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

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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

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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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PRESENTS AN INREX CE 1943 7(4« activities and Zeda t jyOceS aAc ail fVieSent in the. SpotlUjlit fa The most important division of a school is its faculty. We hope to put before you an idea of what the faculty of St. Bede looks like through the eyes of the student body. The seniors will never forget them and what they have taught us. Many of them the underclassmen have yet to meet in the classroom. For these underclassmen, here is a pre-view. You will find them all, beginning on page nine. William Aplington, day students ■fa The student section speaks for itself. Here are the faces of the boys and men with whom we have studied, played, prayed, and worked. This section isn't lively in the sense that it shows a great deal of activity, but it is lively in the sense that it will be the section that, in the years to come, will bring back memories of all the things that these faces were part of in the happy St. Bede life. Please turn to page seventeen. James Hebel, freshmen fa Participation in varsity and intramural sports was one of the great factors contributing to the well-being of the student. Ac- tivities, however, were not con- fined to sports, but to the vari- ous other funtcions proper to intellectual development. Most of the other organizations were small but however small the membership may have been in the clubs and societies, the whole student body profited by the functions of these extra- curricular activities. They are all listed photographically begin- ning on page forty-one. John Aiblinger, juniors ☆ five