Venango Christian High School - Saga Yearbook (Oil City, PA)

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How many times have you heard these words? Seldom in the halls of Ven- ango Christian, that’s for sure. When the class bell rings, it takes all of the three minutes’ time for the sisters and priests to cross the hall from one room to another. If one were to stand back and observe, he would see approximately one out of every twenty students step back to let a faculty member pass. Lunch would be more complete if we could stand aside and let the teach- er pass through our lines instead of making them battle their way through. I wonder if we couldn’t start proving we are real Christian students by carrying away the trays for the teachers after they have eaten. It would be a sight for sore eyes. My Life is Your Life by Diane Did you ever notice how This Guy’s life is based on That Guy's opinions? I sometimes wonder if any other generation practiced this theo- ry. According to my parents, such a notion is completely absurd and “Good heavens, what will this world come to!” Maybe they're right. On the bus one morning, I over- heard Jane whispering frantically, ”Oh, Mindy, what can I do? Ralph likes me! He kept calling me all week-end. Well, yes, I guess I like... no, don't you dare breathe a word! You heard what Carol said just yes- terday, and if she disapproves, the whole gang will think I'm out of it.” The next night, 1 was going from house to house collecting signatures on a petition so that Jane could like Ralph without harming her reputa- tion. At Peg’s house, I walked in on an argument: Peg versus Peg’s mot- her... Mother! I can’t wear this dress to the dance! It’s last year’s style! Absolutely no one wears this color anymore. Why, everyone will say I'm out of it”...l crept back down the stairs. I just couldn't bear to tell her my dress was going to be the same color. Furthermore, I could not stand the thought of initiating one more petition. Wilson BUT, I HAVE my problems, too. My mother insisted on setting my hair for me last night, and I’ll swear she must have lived in the Middle Ages! You have never, in your entire life, seen anything like it. I know all about parental authority, etc., but when she told me to go to the show looking like that, I refused. It’s a matter of self-honor and re- spect. I met the kids at the theatre for the second movie after resetting my hair. An arm shot out from the drapes and grabbed me as I slipped in the side entrance. Bertha! Quick, it's me! I had to come with the family tonight, but I sneaked a- way. I can’t walk in there with ten little brats and two big ones. If I did that, I’d really be out of it”... Oh, by the way. did you hear that Carol likes Ralph now? She took a three week course called How To Play Chess In Fifty-Two Lessons.” It didn’t take her long to wrap the National Chess Champion around her little finger. I THINK THIS theory is what used to be called keeping up with the Jones’.” It’s a frantic life with no- thing gained, but with much lost. Look at Jane: she lost Ralph. ROOTED b Dwight McGinnis Stands lonely, the tree in the corner of the meadow not so much unlike the love of a boy and a girl. Like the trunk of the mighty tree, love is unconquerable only to those who have known it not. Some think: Who can hurt love, who can cut it down, who can destroy such a beautiful creation. But they, on whom love bestows its existence, know that in each of them are the insects of hate and envy which can fell the strongest of passions. Love branches into inummerable trials and pains that. like the ever-growing tree, offer these and many more tribulations to heaven Praying for the quiet rain of understanding. All too many times the axe of merciless rumors cuts down the tree of love leaving splintered hearts to lay motionless in the brambles and busha of a world made cruel by the sins of men. Some still escape this dreadful fate because like the roots of the tree they are firmly planted in the earth; the roots of true love are planted in God. And to those who are afraid to love there are still secluded forests of bliss where love can bloom in all its beauty and bear witness to God.

