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

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en 6ll'l6! ri Father Graff a severe crutuc Beam g exh b to s Father sm les pleased opp o al ln keepung wuth the semunarys purpose of developung every talent whuch the partucular student for the pruesthood may have there exusts at Quugley an organuzatuon whose sole purpose us to cultuvate the artustuc 196, Lire unclunatuons of the semunaruan Thus organuzatuon us known as The Brush and Stylus Club Although ut has been saud that real artusts are born not made Brush and Stylus us open to all students There are no restruc tuons of class or abuluty Even uf the lumutatuon of one 5 artustuc urge us the drawung of straught lunes wuth a ruler he us stull encouraged to enter unto membershup of the Art Club as ut us sometumes dubbed For once he has jouned the club the student not only funds a new apprecuatuon for art un all forms but also umproves hus artustuc abuluty Father J Austun Graff us the very able and talented moderator of Brush and Stylus Under hus guudance there serves a duly elected staff headed by Thomas Laz as Presudent Thomas Ventura us the Vuce Presudent J rome Dehnert acts as Secretary and Joseph Vuzza serves as Treasurer ln a specual way the Brush and Stylus Club mught be saud to be the most umportant extra currucular ac tuvuty here at Quugley for ut fulfulls a very defunute need of the pruest that of culture The umportance of cul ture un the lufe of the pruest must not be underestimated Dauly he comes unto contact wuth well educated and refuned people who wull expect of hum at least a munumum apprecuatuon of fune art And where they do not fund thus munumum of culture they may be wary of placung theur confudence un hum For the Church has always stood for the very best un culture Down through the ages the Catholuc Church has been synonymous wuth tune art The truly great masterpueces 'll . . . su A ' . 4 H - . U . X n T - ' on - u ' . . . . h . . . a . . . 1 7 K - no vu - 1 - v u l v 94' u - , e- u u V 1 u , . . . In I I V . ' i 1, V - . . . u . . . g f - - v 1

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laughs than anyone else was the smnl ang lrnshman Ed O Connor In the part of Rose Mass l-lerrnes mand He proved his versatullty by turning out some of the play s most serlous scenes wnth equal success The Edwards famlly caused many shudders and some smnles as they as slsted Henry Abbott Deep voaced Bull McGlynn effectlvely tread the boards as the overpowering Mr Ed wards l-lls unfemlnlne wlfe was ad mnrably portrayed by the surprlslng Mnlan Nemecek To complete the trno there was James lvers who was a man of few words but much acting abnlnty as the Edwards teen age son the laugh provoklng Buster Taken colorful group The vnllaun of the plece l-lenry Ab bott was accomplished wlth admur able success Rlchard C OConnor was In thus spnteful role playnng a cal culatlng crook who flrst drew laugh ter as an artist of dubious ablllty Later however he transformed amusement to antlpathy as an un scrupulous extortuonlst of undeniable ablllty l-lls was a convlnclng land courageousl performance Finally there ns the tutle role of the knnd lady who opened her heart and her house to Abbott only to fund nt next to Impossible to close them agann Thus role played byJ Hotch kan carried the audience through gay frnvollty grnppnng desperation and flnal trlumph as Miss Herrles changed from a fashnonable lady of upper so cnety to a mlserable broken old woman and once again to the mustress of her own house The curtains closed and soon an empty stage returned to darkness A happy audience filtered homeward 28 Ed Bu ke l-llppoc otes bet dye Do ond B Il Lo ely couple Ed Porker the he o ocqu esces through the streets and a tlred but triumphant cast wlped off thenr make up for the last time Another page had been completed nn the brll luant story of the Quigley Players ' - r ' r ' r r n i, v . ' ' ' ' v ' , r i , ' ' ' ' lg . - .. u T ff , ' 4 . ' B together they were the play's most A T P ' ' 9 I.

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IH paIntIng sculpture and archItec ture have all wIth very few excep tIons been of a relIgIous character ln the words of Pope PIUS Xl The prIest must be graced by no less knowledge and culture than IS usual among well bred and well educated people of hIs day It IS the aIm of the Brush and Stylus to accomplIsh thIs The talented and ambItIous mem bers of thIs art group put theIr skIlls to practIcal and Imm dIate use rIght here In the semInary ln fact the IH fluence of thIs group IS so wIdespread that each student comes In contact wIth some of Its work every day In the form of the relIgIous bulletIn whIch IS Illustrated by Brush and Stylus The members of thIs group are also re ers that hang In varlous places of promInence throughout the school promotlng the annual play the New World DFIVG the Beadsmen and even the Le PetIt Fund DTIVG Whatever Dck Wheatley modern El Greco 40 the campaIgn may be these young artIsts advertlse It to a screamlng suc cess When the Cage Festrval BFFIVGS however the Brush and Stylus really goes to town' The members pool every bIt of Ingenurty each one of them has to desIgn and produce the clever decor that furnIshes the settIng for the SaInt PatrIck s Day Banquet makIng It the most colorful and splen dorous event of the year Another mayor task that IS undertaken by some of the club artIsts IS the plan nIng and executIng of the stage sets for QuIgley SemInary Theatre produc tIons lt IS the dream of every artrst that he wIII some day hold hIs own exhI but The Brush and Stylus man IS no ward to the annual concert held In Spflng when hIs years work IS clI maxed by a publIc exhIbItIon of hrs artIstIc acomplIshments Year after year vIsItors on the nIght of that ex hIbIt have never faIled to marvel at the talent that has shown forth In work of the members of our art club Just how do these men who are eager to dIversIfy theIr Interests go about IncreasIng theIr apprecIatIon for art In all forms and Improvlng theIr artls TIC abIlIty9 Every Saturday after school they can be found workIng on theIr artIstIc creatIons OccasIonally In order to Wlden the scope of theIr culture they make a trIp to the ChI cago Art lnstItute DurIng the year Father Graff presents speakers both clerIcal and lay who are competent and Interested artIsts In theIr own rIght These speakers gIve some In structIon on the varlous art medIa oIls pastels water colors tempora and the lIke . . e 1 1 ' . sponsible for the many striking post- eXCeP'fl0 'f Each member looks for' i , ,