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

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Students who pursue their subjects with diligence frequently are honored in diffe- rent ways. Besides earning favorable marks, these students receive commendations from other sources. Students who have attained a B average in their marks, i.e. a two quality point average, merit a place on the Scholastic Honor Roll. Those students who maintain the B average for two consecutive marking periods are candidates for the National Ho- nor Society. A member of the National Honor Society can truly be proud of his achievement in a nationally-wide organization. notional honor society I National Ilonor Society. Roster of members on end pages.

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Ls-ft to right: D. Bush, M. Lombardo, Father Pilatowski, S. Klukowski, and P. Drobin. library We can easily place a library as an indispensable segment of a high school, Kanty Prep is no exception to the rule. The library occupies an integral part of the education- al scheme of Kanty. As Francis Bacon said, Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. The Kanty library displays hun- dreds of books in each of the three catagories that Bacon mentioned in his essay On Studies. Passing through the library, we must not overlook the all-important librarian. Here is the person who always seemed to chose the proper book for somebody. He de- votes most of his time to stimulate a better interest in the realm of literature, and like- wise in the depository of literature, the library. Q .. .Qi ' ' -Ma

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l United Nations Mock Asscmlmlv Members. Roster on ond pages. For the past five years Gannon College -of Erie, Pennsylvania, has sponsored a mock United Nations Assembly. Each area high school represented a certain nation of the world. The underlying reason for this mock assembly is to encourage participa- tion of youth in city, state, national and world happenings. This year the students of Kanty represented Greece. All the delegates took an active part in all the heated debates that arose at this assembly. The eight delegates from Greece dispersed among other nations to consider the five major problems of the assembly, The representatives from Greece and Kanty performed a commendable task in debating the salient points of the five problems, Reunification of Germany, Ques- tion of Disarmament, Admission of New Members, Question of Underdeveloped Coun- tries, and the Political Situation in Indonesia.