St Marys High School - Gael Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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SODALITIY OFFICERS IA-NIE FUNK. PFeSideI1T BERNARD WULLE, President LUCILLE WENTE, Vice1President JOHN MELCHER, Vice-President FLORENCE ECKSTEIN, Secretary GEORGE BLOSSOM, Treasurer HENRIETTA KOESTER, GenerallChairman The Children of Mary and Holy Name Sodallties, combined under the title of Stu- dent's Spiritual Council, held elections on September 18. The Executive Board which de- cided the activities and proiects of the year is as follows: Our Lady's Committee - - - Wilma Oleksy, Chairman Eucharistic Committee - - Ioseph Lanane, Chairman Literary Committee - - Mildred Shaffer, Chairman Publicity Committee' - - Mary Margaret Roche, Chairman Mission Committee - - Dorothy Ripberger, Chairman Social Committee - - - Marcheline Butler, Chairman Assistants to the Executive Board are Francis Ratchford, juniorg Eileen Wente, soph- omore: William Sefton, freshman. At the September meeting, Mary Katherine Davied, retiring president of the Sodal- ity, presided and installed the new officers. It was decided at this meeting to in- crease the number of subscriptions to the Oueen's Work, the Sodality organ, to twenty- five copies. Other magazines subscribed to were the Catholic World, the Catholic BOY, America, the Catholic Readers' Digest, the Messenger of the Sacred Heart, and the Young Catholic Messenger. Prayer for the Holy Souls was the aim for November. Banks were placed in. the classrooms and offerings for Masses were made for the Holy Souls. A project to stim- ulate interest in the lives of the saints was made a part of the daily program of the religion classes and ended the last week of November 'ln a contest. Virginia Herring and Iol-in Kiely, freshmen, won. They were each given a year's subscription to the Queens Work. A business meeting was held in December to discuss plans for raising funds for a Sodality donation for the Christ the King statue to be erected in Washington, D. C. On the Friday before Christmas the Sodalists presented a Play and awarded prizes for per- fect attendance on Sodality Sunday. The pledge to the Legion of Decency was re- newed. The contributions in food and toys rGQ11ired as an entrance fee at this meet- ing were sufficient to fill ten baskets. In Ianuary plans for the second semester were formulated. Ianuary and February were devoted to an intensive study of Communism. The Sodality .purchased a hundred pamphlets on the subject from the Paulist Press to prepare the sodalists for a rapid-fire contest cn this .present day menace. The freshmen presented a skit composed by Wil- liam Sefton on that theme. Father Crowley. O. M. startled the students into the reali- zation that Communism is upon us by his factual exposition of its deadly grip upon Our nation. Special attention was given to character building through the use of the Daily Six during Lent. Patricia Donovan directed the activity by placing a character tower POSW1' in each room and by checking up weekly on the progress made weekly by the sodalists. Stress was placed particularly on prompt attendance at daily Mass and frequent re- ception of Holy Communion and the response was gratifying to the officers. The chief feature of the Vocation meeting was the playlet COmP0S9d Und di' rected by Doris Renner. During the last week of April the Sodalists nominated their officers forthe cominq year..The year's activities culminated in several May projects, the last of which WGS the impressive May procession and the coronation of Our Lady by lanie Funk.

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PROGRAM Clair De Lune - - - - Debussy Etude De Concert - - Liszt Warurn ---- Schumann Valse Op. 64, No. 2 - - - - Chopin Prelude and Fuque No. XXI - - Bach St Cecilia Chorus - - Marie D. LaCour St. Mary's Ensemble La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin - - Debussy Concerto No. V - - - - Beethoven CHOIR Miss Miriam Clapp, daughter of Mrs. Anna Clapp, 2016 Noble Street, apeared on March 10, in a slendidly presented piano recital at St. Mary'-s School Auditorium, sponsored by the Department of Music of the school. Miss Clapp was assisted by Miss Mary Catherine Davied in a two-piano number, which Won wide applause for the two talented young women. Miss Clapp's entire recital was presented with perfect technique and an ability which was enthusiastically received by the music lovers in attendance. Second Piano fe Mary C. Davied MIRIAM CLAPP