St Josephs Academy - Twin Towers Yearbook (Collegeville, IN)

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The members of the Staff of TWIN TOWERS are to be com gratulatecl on the edition of their 1946 Yearbook. It reflects glory not only on the student in gen¬ eral, but also on the faculty who have manifested such a keen in¬ terest in their development. Very Reverend Joseph M. Marling, C.PP.S., PH.D. Provincial of the Society of the Precious Blood Congratulations to the gradu¬ ating seniors of the Academy class of 1946. The time has fi¬ nally come when you are no long¬ er boys, but young men. It is the fond hope of St. Joseph’s, that as you go forth from academy days God will al¬ ways remember and apply the love for truth, learning, and vir¬ tue instilled here; that you will always put forth your best ef¬ fort, prosper, and be a power for good among your fellow men. Sincerely, Very Reverend Henry A. Lucks C.PP.S., Ph.D. President, St. Joseph’s of Indiana

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DEDICATION For athletes to honor their coach and have faith in him is only loyal and natural. But for the coach to win the respect and admiration of every student on the campus is an achievement fully earned by the athletic coach at St. Joseph’s of Indiana— Mr. Richard Scharf. In his frequent relations with the boys and in his pa¬ tient understanding of them, Mr. Scharf s services are invaluable in aiding other faculty members to shape students into capable and well trained “leaders of tomorrow”. Herein is his greatest contribution to the success of St. Joseph’s. To this high purpose of training leaders in mind, soul, and body, Mr. Scharf has dedi¬ cated his life’s work. To express our closer s and friendship towards Mr. Scharf, we students refer to hjm only as “Dick”. Dick not only is our coach and instructor, but, more important, he is our sincere friend. It is either in the classroom, on the athletic field, or else¬ where on the campus that each boy becomes acquainted with Dick as his true friend. It is through the influences of Dick’s character that we try to imitate his sportsmanship, leadership, and scholarship — his sportsmanship by fair play, his leadership by training to be self¬ efficient “leaders of tomorrow”, and his scholarship by practicing his teaching. In a very minute way, we wish to express our gratitude to Dick Scharf—coach, instructor, and personal friend—by dedica¬ ting to him this ’46 edition of TWIN TOWERS.

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FACULTY The leaving of another academy class brings nostalgic happiness. Professors rejoice that another trained product takes its place in the world. Yet the abrupt termination of close associations is not pleasant. You gentlemen of 1946 face a world unique in many ways. You will go out into a nation whose war from without has been won, but whose war from with¬ in still rages. It is the struggle for a right and lasting peace. Young and inexperienced as you are, you nevertheless hold in your minds a cure for world ills. For you have been trained in an atmosphere of faith, hope, charity, and sacrifice; under the kindly mantle of St. Joseph, away from dis¬ torted truths and false values. Go forward now and apply the things you have mastered here. With you go all our fond wishes and prayers for your success. Sincerely, Rev. Henry J. Martin In his encyclical, “Christian Educa¬ tion of Youth”. Pope Pius declared that the “proper immediate end of Christian education is to cooperate with divine grace in forming the true and perfect Christian.” This statement is express¬ ive of the highest aim of all true educa¬ tional endeavor. The fundamental prin¬ ciple underlying Catholic education is that Religion, Faith, and Morality is the most important item in the life of man; that Religion must be the mainspring of life’s activity; that Religion must permeate every detail of life; that Re¬ ligion must be the source from which is drawn the motive of action in important decisions. Temporal interests and pur¬ suits, indeed, are not to be excluded, dare not be excluded, in the training of youth, but they must be molded, ennobled, and perfected, and subordinated to the spir¬ itual. Education in its highest purpose must seek to develop men whose moral strength in their daily lives derives from principles based on spiritual truth as taught and exemplified by the Divine Teacher Himself. Education, to deserve the name, must mean the development REV. HENRY J. MARTIN, C.PP.S., M.S. in Ed. Principal, St. Joseph’s Academy of the whole man—the development of his spiritual, mental, and bodily facul¬ ties. It must implant in mind and heart, the duties of creature towards God, to¬ wards neighbor in the sociological sense, towards the nation and the race, to¬ wards himself, and must furnish a true evaluation of personal worth and per¬ sonal rights. In the chaos of the present, in the swiftly changing social order of today, and in the bewildering denial of beliefs sacred to Catholics and the almost utter disregard of virtues and traditions once thought to be permanent institutions of Christian civilization, there is a press¬ ing need for stabilization of thought and a return to time-proved aims in edu¬ cation. One element in the definition of a good Catholic education is the quali¬ fication that it develops the whole man. Page nine