Mount Carmel High School - Oriflamme Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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14 MT CARMEL l-lrcrr Scrroor Some twenty e1ght hundred years ago a small group ot courageous men banded together on a mountam rn far oft Palestrne to dedrcate therr hves to the servrce ot God and ln the name of l-hs Mother to manlcmd Thus was the seed ot Carmel planted and through the years 1t grew and flounshed Through tryrng trmes the gu1d1ng hand ofthe Blessed V1rg1n protected and nurtured her chosen sons unt1l the day when the Order of Carmel matured 1nto one of the foremost rel1g1ous organ 1zat1ons 1n the World ln Mt Carmel I-hgh School these same Carmelltes have cont1nued the Work of Catholrc educatlon They have lnstructed boys 1n both the sp1r1tual and the matenal they THE VERY REVEREND LAWRENCE C DIETHER O Car Prov nc al D rector 04931211 13311 Aly . y M ' Q I I . .m. 1 N I' I 11.1 I... .. S d, T . T . 1 , l 'g f N -- -- l

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S Sanctuary of Carrnel's faithful servants - here peace and unity abideg herein 'Waits a friendly handclasp, sage counsel, and advice, to help and guide our youth through sympathetic understanding o'er lite's troubled tide. ll 'S

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THE REVEREIND THEODORE 1 HATTON D 1 AD oqt fiix flu 1V1r CARMEL HIGH Sonoor have molded men w1th true Chrrstran character and ldeals Thrs they have accompltshed by brotherly counsel and exemplary conduct The 1dea of a Cathollc educatlonal 1nst1tut1on 1n Woodlawn was con cetved 1n 1902 and carrled out 1n the foundlng of St Cyr11 s College 1t be came evldent however rn 1924 that the school had outgrown 1ts old quarters necessltatlng an expan present Mt Carmel the name belng changed at that tlme 1n honor of Our Lady of Mt Carmel the spectal patroness of the school and of the Crder The old bu11d1ng 1S strll used for a chapel a prlest s refectory and a 11brary besldes accommodat1ng the Off1CGS of the L1ttle Flower SOC19tY 15 , . A o. Cfrm. I 1. I I u - I Princi Q- ol eics - I I- I N - I - 1 ' - s sion program which resulted in the T ' R . 1 1 A T . ' 1 '. C . ' . . . N