Fenwick High School - Blackfriars Yearbook (Oak Park, IL)

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as iniiiiiii Rev. D. B. Myers, UP Q'l'lr Director of Studies, Vocations ..,L..4. . J Rev. P. J. Conaty, O.P., B.A. Director of Discipline Assistant Athletic Director English Father Myers, a member of the faculty for seven years, has for the last five held the key position between stu- dents and their studies. The importance of this position as Director of Studies can hardly be over-estimated since the course of studies pursued by a student in high school often determines the success or failure of the activities of his whole life. Father Conaty, succeeding Father Morrison, took active charge of the office of Dean of Discipline on Jan- uary 31, 1939. He is to be congratulated on his success in this difficult position which he has laudably filled without slighting or relinquishing any of the obligations he already had as teacher of English and Assistant Ath- letic Director.

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EDUCATI G THE WHOLE MA Father Fincel, as Principal, has directed the educa- tional system of Fenwick for the past two years. As a member of the Science Department for seven years he was able to acquaint himself not only with the aptitudes and needs of the boys but also with methods of instruc- tion and equipment helpful in the school. This year, on the removal of Father Graham, he assumed the added duties of Moderator of the Fathers' Club, and as such has proven himself not only a scientific and educational lead- er but a leader of social activities as well. 5 I l'!IIlll-I l I I I 'VIIIIIIH Ti' a

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In keeping With the admonition of Christ: Suf- fer the little children to come unto Me, the Domin- ican Order has placed at the disposal of west Chica- go and suburb residents a staff of teachers Well equipped to fulfill the mission of our Divine Lord. The Faculty, composed almost entirely of Dominican priests, repeats the tender invitation of Christ, and uses all its time and energies improving the children of the community. In doing this it is carrying out also the Wish of the late Holy Father Pope Pius XI. who expressed his ardent Wish in an encyclical letter that the Church would continue her rightful place in the scheme of education, and of the present Pope Pius XII., one of the greatest scholars of this day, who revealed his great interest in education both by his devotion to it and by choosing, on his reception into the Third Order of Saint Dominic, the name Brother Albert Thomas, thus selecting as patrons two of the greatest scholars of all time. The Catholic concept of education is not a mean- ingless or one sided system of developmentg but one Educatmg the Whole Man ENN... Bev. V. S. Feltrop, O.P., M.A. Rev. R. B. Connolly, O.P., M.A. Rev. C. B. Nlorrison OP NIA German and Latin General Science, Religion Chemistry Geometry