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

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OFFICE FORCE 0 FATHER VICTOR Bfzmzr O FATH ren NICHNOLAS Keglrlrar 0 FATHER james Prizzripal FDUIQ YEAIQS HAVE DAIIED IQAIDIIDLY FUD THE Four years ago-seems like a long time. Eng- land was at war, but we had not yet joined the allies. President Roosevelt was talking of peace. Abbot Justus was the president of St. Bede and the monastery building was nearing completion. That was in September, the year we began our high school careers. 'hhff IENIUIQI International, national, and much smaller events of importance were happening all over the world and we felt them too. But our life through these four years were consumed mostly by the smaller things. We were growing up under a dis- cipline and routine that are to fit us for our life in the years to come. O Within this routine and discipline there have been and are many things that we will want to remember, many of them the horrors of the moment. For the day students the rude awakening in the morning to catch the bus, for the boarders the first sound ot the bell in the dormitories, were the low- est part of the day, as far as appreciation was concerned. The mad dash for chapel will be something of a torture in our memories for many years. Breakfast, beds to be made, an early morning smoke-the morning was on. iii, page ten

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,L S yqfwf Rr. Rlzv, Lmviuawcgiz Vous. O. S. B. ww, awww Gaclm 0.41 of cfm a aaa O Our earliest association with St. lietle was through the aclministration, the contact men who were about seeing why we were eoming to St. Becle. The first grueling clay as freshmen is still a bitter memory mixetl with confusion, faces we scarcely remember, those of the many who haxe fallen by the waysicle on the journey of four years. But out of the confusion of thoughts of our- selves as freshmen, a picture of some kintl of ortler materializes antl we beholcl the mature sophomore, the sophisticated junior, antl the ancient ancl wise senior, Mixetl with these thoughts are many, goocl ancl not so pleasant, of black habits and the men who wear them -a pic- ture or pictures of men struggling to bring orcler out of chaos for the incliviclual ancl the group. The aclministration, the office force, the pre- fects, ancl the faculty as a whole emerge. after four years of association, looking somewhat alll-- ferent than they tlitl to our eyes on that first Sep' tember morning four years ago when our eyes were cloucletl by the results of partings from home antl former frientls, ancl by the haze that clouclecl our freshmen mintls. Shoulcl we be able to stay another four years, our picture of these men might change somewhat, but we are leaving now antl so woulcl like to re- member them as we saw them last. These pittures alone will be sufficient to bring back memories that will crowcl out for .1 moment any trcfulwles that may be before us. Ns?

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O That dismal feeling of lack of preparation for the first classg the confidence that grew out of several hours of brain-plowingg the hopes that this would not be the day that one would be called on to display one's knowledgeg the hope that this would be the day to prove that one does prepare for class occasionally -these things we can remember. Through the four periods of the morning, with that rare respite of a library period, the schoolday moved on. Remember the ultimatum of ultimatums? See Father Nick before you come back! Well, in the years to come it won't in memories, at least, send that cold shiver up and down the spine. The last bell, that was it. Could anything sound sweeter? The prospects of dinner might not have been too good every day, but they al- ways had the element of suspense that pleased the imagination. A short walk after dinner and we were back pounding the booksg always hoping for that unexpected surprise which never camei There will be no school this afternoon. Physical edu- cation was always something to look forward to. In winter the vigorous walks were more dreaded than desired, though they were an improvement on that last dead-end class. Sometimes there was the excitement of the physical education tournaments in the gym, or bowling, a freezing swim, or just plain illegiti- mate loafing. Who will forget the Shack, especially on rarest of days when cigarettes were in . That was the clarion call to action of the most deadly. Ceiling prices prevailed in the Shack but that was as far as they went. 0 FATHER PATRICK Philoynphy, Lizlilz ,l-k,:,..- ,l' V!- O FA'rH1aR HUGO 0 FA 'HER JEROME 0 FA1'H1aR MAIKK Plaifafolizby, Lclfill fy ' ' f Efigfflfk Hf- f0 j' K. page eleven ,WL