St Saviour High School - Thabor Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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CANISIUS CLUB A new feature rntroduced thrs year rs the Lrbrary Club whrch rs composed of home room representatrves organrzed to cooperate be tween the lrbrary and the student body The members are students who enjoy readrng good books and who act as congenral advrsors to the members of the class The arm of the Club 1S to strmulate the readmg of good books Members revrew books and make lrsts for lersure readmg They sug gest and also vote for trtles of new books to be purchased They en deavor to curb over dues and book losses and are ever alert for ways and means to make the lrbrary more rnvrtrng One commrttee ontrrbutes posters and other forms of publrcrty vrsrted specral lrbrarres Several attended the meetrng of the East and West Assocratron at whrch Pearl Buck and Dr Lrn Yutang wrth hrs daughters presrded Because of hrs work rn establrshrng lrbrarres and of hrs verrtable passron for books Sarnt Peter Canrsrus has come to be regarded by many Catholrcs and Catholrc socretres as the heavenly patron of lrbrarres lrbrarrans and the whole vrgorous current Catholrc lrbrary movement Outstanding lecturers have addressed the club. The members have . , . . . K . . . . . y , .

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MISSION QRUSADII UNIT As .tctlye Mrsslon C rusrders Sum SIVIOLII' students pledged e yxrll prry we wrll slerlhee we will libor thfxt the kmgdom of Chrlst m ty be sprcrd on etrth Slnee Wcmrltl Wtr II hrs mtde rt xmpossxble for other eountrxes ro tontrrbute mtterltlly to the support of the prop tgttlon of the fmh Pope Pllli Yll sent 1 message to Amerltt I-Its I-Iolmess pltr th tt Amerrc ms assume gretter respon slbnlrty for the ure of the forergn mrsstons found 1 refldy response from the Sunt QIVIOLII' Mxsslon Crusrde Umt At the Frrsr Frrdry 1SS6'ITlbl1CS, the Senlor B Clfrss trled to rmpress upon the student body through d1SCL1SSl0IlS on turrent mrssrontry problems the dcsycrlte pllpht of the prnests the Brothers ftnd the Srsrers who ltbor to brmtg pfrgqn souls 1nto communion vsrth C,l1I'lSI During the yetr the students gtve 1 penny 1 dry for the mrssrons 1nd mtde specrrl surthces durmg Lent rn order to hll the mrteboxes The success of the Crustdt Brrdges provrded further op portunrty for Sunt Swrour to ud hnmcmlly the Soclety for the Proptgttron of the F.uth Seafezl fefl to right I' Brophv Chazrmmz M Vatalaro I Collxns Slandnzf' fel I0 fl,l7l XValsh NI I-Inmgan D Cors M Qutlev

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CATHOLIC LI FERAT URE Wh1le the world 15 d1mm1ng 1ll IIS hghts 1IlCl 1 d1rkness of fl'l0LlL1l'1I often prevuls there IS st1ll one br1ll11nt blllikllllg beuon of truth 1n C1thol1t l1ter1ture The C hurph h1s vuthout doubt g1ven to the world 1 g1l1xy of wr1ters who tre COIDPlI'llJlC to none Men suth ts Newmtn Sheen 'Ihompson 1nd Chesterton htve struck 1 Lhord m CllbflflLIlVC llfffflfllfe by the resoundmg of the1r h1mmer on the 1nv1l of truth C ttholle llICI'lIl1I'C holds the p1sr the present 1nd the future The pxst lb m 1n1fest ln suth blogrtphers IS lDlIllCl Swgent 1nd Theodore M1yn 1rd The present brmgs 1 fCYElllC vnth the wrmngs of Fulton Sheen Frxnz Werfel 1flLl Helen XVh1te The future lb 111 the l1lI1ClS of the poets who l1ke Thompson tn Lllmm Re Q11 un forsee the destmy of the Church 1nd of the world Cf1thol1C VVIIICIS 1re IH every sense un1versf1l The1r pens h1ve ex pounded the theolog111l md the phrlosophxml 1de1ls of the Church They hftve come to the hght s1de of wholesome novels vs 1th se1nt1ll1t1ng humor md have been qble to express themselves to men of 1ll uhbres fl ta uf! Ni Vxtalxro M H1r1n11.,1111 j Walsh N Connors M Curley .I Collms l Pmera 1 . , . 2 7 2 2 1 1 11, 1 , 1 1 1 . , 1, , 1 11 I 22 . 1 2, 1 f T 1 x ' 1 ' ' ' 1 , ,1 , 1 1 I 2 1 . .1 1 ,1 . 1 1 1 1. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 , 1 ,1 . , 1 1 , -11 1 - K. 2 1 K t t. K - 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 s 2 1 . Le r 22.11 1 . 1' 1 , . 1 j' , . , . ,. ,. .