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

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Mrs. Ley don Gives Popular Concert Mrs. Joseph Leydon, accompanied by pianist Bradley Dirks, presented a concert of contemporary and classical music November 22. Mrs. Joseph Leydon, whose performance two years before had been enthusiastically re- ceived by the student body, returned to St. Bede November 22 to give another well received concert. Sponsored by Father Placid and the Genesians, Mrs. Leydon, a talented soprano vocalist from Spring Valley, sang a variety of numbers ranging from the works of Puccini to Gershwin. Accompanied by guitarist Thomas Wessels and pianist Bradley Dirks, Mrs. Leydon be- gan her concert with a note from Broadway, “People.” After a lapse into contemporary folk music, Mrs. Leydon next offered a religious theme To the Queen of Heaven. After two classical arias, Mrs. Leydon dipped again into her Broadway show tune repertoire for her closing num- bers. But thunderous applause demanded her last encore, the moving “Summertime” from “Porgy and Bess. Winter brings a change of pace, activity-wise, on campus. Foot- balls and baseball gloves are put aside and the boarders take to the ice or to the snowy slopes for either skating or tobogganing. With the flooding of the tennis courts, hockey staged a quick revival with the college men and upperclassmen being the most enthusiastic participants. 24

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Mr. John Barron, inventor of the Photo-Electronic Engraver, explains some of its features to William Iobiasz, Stephen Schnorr, James Lund, and James Welgatt. Impart Important Insights Members of Father Raymond's jour- nalism class got a first hand view of the “live” production of a modern daily newspaper when they toured the plant of the “LaSalle Daily News-Tribune.” Over thirty students visited the plant and gained valuable insight into the workings of the American press. The tour included such points of inter- est as the press room, the printing depart- ment, and the photo-lathe room, as the young journalists witnessed each step of the process of putting the paper to- gether. Robert Skowronski listens as Mr. Barron illustrates one of the “News-Tribune's” printing procedures. 23

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With the coming of winter the grounds west of the tennis courts were flooded to give the boarders an expansive area for skating. Rough and tumble hockey was a part of the collegians more vigorous after school activities.