St George High School - Georgian Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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SPIRITUAL EDUCATION Christian Education takes in the whole aggregate of human life, physical and spiritual, intellectual and moral, individual, domestic and social, not with a view of reducing it in any way, but in order to elevate, regulate and perfect it, in accordance with the example and teaching of Christ. There can be no true education which is not wholly directed to man's last end. -Poms Pius XI. Catholic education does not confine its efforts to one set of human capacities. It seeks to develop the whole man, body and soul. Here we take our stand, sure and solid, on the rock of education that makes both for time and eternity. One only is the way as one only is the Master-Christ. To restore all things in Him, then, is our aim, to give God His due by making our education essentially Christian is the great need-the one point eternally worth while. Only on the foundation of His teachings can education securely and lastingly rest. Youth should know about God and His will, through Christ, that he will possess that virtue of right living deeply grounded upon a Christian training of mind, heart, will, and body. Where youth on the road of life have to tread the trackless expanses of knowledge without the great guide, faith, how often they have been lost in the quagmires of life. Their vision was but partial, half-blinded, and they were sense- less to eternal realities. This is the crying danger of the day despite all our secular principles. Knowledge, the strength of the intellect, is thought to be all sufficient, but it is not. Man born to act can never Find in mere mind enough strength to carry him aright through life unless he has in addition faith, hope and love-the virtues of religion. If the chief end of education is virtue, if conduct is three-fourths of life, if character is indispensable, while knowledge is only useful, then it follows that religion should enter into all the processes of education because religion more than any other vital influence has the power to create virtue, to inspire conduct, and to mold character. The Catholic school as one agency in Catholic education according to our late Holy Father Pope Pius XI seeks to mold the true and Hnished rnan of char- acter-and acts constantly and consistently in accordance with right reason illum- ined by the spiritual light of the example and teaching of Christf'

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Parents are under a grave obligation to see to the religious and moral fdneatzon of Their Children, As VVell As to Their Physical and Civic Training. St. George Athletic Association An or anization com osed of earnest and lo al men of . g . P . . Y thc parlsh who dedicate their time and efforts toward the romotion of athletics at St. Geor e Hifh School. P S B OFFICERS Honorary President .......... Rk1Vl41Rl'INlJ Josr1PH A. DOPZRR President .......... ......... R ALPH A. MAUCH Vice President .... .... X VILLIAM J. LOBER Treasurer ..... ....... A DAM J. APMZI. Secretary .... ................ H owARn A. SCHICRICR MEMBERSHIP Rev. Rev Rev Rev. Rev. Joseph A. Doerr William Erkens Francis VVivell Francis Foley Francis M. Ott Adam J. Appel Steve Bauer Earl Brooks Arthur DuSel1eid Thomas Dailey Vincent D. Fleekenstein Edward Fisher Joseph Farkas, Sr. William Fries John Hochendonner Adam Hahn, Jr. Frank Kuss William J. Lober Mark J. Leive Karl Leach Charles Lang Ralph Mauch Gabriel F. Mazie Michael Most William C. Mooney Martin Menzel Frank Mundy, Jr. Albert Ott, Sr. Charles M. Ray, Sr. William K. Sehwendemen Louis A. Steiner George Schmitt Howard Scherer Peter H. Steingraber Mlalter Weiland We solicit membership from all men of the parish, especially those who have boys or girls actively engaged in athletics.

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