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

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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.

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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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Seniors Take Air Force Examination James Donarski and Thomas Peterson receive their tests from S t. Russell Terrel and S t. Jack Dujtuid of the U.S. Air Force. Father Henry and Patrick Weiher look over books on exhibit at the yearbook convention. All seniors took the Air Force Qualification Examination in December. The test was designed to measure probability of suc- cess in four general career areas: general, mechanical, electronic and administration. Father Henry, Patrick Weiher and Ralph Navarro represented the yearbook staff at the National Scholastic Press Association Con- ference in Chicago. NSPA, a critical service which reviews the Via Baeda. sponsored lectures and exhibits on ways to improve the yearbook. The Conference was held at the Conrad Hilton Hotel on November 26-28. The Mothers' Club was enter- tained on Valentine's Day by Father Placid's production of R J. Schneider's The Devil You Say . Timothy Glaza, Ed- ward Littig, Robert Torri and Sisters Anita Marie, Anthony and Celestia, FSM, put on the short play.