Mendel Catholic High School - Monarch Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The ChrisTian Family MovemenT spells ouT The new impeTus given To The AposTolaTe of CaTholic AcTion by Our Holy MoTher The Church. Married couples and parenTs are encouraged To learn The meaning of Their high calling as members of ChrisT's MysTical Body. The ChrisTian Family MovemenT reminds husbands and wives oT Their responsibiliTies To each oTher and To Their children. IT sTresses The imporTance and digniTy of The ChrisTian home. OT greaTesT imporTance is The way in which This aposTolaTe inspires CaTholics To spread The leaven of ChrisTianiTy ThroughouT Their modern-day vvorld. From a sTudy of ChrisT's life and The liTurgical liTe oT The Church, These lay aposTles learn hovv To apply ChrisTian soluTions To The social and economic problems OT This age. The Monarch sTaTT, in paying TribuTe To The ChrisTian Family, saluTes all C.F,M. groups. The one picTured above is Trom ST. John de la Salle parish, where FaTher John Murphy is pasTor. We saluTe The chaplains, like FaTher William Lyons, above, Tor Their self-sacriTice in behalT of The lay aposTolaTe. FaTher Lyons, We may noTe, has Tilled in as a religion Teacher aT Mendel since FaTher Prior's sudden deaTh. O Joseph, Holy Guardian oT Jesus and Mary, assisT us by Thy prayers in all The necessiTies OT liTe. Ask of Jesus ThaT special grace which He granTed To Thee, To vvaTch over our home aT The pillow of The sick and The dying, so ThaT vvifh Mary and vviTh Thee, heaven may Tind our Tamily unbroken in The Sa- cred HearT of Jesus. 'I9

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ADMINISTRATICN Our Father Rector, with his administrative statt, is the core and lite ot Mendel Catholic High School. This ad- ministrative group skillfully heads an enthusiastic faculty. Continuing the monumental work ot Father Seary- Father Cavanaugh, Father Grace, Father Verstynen and Father McNabb combine wise administration with pro- gressive leadership to shape Nlendel's destiny. Under such capable direction, our school will attain its goal ot Christian education ot youth and the extension of Christ's Mystical Body on earth.

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f.-. ' r if? , 4 W ft 1 1 45 it as ,3 ft.'?, ,W'i4tff'11.a,55712 V S451- .Y.7,'9i J'Q'! A .i',,'0'f':H f ! 95,9 ft t 1 S 5 K 1 at 4 5 'F f If FATHER FRANCIS CAVANAUGH, O.S.A. Father Cavanaugh, in succeeding Father Seary, is keenly aware of the hopes and plans which Mendel's founder had for our school. Furthermore, he brings to the office of rector those qualifications necessary to guide Mendel in its second phase of development. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University, Father Cavanaugh pursued further studies at the Gregorian University, Rome, and at Catholic University, Washington, D.C. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Education by Villanova and took graduate studies at Tulsa University. Father Cavanaugh taught at Villanova University, 1937, before his assignment to the Midwest Province on the faculty of Cascia Hall, Tulsa. He was appointed vice-rector at Cascia in 1940. From 1952 until his coming to Mendel, Father was vice-rector of St. Rita High, Chicago. 20