St Catherines Military School - Yearbook (Anaheim, CA)

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SOUTHERN CALIFORIVIA WATER COMPANY LOS.ANGELES 44,CALIFORNLA PHILIP F. WALSH PRESIDENT Dear Sister Amabilis: It gives me a great sense of satisfaction to be a part of St. Catherine's 75th Jubilee Celebration. My eight year asso- ciation with the School has been most rewarding and enjoyable. I am deeply grateful for all of the efforts made by the School and faculty towards molding the spiritual, moral and educational fiber of m young son Philip. There is no question in my mind that he will be a better man because of this background and train ing in his formative years. I extend my heartiest congratulations to all of the good Dominican Sisters at St. Catherine's, not only those now resident but all who have contributed so importantly in the past. May you all find the Divine guidance to carry on your great work in the future. The world needs the essential elements you provide the youths under your guidance and care. Sincerely, f-w X . Sister M. Amabilis, O.P., Prioress St. Catherine's Military School 215 North Harbor Boulevard Anaheim, California

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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

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BENEFACTORS Rrchard Baggott Class 31 Barbara Z Baker Cadets W Mark Baker an Mrchael I Baker and Mrs B111 Barnett Cadet Bob Barnett and Mrs Lours Bellson and Mrs Edward Burke Mrs L A Burrows Cadet Mrchael Cox r and Mrs Harold Connor Cadet Corporal George Connor and Mrs Don Corturn Cadets Harry Cottam Telford Cottam Peter Cottam and Anthony Cottam and Mrs Calvm C Crawford Cadets Clyde Crawford and Lvle Crawford and Mrs Iames I Feeney Former Cadet Daud I' Feenev Cl959I and Mrs Vrncent Fortuna Cadets Thomas Fortuna and Trmothv Fortuna and Mrs Arnold M Haguewood Cadet Steven Haguewoocl r and Mrs VVrll1am 1 Hoemcr Cadet Corporal Gregory Hoerncr and Mrs Harry I Horn Cadet Rlckx VVr1ght and Mrs U Stewart Iones Cadet Chrrstopher L Iones T e Foster C Keller Famrly Cadet Chrrstopher Keller and Mrs Robert I Kretschmar Cadet Robert Kretschmar Carlos and Iusto Aroscmena Lacayo C1937 43I Cadet Patrrck D Lynch H F and H V McKmstry Mr and Mrs Andrew Mrkla Cadet Andrew Mrkla Dr Mart1nI Mrller The Mrlls Brothers 1' l' I and Mrs A I Mrnrcola Cadet Alfred Mrnrcola and Mrs R B Morse Former Cadets Robert B and Mrs I R Pruma Cadet Robert Pruma and Mrs Paxge Prrest Cadet Parge Prrest Eugemo Rodrrguez Cadet Eugemo Rodrrguez and Mrs Frank Rose Cadet Iohn Rose and Mrs Clarence Ross and Mrs Leslre H Rouse Cadet Leslre Rouse and Mrs Ernest Schworck Cadet Mark Schworck Crarg Scudder Iohn Scudder Mark Scudder Mr and Mrs Bernard Semlcr Cadet Bruce Semler VV R Srdenfaden 'Ihomas Srdenfaden Mr and Mrs W E Soderberg Cadet Robert Socrerberg The Taggc Famrlv Phrlrp F Walsh Cadet Plulrp VValsh The Walthall Famrly Cadet Mark I Weber Phrl and Roberta Vthrte Cadet Lvndon Morrrs and Donald G Morse Lt Cdr and Mrs H M Wxederholt Cadet Mark Wrederholt Former Cadet Lvnn Wrederholt Mr and Mrs Iames Young Claudro Zapata G Patncro Zapata G ' Mr. . . . u .' ' l rl ' d ' , ' Mr. . . . M . . Ir., . r. . Mr. . ' I ' Mr. . Mr' ,A ' , ' M , ' 1' . M . . Dr. . Dr. . ' Mr. . . M. . Q ' . Mr. . ' . - M . . Mr. . . I 4 ' Ierry F. Fitschen Class 51 Mr. . ' , Dr. . . , , ' M. . 1 ' ' 4. - Mr. . , .. Mr. A . I . ' ' . ., I h 1 . . ' n Mr. . . I 7 ' '.