St Josephs College - Phase Yearbook (Rensselaer, IN)

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MEN OF ST. position at the helm of St. Joseph's until his retire- ment in 1913. Father Hugo Lear guided the des- tinies of Collegeville from 1913 until 1916, when JOSEPH' FATHER ALOYS DIRKSEN Father Ignatius Wagner ascended to the headship. In 1925 began the tenure of office of Father Dida- cus Brackmann, followed in 1927 by Father Joseph Kenkel. Father Rufus Esser became president in 1937, succeeded in the same year by Father Cyril Knue. A year later, in the fall of 1938, Father Aloys Dirksen began his duties at St. Joseph's. Four of these Fathers of the Precious Blood Watch their former charges from another World, Fathers Seifert, Boebner, Lear, and Brackmann having passed on to their Eternal Reward. Father Joseph Kenkel Father Rufu as , s Esser Father Cyril Knue

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LL 76' Q Q G 5 5 Reminiscences are perhaps the great- est boon of man. And there is a time- honored story, the hearing of which St. Joseph's men never tire. These are the legends surrounding the early years of Alma Mater. Within the shadow of Collegeville's twin towers lies a stirring tale. The placid ripple of the lake is a direct para- dox of the epochal days and nights that have begun and ended here. Once there was a time when no Ad Building spire reached out to grasp the sky. This was fifty years ago. In the fol- lowing pages, then, Phase presents the biography of St. Joseph's College, dec- ade by decade. Hardly a simple story of brick and mortar, this is a narrative of life itself. 1 L X X K l 4 fa J -JT!