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

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St. Bede Academy continued to strive toward establishing a better school for educating young people. lt again endeavored to improve educa- tional facilities and means for teach- ing and disciplining in the Christian manner of the Benedictine monks. Principal Jerome Wray directed the school for his second straight year. In January he received his Ph.D. in Ad- ministration from Loyola University of Chicago. Three new teachers were hired, one of which was the new bas- ketball coach, Paul Brungardt. In keeping with the school's newly founded motto, Respect for each and every man and woman is a value being sought at St. Bede, the monastic community on December21 voted that the school would be co-educational for the year 1972-73. This vote by the monks followed the approval of the same measure by the Academy's eight man board of education. Projected enrollment fig- ures for next year's freshman class rose to 150, an increase of 70 fresh- man students alone. Another new facet of the school toward its improvement was the con- version tothe modular type of sched- uling. By using sixteen modules in the school day, twenty-one minutes each, teachers could vary the lengths of their respective classes. Bids were accepted in lVlarch for the construction of the new Worship- Assembly Center. This complex was to be built directly north of the monas- tery. Plans called for a catwalk span- ning the road between the abbey and worship building. These developments were just highlights of events which occurred this year at St. Bede toward establish- ing a more suitable school for better educating the youth of today. 5