St Marys College - Dial Yearbook (St Marys, KS)

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Junior Acolythical rJ1IIK good name left this year’s Junior Acolythical Society by its prede-cesors lias taen well maintained during the past season. In tlie Junior Society the boys learn the principles upon which the Senior Societies are organized. They become, by their training in the Junior Society tatter able to be eminent members of the other organizations. Many of the new hoys evinced their desire of serving (iod in the greatest sacrifice by enrolling for the society. After long and careful training these hoys took their places upon the altars of the Faculty Chapel and the Imma-culata. They joined the older members who had regularly taken turns at arising early to assist at the Divine Sacrifice. Xo fault can he noticed in the manner in which these devoted acolytes fulfilled their assignment. If future Acolythical Societies are of as high an order as the one of this year the good example offered by them will certainly increase piety. In the years to come, our places will he filled by others. The Junior Acolythical Society will still continue to do its work of preserving a spirit of reverence in an irreverent age. Douthat. Delelmnt. Lawler, Burget. Burris. Nlvert Knglum. McNulty, Robert} . Gnlltciez. Kick. Pitts. W. Bernard Amllaucr, Bernard. Ilamaker. McGurren, Butler. O'Brien. C. Duffy Page 121

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Senior High SchooJ Acolythical Society rjpi IK primary object of the Acolythical Society is to add beauty and solemnity to divine worship by regular attendance and reverent demeanor at all religious exercises. Due to the untiring efforts of Mr. Kovalcik, S. J. the Society has prospered remarkably: not in a worldly sense, but in a far more important and beneficial way: a better knowledge and reverence for the mysteries of the Altar. Although the Society was not as large as in former years, the work accomplished was in no way diminished. The solemn services of Holy Week, devotions on the hirst Friday, and Solemn High Masses, gave full opj)ortunity for all members of the Society to add their share to the splendor of the Mass and Benediction. One of the most praiseworthy features of the society is the self-sacrificing spirit shown by its members. In the early hours of the morning, while their lellow-students were slumbering peacefully, the acolytes arose, to be allowed the privilege to kneel and move among the invisible choirs of angels who throng in adoration around the Sacred Victim. Solon, Dlstler. Roll. Emmons, X. Smith. Gaul Eder, J. Duffy. Ueilly. IUkuII. O'Mahoney. Polllo J. Guthrie. J. Adler. Tain ter. McGurren, Emery. Mohr. Spalding Page 130

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Mission Society Faculty Director . President .... Vice-President . . Secretary . . OFFICERS . . . Mr. Daniel Broderick. S. J. George Kasenga 31 Elmer Bidder ’29 Henry Uinschcid ’29 HTHK past year witnessed a revival of the student interest in mission activi-tics, both home and foreign. A new system inaugurated by the director was productive of very satisfactory results. In the college department the modified pledge system was resorted to with encouraging results, file work of the collectors in the college department is to he congratulated. In the High School department interest was kept at a high pitch throughout the year by means of a perpetual contest between the classes, the winning class each month in point of individual percentage was presented with the St. Mary’s mission banner, indicative of the championship for the month. Success crowned the efforts of almost every high school class at least once throughout the year. A campus-wide rallle held immediately preceding the Christmas holidays was highly successful and added a substantial sum to the total for St. Mary’s for the year. Spalding. O'Donnell. Bidder, Kyan, Dwyer, Bushey Matteson. Knapp, I'msclidd. Mr. Broderirk. S. J. Conlan. Roberts. Galllclea Page 132