St Joseph High School - Josephus Yearbook (Natrona Heights, PA)

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,o.,,.,..,,.,.J:.. CLWW Anna Pietrolaj, Dolores Roll, Grace Barch, and Antoinette Sadesky practice Catholic Action by getting Mrs Purvis, Mrs Giunta, and Mrs Sadesky interested in good Catholic literature 'rw -.6l.. Above: High school girls make a visit to the Christmas crib Freshman and sophomore Fatima Club members visit Saint Paul ' s Orphanage

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TIME FOR GOD Shown here are the queen and her court from the annual May crowning: Leona Rzomp, Rstta Marie Dixon, Carol Krumenacker, the queen, Cornelia Skudneski, Sylvia Glowatski, Natalie Vincent, and in the front row Kathleen Welsh and Dennis Walsh. May Crowning is but one of the activities of that most important phase of our lives, the practice of our religion. As religion cannot be separated from life, it cannot be separated from our education. Each year begins with a Mass to ask God's blessing on our work. From time to time we lift our voices in hymns of praise or in the re- sounding melodies of the liturgy as the entire student body sings the MaBle In May takes place the annual three-day retreat, when we get an opportunity to take spiritual inventory, to bring to mind the real reason for our existence, and to think seriously of what we intend to do with our lives. And always, apart from the activities in which we engage together are those precious moments when each student finds time to psy s private visit to the Blessed Sacrament or to say Our Lady's rosary before her altars But our religion m st be put into practice too. It is for this reason that we hold such activities as the Catholic Book Fair, to en- courage others to read good literature, and pay visits to St. Paul's Orphanage, to spread the happiness of Christ to His little ones. Thus our religion is a vital part of our lives, one contributing to Gcd's glory, our own happiness, and the happiness of others. --60--

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TIME FOR FUN 'bflfsmlfw mg ,M 79 IWW M J rl ,f SWW Dance A well developed personality demands that one spend some of his leisure time in company with others. Since the aim of education is to prepare for complete living, activities cannot be overlooked. Certainly, 'All work and no play' is not the case at Saint Joseph High School. After many hours of school work, everyone enjoys going to a school dance and meeting his friends in a different atmosphere from that of the classroom. The social program follows the seasons. In fall there is the Halloween Dance, where ghosts and goblins reign, but where laughter and merriment rule right along with them. Winter brings dancing snowflakes but also the sound of dancing feet as students of St. Joseph's enjoy the Pre-Advent dance and the Red and Blue Dance, inaugurating the basketball season. Highlight of the winter season is the Christmas Formal where against a background of Christmas trees and holly wreaths students dance to the strains of Bill Sta1ey's music. February brings the Valentine Dance as the last pre-Lenten affair. In the spring, a young girl's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of the 8. and S. and J. and S. Both events, held in May as final tributes to the seniors by underclassmen, bring the year to a happy end and climax a series of fun filled hours spent during four years at St. Joseph's. -62.. At the Talentine