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

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.X4 t:5:5 fo RHQQWQ QI' The small flrcker ofthe sanctuary lamp could be clearly seen hangrng as It seemed, halfway b tween heaven and earth lts lrght told the same story rt had always told Christ the Lrght amrd the darkness was present rn the tabernacle To us erghty young men whose last day at Qurgley was to be spent rn unlon wrth God, an older take was easrly remembered, that of Our Lord s frrst semlnarlans john and Andrew Therr call to Hrs service was the same as ours although ours was centunes later we showed the same wrllrngness the same eager ness, when we entered Qurgley Seminary In September of 1949 Through those frve years our vocations grew stronger untll we could say wlth convlctlon that the semrnary was the place where we belonged Because of the many blessings and graces which carried through the Mass of our last day of recollection at Quigley would be offered rn thanksgrvrng ln a way thus very Mass was to be a summary of all that we had accomplished a history concerned wrth our past frve years The prrest entered the sanctuary prepared to celebrate for the Intention of all the sacrrfrce which everyone present hoped he would one day offer lntrolbo ad altare Den Thus was our reason for com Ing to Qulgley Why we In particular were the ones chosen for thus rmportant work was a question no one attempted to answer The fact was that when the llst was read, our names were on It Things moved rapidly the frrst few weeks for we were stlll rntrrgued by the new subjects our classmates, and the faculty Terms suc as u demerrts and Beadle ong thought to be a member of the Insect trrbe began to sunk rn Wrth homework and L rrdes our trme wasnt ours any more But surely the busiest among us were the new members of Monsignor Meter s cholr Tom Swade, ohn Rudnick Peter Zavadowsky and Tom Purtell were a few of those who spent their noon hours behlnd the closed doors of the audltorlum Many of us wondered at frrst who was doing the slnglng and to fund out at was our own classmates only added to the amazement Whrle thus was gomg on the rntramural players were gorng unto fall trarnlng for the season which was about to open Dements flew fast and furrous then Lets have your card seemed to be the school slogan because rt was the most frequent sayrng heard Nevertheless our roller coaster of work prayer, and play sped along untrl rt halted momentarily for Christmas and the annual vrsrt of Hrs Emrnence Gerald oyce was chosen to present hrm wrth the splrltual bouquet from the school After this we exp rrenced our frrst long vacation from books but thrs feeling of ease was short llved Knowledge was belngrngralned In ourheads butnot only Latrn scrence and algebra were hammered rn Xl A careful and lengthy study was made concerning St Pat s nught one whrch was perhaps the most enjoy able of the year In March of 1950 second year was elnmlnated from the competltron so that 1 A played 1 B for the champlonshrp Wrth Tom Farrell and Stanley Flens shooting for 1 B and rm Bonren and jack Brennan frghtlng for 1 A the South Srde was havrng :ts own crvrl war But when 1 A later retalrated by defeating 1 B rn baseball, peace once again reigned In the South But enough of land actrvrtles Nany of our class had gone to sea for around the edges of the pool stood the non swrmmers, a group of fellows who were re srgned to therr fate of conquerrng the deep The offrcers of this club were Phrl Dressler and john Flavrn l contrast to them were Bull Albertson and Gene Keusal regular members of the swlmmrng team But alas there was trouble here too for poor Gene couldnt swrm rn a straight lane ln April on a Thursday mornrng we mulled over the scholarship exams For three or four hours work Paul Hazard and Bob SWIQCG were given their second year gratrs From Aprrl to May, prng pong and baseball were enthusiastically followed Wrth summer ahead of us Father Sheridan reminded us to be faithful to our dutres as semrnarrans Our year as the Bennles of the school had passed swlftly and looking back on It we admitted that this begrnnrng of ours was not at all unpleasant The Glorla which the prrest had just begun con tanned one of the thoughts whrch were uppermost In our mrnds the following fall the Idea of gratitude GFOIIOS agrmus tub: propter magnam glorrom tuom Second year found four out of our frve