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

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Our Farm ..... Down through the centuries the Benedic- tine way of life has been closely connect- ed with the soil and has handed down the skills of agriculture. lt is no wonder then that a Benedictine school, such as ours, has a farm associated with it, where the tilling of the soil brings alive the miracles of God in nature. The dairy barn is pictured at the top ofthe page and below that is a close-up of some of our fine registered Holstein cows that boast of high production records. Besides the seventy some acres in front of the abbey, the monas- tery also tills more than one hundred acres of bottom land along the Illinois River.

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ecom' enrollment marks . . . xl' Y M4 if wfff' Loaded down with all manner clothes that our parents trust will faithfully laundered every week, experience the first mad rush registration day activities. of be we of i Father Dunstan, newly appointed Director of Studies this year, charts the course of Hugh Devine's studies for the coming year. Larry Lampe's parents supervise the iob of unpacking to make sure that everything is neat, at least for the first day. Textbooks are a necessary evil, and Father Leonard gladly supplies them, for a price of course. The student is the paying half of the business deal.