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

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THE GATHERING OF THE HARVEST in the late summer of T952 climaxed the various activities that claimed the time and the at- tention of the monks ot St. Bede. Harvest time meant that the summer of T952 was coming to an end. As it came to an end some of the monks returned from summer schoolg others put the finishing touches on the various work proiects with which the facilities of the school were im- proved and beautified. Harvest time also meant that the academic year of T952-53 was soon to begin, and that its beginning would suspend . . . 'Mu- fain

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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.