St Francis Preparatory School - San Fran Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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N , 1 - A lfgaf' .. I -:Y '-:.2' A ,.n:..-P. l,:lv. . - .U Aclclrcss to tht- stuclcnt lmocly prior to Stuclcnt Council vls-c-tions cle-liwrccl hy Brother Timothy. Before curtnin time for thc Music Depurtincnfs ' nnnuul concert, Brother liolicrt calls for ar final primping. REV. BROTHER ROBERT, O.S.F. Assistant Principal Latin, Treasurer, Athletic Control Board, Committee on Extracurricular Activities, Press Club, Crown, Music.

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I g, lf - F r I' iii Principal Pr1ncipa.1's Message Appropriateness marks this San Franis eEort to recall in an international sense the gre it debt we owe to others who, in turn, owe much to us. Mutual sharing should be the consequence of our mutual Brotherhood. Obviously, failure to grasp this relat1onsh1p in our time of crisis when individual, nations have uncovered striking secrets of the universe, could be disastrous. Perhaps the hardest s-lying of Christianity is that we are called to minister to others with the gifts given us and not to use them for purposes of domination. For what ve have been given is never really all our own. This years Principals admonition is, of course, nothing new. Almost 2000 years ago St. Paul outlined a direction for human behavior in this regard when he wrote his famous letter to the people of Corinth. He said: We are indeed many members, but yet are one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, 'I do not need thy helpf, nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you., . . . But Cod has so tempered the members of the body that there may be no disunion and that the members may have care for one another. And if one member suffers anything, all the members suffer with it, or if one REV. BROTHER TIMOTHY, O.S.F. ' I ' iz ' . f . . l Q , cc C L 79 i 1 C fi J f' s . member glories, all the members rejoice with it. 10 C' K? I is 4 I -F . N--'Y'-:tv .

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A' Q i F r rr PETER ENGLAND fox X, ,TSW G ZH A Gu P' S Edgy? MARTIN HAMBURGER Editor-in-Chief Activities Editor THOMAS MORROW Graduate Editor DONALD MOQUADE Underclassmen Editor mx ,-.'f' ,'j ': , .,,,,- ' ,fa-1, '. - -A - L fi ,, Q, Divergent areas of the world and various periods of time have rendered their own particular contributions to mankindis culture. From art to reli- gion, from science to athletics, from languages to music, individual endow- ments have blended together to become a forceful influence on the lives of Americans in general, and St. Francis students in particular. At St. Francis this influence is felt, basically, under four headings: the spiritual, the social, the physical, the intellectual. Spiritually for example, Prep students are privileged to share in the traditions of Rome, home of the Popes and capital of the Catholic Church almost continually since the reign of St. Peter. Its catalog of saints, whose virtues are held up for our imitation, reads like a gazeteer: St. Anthony of Egypt, St. Boniface of England, St. Martin of Tours, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Iohn Cantius of Poland, St. Serenus a Grecian, St. Laurence O'Toole, and of course, our founding father, St. Francis of Assisi. Indeed, Prepsters drawing from a heritage that is world- wide, have an obvious opportunity to develop a sound spiritual life flowing from an institution that has no peer in the universalness of its membership. In another direction, distant origins certainly color our social activities. What would a Saturday night movie be without a pizza pie to top it off? --our concerts without Beethoven? -our science shows without Von Braun?-our Illustres Viri without Cicero?-our skin divers without Costeau?--and finally, imagine life without a mambo or a cha-cha, or another pastime derived from folk dances of our English ancestors that now goes by the name of limly. There is no need to exaggerate the part of athletics in the life of St. Francis, the school that has won championships in virtually every sport in which it ever engaged. Yet 12 practically every Prep sport is foreign- born. Indeed, it's almost painful to acknowledge that our national game of baseball is really nothing more than a souped up version of cricket and rounders, two old English games. Football comes to us from the ancient Greeks' cavorting at lulrpaston. Track, of course, was a favorite competition among the warriors of Greece and Rome. In fact, probably the only game that is truly native to America is basketball, the brainchild of a Massachusetts psychologist, Dr. james Naismith. Finally, our intellectual inheritance comes under consideration. It would probably take volumes to include all that we owe here. We might briefly point out that our debt goes back even beyond the geometry and hieroglyphics of Egypt's dawning civilization. From here it extends toward the Greek and Roman Em- pires that moulded western civiliza- tion. And then, how does one give