Gordon Technical High School - Tech Log Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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1 I 'swf Society works toward the perfection of man The student continually finds himself in the midst of society during his everyday life. He must learn proper and acceptable behavior if he is to be respected by society. Gordon Tech provides many opportunities for social gatherings. From weekly sock-hops to football and basketball games, the student is given the opportunity to meet many people. The student not only attends these func- tions for recreation, but the information he gathers through association with not only his peers but also with students from other educational insti- tutes will benefit him in his future life. I3 EFX...

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Une Hundred Years In November, l866, the Resurrection Fathers began their teaching Apostolate in the United States iKarnes Countyi, Texas. A school was set up land dedicated when the new building was erected in l868l and, by December of that year, cleric Felix Zwiardowski began teaching the ba- sics of reading, writing, and arithmetic to sixty children. A year later, cleric Zwiardowski be- came the first Resurrectionist to be ordained in the United States. From this meager beginning, the Resurrection- ists have spread throughout the United States, extending from California to Washington, D.C., from Chicago to Alabama. In each of the areas the Community has set up schools and parishes wherein the members might be able to continue the work of the founding Fathers: the education of youth and the care of souls. The most recent development in this endeavor is the Resurrec- tion Catholic Church and the New Resurrection Center which includes an elementary school, a Sister's Convent, a Church, a Rectory, an Ap- peal Building, and a Spastic Clinic. This is the result of twenty-five years of work in Mont- gomery, Alabama, in the Mobile-Birmingham diocese. Father Paul Smolikowski, CR, Father General of the Community from l895-l905, had written the following in his treatise, CHS 5Z7ll6L4C70,N 09 IIOZIUL Our Gonstitutions declare that the rehyious of the 6onyreyation shall under Divine Providence, above all endeavor to make the entire elementary traininy of boys have such a scope and follow such a system and method that, toyether with similar branches oflearniny, Cfhristian truth may be deep- Q inculcated in the tender minds of youth, that the ineffable beauty of the knoufledye of God may enyaye their whole imayinative power and inflame their hearts and the love of Hhristian yoodness and justice permeate their wills ,7t shall namely, be the purpose of the Konyreyation to educate the youth entrusted to its care in such a way that the instruction of mind may harmoniae with the traininy of the heart-for unity shouhi be estab- lished between that which daim enyayes the mind of youth and that in which indeed our reverence, our love, and our will shouhi be centered-and that all the faculties of the soul may be focused 17 7 A 5 ' Y 4 7 J?-3.3 WAV 'ig 2: , 'if Very Reverend Hubert Gehl, CR, present superior General. on that which they must bebeve hope for, and love Mft 642 Rev. John lwicki, CR, wrote in his book titled KSSZIKKEGUON SUlZ7,76'5f U-le' 9116527 ONS fr'll,NDl?5D IASAKS, The founding of parish ele- mentary schools, then, is one of the major con- tributions of the Resurrectionists in the develop- ment of the Catholic Poles in the United States. But, as the founder, Fr. Peter Semen- enko, CR, has stated in many of his writings, the Community was to reach all people, not merely a specific national group. And so. the Congrega- tion has done, as it expanded into areas of Cana- da, South America, the United States, Italy. Poland, Bulgaria, and Austria. The Congregation has grown from the initial seven members, who professed their vows on Easter Sunday fMarch 275, I842, to the total world membership of 594. Each of the members is dedicated to the education of youth and the care of souls. Both permeate the Resurrec- tion Congregation in every aspect of their Apostolate. lt is to the hard work and endless sacrifices of the Congregation that the l967 TECH-Log is dedicated. These religious have given of them- Kdontinued on payc loj