St Catherines Military School - Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

Page 34 text:

Time moves ever faster. The school loses contact with its students. The exigencies of life take each of us to different places and to varied tasks, all part of the auto- mation of this space age. But the Faculty of the School through letters and public notices have received and recorded the names of the alumni listed below, and in addition, their present addresses. They are available to you upon request. The Administration continues to invite former stu- dents to send a record of their present whereabouts so that all cadet battalions may be kept intact-at least on paper. Knowledge of you, former cadets, and your good lives and works is one of the few earthly joys of your Dominican Sisters. Their prayers and good wishes will always be with you wherever you are. Q' Hs. H ,gaarrvaa . 252' :ii Sorne Former Students of St. Catherine's Rettie, George Alcocer, Richard Anaya, H. R. Arce, Luis Arosemena, Iusto Babb, Raymond Backs, Edward P. Barbeau, Iames Barbeau, Robert Barclay, Frank Barclay, George Barclay, Phil Barclay, Walter Bagues, Manuel Bansbach, Bro. Steve Barnett, William Beecher, William Boonarati, Iack Borchard, Iohn Bowe, Dr. Edward Bronson, Thomas I. Brunet, Edward Burroughs, Paul Buttee, Ioe Cady, George Cahill, Glennon L. Carpenter, Frank Cascio, Leo Cassidy, Iohn Cevallos, Victor M. Chilson, Ricci Clouthier, Oscar Correa, Fernando Cortes, Roberto Loria Cozzo, Christopher Crowder, William Davin, Emile DeuPree, Russell Dipp, Iorge Donaghy, Robert Doyle, Richard C. Drey, Ioseph Feeney, David E. Ferraris, Angelo Filipan, Iames Fitschen, Ierry Foley, Douglas Galindo, Alfonso Garau, Iohn A. Grainger, Lester Haag, Iohn Hansen, Charles Holman, Frank Holmes, Thomas M. Holland, Will Horan, T. I. Hughes, George V. Hughes, Rev. Barnabas Hutflesz, Charles Iamieson, Ronald Lee Ioens, Russell Iohnson, Clark Kast, George Kelly, Michael Keitzman, Edward Olivares, Iorge Pack, Dennis Parker, B. B. Pedley, Devereux Pena, Luis Perschl, Rev. Nicholas Pinger, Robert Pirosch, Iay Polito, Eugene Polito, Dr. S. R. Lacayo, Carlos Aroseniena Landell, Ernest Langenkamp, Robert Langone, Dennis Ludwig, Edmund McCafferty, Iohn McGarry, Patrick McNeil, Earle Maclntyre, Patrick Maciha, Iohn Mandeville, Leo Martinez, Rev. Frederick Mateus, Hernan Mattis, Dr. G. E. Merhab, Marlan Miller, Walter E. Mills, Robert Miles, Robert Monteverde, Miguel Montes, Dr. Rudolfo Niederauer, Rev. George Nolan, Rev. William Rossmann, Lee Saba, William Saidy, Gilbert Sawaya, Anthony Schneider, Robert Schandel, Roger Sein, Charles Shafer, Arnold Sidenfaden, Thomas Spilo.tro, Phil Steves, Thomas Teran, Iudge Carlos Thatch, Michael Tirado, Miguel Tostado, Victor Tuttle, William S. Uribe, Frank Vega, Rafael Velez, Armando Vitale, Rev. Anselmo Wagner, Richard Wagner, Robert Whitcher, Dr. Iohn R VVhitehill, Richard Wilkinson, Iames D. VVillcox, George Willis, Thomas I. Young, Roy Young, William I. Zapata, Claudio Zapata, Patricio Zerwick, Ioseph

Page 33 text:

