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

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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 , ,

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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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.An .xgufogiograla g A yearbook is an odd place to find an autobiography but this is an un- usual autobiography' for here is the autobiography of the Le Petit Last May when spring fever had reached its peak Father Liske who has supervised my publication for years named Bob Bohlman Editor in chief Rog O Brien Business Manager and Jim Diebold Engraving Editor Bob then picked the remainder of my staff with the confirmation of Father Liske and then of Monsignor Schmid Following a number of meetings with Father Liske and Father Dehnert my new faculty counsellor my staff ad yourned for the summer turning over in their minds the theme they had chosen for me in my thirty eighth year of publication When September came riding in on the crest of the August heat wave my producers came again to my resi dence above 205, their heads burst- ing with notions. The theme THE INFLUENCE OF MARY OVER THE SEMINARY and the vast symbolism that it provided motivated them greatly. With Monsignors permission lto raise 9p7000l safely tucked away Mr O Brien aided by his tried and proven fellow mission collectors Jack Clark and Mick Nemecek proceeded by dream and scheme to solicit my pro duction budget on which Don Stal zer kept the tome like ledgers Meanwhile Father Dehnert and Bob were meeting with Messrs Rogers who printed me Stover who suggested layouts and contracted for the engraving and Kase who pro cured my covers Conferences and negotiations with these gracious gen tlemen over l was laid out in draft form and the components of this C W I 'D-. 41