St Michaels High School - Michaelinian Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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ZACTHVHTMES STATE5- '69 S 'Wa M I9-12

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1942 The Navy has the bleating goat: Anchors Awayw is its ery. The racing Mustangs, yells and cheers, All represent St. Mie'l11zel Hlglz. The Navy fights in far-off lamls, And sometimes tastes defeat. But, like the M'll,SldHgS, win or lose, It never will retreat. Raymond Linski, '4

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Rlcv. R.XI'H.'XliI, lJt1FFv,C,P. Our Annual Retreat 'l'here is no painter, there is no sculptor nor artist. be he who he may, that can com- pare to the man who knows ltow to lorm the minds and the hearts ol' youth. lVilh all sin- cerity may we, dear Father Raphael apply these words ol one ol' the Church's famous Fathers, Saint Alohn Chrysostom, to you, who. in so Christlike a manner conducted our an- nual retreat. For three days our books and all thoughts ol' study were forgotten. On God alone our thoughts were riveted, to Him we talked. XVe listened lor the answer to the question for which everyone who makes a retreat listens: How do I rate with You, dear God? For many ol' us Seniors. perhaps, this was to be our last retreat. ll this were to be my last retreat, how then would l make it? each asked himself. .Xttentively for three days we listened to Father's wholesome instructions and to the spiritual reading in the class rooms. Having resolved to overcome some lault or to practice some particular virtue, and alter receiving the Papal Blessing, our happy hearts sang out the praise ol' our Creator in the glorious hymn, Holy God, we praise Thy Name. O Cod! Grant. Thy servant, Father Raphael, a long lile upon this earth, that he may win lor Thee an ever greater number ol souls. May he win lor Thee the minds and the hearts ol' youth. Robert Gatz, '42 Rl11Xf. Hl'INRY VlE1 l'l'fR, C.P. Cur Missionary St. Michael School is unusually favored in having many ol her students enrolled among the followers of St. Patil of the Cross. Of these, three brothers-Reverend Fathers Ar' nold, Matthew and Henry Vetter, are now laboring in the colored mission field. Father Arnold and Father Henry are actively en- gaged in Ensley, Alabama, while Father Mat- thew, a twin brother of the latter is in Chi' cago, busily promoting the work of the other two. Father Henry recently paid his Alma Mater a visit and gave the students an account ol' the various activities ol Holy Family parish. ln a population ol' practically lour times as many white people as colored, there are seven Catholic churches, only two ol' which care for Negroes. The white people ol' that section are indil'l'erent to the field now ripe for the har- vest ol soulsg but nothing daunts the brave souls ol these Passionist missionaries. They have built a beautilul church, established an- other mission, opened a medical clinic, and have about three hundred children enrolled in their little tutnbledown school, which they hope soon to replace by a modest, but upeto- date school. During the past year we have tried to do our share in assisting this noble cause, spir- itually and linancially. X'Vhile our contribu- tions have been small, they are helping to bring about the realization of Father I-Ienry's dream-a school lor Catholic children built by children.