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

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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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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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contrrbuted a total of S1616 a sum of whrch we were very proud There were several clubs whrch offered some pre homework relaxatron The Brush and Stylus Club was directed by Father Graff with the and of Tom Ventura and Andy Crplch The Phrlatelrsts after berng defunct for three years were organized by Emrl Serahnr The royal game of chess found staunch supporters In Norm one that was very popular was any dlscussron which arose alter class ln thus category rm Westbrook and Nerl Wrlllams were always found along with Make Carrey ohn Tapper and Earl Thomas the Editor rn Chref of the LE PElll' spent their time takrng the fine pictures found rn thus book Again the school year was to end with the concert Mentlonrng a few of those who were musically rncllned would Include rm Hermes our chapel organist Gene Luka a master of the saxophone joe Kenny the bass frddle operator and jrm Swaner who played hrs accord ron to the delight of many concert audiences ohn Rolek proved hrs talents as a drrector on more than one occasion All an all our class was a well rounded one wrth an excellent ambassador for every freld of endeavor The low tones of the prrest saying the Last Gospel were audible The Mass was nearing Its end just as we were nearrng the end of our last day at Qungley Alter the concluding prayers we all knelt there reallzlng only too well how .he past fave years had drsappeored The Coming seven would be no different There was work ahead work which could be accompllshed only with the ard of Almighty God and l-lls sarnts Wrth one thought our gaze turned toward the sanctuary lamp Christ the l.1ght of the world was wrth us as He always would be R I cz.-sito and Memrr Norte. An um-,rfrcaol club, but 'I A ' ' A '