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

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C3!Zf0l Cl,l g j Llflle was founded as The Da1ly Gazette ,then changed to The Spectator , and finally g1ven the name, The Candle but no matter what name It has borne IH the past 28 years, It has been tops 1n Qulgley s l1terary world All through the sem 1nar1an s five years at Qulgley the bl weekly publlcatlon of The Candle has been an event eagerly awarted Ed1ted by the Jumors, The Candle prov1des a great eXper1ence for the sem 1nar1an s future lrfe as a pr1est The respons1b1l1ty alone of Wfltlng and pub l1sh1ng the1r own newspaper IS a vlrtue that St1CkS w1th the students later on ln l1fe when they are glven dutles that man The pr1me mover of the Candle staff IS 1fS prlestly moderator, Father McMahon He has the fundamental but thankless job of developlng mex perlenced, overeager writers 1nto thr1v 1ng and respons1ble journahsts ln a years t1me Hrs first concern 1S to separate the new authors and reporters 1nto dlfferent staffs Many are the storles of the current happen1ngs at or about the semmary wh1ch are of 1nter est to the students The men who wrote all these events as they occurred were 1m Kenny Ed Salmon, M1ke Adams, ohn Baldwin ohn Barrett, and Ray Schendl The second and probably the most dlfficult page to wr1te cons1sts of the feature artxcles For th1s page, the more 1mag1nat1ve members of the staff 80 rack the1r bralns to conjure mterestlng and unusual art1cles for the pleasure of the students The artlcles they wr1te must capture the 1nterest of the students and what IS more dxfiicult, they must hold that 1nterest As the end of the year would draw near and most of the students, recelv mg the1r first touch of sprxng fever, began to loaf th1s staff would thlnk up some 1nterest1ng but polnted artlcle ln order to keep the Splflt of the stu dents up durlng those lazydays IH May The final two pages and definltely the most popular take 1n all the sports and other act1v1t1es 1n the school More than once th1s staff stuck IIS neck got It cut off when the1r foresxght proved erroneous Slnce there are many colorful sports at Qulgley thls staff had an abundance of materlal from wh1ch to draw Th1s job of com p1l1ng stat1st1cs, maklng predrctlons, and 1n short maklng the sport sectlon more mterestlng to all was competently carr1ed out by Don Croark1n,John Har r1ngton, Ray Sulhvan, and ohn Rlng L1ke other newspapers, The Candle was no exceptlon when lt came to 1 gOSS1p column VVr1tten by John Keat 1ng, thrs column, known as the Chatter box, attempted to relate all the hum orous events occurrlng throughout the classrooms from first to fifth year From news to human 1nterest storles and from sports to rellgxous articles, The Candle records the l1fe of the Qulgley semxnarlan S O 7, KK I n ' ' U ss. ' ' 3 . . . , . l l , . 0 J ' '- . . U ,, . . . ' 1 . . H ,, . . . . . .. . . - . V require the services of a responsible out to make aprediction and promptly 0 C D , . . . . . ' . ' ' cc ri ' C . . 7 - I , - J , J ' ' IC Y, '

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m the gym Thexr fine camera work produced plctures that words could not express The book certamly owes much to VVarren Wols, Franc1s Ba1occh1 ames Coleman, and Donald Lydon for therr accurate work on the sport sectlon Such accurate work 1nvolved endless hours of research both delv1ng 1nto thexr own memorles and 1nto the record books Th1s thorough research enabled them to come up w1th the hrghllghts of Quxgley s sport s year Whether at the golf tournament bowlmg alleys, or handball court th1s staff could be seen taklng notes on the events as they occurred The sport sectlon mlght not be the most lmportant sectlon 1n the book but It IS certa1nly the most popular Gerald Loftus Walter Koszut, and ohn R1ng accounted for the feature art1cles a truly dxflicult task In ful dlverse clubs at Qulgley both those w1th a large membershlp and those wlth not so great a followmg To do th1s well they had to first get to know more about some of these clubs After be comlng fam1l1ar w1th these many or gan1zat1ons and mountlng up thelr materlal, then only d1d they begln to wr1te Unfortunately, due to l1m1ted t1me some of the clubs couldnt be covered by these men alone so the ser vlces of Fred Solms and James WV1cklund were called for and they responded un hesltantly and wlllmgly Raymond Sulllvan and h1s Wltty as s1stants Edward lVlcLaughl1n and Charles Schnelder not to mentlon the maglc fingers of ames Grace on the typewrxter were responslble for those qulppy anecdotes under the photo graph of each senlor Only so much could be wrltten on each semor and therefore even the or1g1nals had to be typed out for the sake of correctness A certaln fam1l1ar1ty w1th the manners and ldlosyncrasles of each senlor was the only weapon th1s staff needed 1n order to tackle thelr jobs successfully Th1S weapon was well rn thelr grasp as rs proved by each blography The or1g1nal1ty and poxgnancy of Gerry Loftus were put to the test when he was asslgned to the Chronlcles and he came through w1th flylng colors By r1H1ng through both h1s own memory and the record books he unraveled the story of the fifth year class as It happened from the t1me they were bennles up to the t1me of graduatlon He selected the greatest achlevements both of the fifth year class as a whole and of the fifth year men as 1nd1v1duals Smce th1s IS done every year or1g1n allty IS demanded of the wrrters The duty of the Copy Edrtors was to type out all the art1cles correctly so that the prlnter wouldn t make a mls take Ronald Kalas and Vhlllam Mal lnowskx two of the few senlors exper xenced IH typ1ng seemed to enjoy th1s menlal task of typlng artlcle after artlcle Thelr asslgnment was made all the more d1Hicult by the fact that they couldn t beg1n work untll all the art1cles were wr1tten The t1me allot ted to them to do the work was cut to a very short t1me and lf was amaz 1ng to more than one to see the articles ready for the prlnter on t1me 79 , . . ., J I . , fllling theirjob, they wrote on the many . . .

