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

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Work in the frontier states but they never forgot the ideas of the early founders. When high schools came into prominence in this country the Dominican Fathers again took up the idea of education and opened Saint Patrick's High School in Columbus. Ohio, in 1905. This same school soon grew into a combined high school and college and Went under the name of Aquinas College, a name which it still possesses although operating only as a high school. The next step in education was the founding of Providence College in Rhode Island in 1920 which has been prospering and expanding rapidly. The Rev. G. C. McGregor, O.P., M.A. General Science Rev. C. M. Fisher, O. Mathematics QS nrliiiiii 'Wlllll

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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

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Rev. E. C. Lillie, O.P., Rev. J. A. Quinn, OP., Rev. Ii. M. McGowan Religion History and Religion Religion R q, , .miiii i Tl Il I I I I 'lfillllll-l Tlllllllll l M.A. B.A. , O.P., B.A. last, but not least, school to be founded by the Dominicans in the mid-west is none other than our own beloved Alma Mater, Fenwick, which opened her doors in 1929. It has always been characteristic of Dominican education to lay stress upon moral and intellectual development, but this does not mean that it neg- lected the other phases of activity necessary for a well rounded education. The idea of extra-curric- ular activities to develop the whole man always played its part in the scheme of Dominican educa- tion. Sports had not yet become a part of school life in the middle of the last century, the hardships of the pioneer sufficed to build up the body, but from records we do learn that such activities as debating, music, and dramatic productions together with the publication of a monthly paper were part