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

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IS the great student Interest It has always enjoyed Because of this In terest we have given a large section of this book to sports A seminarian who has learned the value of recrea tion IS much less likely to be physic ally or morally overwhelmed In his service to Our Lord and devotion to Our Lady To be a good leader one must first learn to follow The discipline and obedience that ranges through the Church IS easily seen as a source of her strength and unity A semi narIan IS trained In these habits so that he may soon reach the point at Imposed and his obedience springs from love Just as Mary s Inspiration kept the Infant Church unIted so also her Influence can be seen In the rules and the disciplinary system which aim at InstIllIng a firm unity In our ranks today Because of the Impor tance of thIs facet of semInary train Ing we felt It should not be omItted from our book Since QuIgley IS a day school It IS not the only scene of ITS students activities ln a day entirely spent In the love of Our Lady seminarians may be found teaching catechism to the young or Slnglng songs to the blind We shall complete our descrip tion of the seminarian s day with a section on these extra curricular ac TIVITIES These are the general outlines of the life which IS the subject of thIs book We doubt If we shall ever know all that IS accomplished In our semi nary days for those things which affect us most deeply usually happen gradually and almost unnoticeably We do know however the purpose of these years of our life for all semi narians share a common goal toward which their efforts are bent That IS the only reason that there should be seminarians This IS the dream that makes a seminary lt IS not so much the dream of young men who live that they might attaIn It as It IS the dream of Christ who died that It might be come a reality Since It IS the dream of a God ITS sublIme significance shall never be fully understood by men To them the priest must always remain a man of mystery Yet be cause the priesthood IS the foremost thought In the mind of a seminarian we have presented a section on It as the climax of our book just as It Itself shall be the climax of our lives l l which his hardest disciplines are self- Of COUVSG- the Priesthood- Which is

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for the Queen of Heaven reIgns also In our semInary The chams of our bondage are no stronger than the frag Ile strlngs of RosarIes but the bonds of loyalty whIch unIte us to her grow stronger from day to day because of her presence among us Just as Mary played a very IntImate part In the growth of ChrIst so also there are others who play a sImIlar part In the formatIon of those who would be other ChrIsts We shall throughout thIs book attempt to poInt up these sImIlarItIes and rela tIonshIps between the Vlfgln and the Semlnary Such IS the Influence of others upon our lIves that we are a part of everyone we have met ThIs In fluence It would seem was not strange to the boy ChrIst for He must have ImItated the QUIET vIrtues of HIs mother to be known as Marys Son even after He had left HIs home If thIs was true of the God man It IS even truer of those who are only men lt IS certaInly true of the Influence of our teachers upon us We should shrInk from an estImatIon of our In debtedness to them for fIrst they would not wIsh It and secondly we are not capable of It Yet we feel that when paroxytones and dIthyrambs have begun to fade In our memorIes the lessons they taught us often un consclously about the prIesthood they share wIll be remembered and practused We should surely be In error If we were to dIsmIss Mary as a mere ob server of the advancement of ChrIst In wnsdom age and grace We would err In the same way If we thought that semInarIans were regarded by 12 theIr prlest teachers as hothouse specImens IH theIr gradual develop ment To the contrary every prIest feels a responsIbIlIty for the spIrItual Ity of the semInary But above all thIs IS the specIal Interest of the spIr Itual dlrectors who through sermons confessIonal work and prIvate confer ences guIde each IndIvIduaI semmar Ian Because of the Incalculable Im portance of theIr offIce we shall ex plaIn theIr work more fully In another sectuon of thIs book The Church lIke Mary IS Inter ested In the development of all the talents her sons possess For thIs rea son the semInary has encouraged a number of actIve groups whIch have as theIr purpose the courtIng of the Muse The musIcIans may IoIn the orchestra whIch together wIth the Glee Club presents a concert each sprIng Two choIrs enable the stu dents to become thoroughly acquaInt ed wIth the beautuful musIc of the Church In addItIon to these the QuIgley Players offer an opportunIty to those of hIstrIonIc abIlIty whIle the art club and the school publlcatlons are open to those who are skullful wIth brush or pen We belIeve that Mary s Interest In the SXDFGSSIVGHESS of her sons IS the cause of much of the success that these groups meet SemInarIans are both body and soul and when they enter the semInary they do not shuffle off thIs mortal coIl ThIs would be clear to anyone who has observed QuIgley s extensIve athletIc program whIch contInues throughout the year Each student IS gIven the opportunIty to engage In thIs program to the extent that hIs Interest and enthuslasm prompt hIm A trIbute to thIs department s success - . , I - I , I , - ns - I1 . - I I . . . . . . . . , y - . 44 . . . ,, . . . . Y ' I I I - I . I - I I I I - - - y . . . I I I I . . I I . ' . ' - I . , . . . . . y

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Fr. Dehnerf, Pestalozzian principles. Fr. Wronka, What rare verb is that? Cilfllnfl of Qlllogkml ?7fZ'llIOI'I.ll Years of Service VERY REV. MONSIGNOR JOHN W. SCHMID, M.A. 29 REV. THOMAS V. LISKE, M.A., S.T.D. . 22 REV SYLVESTER F. WRONKA, M.A., S.T.D. ZI REV. VINCENT P, CASEY, M.A., S.T.L. ZI REV. HARRY C. RYNARD, M.A., S.T.D. 20 REV. CLAUDE E. KLARKOWSKI, M.A., S.T.L. 20 REV FRANCIS C. MURPHY, M.A., S.T.I3. I9 REV THOMAS J. MCKUGO, M.A., S.T.D. I7 REV JOHN J. HARTNETT, M.A., S.T.D. I6 REV JOSEPH T. MOHAN, M.A., S.T.D. I6 VERY REV. MONSIGNOR CHARLES N. METER, S.T.L., CGM., MusD. I4 REV ALOYSIUS P. DEHNERT, M.A., STB. I3 REV FRANCIS A. BRACKIN, M.A., S.T.L. I3 REV FRANCIS N. MANIOLA, M.A., S.T.L. I3 REV JOHN J. MCMAHON, M.A., S.T.D. IZI2 REV. ANTHONY J. BENESH, M.A., STB., M.S.L.S. IZV2 REV. J. AUSTIN GRAFF, M.A. IIV4 Fr. Voss, Ci tough Moral case. Fr. Mohan, St. Thomas' argument from design ,X-.