Xavier University - Musketeer Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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.St-Jufe fo O Page 4 . 1 The year 1955 is one of deep historical significance to Xaverians, for it marks the 150th anniversary of the State ,of Ohio's admission into the United States of America. Xavier University and the Society of Iesus have been a part of the Commonwealth's existence since 1851. The name Ohio comes from the Iroquois and means great, a particularly fitting term. lndeed, the State has within her borders many of those factors which provide the greatness of America, and the life of the State seems to parallel that of the nation as a whole. Iust as the first colonists in the New World found a wilderness of awesome grandeur, so did the first settlers who came West to Ohio territory. Civilization gradually emerged where the wilderness had stood, as early Ohioans formed settlements and laid out farms on the land's virgin fields and forests. Towns and cities, business and industry, churches and schools, and other evidence of progress and culture came to be. ' Even today Ohio is America in miniature. Her cities- like Cincinnati, which has been called the city closest to the heart of America-are busy and beautiful. She has within her boundaries most of the resources, the manufacturing facilities, and the markets with which to sustain herself. Her economy is as diversified as that of any other state in the Union. Her agriculture and her factories are as varied as it is desirable for them to be. Her religious spirit is excellent, and her educational institutions are strong. Her transportation systems, her communication arteries, and her public utilities rival all others. And she offers limitless recreational opportunities. As Ohioans look back on a century and a half of growth and achievement, they know that their State's future promises to be even more rewarding, more brilliant, than her past. With a prayer of gratitude for the past and of supplica- tion for the years to come, Xavier University proudly participates in the Sesquicentennial observance.

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4 lecbcafion ST . i I il f 1: ff 1.1. On August 28, 1749, the first religious service in Ohio territory was offered at the mouth of the Little Miami River. It was a Mass celebrated by a Iesuit Father, the Reverend Ioseph de Bonneliamp. Yvhen Ohio was admitted into the Union, the Church was still a part of the Diocese of Baltimore. 1n 1808 the Diocese of Bardstown was established, and Ohio was transferred to its jurisdiction. In 1821 the Diocese of Cincinnati was constituted for the six thousand Catholics in.Ohio. Today that number has risen to six hundred thousand. 4 Throughout the one hundred and fifty years that Ohio has been a part of the United States, therefore, the Catholic Church has labored for the sanctihcation of Ohioans and of the State itself, ad nzajorenz Del glorlanz. Since the worth of a State and its citizens is to be measured far more by its faith in God and by the good- ness of its people than by its material success, its industries and businesses, its highways and railroads, its schools and cultural institutions- The staff of The Musketeex' '55, with a fervent Deo Gf'alia.r, dedicates its Ohio Sesquicentennial edition- To the Church in Ohio- To the Metropolitan See, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, and- To its Suffragan Sees, the Dioceses of Cleve- land, Columbus, Steubenville, Toledo, and Youngstown. Hn ,. 1 ,M f :Ke it ' 4 ., 3: Y' ff - K '..Tr T K fi- 53 . QQ EI' 1 5 P -,QW 1- 4r-a w - Q. . .. . FEM ' .,,,, ii i., V M- Nei - X... , , , ,A : w,,.,,,,, ..,,,,. tafffff ifaf -if '- ---M- .. s' 1 N 'NNN 1, 1 1 - 1 1 X. . Q, r , . ii f '. . U 'Q , V' ' ff LQ. K, f ig '. . 7 ' 11- ,...-'g::-.. . - - if . gf. '32 , Kg, ' -its ' . 5 EW , 1. l 1 11' ' . ' l if F il 2- . Q 1 3 1 ff 1' min ,'ffi1 -in Jill 1 .M ' 5 A 1-,. e. ' 2 , ' is '- ,A 5, .' f-an in . f i q. in fi . 1- llf fr I!! - ' .-. Q 'Sw 'fl is ' Q '- fl K g I . - Q V , fb -K ,,. .X ,' Q I 'I A -ll .-7 A Y . ,... i 'B y ' . 'iii '12 f ' J' I 1-Z '7 + '-Ay ' 1-if-Sf E 1 Ff 9Y' 1' W.: h:,.,- . .,-.viii ,. JmV,..4.vgE,m ...V V p A., V A t K L M I 1 I v -Q .VF Nw! 1 . W . M n -- - .-Q-P , V, ,M Q lp., , V W , gg: I gi V i. - U ' LT-WIX4 il i' ' ' 'Q 'I'r':' fff -' 'fs' ' 4 ' f 1' K f -P .1f s .... 'A 4' ' ...,..- . 'rs ' N A as ' . .,.... ,..-..., ,.., i, -'fav--N-N 1 .W ,N H Vwirtlgwfguur ,..-.... Saint Peter Cathedral trestoredj, Cincinnati Page 6