Saint Bede Academy - Via Baeda Yearbook (Peru, IL)

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ADT, IIC, WWMMW HROUGH Tl-lli UN1T1zn lil-'FORTS OF THIS FACULTY AND STUDENTS, THE Ams AND sc11sNc31zs FARED wiarr THIS YTQAR. Twenty-six seniors of the fifty were listed in the fourth year literature class. Three major sciences showed an enrollment of twenty-nine seniors. The science club was inaugurated at the mid-year. The choir, the band, and independent musicians kept St. Bede in the world of music. Though the art in- structor was on leave of absence most of the year, individual efforts proved that St. Bede was not wanting in artists. LITEIQA UIQ cfwunq 40 41 if ' ' ' let 1716111 Zlflifk al lheir mf 111 all 191111111113 Chap 57 eight

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an Iffze Jah, FATHEREERNARD Q Father Bernard Zimmer, O. S. B., A. M., S. T. L., received his early training in St. joseph Parochial School and De Paul University High School, Chicago. He received his A. B. degree at St. Bede in 1918, and completed the major course in theology at St, Vincent Pontifical Sem- inaryi On june 11, 1922, he was ordained a priest. At the College of San Anselmo he re- ceived his Licentiate in theology. Father Bernard received his A. M. degree in the classics and membership in the Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholastic fraternity at the University of Illinois. FATHER ABBOT . . . let hill! be elecfed for live fllcffil uf his life am! fha ivirdrwz of his dnclrixze . . Chap. 64. f The Right Reverend Abbot Justus Wirth, O. S. B., D. D., received his early education at Ingolstadt in Germany. In 1886 he came to America and entered the scholasticate of St. Vin- cent archabbey, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he completed his classical studies. In 1894, as a deacon, the future abbot came to St. Bede where, the following year, he was ordained a priest by the late Archbishop Spalding. Father Justus was prior and procurator before the monks of St. Bede elected him as their coadjutor abbot in 1926.