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

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FROM THE DAYS OF THE PIONEERS one hundred and fifty years ago when the area in which we now live was only an enclosed fort set in a prairie to the present tzme when a great school system grows in the thickly populated County of Cook many generations of parents made innumerable sacrifices to give todays young people excellent educational opportunities they now enloy Overland on the 1820 Chicago area map is the outline map of the city and suburbs where Fenwick students now have their homes GREEN Chicagoland area in Bishop Fenwrcks day BLACK Present city and suburban divisions Numbers Indicate students coming from each area in 1956 57 957 B I CI c k f r i cl r s Fenwick High School Oak Park, Illinois

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The story of realizing o dreom. A small log house, the private home, of Henry Boone, near the present Springheld, Kentucky, served in 1806 as the hrst Dominican school in the United States And it began in that wilderness country ,wth loot tffo stud nts Father Edward Domun Fenwick American loorn but educated In Belgium and England returned to his native land to fulf1ll ht Great ambition to realize his dream of found ng the Dominican Order in the Un teJ States and of establishing a school under Domncan auspices And now one hundred and f1ft,f years later his dream contlnoes to lo manlfoldly realtzel in the system of Dominican education phtlo sophical and theological faculties in sem narre and Houses of Stud es in Proyiden e Colleg Contents The School Directors and Faculty Parents Organization The Graduates The Underclassmen Studies Clubs and Activities Sports Alumni Graduation Index 0 36 8 40 in Rhode Island, in college preparatory s:hoo's in ColumloJs, Ohio and Oak Park, Illinois, es- pecially in Fenwick High School, which was so named to honor the founder of Dominican education n this country And here at Fenwick 1214 students are workrng too for the realization of a drea learning the skills n eded for future educa tion learning how to Ht into the world of rn n and hoping to realize a manhood of success as happy useful Christian gentlemen In this book the Fenwick students will ore sent a picture of what they are doing to fu'f1ll their hopes With this picture they will tell o their patron B hop Fenwick who in them ha a hope posthumously fulhlled K S tx ffm S lftf N ,t x rw ,W see the y h nd eds of st dents ho eac f f X-ng H991 tesco b xg ut kgs .1 oS?t Nlt?f J IF ONLY BISHOP FENWICK Id b h j' K , lltttggg Q -XX so vhs ' ............ 8 ' ' ' ........... 20 ' ...................... 68 ' ....,....,... 84 Qsc::4n3gX-- 14 KFKQ91 ' ...................... 1 , lilly ll - lf ll K l it ' ,TN fx I ',! I sf I ll! r ,f wt pfl t. is st F I F cou e ere 'c X, 'Xl',4-I , gf ll l mor in mail er Uh r h ol :hich gears hr? 1 ! K fi. FXS' name. The hrs! American Dominican 9 ,K 'F Ni Illia, f n with nly two X I 'I' I 5 X f!' K FT ETX,-T X l ,NM X 1 K 1 ' f 1 fri r