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 R GAtjjve VENANGO CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL “Let the word go forth that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans. VOL. 111. NO. 1 FALL, 1964 THE BARQUE QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF VENANGO CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL 1505 W. First St.Tel. 64-61264 OIL CITY, PENNSYLVANIA Editor-in-Chief.... Executive Editor.. Managing Editor.... Layout Editor...... Sports Editor ..... Photogrophy........ Art Editor......... Exchange Editor ... Circulation Manager Production Editors . Reporters ......... Dan Goodman .........................Frank Shiolabba ..........................Nancy Petullo ...........................Diane WiI son ........................Patrick Fletcher .........................Ted Szalewicz ....................... Rosemary Coyne ........................Donna Fedorek ........................ Pamela Eckert Christine Goreczny, Jeon Lauer ........... Patricio Skiba, Ann Tipping, Mary Breene, Debora Lee, Karen Callahan, Rhea Ann Stevenson, Marcia Postrick, Christine Guyton, Pamela Echert, Rosemary Coyne, Marta Savage, Diane Wilson, Constance Logue, Mary Stone, Christine Cart- wright, Joanne Johnson, Ronald De Lucia, Charles Jetter, John Stroub, Potrick Cihon, Joseph Wnuk, Ted Szal- ewicz, Carol Moran, Veronica Ruby, Kathleen Rice, Carol English, Emily Sustak, Carol Kocan, Diana Czlonka, Jeanne Mohaffey, Bonita Burns, Tom Yochim, Richard Carone, Patrick Flet- cher, Philip Wydro, Joseph Wolkowski, Elisabeth Worcholic, Joyce Crill , Deborah Xander, Carolyn Thureou, Mar- garet Burns, Mary Ann Mortimer, Con- stance Nowak, Roberta Lesco, Carol Reichert, Loretta Siebert, Frank Shio- labba, Michael Yeager, Nancy Petulla, Thomas Carone, William Edwards. Headmaster Advisors Rev. L.J. Antoun Sister Mary Peter, O.S.B. 2 Mr. Richard Cavanaugh Printed by: VOYAGER PRESS Master Printer: Dan Goodman Journeyman Printers: Steve Sestrich, William Ed- wards Apprentice Printers: Louis Karg, James Hibbard, Joe Morgan, Thomas Proper, Chorles Bechtel, Larry Kis- singer Paper Cutting: Joseph Smith, Raymond Taft Sorting: Thomas Morkin Pocking ond Distributing: Robert Reardon, Connie Nowak, Ted Szalewicz, Joseph Novicki, Walter Moran, Carolyn Thureau, Betty Worcholic, Marcia Postrick, Mary Ellen Brug- eman, Chris Guyton Bookkeeping: Anthony Schill Voritypists: Christine Gureczny, Jean Lauer, Karen Gressley, PamelaGuyton Apprentice Voritypists:Linda Moran, Coletta Neid- ech, Thomas McGreevy COVER STORY Homecoming Queen Pom Guyton reigns over a 4-3 season and the 19-0 blank out of our rival Saint Michael's, Greenville on October 3. Co- captains Ozzie Mizwa and George Nalepa do the honors.

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Latest Reports About You and Me! Photos by Ted Szalewicz Sister Virginio: English Father Murray: Religion, Readingj English Mr, Cavanaugh: Religion, Latin, English, Reading Every year brings new resolutions, new students, and most impor- tant, new faculty members. In order for the student and teacher to be- come better acquainted, The Barque has attempted to lind out their first impressions and attitudes toward the school. We approached them with this question: WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT YOUR NEW TEACH- ING ASSIGNMENTS? SISTER MARY MICHAEL, familiar with the Oil City area says, It’s nice to be back with all of the nice students, especially to find many of the juniors and seniors I know. I thought that they had already graduated.” SISTER JANET explained, I like the students best of all; the students are a wonderful group.” then smiled after being handed a lost purse, but they are constantly losing things.” FATHER MURRAY, whose appointment to Venango is his first teaching experience is intent on, trying to accept the challenge of bringing Christ to the student and helping them to develop a full per- sonality.” MR. CAVANAUGH, on the other hand, likes the good sense of discipline in this school.” The opportunity to have a part in the education of young people, to help them realize the effect that Christ may have in their lives, and,” FATHER KREBS added, to bring the real Christ into their lives.” SISTER MARY LOURDES expressed, the thrill of the wonderful advantages of a new school. The building is so well equipped; every facility is here to make teaching easier.” SISTER TERESITA says the thing she likes best is the effort to give the student a great deal of freedom; 1 have especially noticed this at lunch time.” This is the first time in many years 1 have had mixed classes,” explained SISTER VIRGINIA. But the first question posed another one: HOW DO THE STUDENT BODIES OF PREVIOUS SCHOOLS COMPARE WITH OUR STUDENT BODY? This school is about one-third the size of the school 1 taught in last year. Venango is about four times as big as Saint Gregory’s North East, where I taught recently,” SISTER MARY MICHAEL said. SISTER JANET hates to compare schools because she says VCHS is different than schools in big cities. But she did say that there is no one like the people in Oil City, they are so friendly.” FATHER MURRAY thinks we have a good group of students here who are typical teenagers with the usual ups” and downs”. The students here are a little more eager to learn than the ones I have been in contact with before,” stated MR. CAVANAUGH.