St Bernards School - Crusader Yearbook (Gladstone, NJ)

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FIFTH FORM Fronf Row: Harold Lunn, Eugene Lezgus, Beverly Walter, Lee Terhune, John Stein, Charles Kull, Jay Perkins. Rear Row: Edward Dunning, Terry Correll, Ronald Kerr, Mr. Warren Rohrer, Jr. CClass Adviserj, Michael Crombie, Arthur Ward, Howard Oliver labsentl. FOURTH FORM Front Row: Jeffrey Stansbury, Royal Disley, Kit Southward, James Young, Joel Hall, Donald Ripley, John Jacquemot. Rear Row: Arihur Williams, Laurence Weymouth, Donald Spindler, Peler Randall, Booth Taggart, David Walkden, Donne Colion, Mr. Harold D. Nicholls fClass Adviserj. i251

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Meanwhile, there was no relaxation of the Work of God. The Capitular Mass, the Divine Office, the Noviciate, the study of Holy Scripture in its moral and in its mystical bearing were all scrupulously maintained. lf guests arrived, everything was postponed to their due reception. New members arrived to follow the leadership of Bernard. From 1118 to 1153, sixty-eight daughter-houses were founded during the abbacy of Bernard of Clairvaux. They were scattered in all directions, in Flanders, England, Wales, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Sweden and, the comparative majority, thirty-eight in France. The moving spirit of this phenomenal development was an un- worldly monk of delicate health, whose later years were burdened by invalidism and who died at the age of sixty-three. In the year 1133, Bernard was already deeply immersed in international affairs. The healing of the schism in the Papacy, and the recognition of Innocent ll, was a masterpiece of statecraft on Bernard's part. lt was the work of eight years. His motive for handling this world-wide disaster, a crisis which shook western Christendom to its very foundations, was entirely irreproachable. The protection of the Holy Places at Jerusalem was a matter of great interest to Bernard. He had taken a leading part as early as 1128, in the formal foundation of the Order of the Temple. The Order was charged with the duty of policing the Holy Places and the roads leading to them from the coast. As an exhortation to this religious knighthood Bernard wrote a treatise in 1132, entitled In Praise of the New Warfare. lt sets a high and exacting standard of Christian warfare. On Palm Sunday 1146 before a throng of distinguished ecclesiastics and notables of the kingdom, Bernard preached the Second Crusade. And now his energy was unrestrainable, stirring the enthusiasm of princes and people. He won over the stubborn Emperor, Conrad Ill, and King Louis Vll offFrance. Two hundred thousand men were on the march. But Bernard's absence, because he disclaimed any right to military leader- ship, proved to be a disaster of world-wide magnitude. l ' Bernard was buoyant and fearless. He now worked to repair the evil. In fact, at every stage he had been the driving force of the conscience of Christendom. He fought racial preiudice against the Jews, and dealt with those in error, so that they would receive the word of God with icy. Bernard took no pleasure in theological controversy. For him the first step to be taken towards understanding the Faith was to believe it. After receiving at his own request Extreme Unction and Holy Viaticum, Bernard died on Thursday, August 20, 1153, at the age of sixty-three. His fitting epitaph could well be his own words: God's business is my business. His life was a life centered in God, a will ever studious of conformity with the Divine Will. His greatest miracle was himself. He was the teacher whose words were honey to the human mouth and to the human heart, the Mellifluous Doctor. E241

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THIRD FORM Front Row: Alan Steenson, Michael DeLucas, David Hargreaves, Arthur Zack, Peter Nicholls, Peter Hollander, Richard Laskey. Middle Row: David Scott, William Storms, Donald Corinna, Charles Gledhill, Rennie Wilbur, James Bell, John Inghram. Rear Row: Richard Brain, Paul Borkowski, Robert Bladen, Elliott Case, Mr. William R. Deane CClass Adviserl. LOWER SCHOOL Front Row: Donald Fish, Robert Murray, Nicholas Sanborn, Thomas Ormento, William Moyka, William Stothoff Ill, Richard Saad, Donald McCree. Middle Row: Richard Bates, James Harcourt, Daniel Decher, Richard Mclntyre, Samuel Kress, Lars Persson, David Keller, Jr. Rear Row: Mr. Thomas Wilkinson fClass Adviserj, Stuart Lundie, Richard Van Cleave III, Willard Reinhard, Mr. James Winters fClass Adviserl. E261