Chapel Christmas Cards To disseminate the art and spirit of the St. Thomas Chapel, the school chooses one theme each year for its Christmas card. In 1962 the Burst of Creation window was used as the motif and in 1963, the statue of St. Thomas. These uniquely beautiful religious cards are created through the combined talents of Sister Amabilis, Don May and the fine craftsmanship of dedicated engravers and printers. The message of one, Oh Happy Fault that Merited so Great a Redeemer is praphrased from THE PAIN OF CHRIST by Gerald Vann, O. P. The Adam and Eve portion of the Burst of Creation window is en- larged to show that without this blessed fault in the Garden of Paradise, God need not have sent Christ to earth to save men and, therefore, there would have been no Christmas. The message of the other is paraphrased from the SUMMA THEOLOGICA, God's Christmas Gift to Men . . . A Mediator . . . . It portrays graphically by word and linear perspective the uniting of Man to God through Christ. These truly inspirational cards live from year to year recalling to rnan the real meaning of Christ's Birth. They are available to parents and friends at the school office. C754 each with envelope,S7.50 a dozen

Page 35 text:

Captain William I. Young, Marine Corps, 1958, VVashington, D. C. Excerpts from a Letter of a Former Cadet Through thirty event-filled years, from Parris Island to Pearl Harbor, to Guadalcanal, to Okinawa, to Ameri- can Samoa, to Korea-Captain Young carried memories of St. Catherines - a school he called home His war record is written in the front lines of the American Marines. He spent thirty-one months in the Pacific battleground and from the fox holes wrote daily letters to his wife in California. One letter, dated October 6, 1958 fthe year of the photograph, abovej was addressed to Sister Verona, Prioress of St. Catherines, his first home. What he says in this letter so beautifully expresses the fulfillment of the highest dreams of the Dominican Sisters for their cadets, that they have asked his permission to quote it in part- believing that his thoughts might help to encourage other Sisters and other cadets of the future. 0 . Mr. William Young with his wife live in Santa Ana where he is a successful business man. After twenty-five years in the Marine Corps he returned to California and graduated with honors and an A.A. degree from Santa Ana College. He was awarded a B.A. degree from Orange County College in 1962. He is now president of the newly formed Alumni Association Dear Sister Prioress, . . . . I do not feel that the honors paid me are mine. Rather, I was a symbol of all the boys that ever attended St. Catherine's. I feel that somehow Cod has chosen me to be the recipient in their name. There are many, many boys to whom this honor would have been more deserving. . . . In all these years I had never really left St. Catherines. I have treasured all the little mementoes of my childhood there. The rosary I carry, the holy pic- tures in my prayerboolc admonishing me to pray hard and to make a good man of myself and signed by one or more of the good Sisters who gave them to me, a bronze medal I won in athletics, and even the orna- ments from the collar of my cadet uniform. . . . I was placed in your school at the age of two and a half and stayed until I was about fifteen years old. I knew no other home .... I have a very vivid recollection of my boyhood days there. My memory has been good because the education I received was good and proved valuable to me on many occasions during my life. . . . when I applied for enlistment in the Marines, . . . entrance to the Corps was very restricted. The Los Angeles district had a quota of only two men per month. There were many applicants. I was chosen im- mediately upon applying and ahead of many others because of my neatness, appearance, and military bear- ing. I was nineteen then and that was in 1932. Later as I received recruit training, I was made squad leader in my platoon because I displayed leadership ability and knew the drill movements. . . . A few years later I was assigned to a battleship and was promoted to corporal 'because I could read, write, and spell better, could understand orders better, because I had a better education than the other men with whom I was competing. And so it was all through my Marine Corps career. Even when I became a com- missioned officer, I still felt that my early training at St. Catherines was at the root of my achievement. . . . As a leader of men in wartime in close combat, I had strong moral courage, and even though my body sensed fear in moments of danger, my spirit was strong as it has always been because of the thorough religious training I had received as a child at St. Catherines. , . . . the memory I have of helping Sister Wendelina repair shoes, of helping to paint the porches, working in the laundry, in the garden, serving as an altar boy, running the silent movie projector, going to the beach in trucks, the summer I spent at Catalina Island camp, . . . stealing oranges, cutting my thumb on the bread slicer. Do children have so much fun and experience today as we did then? I often wonder. . . . VVhen I returned for a visit you made me feel that this lifelong dream I had was not a dream but a reality, something that is still living .... Sincerely, WILLIAM I. YOUNG