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

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Hoerdemann and Mack review some of the fundamentals of German in the course taught by Father Leonard, while Henry Borst anxiously awaited his turn to go to the board. In addition to the course in German, Father Leonard taught Business Math and Geometry, and served as prefect ot one of the divisions of Freshman day students. 1 Included among the courses taught by Father Bede was this course in Senior Religion. Freshman Civics and two classes in Ancient History rounded out his teaching schedule. When Father Bede was not occupied with classroom duties he served as assistant librarian and supervised the Sopho- more day students as prefect of their homeroom. REV. BEDE RUSSELL, OSB

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REV. AUGUSTINE ClMA, O.S.B. REV. HILARY SONDGEROTH, O.S.B. Collegians who maiored in Commerce learned the fine points ot Economics from Father Augustine, who is pictured below with a group of his students as they listened to discourse on Banking delivered by Sarlitto. Experimental demonstrations were an integral part of the high school chemistry course taught by Father Hilary, who is shown below with some of the members of his class, for whose benefit Father Hilary was giving a vivid visual ex- planation ot the process of fractional distillation. When Father Hilary was not occupied with his Chemistry class he was kept busy with his duties as Procurator of the monastery and Director of the Brothers of the Abbey.

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After spending a number of years in parochial work, Father Michael was recalled to the monastery shortly before school started in the fall of '52. Upon his return, he joined the academy faculty as professor of Freshman Religion, Besides teaching Religion, Father Michael was a prefect of one of the two groups of Freshman day students. REV. MICHAEL CALLAHAN, O.S.B. REV. RAYMOND MATULENAS, O.S.B , What kind of men are these . . .? That's what the Latin inscription on the board says. The answer, not found in the text of Vergil's Aeneid, from which the question was taken, is that these men CWaligora, Arms, and Wolfj are the ones who studied Latin IV under Father Raymond. ' .wo courses of College Latin and the supervision of the St. Bede mond's duties as member of the college and academy faculty. Records and the Via Baeda were also included among Fr. Ray-