St Vincent Seminary - Symposium Yearbook (Latrobe, PA)

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With Om' Alumni ANTIQUUS: 'lHello, Father! l've been looking forward to your visit rather impatiently. It has always been a pleasure to see your smiling face, but this time, you'll have to give us more than smiles. You're a great traveler, and, l have no doubt that in your wanderings, you meet many former students who are now out in the world fighting for souls for God. Tell me how many of them you have seen within the past year, Father, and what success they are having. PEREGRINUS: Well I see its the same old story! Our annual meetings seem destined to open with conversation regarding old friends. You can be thankful that during the past year I have been thoughtful of your annual demand, else I fear you would receive very little information. However, I, too, am in Construction of The Archabbey Church H1671

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. I quest of news this year-and you alone can furnish it. I meet most of your alumni and although I am well acquainted with their activities now I know practically nothing about them as students I m just as interested in their former activities as you are in their recent ones' so, for every bit of news I give you, you must return some information regarding their activities as students - ANTIQUUS: Fine! But I must be cautious. Some of the old stories for policy reasons may not bear repetition. Boys will be boys, you know, Father, and I will make every effort to offend no one and also supply all the information you desire. PEREGRINUS: Well, to begin-I just returned from Chicago where I saw Cardinal Mundelein who was entertaining Cardinal Ceretti, who presided at the Eucharistic Congress in Australia. That was a pleasant diversion from the strenuous work your eminent alumnus is undertaking for the advancement of educa- tion in the Archdiocese of Chicago. He heads a gigantic building program caring for the ever-increasing number of students in his schools. If I'm not mistaken there are, in all, thirty-seven buildings to be erected, including nineteen elementary schools. You see, in this way, the children will be grounded in the truths of their holy religion and will be able to continue their higher education in an environment that will protect their faith and strengthen it for the coming battle of life. If it were possible to have a similar system everywhere, the forces of bigotry and ig- norance would rapidly weaken and die. ANTIQUUS: His Eminence hasn't been here since 1892, when he left to finish his studies in Rome, but I do remember him. We were rather busy at the time and the Fathers were not as numerous as they are now To help out the then Mr. Mundelein offered his services as prefect They were accepted He liked boys and boys liked him As prefect he was to put it mildly, a great success and it was with genuine regret that we heard that we were to lose him PEREGRINUS While in Chicago I also met Bishop Boyle Congratulations were in order on his recent appointment to the Administrative Committee of the National Catholic Welfare Conference By the way, that makes two of your alumni on the board Bishop Schrembs has been a member for some time A I llll llllla ggnn 'Ma : . l U. m I , 5 5 2 -.r ,f - 'W f ffsllls HI! I 'llillllllmln . 9 ! , . . . 7 77 .. Ulllllllllllll' gllllllg in n mmf I 7 - 1 , ' 1 E n u n ' - n . 1 ' . 0 4 'V 0 . . . . . . i 0 1 Q c 1 . L . Q , . i 1 'x ' ' , - ' , WUIIIIQIII' ' ,, J , , , I . V, , - ..-. -,: 4, , .. . ' V ' ' . ' 2 4 - ' ' . . 3. - , , 5 -' '- . Ill anulmlul ' ' , I I X..! 4116811