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

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As they made their way up the beautiful expanse of the lane (below) early in Septem- ber, the students approached the administration building, whose entrance is pictured at the right. It was through this entrance that they passed to begin another school year; and as the school year con- tinued the students passed in and out of these symbolic doors many times. Another symbolic entrance was the door leading to the monastery building (left). Closed to the students, it was the gateway to the “School of the Lord’s Service,” the mon- astic life of St. Benedict, ob- served by the faculty of the college and academy. It was behind the cloister of this en- trance that the monks plied their daily task of eternal salvation. The Scene of Action Was Formed ly...

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 Tabic of Contents Buildings 5-8 Calendar of Events 9-40 The Process Of Learning 41-58 Athletics 59-82 Organizations 83-90 Graduates 91-109 Underclassmen 110-132 Faculty 133-141 Lay Brothers 142-143 Carmelite Sisters 144 Advertising 145-162 Patrons 163-165 The drawing at the top of this page and the one on page 59 were made by Gene Bernardoni, academy sophomore. The title page and the dedication pages were designed and executed by Fr. Joseph Heyd, O.S.B. All the other drawings were made expressly for the Via Baeda by T. M. YAKUTIS, former St. Bede student. COPYRIGHT 19S5 1

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Among the scenes at St. Bede, perhaps the most pic- turesque is the monastery tower, pictured at the left. Towering above the other buildings on the campus, its gleaming cross proclaims the rock of faith on which the abbey and the school are founded. When Winter executes her magical transformation of familiar sights around the campus, the cloisters con- necting the school building with the abbey became an attractive rhapsody in black and white, as the picture in the lower left hand corner indicates. The Buildings and Campus of St. Bede. A pathway between the pine trees west of the monastery build- ing formed the out- door cathedral in which the Stations of the Cross were erected (picture above).