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

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WE WANT T© EEMEMBEE TEE BEESENE SCECCE YEAC ©E 1942-1943 ☆ One more year in our lives and in the history of St. Bede has passed by. During that year we have walked the campus and entered classrooms hundreds of times. We have laughed and talked with pro- fessors and fellow students and shared an exchange of ideas and enjoyed the display of talents. These things we wish to remember. Herein is presented a record of those things in pictures and words. But pictures and words cannot show all we wish to remember of St. Bede. There is no picture to show the spirit of Benedictinism which has pervaded every phase of our life here. There is no word to describe the mental thrill of comprehend- ing a difficult idea. No picture can show the sensa- tion of hard, bodily contact in a game, or the crisp- ness of a fall morning on the campus. Those things, too, we want to remember. In the Pleiades, then, is a record of what we have done at St. Bede during the past year. What St. Bede has done for us, however, must wait for another chronicle. May it be as pleasant and inter- esting as the one in the pages following.

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tOn these Realms the golden streams of youth and wisdom have heen fused.

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THE PLEIADE We wish to thank all of the friends of the 1943 Pleiades for their invaluable financial assistance and for their co operation in many other fields. We were hesitant at the beginning because of the seriousness of world affairs, but your interest has prompted and made possible the publication of this volume. We hope that you will find it a fitting tribute to your help. James Towey, business manager TwT The 1943 Pleiades is our effort to continue the tradition begun three years ago by the first yearbook staff. This year we have attempted to present a book simple in make up but complete in content. With the extra pages we have added this year, we hope that your enjoyment of our book will also be increased. Eugene Balsavich, editor ☆ Because the yearbook is supposed to be and has been the work of the senior class representatives, as seniors we leave the 1943 Pleiades as an example to the classes which are to follow us. Our yearbook is prac- tically the last school activity in which we might partic- ipate and show the way for the under classmen. It is also the means of our wishing faculty and students a farewell with our hopes of success for them in the years to come. John Kane, seniors