rooms on the same floor the third frfty frve starrs hugh There were a few drffrcultres at frrst adjusting ourselves to the starrs ducking the slantrng roof and payrng the beadle two cents for erasers a collectlon which seemed perpetual But In the academic lrne Latln reared Its mrghty head rn the form of syntax For 2 B and 2 C Father Voss orrgrnal tests brrghtened every afternoon Another hrghlrght was the homespun and home grown humor of Duck Glow So humorous were hrs words that Father Voss nicknamed hum Uncle Mrltne Wrth second year came a new sport bowlrng We were represented by three teams the leadung one berng john Armons The day john and hrs follow keglers Ball Kenneally and lm Mulligan moved Into frrst place they declded to make It their home The followlng years, three to be exact saw their declsron upheld Those who trred to break thus wrnnlng streak were Charlie Keenan Tom Frscher and Charlre Erickson but that . . , . . . 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THOMAS HUGH WINDHAM Little Flower Baseball Major League Basketball - Coach Beferee f Heavies Ping Pong Chant. You can't name a sport that Windy doesnt excell in . . . In basketball he has been a major league standout for four years . . , ln baseball he led Q-E to a iunior champion- ship . . . ln ping pong, he was always a top contender . . . Even in hockey and football which are not played at the seminary Tom is incomparable . . . So completes the picture of a well-rounded athlete and a very well-liked SQVTTIOGVIOYT, KENNETH STANLEY WOJTAS St. Maurice Le Petit Staff Cathechist Schola Tennis. Ken is more popularly known as Mr, Democrat to the class, he has long been F. D. l2.'s most loyal Defender. . . Has been studying astronomy since grammar school and is now quite proficient in the subject . . . Labored to get enough patrons for the Le Petit. . . l-le plays a fast game of tennis . . . After school more often than not Ken may be found in a furious discussion about current world events. l 2. FY' 1 PETER CHARLES ZAVADOWSKY St. Frances of Rome, Cicero Baseball Intramurals' Glee Club Chanterf chestra Prefect - Beadle Candle - Mission Society President Golf Champ Beadsman r Choir ie With Father - Business Manager Le Petit. lf you want to start a campaign, finance the building of a church, or secure funds for the foreign missions, Pete is the man to see. His ability in dreaming up fantastic money making schemes won him the offices of President of the Missions and Business Manager of the Le Petit . . , Tees aff with the best of them on the links, having acauired this skill from many outstanding golfers. ROBERT JOSEPH ZIELINSKI Transfiguration Baseball Minor League Monogram Club Ping Pong Champ Minor League Captain i e ith Fat er Bob is one of the most consistent seniors in the graduating class l-lis marks are always near the top of the class and yearly he won money in the scholarship exams good shot on the basketball court and always a Finalist in Ding pong he is also Ouigleys answer to Billy Cox as a third baseman . . . A loyal defender of the Cubs and Bears.

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old resolutlon couldnt be tampered wrth ln 5059 ball the tItle went to the Isolatronrsts on the second floor Q E The second umprre behlnd the plate who also caught the ball In hrs spare trme was Im Shed the pool second year paddled ItS way to the champnon shlp But In basketball the competrtron was too strff that old phrase The Extermlnators were extermlnated was only too true A new language for us but one that was as old as trme was Greek Pardeuo and the rules quoted by Father Henderson as the solutron to all our problems was repeated twrce as often by john Keenan Father Henrys down, down, down was no less Infamous Frank Slobrg took to thIs subject lrke a duck does to water But we all weren tas fortunate as Frank Relrglon was concerned wrth doctrrne that year and was so Inter estrng that even a plgeon flew Into class one day at one o clock and promptly left when class was drsmlssed All thrs studyrng and playrng requrred energy and to keep us In good runnrng condrtlon Fathers Brackrn and Basehart supplred us Wlfh the necessary vrctuals Im Westbrook was In charge of the cash box Tom Ventura Illustrated the relrgrous bulletln, our lunch hour readlng as he contrnued to do for the next three years A product of all therr efforts was Norm Czarka s garn of frfty pounds In