St Marys High School - Green and White Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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I ' I xx N - ff! xv X Z Q., W I 1' ZZZ , tr .: DENT f ilk I ' 'lx .bex ...I X ,Q x 1 I gh X lx B UNCH. Front Row Ken Gold an lIGl Bob Babonette llEl Bull Cassaday llFl Ray Perkowslu llCl RIch Eschbacher IllAl Rrch Melsemann llllCl arl Me er llllBl Bob Streng llDl Second Row Emmett l Ily lllAl Marty Rachrd llIlDl Robert E L e llBl Gale Belobraldac tIlCl Gene Schrmttgens lllEl Roland Mayer oe uxt Rlch o mann UIBJ ln the opnmon of many the Student CouncIl and class representatIves thIs year had more successes and dId more In the furtherance of school spIrIt than any prevIous group A Student Councnl IS usually an honorary body whIch ac cepts praIses but doesnt do anythmg to deserve them But the fellows we had representIng us thIs year were lust the antItype of thIs JIm Kovaruk Duck Vlefllng Gene PellegrIn and Tony Gartner took over the reIns late In September Probably the greatest feat accompllshed by them was a furtherance of cooperatuon between students and faculty They also cre ated an Interest on the part of the students In theIr student councIl The PUPIIS became aware of the fact that the stu dent councIl wasnt Iust a group of bIg wheels who got out of a lot of perIods but was a group workIng hard for the good of all When the mId term electIo'Is came to pass one of the greatest furors In the hlstory of the school came out of the campargn for votes The boys splIt Into partnes and waged the bItterest frIendly war In a long tIme At the fInal tally the count read In favor of Jack Lynn Juluan Wood SmIth LOUIS GrImm and Bud Hampel But all thlngs must come to an end and there IS ony one thIng WhlCh can stop the works that these fellows have done-tIme But that one thang has done llS work an next year another student councIl wIll take over The only thIng we want to suggest to them I5 Do your Iob lIke they lt seems lIke a long tIme slnce we put out our fIrst ISSUE, and loolung over thus ISSUE we fInd how many mIstakes amateurs luke us made There were wrong names under the pactures, slIps by the proofreaders such as ttthe, Joskt and so on We were tryIng hard but not domg so well Everybody got a bIg klCk out of the fIrst edItIon The next Issue Improved There was a Ioke column In stalled there were the rIght names under the rIght pIctures and so on Now It was ChrIstmas tIme a tlme when everyone IS engoymg themselves oops excuse me that I5 everyone but the ClarIon Staff Someone thought we should put out a double ISSUE In Red and Green So everybody wrote typed took pIctures stayed after school and proofread untIl they were lust about gone When our good frrend and prInter Mr E J MartIn heard about the double ISSUE PUBLICATIONS Seated left to rught Bob Burkenmarer Don Summers Bob Donald Bob Boll Collyn Mu sey Paul Schlueler MIke Cullen Standlng left to rIght BIll Cento Bob Jacob Bob Blaha Vmcent Andrasko Fred Sher Russ Murphy he threw up hIs hands and sand, Well never make It But wIth Mr E J workmg day and nIght and we proof readmg daIly, we lust made the count and brought the IS sue back wIthout a mInute to spare DurIng February the Student CouncIl eIectIons were held To make the electIons more QXCITIDQ lalso to QIVC the CIarIon a bIg scoopl the results were kept QUIEI untIl the ClarIon came out Only three reporters on the staff knew the results and It was awful hard tryIng to keep them quIet But we made It DurIng the month of March we learned that the Clanon Staff was to edIt the Year Book So we taught the .lumors the fundamentals of newspaper work and let them take over the Clarlon Thanks to the ClarIon some of us wIll make Iournalnsm a career Nr JIT : i , I I 1 . I . W l . ' ' . E Y I - : o , ' , . e llAl, J Fa lllDl, ' H lf- I I - - I , . I , . n . l . . . . . . ,, . ,, . . . . . , - u 1 u u n Q . I . . ' I I I . , I . u - . . . . d ' ' - ' - . In -. . ' I ' ll ' II i'.9l I I . 2 . . ' . . . . . - - II I - vw - ' . II In ' ' I l ' . ' 1 A n I I ' . . . I . . 1 , l I I I ' ' . n ll YI . , . I I I . , . . . , . I I .