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lldftet 0 mfdnid E uartet zn .Q,Mzn0r was the dramat1c productlon at Qulgley th1s year A queer quartet? Yes, for the members of the quartet were four modern m1racle playlets by Henrl Gheon and Henr1 Brochet The hlgh notes of a muslcal were replaced by the hlgh-IlI1liS of a cast from the Class of 52 The Cast had a roarlng good time presentmg the plays and the audxence enj oyed everyone of them The first of the four plays was en tltled St Anne and the Gouty Rector W1th sly, tongue ln cheek humor It told the story of a country pastor s refusal to believe in the appearance of St Anne to one of h1s humble parlshloners Finally the old curate rs healed by a m1racle that changes h1s whole l1fe Jack VValsh gave one of the best per formances as Dom Sylvester the gouty rector desplte h1S personal lack of gout Don Dohr as Nlcholas the w1tness of St Anne s appearance underwent sev eral enthuslastxc douslngs from the housekeeper, Dame Prudence before he convmced her and the rector of hls s1ncer1ty Bob Genovese was a mghtly favorite as the crabby but well mean 1ng housekeeper oe Bowler as Nlcholas deceltful brother 1n law Le Roux, drew many laughs wlth h1s country shuHie and h1s corn cob plpe Walter Koszut caused many a grm as Nxcholas nagglng wife while Gene Mc Hale and ohn Baldwin were Nlcholas two b1g for the1r age chlldren Mlke Cleary as Messlre De Kerloguen the natty landlord took the rectors SldC 1n the controversy over St Anne s appearance The three envoys from heaven were h1ghl1ghts of the play Ray Sulhvan made good use of h1s fine volce as St Anne whlle her two angels B111 O Connell and VV1ll1e u1nn were sufii clently solemn as the two admlmstrants of the rector s cure Don Korzeneckl and Pat Lally were two well dressed pllgrlms who sang at the scene of the miracle This was the cast of the first play all gave fine performances 1n the1r respect1ve roles and the audlence was well entertained by the first of the four plays The second member of the uartet n Q, Mznor was St Fellx and Hrs Potatoes Xrvlth the smallest cast of the four plays It drew the largest laughs Th1s playlet told how the samtly farmer Fehx too tlred to com plete h1s task of carrymg 1n h1s harvest of potatoes decldes to leave some of them 1n his field overnlght A lame thlef enllsts the ald of a lumberlng sllghtly t1psy country bumpkm who mlsunderstands and stupldly brmgs the potatoes mto Fehx house desp1te the thlefs protests The story lent lCSClfC21S1lY to some unlnhlbxted clown 1ng and the three man cast took ad vantage of the opportunity Bill Peter son was h1lar1ous as the broad backed ld1Ot who dellvers the potatoes to the1r r1ghtful owner One thlng that the audlence mlssed was the noddlng of the professors heads when Pete sa1d I dont always get thlngs the hrst tlme Pat Mcbuan a fourth year man played the part of the exasper ated th1efw1th a few 1mp1sh 1mprove ments of h1s own Tom Kummerer had the sympathy of everyone as the qulet gulllble samt whose ch1ld l1ke trust IH God brought h1m out the w1n ner This play was an audlence favor 1te every nlght and the cast enjoyed themselves as well as anyone The 1nterm1ss1on s end brought the audlence back to v1ew The Sausage Maker s Interlude a more subtle but 81 . . . , . . . . - - S , . . . . . Q D - - . . H . . . Z . an ' - Q ' xc YI ' . . , - 0 , . . . u u n , ,n a . -. n c l . , - , . L ' 7 - - 7 I 3 3 3 . . . . , . , . . . . , 9 a -' , . . . . . 0 , ' , - 1 n - 9 ' ' . , - ' s - J , ' 1 ' ' y cc 73 ' - T 7 3 . . U , . . . . . H N . . , 1 - . , . . . . . . . . J . . , . ll ' ' H ' ' . V . . . . . -. J J ! 9 , . . . . , - . , . . 0 a - ' 3 . . . . . . . . , . . . . U ' J 1 ' ' Q ' I !7 J ' 9 1