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

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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.

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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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Black Watch And Magicians Fans at the December 18 St. Bede Invitational Tournament were treated to a display of marching finesse when the Black Watch Color Guard ap- peared. This all-girl drill unit from the local area, performed at half-time of the St. Bede-Mendota game. This recently organized group is patterned after the famous Scottish regiment, the Black Watch. Under the direction of Mr. Charles Beckner and Mr. Wayne Howarth, color guard sergeant Naldyne Kotecki led the 17 girl Black Watch through its maneuvers. Over 800 basketball fans were en- tertained the night of February 6 when the Harlem Magicians took the LaSalle Daily News Tribune team in a freewheeling contest replete with clowning antics as well as basketball finesse. The Magicians, after four rol- licking quarters of basketball tom- foolery, emerged triumphant over the News-Tribune 81-71, closing the game with a forty-foot, behind-the- back field goal by Bob “Trick” Woods. 26