Cathedral Latin School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Jubilarian In this Marian Year we of the senior class are proud to dedicate the 1954 issue of the Purple and Cold to Brother Charles F. Kolf, S.M., on the occasion of his Colden jubilee. His fifty years of service to our Blessed Mother began during the year of the Colden jubilee of the proclamation of the doctrine of her Immaculate Con- ception in 1904. It is especially fitting that the labors of Brother Charles in the classroom should be bound in between these two great Marian milestones. For on the long trail to this Colden jubilee year, he has followed the Marian ideal set by the founder of the Marianists, Father William Ioseph Chaminadc. All of us, especially the seniors, hope to follow the motto of this inconspicuous, but hard-working Brother, who believed with Father Chaminade- With Mary, you cannot failfi Brother Kolf was born in Niles Center, Illinois, and came to Chicago to attend a Marianist school-Saint Michaelis in the parish of the Redemptorists. This was his first contact with the Marianists. After graduation, he went to the motherhouse in Dayton, Ohio, where he made his novitiate. Upon completion of his studies, Bro. Charles began a long career of teaching in Marianist schools throughout the country. He taught in Dayton for four years, Cincin- nati, eight years, Cleveland, fourteen years, Sioux City, Iowa, twelve years, Detroit, Michigan, eleven years, and for short periods in Covington, Kentucky, and San Fran- cisco, California. At present celebrating his Colden Iubilee as a religious, Brother Charles is still very active as a teacher in the art ugamei' at Cathedral Latin. Happy Jubilee year, Brother Charles, and may the Lady you have served so well bless you abundantly during her Marian Year.

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Do something for yourself. You should have discovered. at least ill your senior year ill high school. that you have suddenly become a 111811. XYhen we COIHPliI11Cl1t a person as being a IIHIILN we simply 11102111 that he is master of himself. XVhen we say Be a Illtlll.-N we invite him to practice a hundred virtues which are properly coordinated by real St'li.-Il1ttSt0I'y. lll other words to become a man 1nea11s that a person becomes master of l1is 1ni11d and will. klllll. through them. of all his hu1nan acts. This is the compliment paid to you as Nic-11 of I,atin.i' Do something for others. Every individual as a llllI112lll being IUllSt pass through kill earthly sojourn with his fellowmen in a lltflltlillg and socializing group-life. Cfonsciously and uncon- sciously one's wishes and dislikes, attitudes a11d sentiments. habits ttllil conduct are to a great degree shaped by human associations. The daily contact with others produces a unity among the members of the community who cooperate i11 the chief concerns of life. Do something for Cod. As a creature of God with a definite llilll to his life. tl1e creature lUllSt in the first place cooperate with his Creator if he would attain his true goal. The basis of life. thought and education is God. XVith0ut Cod there is no ultimate p11rpose in life nor would there be a11 ultimate purpose in educatio11. You can no longer wait for things to hap- pen. It is later thall you tllillli. Sincerely yours i11 Rev. Thomas Bodie. S.NI.. Ph.D. One of Father Bodie's more pleasant tasks is the awarding A typical picture of Father Bodie finds him in the cafet of an atheltic letter to football team manager Al Kovar. chatting with some of the seniors.