Belmont Abbey College - Spire Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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.. 4 Walter Arthur Coggin was born on the 10th of Febru- ary, 1916 (which is the feast day of St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict) in Richmond, Virginia. He has been in- trigued with electronics all his life and was a proficient athlete during his years at Belmont Abbey Junior Col- lege. He entered the noviti - ate there in 1936 and ob- tained his doctorate in phi- losophy in 1954. As Vicar under Abbot Vincent, he shared much of the respon- sibility for Belmont Abbey and was elected the third Abbot of Mary Help Abbey in 1959. Having held this position for more than ten years, he resigned in 1970. Abbot Walter teaches phi- losophy at Belmont Abbey College to this day. Edmund McCaffery was born in Savannah, Georgia on Jan- uary 9, 1933. He attended high school and college at Belmont Abbey and entered the novitiate in 1952 after his freshman year. He was ordained a priest in 1959. He was a pastor of St. Bene- dict ' s Church in Richmond for a year and returned to Belmont to assume a teach- ing position. Having served as master of clerics and as subprior, he was elected Abbot of Mary Help Abbey. After filling this office for five years, he rendered his resignation in the summer of 1975. He is now the pas- tor of a church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Nine The final goal of an Abbot is to assist the monks in their search for God. All else is guided by and must contribute to that end. The prayer, reading, study, work, the living together in community are all calcu- lated to favor the monk ' s finding God. Yet, it is not just an individualistic enter- prise, for in the journey to God, the monk learns much about Christian love and must share his good with others. Hence, the Abbot must also have concern for the Community as a family and the ways in which it ex- presses its common com- mitment to God. Abbot Jude Cleary, O. S.B.

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... let him who is . . . elected be chosen for the merit of his life and the wis- dom of his doctrine ... let him be convinced that it be- cometh him better to serve than to rule ... let him be chaste, sober and merci- ful .. . that he may hear from the Lord, ' I shall set him over all my goods. ' The Right Reverend Leo Haid, O. S.B., D. D. , first Abbot of Belmont, was born on July 15, 1849. He came into contact with the monks of St. Vincent ' s Abbey in Pennsylvania early in his life and when he became of age, joined the novitiate there. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1872 and elected Abbot of Mary Help Abbey on the 14th of July, , 1885. In 1887, he was ap- pointed Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina and ruled much of the religious en- deavors from his position at the Abbey. In recognition of his authority, Belmont Abbey was made a Nullius, or Cathedral Abbey, one sub- ject to no one but the Pope himself. Bishop Haid died on July 24, 1924 at Belmont Abbey. Eight ■ssm George Taylor was born in Norfolk, Virginia on the 19th of September, 1877. After receiving his formal education in Virginia, he and his family moved to Bel- mont, North Carolina. Here, he attended St. Mary ' s Col- lege and later entered the Benedictine novitiate, taking the name Vincent. Upon the death of Leo Haid, Vincent was elected the sec- ond Abbot of Mary Help Ab- bey in 1924. He was a man deeply in love with God and devoted much of his life to prayer and meditation. He died on November 5, 1959 at Belmont Abbey.

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