St John Kanty Preparatory School - Kantian Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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Zdagafwf and Wanda! Sanz fm Kant? Saint Ann's Church, Cracow

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fra '- AY W -'A'h-Qi' N-'TT il ff - ,gig The Wig The Szlver Kalman ff Anniversary 0 ll Kanfian The year 1950 celebrates the silver anniver- sary of the publication of the first Kanty year- book. lust twenty-Five years ago, the senior class of 11,125 proclucetl tbe school's first annual untler the title of the l'K:1ntian . This monu- mentous undertaking was received with words of high praise anal thus began a tradition which has been continued to the present time anal will surel extentl far into the years to come. Let us then turn back the pages of history to the year tozq. Kanty at this time hatl reached the position of a highly regartletl High School and Iunior College, with every inclication of malcinq further advances in the future. The pro- posal that Kanty shoultl publish a yearbook. for the first time. was arlvancecl antl this decision receiyecl the aooroyal of the faculty under the suoeryision of the late Very Rey. Stanislaus Kon- ieczny. rector of the institution. Francis N. Reos. '21 was chosen student eclitoi' of this first yearbook ancl he. uncler the supervision of Professor Casimir Clowaclci, then a teacher of Ensrlish at Kanty, proclucecl one of the rnost unieue etlitions in the entire line of Kantians The 'Qs etlition was characterizt-tl by woufl-:'rFul not-ms eomrvvsietl by the eclitor. Every ygratluates biosrraohy was in poetical form, a style which has not been imitatecl in the Kan- tian's history. 'Tltie Kanty March. with lyrics Written by Editor' Reos and the music composetl by the Rey. Ioseoh Orszulile. CM, was a feature of the first volume antl also celebrates its twenty-five years of existence in rogo. In the followinfr year. the staff Wrote in tirose. The '26 Kantian was well illustrated and ye an excellent account of the class history.