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

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0l'fI 6l, rf 0 Cl, Qin, Ol Along the maun corrudor of Quugley I recently saw small groups of young wude eyed hopefuls gazung un fascunatuon at the graduates framed on the walls These youngsters had just regustered at the semunary eager to enter un September Here I was Iookung at the future un these aspurants who were Iookung at the past un the graduates The group paused before the largest and latest pucture I walked behund these lads to watch theur reactuons and lusten to theur comments Arent they handsome? one young lad thought out loud Yes and untellugent too answered another Thus was the class of 53 Thus was my class Our class was a part of hustory now But thus pucture dud not speak to them as ut spoke to me Everyone of those puctures was more than a face more than a smule more than a name ut was a dustunct personaluty throbbung wuth Iufe and humor thrullung wuth hopes and fears These puc tures told me a story of fuve years years of study and prayer of fun and play Havung become an Alumnus I was Iookung at the school un retrospect Here the class of 53 had passed through the munor semunary as one who hovers un mud aur for fuve years between graduatuon from grammar school and entrance unto the mauor semunary Down these corrudors we had fuled to lunch or chapel Through these doors we had dashed out to play base Whule I was scannung these faces and famuluar pro fules a daze of daydreamung took me back As I glanced un memory through the wrong end of the tele scope tume played a truck on me I found myself back un I948 That year I arruved at Quugley rather early on the mornung of September 7th I II always remember that mornung the street cars busses and subway were jammed I was one of two hundred thurty one young starry eyed hopefuls enterung the portals of IO3 East Chestnut Street the door of Quugley Semunary Ed Conway arruved just as I dud We embarked upon thus new sea of Iufe wuth boys from all parts of the cuty From a roll call of names we found that our class was a munuature league of natuons and that the members represented every part of the cuty and every part of the alobe We were duvuded unto classes then a member of the faculty unformed us that on the followung mornung we would take part un the Annual Retreat--our furst actuvuty as semunaruans Three and one half days later after the spurutual guudance of the members of the faculty who acted as retreat speakers we were oruen tated unto a new world a semunaruan s world We com pleted that spurutual epoch wuth great satusfactuon even though a few may have suffered bleedung knees from the kneelers whuch were not supercushuoned as they later were However we were not the only freshmen Father Baseheart we duscovered was a benny on the Faculty FRESHMEN that we were we began our furst offucual day wuth Mass of the Holy Ghost Followung thus beau tuful spurutual acceleratuon we got down to the busuness of the year As the varuous Professors came unto our classes we found that they were human that even though we had heard tall tales of thungs happenung at Quugley ut seemed as uf we mught survuve We found that un the next few days all of us be came aduusted to the dutues of the program that lay un the future Dom Cronun of I B and Dan Coughlun of I A were chosen Mussuon Collectors of theur respectuve classes Of the many clubs that were soon 'formed we found that one of the most popular was the 3 I6 Club Lookung at Muck Nemecek remunded me of Thanks guvung the advent of Thanksguvung brought the culmunatuon of the Annual Quugley Raffle We soon learned that Father Kuszynsku was the super salesman of raffle books We could never forget that raffle be cause Muck won the RCA Televusuon set Lookung at Red McHugh took me unto the Freshman Basketball world at Quugley when Red was leadung hus I D untra mural team to constant vuctorues Red had been a member of the All Cuty Grammar School team There was Pat McGuan who helped I D surpruse un fact shock the school by bestung 2 C s cagers un the St Pat s funals At one tume un furst year I wondered uf I was seeung double But I was havung merely the same duffuculty some of our Professors had experuenced I was Iookung at the Stalzer twuns Duck and Don I recalled ummedu ately that the Professors soon solved that problem because Duck constantly was udentufued as Prefect and Don understudued hum as Beadle Seeung I-Ius Emunence Cardunal Strutch remunded me of the furst Chrustmas season at Quugley Thus was the occasuon of the annual Chrustmas vusut of Hus Emunence to the Semunary Fuve tumes we enuoyed the pruvulege of receuvung hus personal blessung and hus spurutual greet ungs of the holy season Before me was Marty Dun leavy of I B who very properly and capably presented to Hus Emunence the spurutual bouquet of the semu naruans ION . 1 , - - - 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . , . 1, , ' ' ' , 1 11 ' ' ' - H I . 