Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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Che Chem = ince its founding in 1839, the heart and center of all life at Loras col- lege has always been the college chapel. In the years which elapsed be- tween the building of the first crude chapel at what was then St. Raph- ael’s seminary and the construction in 1948 of the magnificent new Chapel of Christ the King, this heart of Loras has been found in many loca- tions. But the few students who made up the first class of the college and the seven hundred and fifty who are now enrolled, as well as all those who have attended in the intervening years, have always had in common the same Divine Inspiration and Guidance, derived from Him Who dwells within the sanctuary of all chapels, Christ the King. We feel that it is particularly appropriate, therefore, that the theme of this year’s Purgold be taken from the constant heart of Loras, the college chapel. When the Chapel of Christ the King was designed sev- eral years ago, no small amount of attention was paid to the topics to be portrayed by the stained glass windows. At length, it was decided to use scenes from the life of Christ which could be applied to the lives of students at Loras. Dominating the chapel, just as its subject dominates the lives of all Christians, is the huge window of the Rex Christus, seen on the opposite page. On either side of this window are the theology and poetry win- dows seen on the title page of this yzar's Purgold. Other windows of the chapel are used as division pages throughout the book, each hav- ing a theme apropos to the division it introduces. Finally, throughout the book will be seen small illustrations taken from the windows, which have application to the page on which they appear. There is an added note of symbolism in our selection of these win- dows as the theme for the 1952 Purgold. We feel that they in some measure represent the position of Loras and all other Catholic colleges as media through which the light of Christian knowledge can be trans- mitted to the dark, materialistic world surrounding them. The art work used in the book was executed by David G. Brom, a sophomore at Loras. The four color picture of the Rex Christus was prepared from a 4.x 5 Kodachrome transparency and the division pages and other illustrations are halftones made from pencil drawings by Brom.

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Editor . 2... Business Manager . . Art Biitor i Faculty Advisor... JAMES 0. BARTA LORAS COLLEGE DUBUQUE OWA EMMETT SCHERRMA DAVID BROM JOHN R. TALBVICH

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