St Josephs Collegiate Institute - Star Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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ORCHESTRA As lf COI'l1plCl'6S IIS SLlCCCSSfLll Veal' under the capable dll'6s.I1OIl of Mt' Carl Ef b Buehler and Brother Albert FSC the Orchestra now boasts almost ty mem ers A number of the members are boys who had no musxcal traxnmg prror to entermg St f B hl r durm school oes they were glven the fundamentals of music by Pro essor ue e g d The Orchestra xtself devoted two afternoons a week after school to mastery perxo s of the mstruments Thelr ch1ef currlcular functron was to provlde a major portlon hl f of fl16 EI'1fCI'C3.lI'lI'l'19I'lI at ITIOSI of the school 3SS6IT1bllCS and at Il1E mont Y SESSIONS O the Archconfraternlty of the DIVINE Chlld At the annual elect1on of ofhcers, oseph Sannella of the current graduating class l d resrdent It was through oes efforts that a group of school muslcxans was eecte p played at all football and basketball games ASSlSIlhg hmm were Robert Schaefer as lc f VlC6 Presldent and Ernest Sweet of the umor Class as Secretary The tas handhng all sheet music and lnstruments was glven to ohn Kerwm whlle Raymond Sercu handled the organlzatlons hnances A r cent meetmg of the Cathohc MUSIC Educators Assoclatron the Orchestra t a e rendered Beethoven s Contra Dances and BIZCIS Agnus De: Both selectlons were well celved b the gathermg of musxc lovers The Orchestra also performed admlrably re y at several of the Parent Teachers Assoclatlon meetlngs durrng the year At the end of the year the Orchestra Jolned wlth the Glee Club to offer 1ts annual concert at Klemhans Musrc Hall and the record crowd testrhed to the popularlty of thls orgamza tlon both ln and out of St oseph s Colleglate Instltute I R Gu llelmo W1hl Krlegler P Sanella Dickenson Webster Eagan it mv g ll Alb B Kieffer D Kieffer 'na' Row Lombxrd Sweet Tarwe a 1 hl rd Ixon Flock Sowers Schedi Boyd Sannella Coug In lzt Run Sercu C1rb1ll1d1 Schiefer Terrana Kerwln

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I OD GLEE CLUB Somethxng new has been added Tlus phrase could be well used to de crlbe the management of the smgmg orgamzatlon ln St oseph s Colleglate Instxtute th1s year The outstanclmg change appears rn the dlrectorshlp of the Glee Club Mr Murray Speram, formerly a first vlolmlst ln the Buffalo Ph1lharmon1c Orchestra, has assumed that post and, through several performances early ln the year, he has proven hlmself to be a leader who has unusual abxllty and myaluable experlence The ofhce of Preslclent was assumed by My ron Luthrmger, one of the most popular members of the Semor Class who has been a member of the organxzatlon for two years whxle ames Leberer, a junior, was elected XIICC Presldent The posltlon of Llbrarlan was created for the fllxng and preservauon of lxterature and selectxons and that task was competently handled by Neal Farewell Contmulng along the lme of songs from operettas as ln previous years and adding hymns and popular mus1c to 1ts repertolre the Glee Club held an mformal concert for a group of nuns earlv xn February and devoted a great deal of mme to preparanon for the Annual Sprlng Concert Thxs yearly school actlvlty held ln conjunctlon wtth the orchestra has been hxghly successful ln the past and with the pOllClCS and good record of the organlzatlon upheld ln the future th1s tradltxon of good music at St oe s wnll contlnue to recelve the plaudlts of the mUblC lovers of Buffalo Ronan Mucuszswsxr, 47 Hausle Farewell Amelotte Romano Degcnhart Sxgner Brunnlng R Kane Hexnnlng Fxscher 7nd Ron :rd Ron Crnqul 4th Ron Alherl Cascxo Kingston Stexnwachs Nlumbach Best Nlodzelewslcx Hepp Stem Dowd Schuch Tcnello Llndsay Hess Kolb Ynelonlm Kxrsch Meyers Haykel R Kane Rexchlm Suevater Coughhn Tubrndy Hess Gtcss Schuetkler B Blrkmeler Schultz T Chambers Nlxchalslcx Durlcln 5th Ron Bestlne Treanor Barton Glowmslcl Bxrlcmexer Luthtmger Gollbersuch Heubusch Weln furtner Gueth Verel 1astRon Norton Grxfhn Coluccx G Chambers leberer DAm1to Nlnltuszemslcx Van Allen Fvers O Brien Klel

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Q. IIELIGIIIUS ACTIVITIES THE LEGION OF DECENCY .Muzledz Sowers. Xweinheimer, Luthringer. Car- halladn. Schifiler, WR-infiirtner. .S!iniJiiig.' Sanders, lhlumhach, lN'lcNutt. Hett- rich. Signer. Kane. Helter. Newton, Under the moderatorship of Rev. Brother C. Clement. l5.S.C., the entire spiritual activities schedule was mapped out in the latter part of I9-15. Among these activities were the Annual School Retreat and the task of emphasizing to the students the importance of supporting the missions through the Archconfraternity of the Divine Child, of which the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade is a unit, This year, the Retreat, covering the week of Octoher lst. was directed hy Rev. Rohert Gill. O.IVI.I.. in conjunction with the parish youth directors who assisted him in his important assignment hy giving nightly instructions. These talks were followed hy Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Father Gill was enthusiastically received hy all those making the Retreat hecause of his straightforward, friendly manner and his genuine interest in hringing out to them the importance of this character-forming period of a young man's life. Each day, after giving his talks to the two groups of students, he heard con- fessions and then conducted the lienediction of the Blessed Sacrament, In those regular periods when a class had neither an instruction nor Benediction scheduled, pamphlets were provided to comply with the customary Retreat practice of spiritual reading. These pamphlets treated all the main prohlems and questions which young men usually encounter in this most difficult part of life. During the four days of the Retreat. the students assisted at the Holy Sacrifice of the lVlass in their own parishes and, after the school portion of spiritual study, attended in a hody the religious talk hy the respective Catholic Youth Council directors and received another Benediction to end the day. At the close of the Re- treat. Brother C. Clement termed the results as excellent and joined those who took part in the exercises in expressing his gratitude to Father Gill. In many large centers all over the country, rallies and pageants were sponsored hy the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade in their continuous drive for the support of missions and missionaries. National Crusade Conventions gave hundreds of thousands of Catholics the opportunity to meet outstanding missionary leaders and see exhihits of the work these men are doing throughout the world, f the , V C body 3' one 0 C NTTY OF THE DIVTINE G my addresses tkgjgtditxidgigwiedcf and Brother y 1 R h e . t 1 ARCHCOlX4T'RATECH1liD mo Clark. mt?i?ilyNCSlVIC meetings 15 Schililer. PaulY- D Am i Clemem look on' fia ' . Ti A if ,TI si . V ,. .1