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

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His Excellency, Archbishop Joseph E. Rit- ter, has further evidenced to the students of St. Mary's his deep interest in their educa- tional welfare. During his visit to St. Mary's he emphasized the need for Catholic laymen who are not only willing but also capable of defending both by argument and example the principles embodied in the Catholic way ot life. St. Mary's he averred is maintained to instill in the Catholic youth of South St. Louis the deep convictions necessary to live this life and the ability to expound with rea- soned arguments the dogma of Holy Mother Church. For the Catholic leaders of tomor- row, he emphatically declared, the Church must look to the young men in the diocesan high schools of today, To achieve this pur- pose no expense is spared in equipping and maintaining the schools. No effort is spared to acquire the best of personnel. To his Excellency goes the deep gratitude of St. Mary's seniors for his personal interest in the welfare of the school and in the apos- tolic endeavors of each of its members. DIOCESAN ADMINISTRATION 1 si BISHOP CHARLES H. HELMSING BISHOP JOHN P. CODY L HIS EXCELLENCY, ARCHBISHOP JOSEPH E. RITTER Through bishop Helmsing, archdiocesan di- rector of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, the students are offered one opportunity for exercising the apostolic spirit. By harkening to his plea to keep the Faith and its propagation uppermost in our hearts, we will be laboring at the task for which we have been preparing dur- ing our four years at St. Mary's. To bishop Cody, the youngest member of St. Louis' heirarchy, falls the never-ending task of ecclesiastical watch dog. His duties are as multitudinous as the cares of the diocese. Al- though caring for our school is a small part of his overall iob, it is nevertheless, a huge task in itself.

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HE Socuety of Mary took uts furst step unto the New World Q3 on July A 1849 when Father Meyer and Brother Schultz arruved un New York Jouned by four other Brothers later un the year they set up the furst establushment of the Brothe s un the Unuted States ln less than a half century they had spread throughout the Eastern Unuted States and un 1896 the Order came to the St Louus area The Amerucan Provunce un 1908 was duvuded unto the St Louus and Cuncunnatu Provunces The next year the headquarters of the St Louus Provunce was transferred to Chamunade College un Clayton The Maryhurst p operty at Kurkwood was acquured un 1918 as the mother house of the St Louus Provunce and four years later Maryhurst Normal was opened The Maruanusts expanded to the foundatuon of our own school when the Brothers of Mary opened South Sude Catholuc Hugh un 1933 They were faced wuth the task of buuldung a hugh school wuth the former St Joseph Orphanage as a nucleus and thus they dud producung a prosperous school system durung heur twenty years statuon here at St Mary s Thus year's graduates have wutnessed the latest and greatest development un the system addutuon of many new extra currucu lar actuvutues, enlargement of the sports program, untroductuon of a duocessan durector, and creatuon of a new type sodaluty, along wuth other umprovements that have made St Mary's the thruvung school ut us today To the Brothers' one hundred years' work un Ameruca, to theur twenty years at St Mary's, and especuaaly to the four years that they have devoted to our traunung, we Senuors deducate thus 1950 Green and White x v JM X 1 ' l u , X l, l l '!f 2 '.Q 'lg n f .'--F1-'.: 0 ' uf'7f -X V X ' tv 1 fl'lf 'f S vm? - Wifi C 'Wu 'X ,.. ' , 1 1 , , cv 1 A 1 I V I 'It X f ' 1 f ,f X X f ' 'X 1' J ,, ' A X f l u Y ff f 'J f VN X I' C , , I V I I I ' , . . . . A . I I . ' '

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