St Benedict High School - Benedictum Yearbook (Highland Park, MI)

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The BENEDICTUM OUR SOCIETIES During the past year the S. S. C.. Students' Spiritual Council, was placed at the head of St. Benedict School societies. At the council's first meeting oflicers were elected and committees chosen. Thereafter the council met every month to discuss matters of spiritual interest. An exact record of Communions, Masses, and Visits to the Blessed Sacrament was kept on a spiritual bulletin board. Father Lord, the sponsor of this new movement, was rather pleased with the promptness with which the students accepted the organization. In one of his letters he wrote: I was delighted to get your report and the clipping that accom- panied it. St. Benedict has evidently been very much alive and very quick to carry through our plans. The other schools around the country will be delighted to hear about it. The Girls' Blessed Sacrament League, which was formed last year, requires for membership the reception of Holy Communion at least three times a week, attendance at Holy I-Iour once a month, and a visit to the Blessed Sacrament each dav. The junior Holy Name and Children of Mary, pioneer societies in our school, continue to be active. The Junior Holy Name showed themselves strong on Father and Son's Day by their presence at the Holy Table and the big Father and Son Entertainment, the Children of Mary, on the first Sunday of May, when they paid a most filial tribute to their heavenly queen. Thus through our societies have the boys and girls of St. Benedict had many contacts with Christ and His blessed Mother-contacts which will ever remind them of the words: Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things will be added unto you. - SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Although with its essay contests, oratorical contests, studies and examinations, the past year was a very busy one, S. B. H. boys and girls had time for social activities. The boys' football banquet and the dance which followed constituted the first big social event of the year. Immediately preceding the dance, seventeen boys received letters. Spirit thus ran high, and it would be hard to find a merrier or happier crowd than that which stepped to peppy music on this memorable evening. Besides, there were at various other times during the year social gatherings of an informal nature. The entertained were the League of the Blessed Sacrament, the Children of Mary or the junior and senior basketball girls. But always, capable and charming hostesses presided and a most delightful time was offered. St. Benedict Alumni banqueted the seniors in May. The banquet, the hosts, and hostesses were all that anyone could possibly desire, and long will the seniors cherish the happy memory of this occasion. The social activities were culminated in the Junior-Senior Banquet on june eighteenth. All that was said about the Alumni Banquet can be said with equal measure here. But beneath the gaily floating blue and gold the seniors ended the evening with conscious regret, for to them it meant not only the closing of the yearis activities, but also of their scholastic career in St. Benedict School. Page TlJi7'fJ'-SIA

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The BENEDICTUM .. we l ite-wt .cs as ,cm fi CZ' L.. .--Q as Tuf Rui-xl. Gallagher, C-aeh: M. Srrren, Capt.: C, Sclzearer, H. Sayers, E. Germain. XV. O'Conncll, D. Murphy, D. Germain. F. Schnoor. sr..,,,..' ami-v. Milligan, xv. lfardlv, F, Tnngcf, 1. Daiwa, L, hlCGlynn, L. Murphy, G. Grix. a..n..m :mi-ia. stimfaaf., c. male, J. iirnphy, v. Desniond. 1. Emily. The ORANGE and BLACK Soon after the opening of school, Coach Gallagher issued his call for football candidates. Fifteen boys responded and later five more strengthened this number. Knowing that a stiff schedule had been arranged, the boys worked in earnest and soon rounded into shape. By the day set for the Season's Hrst game, the team showed excellent form. The grid season opened with a defeat for the Orange and Black. The score was I3 to 6. Our opponents, however, the heavy Highland Park eleven, had their hands full in this game and were entirely outplayed in the first three quar- ters. Criss Schearer, our quarterback, was injured after liaving scored our only points. His loss was severely felt. St. Ambrose dropped the first league contest by a I3 to 7 score. The home team ccntinued the excellent show of football begun in the Highland Park game. A trip to Pontiac proved fruitless, as the locals were forced to give in to a 6 te o score. The lone touchdown came late in the fourth quarter with but two minutes to play. Again we met reverses, this time at the hands of the De La Salle eleven. A single touchdown and the extra point was the margin. Redford was the scene of our next conquest. the St. Mary team being the losers. Three touchdowns to their two gave us the game. St. Leo's, one of the league's strongest teams, handed us a 27 to o defeat. NWeakness in the last quarter caused the large score, three touchdowns being pushed over in this frame. Page Thirfy-riglvt