PYC Monthly, April 6, 1947 - Lots Going On

This beautifully preserved eight-page glossy Parish Youth Council Monthly is the last of the collection of St. Luke's youth publications saved by Clara Zdrojewski and now in the Argyle Family Historical Society Collections.  A couple more posts, and it will go into a carton to be called "full" and also "dealth with."

Then you are going to have to come visit me if you want it opened up again.

This style of photomontage
was evidently quite popular.
Pages are 9" x 12".

Isn't that a Monsignor-hat that Father Tomiak is wearing?
He is acting as quiz-show interlocutor at top.
Moot court appears in session below; Gene's in the dock.

Click to enlarge.
Several in-jokes here surely originating in
Norman and  Zdrojewski.

Here we go again with combination electronics
in cabinetry - this time for a raffle.

Gene Norman, at top left, speaks into the microphone.
They're doing a dramatization of the Garden of Gethsemane scene.
Passion Play, upgraded from medieval town square or hillside
to a Sunday-School public-address system!
See the speaker set into the classroom wall?

Bottom Center:
Appreciation:  Many thanks to Father Tomiak for showing
the pictures of scouting, camping, St. Anne de Beaupre
and other scenes.  Also appreciation to Mr. Eugene
Zdrojewski for allowing the children to see the pictures
taken in India and China.  Naturally, we extend same to
Sister Tarsilia for running the films for us.

 These "pictures taken in India and China" may refer, in part,to the 16mm color film that Gene brought back, and certainly refer to the scrapbook full of prints:

U Chicago, OSS training school.

Into southwest China.

The pages measure 10" x 14".  I can without damaging the book undo the binding, take the pages out, scan top and bottom halves in my own scanner, and rebind the book. Such scanned images would be a little larger than the photos.  Then I would put up those scanned images plus the whole page photos, like the two above.

Now tell me, is that going to be good enough?

Or do I take the book to Ithaca sometime and use a University scanner with a bigger flatbed?  That would take longer. There are about 40 pages.

Julie