Benedictine High School - Benedictine Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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The greatest benefit Benedictine is offering the United States are loyal, useful and devoted citizens. Such is B-enedictine's gift to America since the all- boy school began its first scholastic year in Septem- ber 1927. Benedictine graduates are loyal Americans, serving the nation in the armed services and dying in its defense. They are useful Americans. By enter- ing every vocation in life, they render competent and at times outstanding service to their country. Furthermore, they are devoted Americans. In the main they are law-abiding, civic-minded and sincerely interested in the advancement of the prin- ciples upon which America was founded..

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A ITIEHI of E E i generosity and charity Associated with Benedictine are religious lay brothers. Because they do majority of the school's material work, the brothers are the Saint Josephs of Benedictine. No one served Jesus and Mary better than Joseph and the lay brother's life is similar to that of Christ's foster father in that it is a hidden one. - - Although he is not in the active ministry as the priest is, the brother is a true religious, consecrated to God by vows of poverty, chas- tity, obedience, stability and conversion of morals. - ,Benedictine students assembled Sept. 8 in Saint Benedict church to witness Brother Nicholas S. Pekar, O.S.B., of Saint Andrew abbey, mark his golden anniversary as a monk of the order of Saint Benedict.- -Born Feb. 10, 1884 in Polosca, Slovakia, Brother Nicholas in 1905 migrated to Bridgeport, Conn. He became a postulant Mar. 7, 1909, at Saint Procopius abbey, Lisle, Ill., and professed Sept. 8, 1910. - - In November,1929, Brother Nicholas transferred to Saint Andrew priory, Cleveland. Q -It's a privilege to dedicate the 1961 Benedictine to the first golden jubilarian of Saint Andrew abbey. ! Brother Nicholas S. Pekar, 0.S.B.