St Patrick High School - La Croix Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Celebrating 300 Among the many changes that have taken place in our school this year is the new double assembly schedule. The first opportunity to use this schedule was for an excerpt from a performance entitled, l'Brothers in Concert. This performance also gave the St. Pat's community a chance to experience a cultural event early in the year. 'Brothers in Concert was performed Brothers. a well deserved round of applause. by Bro. Laurence Walther, FSC, Chairman of the Department of Music at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota, and Bro. Vincent Malham, FSC, Director of the music program at Christian Brothers' Col- lege in Memphis, Tennessee. This mini-con- cert also gave two seniors, Steve Shreiner and Bill Egan, a chance to display their musi- cal abilities by singing Billy loel's lllt's Still Rock And Roll To Me. This concert was part of a commemorative tour which per- formed worldwide, including Chicago's Orchestra Hall, in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Christian Top Left: Brother Laurence Walther, FSC entertains the crowd with a lively solo. Top Right: Brothers Lau- rence and Vincent entertain their audience with their own version of the soft shoe. Center: Brothers Neil Kieffe, James O'Neill, Charles Kelly, George Bedard, joseph loyce, George Fowley, and Eamon Gavin join their compatriots Brothers Laurence Walther and Vin- cent Malham on stage. Bottom: Brothers Laurence and Vincent stand at the end of their performance for student Life X 7

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J The raffle drive turned out to be a truly record-breaking event. The school percentage for the first return day was 3595, a new school record and a great start. Bro. Nick coordinated the event and Bro. Thomas Dominick calculated and distributed the weekly results of the drive. The top homerooms were: Mr. Collins! fresh- man homeroom 22 with a total of 52149.25 l873.45 .,l, Bro. Richards sophomore home- room 309 with a total of 52888.50 l675.29t'Ul, Bro. Anthonyfs junior homeroom l07 with a total of 53031.00 t627.'l8 t,l and Mr. Kehoe's senior homeroom 310 with a total of 52481.00 t601.82l't,l. Student support of this activity was wide- spread especially from freshman R. Doyle with 542400, sophomore R. leffers with 562800, luniors M. Boehm with 5751.00 and R. Wilkins Top Right: Chris Parisi and Tom Sciortino look on as Mrs. Forgue counts their returns. Center Left: Mr. Albert checks the day's money count. Center Right: Brother Nick and his helper prepare to distribute the raffle books. Bottom: Two parents aid in carefully tabulating the homeroom returns. is .N . .Lu U- '-Q ,,., t ' 8 f Student lite wi M Record-Breaking Event with 572 l.00, and senior R. Banak with 5466.00 The winners ot the drawing, chosen at the first Las Vegas night of the year, werez S l000 prize - Charles Coles whose winning ticket was sold by Mike Herkes ll-lR l05li 5500 prizes were won by Carole Buckley and Martin Gibson whose winning tickets were sold by Dan Buck- ley lHR 3 I ll and Martin Gibson LHR 302l respec- tively.