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

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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' , . , . ,. ,. .

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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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L 110 ncbi M fox E Rabax B Comers lx Truesdale M Vatalaro E Concannon B Harkms A Scarola l Concannon Publrc Speak mg School and Zone Wrnner PUBLIC, SPEAKING Public speaking, during the last yelr hrs succcssfully come to the fore at S S aint avlour Prompted by the Brshops Publlc Speakrng Contest the youthful Chrysostoms of the school gave evrdence of therr abrlrty both rn the s h l rss Erleen Concannon th Y represented Salnt Sav1our rn the finals The speakers of 1943 rn 1 s vshrch were enlrghtenrng as well as rnterestrng The toplcs ranged from the patrlotrc themes of chaplam and of vlctory grrdens to the entertunlng subjects of lltertture and of recrer tron There are some phrases and statements of the contestants nhrch wrll long echo 1n the memory of Savrourltes We must plant for vrctory urged 1 sophomore whereas an upper junror expressed the desrre to smg Q song of the chfrplarn Corps To women rn defense was the trrbute of 1 yunlor Dealrng vslth lrterature and entertainment the senxor speakers dlscussed the relatrve mer1ts of authors and of actors By thexr elo power of expresslon one wrll know the Samt Savrour speakers, but beyond these assets there rs the defimte tramrng rn Cfrtholrc Amerrcanlsm e zone wrnner yustl troduced 1 group of sub ect quence, thexr gestures and thexr 1 1 3 of . ' . . . 1' . r. . . , . s . A Y I 2 'A 1' ' ' ' x K . Q ' .1 ' ' ' ' ' c oo and in the zone contests. M' ' , ' , ' , 5 S . . L I 'T 5. 4 A S. K .S V 1 2' ' ' ' ' 1 . ' 1- . T K ' 2 , ' . . - K S L h . 2 . . . Y 5 I S . , . W, ,