St Fidelis Seminary - Skullcap Yearbook (Herman, PA)

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D ,, A ' ' -i- i I ll ll Cl ll ll Milli!!! nu 9 Iliff R The mall must go through Gage cmd Deacon see to lt that xt does Iug Dean and Chub sports and dramat1cs In the outdoor sports we won all laurels In basketball th B e rurns had reached a playoff ser1es but fate was aga1nst us The n1ght before the f1nal game Wllh the count one up 1n a three game serres St Fld9llS burnt to a mere charred form Our school year ended abruptly but We con t1nued our studles at home We returned however t as members of the Sen1or department Th1s year there were the same old sub1ects exceptrng a new Latm Class1c Ov1d Prevzously rn dramatlcs the Lrterary Soc1ety was busy enact1ng small plays Wllh only a srngle product1on sometrmes 1f except1onally good an extra performance was staged But th1s year the SOC19ly after much dlscusslon dec1ded to present a Pass1on Pl ay All members of our class responded Whole heartedly to the call and several of he followlng year to the mvlgoratzng Herman cl1mate Rt the clubroom entrance, Schmltty and Hank agam as Schmltt d H y an cmk Calphas and Bxbulus DI D ' ,' X 17 l 2 14 1 ' 'i:1 'lf,l' fl I if rrir V A 4 ' 4 .Z f nf , y 1 f. if 7

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Mlllll 15 l CLASS HISTORY RUSSELL MYERS Gil .IH Trme marches on' As the world IS contrnually mak1ng hrstory some ot an elusrve type other more crucral and dramatrc so too the semxnarrans are mak1ng hrstory Yes as each class of young men turns onto the h1ghway ot tts long Journey to the prresthood rt 1Sl1k9 the begrnnmg ot the world No past 1ust a present and a future As rt sw1ngs 1nto trme 1t forms a hrstory a past to be remembered referred to and maybe loved or hated On September 3 1935 the seed ol a new tree was planted here on the semrnary grounds a seed embodred wxth srxty frve slender t1m1d boys And as a seed whrch at hrst shows no s1gn ol hte but IS 1n reahty a bedlam ot groW1ng cells the class destrned to be the class of 41 showed rn those early days no outward SIQHS of hte but were nevertheless branchrng out 1nto the1r respectrve modes of hte So the young saphng has broken ground and formed a small but bushy tree Smp' Snrpl The prun1ng shears are put to work And out of slxty hve thrrty remarn Thrs year too stems shot forth from the trunk of our small tree that were destrned to grow and prosper sports and dramatrcs In dramatlcs we staged the rmmortal drama Rrp Van Wrnkle Our great Thesp1an Francrs Schmrtt was brought to the hmehght 1n the role of Rrp In sports the mrghty Brum basketball team was 1n1t1ated We d1d not w1n the champronshrp but we were always a lormrdable opponent On return1ng we were 1n the honorary posrtron ot senrors ol the Iunror department W1th such a d1st1nct1on draprng our shoulders the tree of our class was well formed and branchrng boldly and dehnrtely 1nto several large extra currrcular aCl1V1I19S But' What s th1s' Greek and Latrn Classrcsl Here we met the languages of the togaed freaks I mean Greeks But we rolled down our sleeves and got to work We succeeded 1n unravell1ng the trrst mystery of Greek and rn Caesar we d1d more to Gaul than Hrtler But all work and no play makes lack a flat head So thrs year also was hlled wrth WW 'lvl Ms. The Szxth Class studymg lor Homer class ll D l I N t H G A , . , ' . I I me we q I A . f' ap V , 4 , A 5. g 1. X P' A ' z I ' I 'Q X R., r an , ' 'fwfr ,fi ' .

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Wll9E us had major roles Ioseph Moffrtt played Iudas and Iohn Martrn Gedeon We also had men on the stage s technxcal staff artlst staff and tn the orchestra p1t We were well represented 1n all departments To show the s1ng1ng ab1l1t1es of the student chorr an operetta someth1ng new to us was endeavored Here agaxn we were rn the tore strugghng to success Stxteen warblers wore the name 41 But the most rrnportant objechve 1n the eyes of our class was the new bu11d1ng our future home that was now be1ng constructed We exam 1ned every pxece of work thoroughly not under any spec1al 1ur1sd1ct1on but we d1d exam1ne and though we cr1t1c1zed at t1mes they worked on as they pleased The ded1cat1on of th1s bulldlng was the open1ng of the new school and the closrng of the old school year As we entered our f1fth year our tree had been formed All excess folrage had been tr1mmed and cleared away And we were now a sturdy work of nature no longer blown about by the w1nd but we knew our goal and strode drrectly forward We were advanced higher 1n d1fferent branches Vergrl and Crcero were added to our classrcs and Xenephon a Greek crossword puzzle was thrown 1n as a stde 1ssue But so far we had never had a more successful year In our Pass1on Play the 1ead1ng role was thrust 1nto the lap of Francrs Schm1tt who performed xt w1th the flnesse of a polxshed actor In sports we hnally tasted real vrctory We were unm1stakably the champlons As a matter of fact our basketball team worked w1th such prec1s1on that no At last rt has arrrved every m1n1m s dream the s1xth year We are members of the Sextam and we too w1ll follow the others The 1nk w1ll be dry on the last page of our hrstory here at St F1del1S and she w1ll close her doors upon us for the tlme Determ1ned to make th1s year our greatest we are stnvxng to reach a p1nnacle 1n our knowledge Our long1ng and heart deep desrre IS that those who follow may beneflt as fully from the advantages offered by our gemal and we1lequ1pped faculty whrch we are blessed to have And 1n partmg we shed no tears but raxse our chrns and just say so long t1ll we meet agarn lffll The sport fun Gage Chub the comer plate wxth sports sectxon cmd Oaks I , , , . I ' - 2 , , 1- . I , . , . - , , . team came near having hopes of winning a game. , 1' . . , . , . - . I . I . --1--is y 'I I ' . 3 ' I . I l Q1 ' L