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

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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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.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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On Aprll the slxth 1953 W day flnally arrlved for us and wlth topcoats cameras and a deck of cards or two we bld farewell to Chlcago for flve days That nlght on the trarn was the longest most of us ever spent for there was hardly any sleep to be had A fellow by the name of Loule Petrlch made the rounds every hour shoutlng Anyone for coffee Hot coffee here Besldes thls we almost lost Stan Mlchor ln Plttsburgh who, stepplng off the traln yelled So thls IS where Ralph Klner llves Of course a few logs llke Phll Dressler and ohn Rolek had a good one hundred wlnks The next mornlng the traln pulled lnto Unlverslty Statlon and wlthln flfteen mlnutes we were lnslde the magnlflcent crypt of the Shrlne of the Immaculate Conceptlon Later we vlslted the Franclscan Monastery, a truly wonderful place Wlth ltS reproductlons of the Holy Land Earl Thomas who vowed to QIVE hrs new Lelca the full treatment on thls trlp was calllng out the dlfferent lens stops for everythlng that was VlSIble lm Swaner ohn Tapper and Jim Mulllgan were a few of hls more GVId followers The rlde down the Potomac Rlver brought out the lnner personalltles of some of our classmates Characters such as Dastardly Dunbar and Llttle Nell came to Ilfe wlth the ald of Don Bartoszek and Rlchard Glow Father McMahon wlth a topcoat draped over hls shoulders ln a cape effect, gave hls audlence one of the frnest lmpersonatlons of Blshop Sheen ever wltnessed merely by standlng there smlllng ohn Keenan used hls talent as a qurck wlt to great advantage by belng the master of ceremonles for the serres of sklts enacted for the pleasure of the other passengers Groucho Marx, ohn s favorlte comedlan would have been proud of hlm Upon docklng Frlday mornlng VISlted the Treasury Department the Capltol ltself and the Llncoln Memorlal The s ttlng sun saw a group of tlred semlnarlans enter the rallroad statlon homeward bound But Father LeCompte had a remedy for those noddrng heads and bllnklng eyes ln fact hrs several rouslng choruses of Alouette woke the entlre termlnal Blll Staff enjoyed FIVE hours of sleep on the whole trlp whlle Tom Purtell spent twenty four hours ln the arms of Methuselah the followlng Saturday and Sunday Two new faces around Oulgley that year were Bob oyce and Carroll Howlln When lt was dlscovered that both had splendld VOICES It was only natural that Mon slgnor Meter should feature them ln the concert Once more the concert had brought the school year to a rapld close The prlest had flnlshed the Our Father , and together we all prayed that evll would be completely banlshed from our llves Llb ra nos, quaesumus, Domlne, ab omnlbus malls Cur flfth and last year' Thls year whlch Father Mohan sand would b the crown for all our other years of prayer and study was our b.lslest, for a whole new freld of actrvltles was opened to us Don Glannettl Howard Cole and Emll S raflnl were Instructors of catechlsm at 88 St ohn s after school on Wednesday Bob Mathews Dan McGrath and Ken Woltas taught at St joseph s on Thursday The leader of the catechlsts who lnCl dentally could swrm a stralght course by now was Gene Keusal ln another branch of flfth year work that old tlm favorlte Trama, Tramp Tramp was replaced by a newer theme Chant Chant Chant the boys are slnglng Under the dlrectlon of Father Mroczkowskl ohn Lee, Blll Narlock, Frank Sloblg and Gene Luka, who has the reputatlon of belng our only tone deaf chanter made nothlng but fresh attacks a phrase whlch became a TGVOYITE of ours The chanters sang at such events as Blshop O Brlen s golden jubllee, the Consecratlon of Blshop Hllllngef and for a conventlon held at the Conrad Hllton Another phase of 3 20 actlvlty was bestowed on sux fellows namely that of sacrlstan Pollshlng the golden gates trlmmlng the candles and keeplng the sanctuary neat and clean were the dutles falllng on Stanley Flens and Charles Erlckson, WIllIQm Albertson and Domlnlc Allocco and Gerald Joyce and Robert Swleca Every Wednesday and Saturday they would start thelr work whrle another artery of Qulgley began thelrs Thls llfellne was com posed of men of the rosary who assembled every after noon at 3 25 to reclte thelr prayers ln common to the Mother of God Nell Wllllams or oe Petlk usually led the prayers For these ten or flfteen mlnutes spent IH the chapel every nlght untold blesslngs were un doubtedly granted to the semlnary through thelr efforts actor and actress Hollywood mlght have been befud dled but anyone who saw Llfe wlth Father on Qulgley s stage wouldnt have hesltated for a moment Dan Brady and Tom Swade better known as Clarence and Lavlnla Day were llS headllners Dan s robust VOICE and handlebar mustache plus that resolute walk he took before the parlor doors sent the audlence lnto gales of laughter Tom was no less effectlve when the famlly budget had to be accounted for Bud Nadolny as Cousln Cora played the part of a tltteflng old mold There was trouble after the play however when he couldnt get rld of Cora s laugh Not detractlng from the other molds ohn Flavln and Mlke Carey whom we thought were very cute speclal mentlon mlght be made of Maggle and Nora When Maggle or rather Bob Zlellnskl was off stage he was ln the gym captalnlng the Zephyrs and when Nora, allas Mlles Lynch was IN the same place, he was puttlng the Lakers through thelr paces Keeplng the cast ln good physlcal con dltlon was Tom Dore the productlon s M D ln our last year Rob Roy was the scene of the golf tournament Blll Whelan shot a nlnety nlne but would have had a lower score ln the Peorla system lf he hadnt blrdled a handlcap hole He dldnt know lf hls luck was good or bad that day Fred ones who was out for the exerclse shot the same as Blll only lt was roughly two hundred strokes hlgher Anyway he got what he went for exerclsel The mlsslon promoters who were also the pI'eSIdeI1fGf1d VICE presldent of the soclety here at Oulgley were Peter Zavadowsky and Stanley Flens When they were offlcers ln fourth year our class . . , . . 1 1 - - l r 1 . . . 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