried when he happened to be in the way the time the lockers fell over. fifty-two HARRY BEsToR, '43 In the month of September 1938, when we returned to the hallowed halls of Saint Andrew's, we found that our original class of about twenty had been reduced to half that number. Never' theless, the addition of four new fellows strength' ened us. Again we resumed our school workg this time with more ease because the newness of the sub' jects which had confronted us previously in the first year was now gone, but the 'kprofsu saw to it that we didn't allow any laxity to present itself. Also more books were read in our second year than we had read before. This was due to the institution of thc book chart by Father Marks. Jimmy Baker knows this only too well as he was kept continuously busy keeping our records up to date. The spiritual field of the class need not be so fully discussed, because the mere existence of the class explains this completely. However, it can be said that in our second year our spiritual activity was augmented, with many of the fellows being active members in the various societies- Saint John Bosco, Mission Society and others. All took an enthusiastic interest in the newly or- ganized Sodality. Regarding sports, you can see that as Freshf men we started to take an active part in what ever sports were afforded. In our first winter here, bowling seemed to be the only type of sports available, since means for others were lacking. Here some of the class showed some good work. In fact, Bill Lally was a member of the winning bowling team. Then spring gave us a chance to show our skill in what many said was baseball, but anyhow there were quite a few who showed some skill. We engaged in a few inter' class games, in which our best victory was that over the present Seniors. That season we also had the privilege of having jim Lyons chosen as catcher for 'LIggie Saint Georges team in the AllfStar game on Mission Day, he gave a fine per- formance in the game. Perhaps our showings in sports in the Sophof more year were even a little more representa' tive. A great many more engaged in bowling. We had representatives in both the Saint Patrick

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S A T O R The Red Peril and the Way Out Forty years ago, Pope Leo XIII declared that a plague was eating out the vitals of the world. Recently Pope Pius XI repeated that warning, saying that a titanic scourge is undermining the social structure of the world. Both pontiifs were referring to the doctrine which is now called Communism. According to Earl Browder, Communism is a state of society which has destroyed the exf ploitation of man by man and which has divided society into classes of employers and employees. This means that the worker must work for the State, i. e., the employer, or starve. Communism is guilty of crimes against God and man. In Russia countless thousands of both religious and lay people have been massacred. Religion has been completely torn from the hearts of the Russian people, one eighth of the human population of the world. All regard for morality has been removed from their minds. Two nationally known newspaper men, john Chamberlain and Eugene Lyons, have recently written books on the conditions in Russia in which they say with one accord that the Russian Revolutionary leaders have betrayed the revoluf tion, for, instead of abolishing the exploitation of man by man, i. e., the laborer by the capital- ist, they have only substituted the exploitation of man by the government. The Communists in America are striving fur' iously to substitute the government of Russia for the democracy of the United States. Russia is divided into Soviets or unions which are govf erned by seventeen commissars who are under the heel of Stalin. In Russia there is one big company union controlled by the state, There is no striking, no collective bargaining, no free' dom of speech, press, or religion, and no real elections. In Russia the bosses in the government control the bosses in the plants, the bosses in the plants control the spies or speedfup men in the plants, beneath these rank the one hundred and ten millions of poor Russian laborers, and still farther below these are the forced prison-laborers. In Russia there is the liquidation of objectionable classes, i. e., showing an objectionable class how it sinks and disappears in its own blood. Truly, it is not a government desirable to us in America. In the United States there are only forty' thousand duesfpaying members of the Commun ist Party, but every one of these forty thousand members is a leader. They are fanatics, drunk with an ideag they think that they have a Mes' sianic mission to emancipate their fellow men. Besides, they sincerely believe in themselves and their objectives. jiftyffour FRANCIS DAVIS, '39 The average American, however, ordinarily will have nothing to do with Communism or Communists. He thoroughly hates Communism. He is content with his home and his family, but then the depression comes, he is Hred, and all his hopes are destroyed. He looks around for aid, the Communists, ever on the alert for new con' verts, give him this aid and convince him of their good intentions. Then he enrolls as a member of the Communist party, and consequently must, according to his membership book, accept orders from Moscow. The future of the Communist Party in America is well planned. In 19404944 when, as they predict, the next depression occurs and when men are walking the streets, the forty thousand ,leaders will gather the people under the red flag. How can we, therefore, stem this tide of Communism? The Popes have offered us a conf structive program which has shocked many Cath olics because of its seeming redicalismg but the truth is that many of the Catholic doctrines which the Popes have emphasized have been stolen by Communism and have become, to a certain extent, tainted by their relation with it We should strive to follow out this program, and devote ourselves to saving the small banker from the unscrupulous money men, we should also try to secure a more equitable distribution of private property, lest it bring about its own destruction. In addition, the Pope declared that we must rid ourselves of the four dictators: the wage dictator, the price dictator, the saving dicf tator, and the monetary dictator. Briefly considered, the wage dictator controls the wages of the country. He is responsible for only onefhalf of the workingmen in a country having a living wage. Fortunately, the wage dic- tator is beginning to lose his economic and des' potic control. The price dictator controls the trade and commerce of the country. J. Pierpont Morgaii, for instance, paid Andrew Carnegie fifteen hunf dred million dollars of the Carnegie steel plant, ive times as much as he would have had to pay the previous year, only because he realized the immense power which the control of the steel plant would give him, and further, because he knew that the investment would yield him six per cent. Thanks to antiftrust legislation, the reign of this economic despot, the price dictator, is also being brought to an end. The saving dictator uses other people's money to aid his own plans and to pile up wealth which is the power of mankind. If such a bubble bursts,