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

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e Le Petrt Semrnarre n w rn s thrrty frrst year as the otfrcral publrcatron ol the school began as a srngle typewrrtten copy rn 1912 and contrnued thus for the next three years ln 1915 Raymond O Brren former Sprrrtual Drrector at Qurg ley Semrnary and present pastor of Blessed Sacrament Parish edrted Number One Volume One of Le Petrt Semrnarre From the quarterly edrtrons nn whrch form rt orrgmally appeared consrstrng ol student edrtorrals poetry essays and hctron wrth a specral graduate edrtron rn une the yearbook became an annual rn 1933 because ol the Increased cost ol produc tron For the growrng magazrne The three key men rn the productron of thus yearbook were the Edrtor Busrness Manager and Photographer As the Edrtor ulrus Klose had the responsrbrlrty of plannrng the book :ts theme drvrsrons Fr Thomas V Lrske and assrsted by the wrrters of the staff Bob Sponder Paul Schwartz Tom Henry and Tom Lynch The brographers thus year were Donald Kulleck and George Dyer Clrltord Bergrn and Tom House formulated the Class Chronrcle ohn Serdel as Busrness Manager dr rected the hnancral work Hrs job was to see that surfrcrent money was rarsed through the sale of ads and patrons by the students ln thus he was ably assrsted by Anthony Chylewskr The heavy responsr brlrty ot recordrng the money and handlrng the general hnances was aptly handled by the Treasurer Richard Feller As the Photographer and Engraving Editor Ray Adams had the task of takrng and mountrng all the prctures Hrs long experrence proved rnvaluable Tom House assisted Ray rn thrs large task upervrsrng and co ordrnatrng all these actrvrtres Father Lrske drawrng on hrs vast experrence with the magazine has gurded the start through Its edrtorral and business problems Hrs ten year servrce wrth the yearbook actually one thrrd of nts existence has been longer than that ol any other moderator Mentron of the yearbook cannot be made wrthout thrnkrng ol the guldrng Force behrnd rt Father Lrske Th It . , . li! O . , . , I - , , .. .-.. .. , 1 , , I J A . , . and arrangement, directed in this task by A f I 1 I ' J I 1 I 1 I' , . , S v t - . . , f , .

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nd' Last September the Seniors sent their last edition of the CANDLE to press and another volume the twenty Fifth was added to the history of Quigley s official newspaper A compact tour page edition the br weelcly CANDLE dilters a good deal from the ordinary newspaper Years ago Father Desmond sent the first edition ol the CANDLE to press with a twofold purpose hrst to develop journalistic ability and a sense ol responsibility in its staff and secondly to lceep the students well informed on school activities H reasoned that enthusiasm for school life is all important to the student without it he soon loses all interest in study and school soon becomes a burden It was he CANDLES job to help counteract this dangerous tendency by keeping the students interested in extracurricular ac tivrtres The past year saw Father Dehnert as the CANDLE S new moderator Following the example ot his predecessor Father Lislce he has given unstrntrngly of his time and effort to and the stall in publishing s ettrcrent and Finished a product as possible According to its reporters the CANDLE IS stalled by its editor and the men who do worlc George Dyer the Editor in chiel would nevertheless like to express hs thanlcs here to men ol the stall who really editor who virtually exhausted the re sources of the public library in a vain attempt to Find bits of humor to his Candleglow to the Feature Editor Richard Feller who handled so successfully the largest single section of the CANDLE to the triumvrrate ol the Qports Section Thomas O Connell ohn Seidel and Paul Schwartz men who helped to make the sport news they reported to Donald Kulleclc and Thomas Henry whose rib splitting column Candlewick carried on a friendly feud with Candleglow Clifford Sullivan the editor of the ever popular Chatterbox to the associate editors Crean Bergnn ohnson and Chylewslu without whose and the CANDLE would not have been published and last of all to Raymond Adams the staff photographer whose consustently fine worlc aided so much in enlrvenmg the CANDLE S pages I - U I f , ffl L A 1 g . . . . I e . X4 -I i i . . r y . . . . . , , . . . . O ' r 'I ' i 1 Q ' i iq did a fine job: to Julius Klose, the assistant ' . . r - ll bb . 1 i , I i v . , . . , J , , i j to 1 s , , , J , . iff? 'Y I ' - , - ., I .

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Through the Gregonan Plarn Chant chorr to whrch every senror belongs the senror class becomes acquannted wrth the plarn unaccompanred chants whuch have been tradrtuonal In Church lrturgy smce ancrent tImes It IS our duty to srng the proper of the Hrgh Mass on Sundays and Holy Days In the Cathedral d It frttrng and proper that we who are to be the prrests of the archdrocese should srng as semmarrans In Holy Name Cathedral the frrst church of the archdrocese The drffrcultres but wrth good reason the musrc dedrcated to the pralse and worshrp of God should be as perfect and as exalted as possrble The culmrnatron of the Gregorran chorr s year of worlc comes In the servrces of Holy VVeelc To spend trme In the preparatron and Slnglng of the chants IS sometrmes a SGCTIFICS but one for whIch we wrll be rrchly rewarded both In the Mayorsemrnary and In the prresthood ln the Gregorran chant many new frelds of melody are opened up because there are erght regular and SIX extra modes of scales Instead of the two to whrch our modern melodrc system IS lrmrted The themes of the srmple chants are often extracted and around them are burlt much larger and grander works for polyphonrc chorr and even for full orchestra Our whole system of both musIcal tone and musrcal notatron sprang up In large part from the Gregorran To the srmple beauty of the notes are added the lofty Ideas expressed In the words The chorr really prays In song wrth a drfferent prayer and song for every drstrnct part of every Mass Under the leadershrp of Father Chambers the chorr has Improved Itself even further and wrll Contlnue to do so FfHHHIHN PlHIl lIHHNl IHUVH