Quigley Preparatory Seminary - La Petit Seminaire Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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WE LEARNED- atomrc energy a long long way from lemma femrnae to Eheu lugaces Postume Postume labuntur annr The years drd glrde srlently away a long way we have gone from the trmrd lrrendshrps of our freshman days to the warm comradeshrps of our senror year A flood ot memorres sweeps baclc upon us' Way baclc rn 42 Pete Shannon was a slrght lrttle fellow Henry Sowa was the alderman type even then Chylewsler was the tallest man rn the class Brrzzolara carrred lots of werght Feller was the neatest and Sponder one of the tlashrest dressers es rt rs a long way from the 218 Freshmen to the 58 senrors we are today Lots of thrngs happened 42 per cent ot the class made the honor roll rn Sophomore year Klose was prefect for every one of hrs frve years Schwartz always up there at the top Crean Kulleclc Henry Brrzzolara Clrfsullrvan T Lynch Seidel Dyer but why go on7 Ours rs a good record of scholarshrp and ac complrshment Prrndrvrlle won the Thomas ehterson Oratorrcal Contest whrle a student at Loyola Too bad we drd not have the chance to see hrm rn a starring role rn that play of last May which was postponed Our ltalran contingent of Cantrerr, Brrzzolara Cernrglra and Gurstolrse was wrtty, popular and on the scholarly srde Dan Sullrvan was the hardest worlcer rn the class We had a great varrety of professors all srzes and shapes different rn teaching habits Hope all the lessons strclc wrth us rom 1941 untrl graduatron rn May 1946 our stream of conscrousness ran somethrng lrlce thrs X equals the unlcnown and how unlcnown' the genrtrve case demerrt card blue card report card the bar rrers of crvrlrzatron agree rn gender number and case wheres the verb7 algebra srr rs a scrence now Greelc rs easy e square of the hypotenuse solrd oh so solrd geometry the me verbs reduplrcatron and augment the second aorrst e middle vorce drat that man Caesar' the old ablatrve absolute toprc sentences perfect paragraphs perfect failures note boolcs composrtrons short story and short story rndrspen sable readrng the conflrct and suspense uo usque tandem abutere old Socrates and hrs Apologra Hamlet those solrloqures P Vergrlrus Maro and hrs opus how can a man wrrte that stuf'f7 the Federal Reserve Banlc then Sophocles added the thrrd actor the frogs and therr delrghtlul chorus rn The Frogs Whats this fellow Horace drlvrng at? Dante and lnferno our fantastrc drawrngs of the lower depths The mrddle term must be used at 4 ' ll . . DI ll I I I -U . . . , ...Itis ' ' .I I I l I l' I I I ' ' I I , I , '. .1 . Q , ,, , ...th . - ll li ,, ',..rh . . MQ ll . - . - 1 all ll 'Z

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Nlllll being the record and impressions of the spiritual endeavours the intellectual adventures the athletic achievements and the aesthetic accomplishments of fifty eight young men who entered Quigley as unlettered callow youths in 1941 and now leave the Petit Seminaire qualified to pray and study our way to the priesthood WE PRAYED There were a lot of prayers said by us during the five years As soon as we entered Quigley we lcnew that we would have to pray often So the beautiful St ames Chapel was visited daily How much time we spent there in the darkness The slowly fading gloom the beauty of the place revealing itself gradually the majestic altar e awe inspiring windows lofty and solemn telling in brilliant colors the drama of the Redemption The moments spent in chapel are all memorable e times when it was a Gethsemane to share with the suffering Christ e Stabat Mater the austere and melancholy music from the organ The tenderness we felt while kneeling at the wonderous Christmas crib the finest we ever saw The Mass on All Souls for all the departed professors and students The May altar of the Queen of Clerrcs and the crowning by the Class Presrdent Willie Ryan The Days of Recollection and the Holy Hours with special sermons The sweet mercy of God coming to us quickly rn the Sacrament of Penance in the semi darlcness the unspealcable loveli ness of the purple hue of the glorious Rose Window as the late afternoon sunlight came streaming through the splendid practice of saying the Rosary each day was continued in our time when the Beadsmen met at 3 15 a group that was started all the way back in 1923 the Beadsmen have no oFficers to guide them, yet it is probably the most faithful and active group in Qulgley life at our time twenty six years after its founding most memorable day of prayer during our course was the Sunday before the Christmas of 45 not only was it memorable as the day on which the first Mass was said in the honor of Mother Cabrini but also as the day on which our Archbishop became a Cardinal There were millions of words spoken by professors and millions of words in four languages written by us in the course of our education at Quigley As we loolc baclc it was a long way from the plus and minus sign to the laws of 7.3 lHi EHHH Ui iHi IHHTSS Hi 745 D - , . . A 1 A 1 U . . . r U I th Q ' . . . I ' . . .th ' ' ' ' ' . . .th Lenten services , . . the Stations of the Cross and the haunting beauty of the

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least once as a unuversal Speech us for the communucatuon of udeas A speech us due next Saturday when wull the 14th of May come7 W PLAYED Our basketball teams had some fearsome names fantue u s Colts Shannon s Sharks Seudel s Stags Sulluvan s Heels Remarkable play was an every day occurrence Denny Harkun won the basket snootung contest Tom Henry truumphed un the table tennus tourney Tom Oconnel put humself un the Hall of Greats un Golf at Quugley wuth hus two Champuonshups un one year the Summer Open and Fall Tourney ohn Enrught and um Coffey took over control of the Lufeguards Dud a good job Duc Prunduvulle shot at the wrong basket un a cage game but won a letter un swummung wuth a hands down vuctory un the breast stroke competutuon Dulla came through wuth a vuctory un the 41 Begunners Chess tournament Rough House captauned hus bowlers to a champuonshup Duck Feller and Duck Fassbunder were top keglers wuth that outfut oe Murray can throw a bowlung ball faster than any other senuor ack Brett was our champ at handball Crean was quute a crackshot wuth the water pustol as a freshman but gave up the pastume long ago Some of the roughest and most enjoyable fun we had was our versuon of water polo Bob Sponder dud a remarkable job of sport reportrng un the frank sheet known as The Double Drubble such verve and such verbs' yet ut was a most unterestung column and wudely rea The Athletuc Raffle was always an event un the Fall Remember the year that the student durectors of the Raffle Duck Feller and Tom House, saw both of theur fathers wun War Bonds un the Raffle7 Presudent Bull Ryan drew the wunnung tuckets one year and fauled to draw a sungle tucket sold by hus classmates ther wunners among us were the suster of ohn Enrught and the father of the blond Sulluvan boys Remember the day Ray Muller appeared on the gym floor to play basketball un a dress shurt and a tue7 Duck Carroll one of our most versatule athletes and a class offucer a vuctum of poluo after the summer sessuon But on hus way to recovery now a grand guy and a good athlete WE ENJOYED ur cultural sude was not neglected There was great appuecuatuon of fune musuc among us and some amazung exponents of boogue woogue as for unstance Pete Shannon Phul Vufentzel Bob Sponder Tom Lynch can move hus mannush hands across the keyboard wrth surprusung results tan Rudcku a near double for Leopold Stokowsku was a star performer on the puano 3 E ... '.... , ll .I.. ...J - J' . -Dv. -I.-.li ' - :Mu - -r..u a... - lnvl - . . J . O . I.. . . I I . ...AI ...S