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

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RESLIRRECTICNISTS IN AMERICA Superior Generals Very Reverend Peter Semenenko, CR Very Reverend Jerome Kajsiewicz, CR Very Reverend Joseph Hube, CR Very Reverend Jerome Kaisiewicz, CR Very Reverend Peter Semenenko, CR Very Reverend Valarian Przewlocki, CR Very Reverend Paul Smolikowski, CR Very Reverend John Kasprzycki, CR Very Reverend Ladislaus Zapala, CR Very Reverend James Jagalla, CR Very Reverend Michael Jaglowicz, CR Very Reverend Ladislaus Kwiatkowski, CR Very Reverend John S. Mix, CR Very Reverend Alphonse Eicheldinger, CR Very Reverend Hubert Gehl, CR l842 l845 l848 l854 l873 l886 l895 l905 l92O l926 l932 l943 IQ47 l959 l965 l845 l848 l854 IS73 l886 l895 l905 l92O l926 l932 l943 l947 l959 l965 Th th men who were instrumental in founding the Resurrection Fathers were QL to R., B d J k F P t S k d F J K eer emenen o, an r. erome ajgigwiqz,

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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

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KContinued fron: page 142 selves to foster education among those youths who have come under their care. Through their guidance and direction, they have striven to make each student a better Christian as well as an educated member of society. Fr. Smolikowski had summarized the principles involved in educa- tion when he wrote: Co educate does not fnean to accustorn, to ha- bituate to good for there is not question here of an anirnat but of fnan, who cannot be educated without his own co-operation. Eoergthing hinges on inanls free will Co educate is to perfect the will in fnan, to fnoubi his character ,And how can the will be properg conchtioned if it is de- prived of freedofn of choice bg being continualg curbed? .if the student need not thinh for hiin- sebf because others are doing his thinking for hiin? ,Cet us, therefore perfnit the students. as far as feasible the greatest hbertg thus encour- aging thefn to a colnrnon effort for seg'-conguest and fnastcrg oaer sed and at the safnc tiene cus- posing thefn to sinceritg bg gioing thefn corn- plete freedofn. This the Congregation has done and shall do in serving to bring their charges closer to God, their eternal destiny. Very Rev. Bernard Bak, CR, Fourth Provincial of the Canonically Erected Chicago Province. The Nativity of the B.V.M. Church in Czestochowa. Texas. is typical of the many par- ishes which the Resurrectionists founded in the United States and to which schools were often attached.