Rosary College - Yearbook (River Forest, IL)

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NOVEMBER Memorable event — the turning of the first spadeful of earth for Lewis Memorial, 1931. 25

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NOVEMBER The Very Reverend SAMUEL CHARLES MAZZUCHELLl Order of Preachers 1806-1864 A noble-featured aristocratic Italian left his native land in 1828 to start his career as a missionary in America. But this man was more than a missionary. hHe was an educator. Accordingly, he built an rr-odemy in Benton, Wisconsin, later moved to Sinsinawa. At the request of Cardinal Mundelein, the Dominican Sisters transferred the college department of Saint Clara's to the Chicago diocese. On June 20, 1920, the beloved Cardinal laid the cornerstone and two years later, in September, 1922, Rosary College opened its doors to young women in quest of scholarship and culture. At that time only Mother Emily Hall and the Science Building were completed. Work on the beautiful Gothic west wing, a centenary memorial of Father Samuel's ordination by Bishop Fenwick, was not begun until Founder's Day, 1930. 24

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NOVEMBER REVEREND J. W. REGAN, O.P. Retreat Master Though the outward transition fronn pulsating activity to simple meditation is startling, the Retreat brings an inward change too, not quite so noticeable, but that is only because no one can hear hearts sing or see thoughts wing themselves to God. Father Regan's each thought is a meditation; each sentence a challenge. Vibrant collegians are brought to realize that not united to God we are worse than nothing. Intimate nearness to Love during the days of retreat makes us appreciate Mary Dixon Thayer's surging emotion in writing: Love rose — for thus Love would atone — and passed through space and chose our mean, ungrateful earth To the wonder of the skies, saying, I shall pause here. Yes, Love paused — and in Retreat we pause to learn more of it; to learn that the things that count most are the things we cannot count. In these days we taste a mere fragm ent of the fabulous joy we are sometime to possess if our human lives are lived for the love of God. Father Regan states that we become like unto the things we love most, then asks what might happen if we love God very much. If we love God enough we shall appreciate suffering because we will Interpret it not as a sign of hHis malediction but of hHis benediction, for, whom the Lord loveth. He chastiseth, and v e shall strive to reproduce the life of Christ in ourselves. There must be enough clouds in our life to make of its passage a very beautiful sunset. 26