College of St Scholastica - Towers Yearbook (Duluth, MN)

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iHiHE-R BHRHEH ERUSS 'ON-Oiw Father Baraga arrived in the United States in 1831. He spread Christianity among the Indians in Ohio and Michigan and gradually worked west into Wisconsin and Minnesota. In the fall of 1846 he set out from La Pointe, Wisconsin for Grand Portage, Minnesota, accompanied by Louis Guadin. They had only a small fishing boat with a mast and sail but without keel or center board. Lake Superior became very rough. Their lives were in imminent danger. They managed, however, to veer their light boat into the mouth of a small river, hitherto unnamed. In gratitude for their safety, they proceeded to erect a Christian symbol, a plain wooden cross. This cross later gave the river its name, Cross River. Its location is at Schroeder, on the North Shore drive. The old cross was propped up and strength- ened every time a member of the Burden family passed by and it weathered the storm for more than a century. Then in 1934, Bishop Welch requested the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women to procure funds and have a new cross erected. It was a loving task and soon was ready for dedication. This monument, the Father Baraga Cross, made of St. Cloud granite, stands at the iunction of the Cross River and Lake Superior on the spot where Father Baraga erected his wooden cross. It is one of the points of interest for tourists making the North Shore drive.

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Chapel of Our Lady, Queen of Peace INTRODUCHON TO The nine ideals set by St. Scholastica to guide and direct her graduates take on new significance this year in the light of the territorial Centennial of Minnesota. As we look back over the history of our State we find these same virtues in her early leaders and builders. Though outward circumstances are completely changed the next hundred years depend upon the way the present generation builds for the future. We are living in a tragic period filled with potentialities for a richer life on one hand and armed with powerful discoveries capable of extinguishing the human race on the other. There is a challenge to human intelli- gence to demonstrate its true superiority over the animal instincts; there is an opportunity to make of our state, our country, our world, our life something more worthy of our heritage and of the generations which are to follow. Nothing is more important in education today than the furtherance of the belief that what we are and what we do counts; and that what we, individuals with God-given rights, do together counts even more. As the pioneers of a century ago did not allow their spiritual values to be dominated by the false riches of material possessions, so today the graduates of St. Scholastica should learn from the pioneers that implicit faith in God which enables them to face the forces of evil and of error, and to solve current problems in the light of truth. This is the Christopher approach needed to redeem the time, evil as it is. The second ideal, Love for Learning, has its counterpart in the history of our State. Scholarship has grown during the century as the institutions of higher learning manifest. Among them your College has contributed for many years to scholarship by training young women in the intellectual world to be very circumspect and alert. The events of the past years have brought us to the realiza- tion that in this world of science and advanced thinking the achievements of our Western civilization are no longer held as the great accomplishments of mankind. Other ideologies and cult- ure are contending with the Christian for supremacy in the modern IDEALS world. Deeply interested in the intellectual interests of the world, every graduate of the College should work and pray to acquire that Christian wisdom which the world needs. Honesty in Word and Deed, the imperishable Loyalty to relig- ious truth, Poise as self-possession were characteristics of the lives of those who were born, lived and died in Minnesota. As grad- uates and future leaders you can take fresh courage from the history of her people, for in this State blessed by Providence you render incarnate the ideals which the founders framed in the Constitution under which our Republic lives, and which makes it today the obiect of hope and longing for the world. Initiative every graduate can learn from Minnesota's unnamed pioneers- laborers, miners, farmers, merchants, homemakers, teachers and above all religious leaders. Courtesy, which is an outgrowth of charity, can make for understanding of racial, religious and national differences and thus mitigate social tensions which threaten to wrench the fabric of our society. As settlers came from Europe in the first half of the century to help build Minnesota so now we can again show our appreciativeness by helping the displaced persons of Europe. As graduates you should recognize your obligation to give aid to these suftering men, women and children who are without a place of refuge as the result of war. With this appreciativeness of the past and present, we should combine friendliness which will make these displaced persons real assets to our Minnesota communities and not obiects of charity. As we close the first century of Minnesota history I ask you, graduates of St. Scholastica, to give to your college experience the best you have as we move ahead to an even greater century in the building of a nobler Minnesota and by so doing to build a nobler nation, a nobler world. MOTHER M. ATHANASIUS, 0.5. B.