St Fidelis Seminary - Skullcap Yearbook (Herman, PA)

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The Song of the Trees DAVID LAWLER, '45 I love to stand and listen To the song of the trees, I love to hear their music, As they grasp at the breeze. I love to see them reaching For the blue of the sky, And finger at the lacy clouds, As they dance up so high. Their singing seems to tell me Not to 'rest with the sod, But sing with them, and 'reach with them, For the sky and for Goal. Fourth Prize in the Echo Comes: CICUII

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the market. Way back when-Father used a bicycle. Then came a motorized unit, which he quickly adopted and attached to his bicycle, and Father Benno went to his flock on a motor-bicycle. Since those bicycle days, Father has had about seven auto- mobiles. At present, he is the proud owner of a '41 two-door Chevrolet sedan- the best car on Capuchin boulevard. Father Benno, though a man with little time to spare, has several hobbies with which he occupies those superfluous few minutes. These are the taking and collecting of photographs, painting, and an intimate fellowship with the stars. Father has decorated his churchespersonally, and has furnished the monastery choir with two beautiful paintings of Saint Francis in Ecstasy , and the other of the Renunciation of Saint Francis . Concerning his comradeship with the stars, Fr. Benno is all-out . Nights on which Father has little to do, and which are at the same time clear enough to view the astral bodies, are few and far between. However, when one of these nights is about to be born. Father Benno is seen at Father Director's door, getting permission for several star-minded students to join him in a rendezvous at his observatory. This observatory is the only such building studding and beautifying the land- scape of the hamlet of Herman. With a four-inch refractory telescope, Father Benno and his ardent disciples have ransacked the heavens over the course of ten years for some new heavenly body, and have brushed shoulders, in their celestial perusals, with all the well known and easily recognized ones. Phenomena in the skies usually see a silver-haired star-gazer praying for clear skies, and these prayers are usually answered by someone upstairs . Father's observatory is kept trim by a volunteer crew of seniors, supervised and managed in general by Father himself. As a professor and regent of the classroom, Father has no peerg his work as an Alter Christus only the Original can judge. The influence of Father Benno is a part of the institution here at Herman. From knowing Father and living with him for years, I feel assured that entrance into Heaven will be the easier because of my association with Father Benno,-astronomer, chemist, physicist, linguist, mathemati- cian, surveyor, Capuchin, and priest. 73? FR. BENNO AT WORK 1AT LEISURE

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THE VERY REV. FATHER CLAUDE, Provincial A. R. P. Ignatius, Def. I A. R. P. Benedict, Def. II A. R. P. Atlianasius, Def. III A. R. P. Urban, Def. IV REV. VICTOR GREEN, Director, Economics, Latin REV. ARNOLD YANKER, Prefect, Latin, Religion, German REV. ARMAND YEAGLIN, Prefcct, English, Matlicmatics, Grology REV. COLUMBAN BOYLE, Prefcct, Latin, Matlicinatliics