four years By now we were settllng down to thls busrness of berng semrnarrans The newness of the trtle had worn off, so that our reason for stayrng was berng burlt on the more solrd ground of love of God As the Mass contrnued, the openrng words of the Offertory emphasrzed the prayer we offered at the begrnnrng of our thrrd year a prayer of petrtron Suscrpe, sancte Pater Out thrrd year was upon us after a somewhat short summer, short because of that speed whrch IS characterrstrc f vacatrons Bob Fer rlgan had taught catechlsm In an lndran school In Chamberlaln South Dakota and wlth an eye on ohn Armon s average, Charles Ezerskrs had spent the sum mer developrng hrs bowlrng abIlIty After accustomrng ourselves to the new alphabetlcal shuffle whereby there was an A and a Z In every room, we notrced that Engllsh Greek Latm and modern language were deftly drawrng and quarterrng us ln modern language a few notlceable results were everyone s abrlrty to say auf Wledersehen and arrlvedercr wrth the best of them Drck Howard also caprtalrzed on hrs Italran by usrng It to QIVE a lengthy exposrtron on the foods In Italy Tom ones was forced to swrtch from Gaelrc to ltalran The classroom however was not our only battlefreld ln the pool ohn Coughlrn Bob Moore erry Scanlan and Splash Crprch were strugglrng wrth the new lrfe guards to be After havrng therr lungs compressed In the GYfIfIClCl resprratron test and therr throats clutched by drownrng vIctIms they were rather proud of the fact that they survrved The Globetrotters Mrke Gub brns team was the team to beat that year Came quently on St Pats nrght the Fantoms thought they would Wrth a few seconds remarnlng, the opposrng captarn added two pornts to hrs score and beat the Trotters by one pornt There was no roy In Mudvrlle But the nrght was strll young The next game featured Brennan s Bachelors versus the Lemon Drops The walls were plastered wrth rah rah srgns for the Bachelors wrth the complrments of Tom Dore Wrth rooters lInIng the srdelrnes the lrrsh team McNulty Brennan, Farrell, and Cronrn went to work Even the tensron ofa sudden death overtrme drdnt stop them The game was ours all those hoarse vorces had not been rarsed ID varn Thrrd year set a new precedent that yearwhen about erghty of our class spent a Thursday In Sprrngfreld one frne October day Vrsrtrng Abraham Lrncoln s home New Salem and the caprtal burldmg we not only brushed up on some Important facts but garned more class sprrrt The Inaugurator of thus adventure down south was the dean of thrrd year hrstory Father McMahon Our Latrn course thIs year centered llS8lf around Cicero, for whrch all the boys from hrs town took a bow But Included In 3 C s agenda was a program of selected songs, for example O Propter Te ln another room Ken Wortas went through hrs darly work hummrng the Mrssourr Waltz But srngrng or not we plowed rrght through Clcero s defense of Archlas at the same trme the mud pornt of our stay at Ourgley was passed Before we knew It the Valhalla of students summer, was knock Ing at the door The Consecratlon of the Mass was drawrng near The offerlng of the Savrng Vlctlm to God the Father resembled the dedrcatlon of our servrce to hIm I-lanc IQIIUY oblatlonem servrrutrs nostrae occrpras Fourth year was a full year to say the least Short stones assrgned by Fathers Casey and Lrske drdnt seem short to us especrally when they were In the vrcrnrty of four or frve thousand words New regrons were ex plored when trrgonometry and chant became part and parcel of our every day lrves True proneers In trrg were Im Shea and Loure Monaco men brave enough to tackle the lrghthouse problem Wrth the comrng of fourth year the duty of edrtrng the CANDLE the four page summary of school happen Ings was grven to Don Bartoszek Tom Frscher boy chatterbox Im Hermes and Doc Tapper to men tron a few ln the month of March the CANDLE featured an artrcle entrtled Crusaders Loom Lrkely Champs Pete Behrendt Gene Nrklrborc and Tom Wrndham the captarn the Wrdowers had somethrng to say about thls But as the odds would have It Cronrn s Crusaders fortrfred wrth oe Kalkarrs Ken Brrgham and joe Stevens won by an even dozen pornts To complete fourth years prcture Oz McAteer won the Indrvldual shootrng contest ln another Issue the announcement of the annual trrp to Washrngton was made It began on Easter Monday as always 87 . 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