St Marys High School - Veritas Yearbook (Rutherford, NJ)

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A DMINISTRATION REV. CHARLES W. TICHLER Student Advifer SR. M. HYACINTH, O.P. Principal Religion United States History History Department Commercial Depart Religion SR. M. GREGORY, O.P. m SR. M. GERALD, O.P. English Department SR. CLARE MARIE, O.P. Latin Department Religion SR. TERESA MARIE, O.P. Mathematics Department Science Department Problems of American Democracy SR. M. AURELIA, O.P. French Department Art Department Religion Silt Miss ANNA MAE CAVANAGH, B.S. Mathematics Department History Department Miss MARGARET M. MOLLOY Registrar MR. FRANCIS J. DowNEY, A.B., A.M Elocution, Public Speaking Dramatic Art DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS MR. JOHN J. XVINBERRY, A.B., LL.B. Coach of Football MR. Vo1LE L. DUPES Cmzrla of Bafketball MR. .IosEPH F. MILLER Coach of Bafeball ll

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FRANCIS J. DOWNEY MARGARET M. MOLLOY JOHN j. WINBERRY JOSEPH F. MILLER 10 ANNA M. CAVANAGH VOILE L. DUPES

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A MESSAGE FROM FATHER TICHLER T. MARY'S High School is dedicated to the cause of Catholic Education. The Catholic Church aims not merely at teaching youths to know, but at teaching them to do. It is conduct, it is character, it is life, in the best analysis that counts. True learning and real education consists in the building up of the whole man, and in that up-building the structure of the moral edifice must have an infinite preponderance and care. In other words, a man is a composite being, he is made up of several elements, his soul is endowed with many faculties, and that education alone is true and complete which considers every element of that being. Education must apply itself to the whole man-to every capacity. It must bring out and develop every power and faculty that is in that man, but it will stress what is most important in that whole man, and the Catholic Church does not profess to be wiser than jesus Christ, its founder, when it asks Him, in regard to the relative value of the things of life, What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? The first and fundamental principle of Christian fCatholicj Education is the exist- ence of a personal God and the immortality of the human soul. If God exists and if the soul which He has created be immortal, then there arises at once an unending relation- ship between the soul and its Creator. That relationship is primary and fundamental. It explains man's origin and destiny, and gives to him his true place in the universe in which he lives. To ignore that relationship, which is the most important fact in man's existence, is not merely to be guilty of a monumental blunder, but to be unscientific as well. If God exists, He has rights, if man is created, he has duties. If God has spoken and revealed His law, embodying in that law His lights and man's duties, is not that the fundamental knowledge to impart? And if the sincere observance of that law be the passport to happiness throughout eternity, shall not a true education have as its first aim so to influence man's life, so to form his character, that the Creator's will, and not his own pleasure or caprice shall determine his conduct? Religion, then, must be an essential part of education. It must be the centre about which all other subjects are grouped and the spirit by which they are permeated. The study of Nature with no mention of Natures God, or of human legislation without its Divine Law and authority is at best a one-sided education. The training of both soul and mind, then, is the aim and purpose of Catholic Education. Such is the aim and purpose of St. Mary's High School. To build a bridge to span a mighty river, to harness Niagara's might to give light and heat, to link, by rails of steel, our Country's Coasts, these are but a few of the many great achievements that have merited for Science the praise and gratitude of man. But to train the mind and soul to righteousness, to mold a character that God and man will ever be true, to shape a destiny that will find its completion in the happiness of Eternity, this is the sublime, the holy cause of true education, and this is the sacred cause to which St. Mary's High School and its Faculty is dedicated. r Under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mother Mary, as Seat of Wisdom, we humbly pray that we may ever be enlightened, inspired and enabled to impart to all the students ever committed to our care all the noble ideals and attainments found in the Higher Catholic Education. 12