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

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i Students Take Time Out For Retreat Francis Brokowsky and Ronald Cregier discuss the retreat schedule with retreat masters Fathers Patrick Sullivan. CSSR. and Robert Rebhola. CSSR. At a conference, retreat master. Father Daniel Lowery, CSSR. addresses the junior college students. Following the first quarter, November 9 and 10 the junior college men had their annual retreat. Academy students took part in their retreat held on January 25 and 26, immediately after the end of the first semester. Three Redemptorist priests were retreat masters. Father Daniel Lowery, CSSR, led the junior college men. Father is a member of Liguorian Mission House, Ligouri, Missouri, and is assistant editor of the magazine The Liguorian. Also from the Liguorian Mis- sion House is Father Patrick Sul- livan, CSSR, who delivered the conferences for the academy freshmen and sophomores. Jun- iors and seniors enjoyed the lectures of Father Robert Reb- holz, CSSR, who is stationed at St. Joseph's College, Edgerton, Wisconsin. Schedules for the retreats fol- lowed patterns of past years, with conferences, Stations, Mass, meditation and Benediction.

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Heavy Snows Bring A Change Of Pace Winter can be a desolate time. At St Bede, as far as the weather is concerned, this is true from December till March. However, wmrrr in the country does have its appealing side. Ice skating, hockey and bobsledding afford hours of invigorating exercise for the boarders. When the weather warms slightly so that the snow will pack , massive snowball wars are the order of After a heavy snowfall Brother Dominic Wescgate, O.S.B is out early in the day to clear the roads around the monastery the day. At least once in the year the boarders can thus get an opportunity to wreak ven- geance on their prefects. And while it seems to some snowbound freshman that spring will never come, still the day is not too far distant when the snow will melt permanently. Until next winter, that is. Braving the weather to get to that first period class, senior day students Mike O'Halloran, Jody Koehler. Chuck Barnato and Barry Smith plod through the snow. A group of boarders frolic in the snow on stadium hill. Pat Kennedy and Rick Luster take a break from playing hockey.

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Barbershoppers Welcome Christmas Duane Scephens does a solo as rhe Barbershoppers entertain a lar ?e audience Mr Alex Finkler, master of ceremonies, introduces the Kfoup. Students and faculty were treated to a free performance by the local chapter of the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. in the gymnas- ium on December 20. The con- glomeration of letters stands for the nation-wide Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Quartet Singing in America. Their Christmas concert was part of their general program to keep alive a peculiar American form of singing. About thirty of the area townsmen combined to create a barbershop choir and maintain the tradition.