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X W ffm! X SPIRITUAL For four years we students of St Marys have had many opportunutues for learnung lt would be faur to sa we have developed mentally By studyung textbooks w fund knowledge through other men we know of theur peruments we know of theur adventures But they do no tell us how to luve The duratuon of hugh school often leads a young man to heaven or hell Our parents gave us the pruvulege of attendung a Catholuc hugh school Here they know theur boys would become fune Catholuc young men Now that we know our Reluguon to a four extent we should always be ready to defend ut Thus may sound luke a ser mon whuch ut usnt untended to be but truth us very base and unattractuve As young Catholuc gentlemen we are to go unto a materual atmosphere where there us no room for God lt us up to us to guv testumony of Hus exustence Thus concerns the future let us look back and see what we have done over the past year Early un October suxty young men of St Marys fuled unto the gym led by a cross bearer and two candle bearers As the cross and candles came nearer to the statue of the Vurgun on the stage the followers parted and formed a luv mg rosary to pay homage to theur patron and Mother Thus was the furst reluguous actuvuty of the student body The retreat thus year was a great success due to the cooperatuon of the students and through the edufyung un structuon of the Hoodlum Pruest Father Clark Although Father Clark was no elaborate speaker hus novel expressuon of hugh udeas was both unterestung and enuoyable From the response of the underclassmen, we know that Father Ireland gave an unspurung and effectual retreat f The Chaplauns Fathers Hogan and Pueper were afwayf! c. X avaulable for confessuons and performed theur tasks wuth effectuveness The student body owes much to both Chap launs Takung care of our Chapel thus year was Brother Walter Ebbesmeyer Early un the year Father Hogan unaugurated a new kund of sodaluty whuch was untended to help the students By promptung the student to brung out hus opunuon on varu ous topucs ut would be easuer to help hum know God and Hus untentuons These unformal sodaluty meetungs were re ceuved wuth great regard Modern problems whuch confront ed the sodaluty maunly concerned dates amount of money that should be spent on a date and where to go on dates These problems were duscussed and hashed out by the students themselves However conclusuons were drawn by the unduvudual students Makung up the server s lust and schedule thus year were Don Franke and Don Swengros The boys un the pucture on thus page got up early un the mornung to serve Mass These boys also served at dufferent devotuons throughout the year Thus year the brothers are celebratung the centennual of theur comung to Ameruca and the death of theur founder Father Chamunade One feature of the celebratuon was a serues of artucles appearung un the Claruon depuctung the lufe and work of Father Chamunade The maun actuvuty of the centennual year was a Pontufucal Hugh Mass celebrated by Archbushop Rutter on May 9 The students assusted by sung ung responses to the Mass Prayers The maun event and closung pucture to the reluguous ac tuvutues culmunated un graduatuon from the new cathedral a futtung close to our moral educatuon STATIONS SERVERS Front Row R Hampel, M Cullen, D Franke, D Swengross, V Bauer Second Row A Hardebeck, .I Knorr, F Hunleth, R Knox, J Lynn, M Hannauer Third Row N Herdler, H Wuese, R Boll, F Babka, A Gartner, R Blaha, R Juluus, J Pollard X l u , tv Elf- J, X 47 5 M 4 Y l H x J' A x , ,,, W f X ft uf Z l u 1 -, 1 , . . 5 - I u f . . . . . Y ' . 1 e . I - ' 5 ' ex- . ' 5 . l' . . , - 1 u Q ' u n ' ' ' - I I ' ' . I , I . . . I i ' 1 I e n u Q - I ' I ' ' . . , . . I ' ll ' ll I . I I ' ' ' l p , .

