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

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Re f-q,s -H Education . . . cz D0'rn'invlcan Inheritance ..,, ,.A V. J. D. Malone, O.P.. M X Economics and Civics J v. E. L. Skelly, O.P., B.A. Uverjook nofhing' English and History

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Rev. W. D. Van Rooy, O.P., M.A. English and Latin Rev. G. G. Conway, 0.P. BA Mathematics and Public Speaking Rev. T. M. McGlynn, O.P. S.T.L , r. Religion, Resident Sculptor osophy which run like a golden thread through all the classes is the precious contribution of the Catho- lic high school to the boy's proper development. The Dominicans have always been outstanding in the field of Catholic education. Saint Dominic gathered his first few followers and after sending them to school dispatched them to the University cities of the day to establish courses of instruction there. It was in these schools that the great Saint Albert and Saint Thomas laid the foundations and taught those doctrines which have become the bul- warks of learning that still confound the enemies of the Church. It is the descendants of these great masters and saints, who carry on the unbroken line of tradition of those schools and devote their time and energies to educate the youths of this vicinity. The system of education inaugurated by those ear- ly defenders of the faith is still carried on at Fen- wick minus none of the methods but aided by the improved means and knowledges gathered and ap- proved by experienced teachers throughout the cen- turies.

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. l N xl, ,, Educating the Whole Man the Dominican Way . Catholic lay education is not a new idea with the D . . I . ominicans of the United States. As early as 1806, when the Dominicans first establish d th . e emselves in this country, Father Wilson opened a school for secondary education in a little log cabin in th h'll e 1 s of Kentucky. This .little school which began with amer h df ' ' e an ul of pupils, s1X to be exact, grew in the course of few years into Saint Thomas' C ll o ege under the leadership of Father, later Bishop Fen ' k wic the patron of our own school. Father Mazzuchelli, another pioneering Domin' ican, the Apostle of the Northwest, also began a school at S. . insenawa Mound in the southwestern corner of Wisconsin before the middle of the century. In 1851 the Dom' ' inicans of Ohio opened Saint Joseph's College in Perry county, Ohio. This latter school grew steadily until it was forced to close its doors at the time of the Civil War. For the next four decades the Dom' ' inicans of this country devoted most of their energy to mission Rev. C. A. Carosella, OP., M.Ed. Mathematics Rev. M. A. Kavanaugh, O.P., B.A. Director of Music American History i Rev. J. A. Siinones, O.P., B.A. 1 It i Religion and Latin