St Joseph Preparatory School - Azuwur Yearbook (Bardstown, KY)

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WEEKENDS HULIDAYS Magic is the effect to mention Month-End Leave. Bags are packed early and the average prepster needs no urging to make the bus at noon Friday to spend time at home till Sunday evening. The St. Joe prepster does not appreciate going to school on individual single holidays, Holy Days of the Church excepted, but he is much com- pensated by a short and long holiday in each semester. Thus Thanksgiving and Christmas af- ford pleasant relief in the hrst semester and the mid-winter and Easter recess break the monotony of school life in the second semester. The St. .loe student returns to the Prep perhaps somewhat tired from traveling but ready, stripped of his ennui, to face afresh, resident school life. SUCIAL ACTIVITIES The Senior Promesocial climax of four years A culminates the Junior Prom and the Sophomore and Freshman Hops. But who can forget such social events' as the Homecoming Dance, espe- cially after winning the football conference title, or the zany costumes worn by imaginative Prep students and their belles at the Valentine Cos- tume Hop? One is inclined to suspect the chap- eroning parents equally enjoyed themselves. Informal dances and social get-togethers admir- ably filled in the intervening gaps between big social events. tions pass! it Ti 'S BETHLEHEM, St. Catherine, A sumption, Nazareth girls get high social ratings from St. Joe men BELIGIDUS ACTIVITIES St. Joseph, by the very nature of its schedule, fosters a sincere Christian piety. At least twice a week, besides Sunday, every St. Joe man en- riches his spiritual life at daily Mass. He may enjoy this privilege every morning. Daily oppor- tunity for the Sacrament of Penance presents it- self. A talk and Benediction of the Blessed Sac- rament truly help to make Sunday a Holy Day Each student, a member of the school's Apostle- ship of Prayer, the students' Mission Crusade, and the Holy Name Society, becomes conscious of his future apostolate, lay or religious, in the world. Q A MONTH-END LEAVE. Thanksgiv yy, ing. Christmas, Mid-Winter. Easter I tl '-., vacations-Magic words at he Prep! All too swiftly do the vaca

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SOCIAI. ST DIE You can change the world The Catholic graduate must change the world. To this end our graduates in order to be not only good Cath- olics but to be also good citizens have conse- quently progressed through the exceptionally wide election of courses in Citizenship, Sociology, and Economics after interesting themselves in the usual World and American History courses. Thus with a knowledge of past wisdom and folly they are ready to go forth and establish their own part in the history of the world. NATURAL SCIE CE With the advent of the missile age and the in- corporation of the word sputnik into the dic- tionary, a hrm foundation in science is a must. General science introduced our graduate to some of nature's wonders. Biology followed and our graduate, as he studied the unique workings of human body, wondered at the Providence of God. The laws of physics amazed him and the workings of chemistry awed him Our graduate stepped forth ready to investigate the still deeper aspects of science in colleoe MATHEMATICS X is an unknown. And hence our gradu- ates began, as freshmen, their mysterious intro- duction to high school mathematics with algebra and proceeded to delve for two years into the sometimes hard-to-comprehend equations. And yet, advanced algebra was reserving more un- knowns. Plane geometry preceded solid geom- etry and then our graduates had to place lines and angles in very nebulous space. Trigonom- etry tripped a few. But the foundation was laid. LATE SLIPS, absentee notes, special permissions -all add up to a busy day at the office. pf THE LIBRARY scene at the left shows research in action when a boy can figuratively travel to unknown lands and exotic places. '.N,.-S' X' lv--J ll! v-I ,gk5z46'3 av' ABOVE. school dismisses for the day. Some head for cars. others for the dormitory or lockerroom and the beginning of extracurricular activities. AS SHOWN at the left. night time means study time and Brother ready for the impossible problem and the difficult translation.

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N ' Sri' ' PEECH DRAMA M IC When scholastic athletic endeavors are not pressing, the man of the Prep can turn his mind to other cultural pursuits. Our orators and debators, members of the National Forensic League, travel svvittly on a winged schedule of school assemblies, inter- scholastic clebates, and speech tournaments last- ing from late November to April. Their itiner- ary lists many cities and tovvns as landing places in Kentucky. An interclass one-act play festival in the hrst semester enables the thespian members of the Kenneth Players in their little theatre, Kenneth Hall, to prime for the state festival in March. Our Glee Club sings an active program of con- certs betore students, parents, and other audi- ences ancl culminates its activity in a school musi- cal, in joint operation with the Players. li lf. 's 1' l THE DEBATOPVS interpretation of statistics, logical refutation of ar- gument, concise reasoning-all in- terfuse to give the future lawyer a none too easy task. I. ST. JOE'S NFL members find di- verse material and pleasure in original oratory. in declamation. and in humorous or dramatic mono- logues. ,sh ,Agia ULET HARMONY RING! The Glee Club, at left. renders another one of its enjoyable concerts to an appreciative audience. THE PLAY'S THE THING! lt's a signal fact. All the Kenneth Players love applause. And none deny their due. l