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X X 3 bPFECH SPEECH CLASSES Fnrst row lett to rnght Baulch Torrence Dnllon Srmora lssa f 1 SPH cu Ll AQSI s f Thus year at St Mary s there was both an under classmens and upperclassmen s Speech Actrvlty Class monltored by Mr Henry Wnlson and Brother Joseph Towers respectuvely Three trmes a week the students were cultured rn the fundamentals and flne pomts of oratmg and many achueved ment In speech meets R Barnhardt T Baulch P Chruspm H Gerdes, R Haug R Mclaughlun R Perkowskn and Selbold formed M Wilsons class whsle F Babka A Bushman,J Dullon J Kovank A Kramer T Torrence and A Westrach composed Bro Towers group The students wlll all wllllngly agree that the use ful knowledge and abulrty they have plcked up In the speech actrvrty by far outweugh the trme put an Seubold Curran Second row Babka Bierman Mclaughlan Guttmg Frank Gerdes Perkowskn Third row Bushman Wlnschlet Chrlspln Barnhardt Colon tone Burnett and Haug TOURNAMENT PARTICIPANTS Fmt row, left to rrght, Colantone, Torrence, Dal lon, Slmoro, Mueth, Baulch, Curran, Mlssay Second row, Babka, Mclaughlln, Wrosa, Brerman, Guttlng, Frank, Kramer, Boll, Burnett ln St Mary's frrst offlcual year In the Cathollc lnterscholastlc Speech League the debaters made a ftne showung Under the capable guidance of Mr Wullnam Brumby, the actuvlty class coach, Len Bierman won a rubbon for belng one of the league's best de baters Durung offrcual league competvtron the affrrm atlve team consrstlng of Bierman and Don Guttlng beat C B C, whsle the negatlve team conslstlng of Rol Frank and Bob Curran beat St Eluzabeth's ln un offucual meets Joe Mueth awd Frank for the negative beat Central Catholuc, and Steve Svmora and Buerman beat McBride and Central Catholic Although twelve meets were lost by thas year's team, Mr Brumby ns lookmg forward for a banner squad next year, slnce the entlre group wall be back Bierman, Frank, Guttlng, Curran, and Mueth, an out standung freshman, wull form the nucleus, supported by Bob Wunschlef and Slmora TOURNAMITNTb St Marys outstandmg orator nn the tournaments was Bob Burnett Bob won three flrst place ribbons and a medal In C l Sl. Orngtnal Oratory and a radro an the Voice of Democracy contest He also was a state fnnallst In Amerlcan Legton Oratory Through Bro Towers unturlng work St Marys also placed three other rlbbon wmners In CISL meets They were Collyn Massey flrst In Senous lnterpreta tran Art Kramer Radlo and Frank Babka Extempo raneous Speaknng Other tournament contestants who made frne showmgs were l. Bnerman T Baulch, R Boll R Frank D Guttlng R Mclaughlm T Torrence, A Westrnch and H Wuese Brother Towers feels well satls fred wlth the results of thts year, insofar as speech IS stall being developed at St Mary's and we don't have a large number of partucrpants as un other schools DEBATE DEBATERS Left to rught, Curran, Mueth, Guttmg, Frank, Buerman, Wrnschuel, and Sumora vx X ' I , , X ' ' -V liwgzpjgy 1, X fur ,Q f X, , tml., N -C - e - 3-5 - Q f , 3,1 X X Mfy. tff - X f ff ,ff , J x f , .',' ff X f Q 'Z v w - 1-w ,ffl llflflpt L 4 4 . up I f' J , I J ' 1 ' I 1 Q I . , . 1 . 5 , ' ' I , . . F D- ' 1 . 5 .l'. I , I . . I I - I . j . I , ' v I l 1 . F 1 I . 1 . I I . A , . 1 f l I . 1 l 1 1 , l. l , , I A I l l 1 1 ' , . 4 Q , . . ' -. . .1 r - - I : , - F F r l I 1 ' ' ' : . ' 5 . ' . 5 . 7 . 5 . , . ' . 7 . . -