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llturgy of the Mass was explauned glvlng us a better perspectlve of the essence of the Mass We were getting our fnrst lnsnght unto the meaning and benefits of the spuntual lnfe JUNIOR Hagen together with Paul Burke Ron Klefer and Joe Kennedy looked down from theur pos: tlons above me and reminded me of our fourth year that year when 4 A had names that should have been ln -I B or -I C The alphabet was distributed systemat lcally throughout the three rooms to us JUNIOR year was the year of the bug shakeup I was remnnded that that was the year when the shakeup affected the en ture school except flrst year Seelng John Nook Bull Welsh and Jlm Kunzer all of whom located In 4 A remnnded me of how pleasant the change was I recall how some dlsllked the new arrangement Remnnusclng we all agreed on more than one occaslon that the change was a constructlve one because It brought the entlre class closer together and gave us a better class splrlt There was Bull Moroney Iooklng as smug as ever despite the fact that the nemesis for the year seemed to be VIFQII and Plato wrth Trngonometry runnung a close second My pleasant vlslts to the Library were rellved when l saw Rod Stanek Moose Dombrowsku and Rog O Bnen Thelr addltlon to the Library Staff Installed a new llfe Into the world of llterature The efflclency of the Ceremonies group the Cathe dral Servers came before me upon the appearance of Bob Walsh Jack Clark Jerry Bresnahan and Bll Welsh There were Bull Cox Bull McGlynn and John Mornssey who helped lnght the Candle every two weeks under the censorshnp of Father McMahon I be came hungry when I thought of how often we stopped IH at Jlm Ouletta s Plzza Place on Wednesday night There you would always flnd the West Srde bloc of semlnarlans revlewlng the week at school argulng baseball or basketball and swallowrng plzza Dan Coughlnn nn hls portrayal of the Cat an Parade at Devlls Bndge brought to mnnd ln thus maze of plctures the notrflcatron of tryouts for the play at the end of September Pat McGuan landed a never to be forgotten part In St Felux and Hrs Potatoes There before me was the group of Pllgnms In St Anne and the Gouty Rector mcludlng Cahlll Dunleavy and Glllrgan Radlo plays and short stones assigned by Fathers Lrske and Casey taking us to many dlstant lands were brought unto sharp focus when the vlsages of Jack Duffln Phll McGee and Joe Murphy came to my at tentron Long antlclpated travel came dunng fourth year wuth the memorable Washlngton tnp Plctures were snapped constantly by Jlm Dowd and Jlm Dre bold wlth Jnm Grrffun and Duck Stalzer as the centers of attractron The Strata Dome to and from Washlng ton provlded us wlth beautlful vlews of scenery vnews whnch could never have been observed from ordunary wundows as we rode through the area There were the tours of Cathollc Unlverslty the promlnent and lm portant bulldlngs the boat rude up and down the Potomac wlth Monsugnor Meter provudmg the enter talnment at the piano with has usual versatlllty those were but a few of the memorles of our tnp But especially we all believed the most long lastlng memory was our audlence wuth Our Apostolnc Delegate and the satlsfactuon of havung known that there would be mass In the morning even on the boat The week prior to our trap had been Holy Week Durrng that tlme we as Juniors had been prlvlleged to assist the Seniors as part of the plaun chant cholr From the beginning of the year we had practiced for those three lmportant days Thursday Frlday and Saturday of Holy Week when we were at Holy Name Cathedral chantung the psalms the lamentatlons and proverbs Wrth the patlence ablllty and wllllngness of Father Wogclk we enhanced through the plain chant the beautrful servuces of Holy Week Dorgan Bedlngfueld O Donnell and Bohlman repre sented Fourth year ln the Glee Club Department Ed Parker was behund the flute Dan Stempora on the percussnon and Bob Grszewskl on the vlolrn also played supportlng roles These were but a few who made the Fourth Year Concert a great success Johnny Roller wlth hrs legerdemaln entertalned those who were unfortunate enough to recenve an In vltatuon to 205 He amazed them for across the hall from 205 was has locker Upon opening has locker John from his bag of trucks would pull out a light bulb and socket He would pull the chain and light the bulb and at the same tlme llght up the eyes of hrs onlookers lmore often than not the bennnest wuth amazement and astonushment The year was filled with excitement of all kinds and a greater amount of home work but what was more Important nt was a year of convlctnons Quigley had offered us somethlng not altogether matenal as basketball and swummlng but spuntual pnncaples that were guldrng flares as well as beckoning beacons I vrvxdly recall that for some of us It was apparent that there would be a partung of the ways The magorlty on the other hand had Increased strength of convlc tlon to forge on ahead for the remalnlng years Junror year seemed to tell us that Qungley was where we belonged SENIOR was the name we boasted In September l952 whereas FRESHMAN was the tutle for the three new members of the Faculty Fathers Le Compte Duggan and ODonnell The Faculty was glven a 107 , 1 . 1 ' 1 , 1 I . . . . 1 I . . . , 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 . 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