St Ignatius College Prepatory - Ignatian Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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MR. R. CLEMO, S.J. History 2, 3; Frosh-Soph Baseball; Bookstore MR. R. ROCHE, S.J. History 1, General Math 4; J.V. Football, Swimming mr. j. McDonald History 1, 2, Typing 1; Golf, J.V. Football MR. F. CORWIN — History 2, 3 MR. J. SPINETTA, S. J. History I, Geometry 2; Yearbook, Sane HISTORY, a reflection of the past Why study history? Are dates and facts of any value apart from the men who made these facts? The creative energies of men made and continue to make history. The energies that lay behind the great civilizations are values that must be rediscovered and fully realized in a new, modern era. Basically, man has not changed throughout the ages. What has changed is his environment, for man has applied his genius in order to change it, to better it. History is the study of man — his great deeds, and how they lay the basis of our present civilization. It is the study of man’s creative past in order to prepare for a more creative future. The coaches’ approach to history. 16

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MISS M. SULLIVAN School Nurse

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MR. J. COLF.MAN, S.J., Sociology 4, Sodality, NFL and Debating Sociology, never more relevant The unexamined life is not worth living. Two thousand five hundred years ago, one of the first social critics, Socrates, spoke these words. Since his time, many other social thinkers have asked what makes for the good life in the well-governed society. Each year the seniors at S.I. join the ranks of these thinkers by evaluating for themselves their society ( Are we all status seekers?”; Is a classless society the American ideal?”), their government ( Democracy is still on trial”), and their economic system ( Are all the Jesuits socialists or something, with all this talk about a planned economy?”). Some of the assignments are risky, as when they in- terview a member of the lower class and ask whether he is happy being unemployed; others are pesky, as when they must wheedle a saleslip from a reluctant candy store operator to prove to their in- structor that they really did visit an LL” store. Some are economical- ly enlightening, as when they start their own corporation. But, whether the method used is interviewing immigrants, playing the stock market, or genuine library research, the end in view remains always the same: to examine man’s life in society and to determine what is just, noble, useful, and good according to reason and God. The People The Government The Causes