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

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ti NN On registration day parents and students crowded the school ottice as they waited their turn to discuss courses of studies with Father Gregory Wiesner, O.S.B., director of studies. After arrang- ing their classes they proceeded through the assembly line to make out class cards and to discuss business matters with Father Victor Hen- kel, O.S.B., bursar. From the office most of the students proceeded to the book-store Cbetter known as The Shacknj, where Father Leonard Brisch, O.S.B., genial man- ager, welcomed them with open arms and tur- nished them with books and other school supplies. 'Www-nr

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THE i952-53 SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS -September 2, T952 The bumper crop of the summer's harvest was matched by a bumper crop of students with a near all-time high enroll- ment of a total of 307 students in the academy and about fifty in the iunior college. - ,: so bw N Father Theodore Fuertges, O.S.B., rector, greets the boarders, who came from various sections of the state and from various states of the union . . . and the day students who come from neighbor- ing towns and rural areas.

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FT1 G . . . this was the key-word of the solemn high Mass at which the students assisted on September 9 in order to invoke the guidance of the Holy Ghost on their endeavors during the 1952-53 school year. During the Mass, which was offered by Father Victor Henkel, O.S.B., student Chaplain, Father Theodore Fuertges, O.S.B., the rector, preached the sermon by means of which he welcomed the students to St. Bede and urged them to appreciate the advantages of a catholic education in a Benedictine school. After invoking the help of the Holy Ghost on their endeavors, the stu- dents crowded out of the chapel to go to their respective classes with the realization that, without God's help, their own efforts are unavailing.