St Vincent College - Tower Yearbook (Latrobe, PA)

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Ute Chancellor As Chancellor of St. Vincent College, Arch- abbot Denis Omer Strittmatter, O.S.B., D.D., governs over the administrative council. But he is the spiritual head of the community as well. The growth to his present office is re- flected in his unique biography. Rt. Reverend Denis Omer Strittmatter was born in Hastings, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1896. After early training in parochial schools at home, he entered St. Vincent Preparatory School in 1910 and matriculated -at St. Vin- cent College in 1914. Upon completion of his sophomore year, he was admitted to the Novitiate ot' St. Vincent Archabbey. On july 2, 1917 he professed his temporary vows and three years later, he was solemnly professed as a Benedictine monk. july 24, 1923 he was ordained to the priesthood in the St. Vincent Archabbey Church by Bishop Hugh C. Boyle, D.D., Bishop of Pittsburgh. His first duties consisted of parochial charges, but later he served as director of St. Emma's Military School, Rock Castle, Virginia, from 1929 to 1947. In September 1947 he returned to St. Vincent College to assume an adminstrative position. September 8, 1949 he was unanimously elected Coadjutor Archabbot with full jurisdic- tion oi St. Vincent Archabbey and College: Rt. Rev. Alfred Koch, O.S.B., S.T.D., arch- abbot of St. Vincent since 1930, had received permission from the Holy See for a coadjutor. Upon the death of Archabbot Koch, Archabbot Strittmatter became the sixth Archabbot of St. Vincent. Most Rev. john F. Dearden, S.T.D., coadjutor bishop of Pittsburgh, con- ferred the Solemn Abbatial Blessing upon Archabbot Strittmatter and presented him with the insignia of the Archabbot Crnitre, crozier, ring, pectoral crossj, at solemn ponti- fical services in the St. Vincent Archabbey Church, November 25, 1949. Eleven bishops and twenty abbots were present for the oc- casion. Upon his installation, he became the reign- ing symbol of Benedictine stability, and he now serves as a vital artery in the Mystical Body. His leadership extends over the St. Vincent community and the Benedictine con- gregation throughout the United States and his authority is sealed in Christ. 1 1 l X x ' El Wi.. Agni .57 iiannnu u W 2 g ' IA g 'N'