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50 YEARS OF MEMORIES | THE ADVENTURE OF SERVING OTHERS | A 390-MILE QUEST 3 FEATURES 50 Facts You Probably Never Knew About Padua .................. 4-8 50 Years of Memories .............................................................. 9 You Should Be the School Historian When You Retire ........... 11 The Paduan is a publication of Padua Franciscan STUDENT/FACULTY LIFE High School Office for Institutional Advancement. EDITORS BOARD OF TRUSTEES MedTrack Students Exploring New Paths .............................. 13 Summer Experience ......................................................... 14-15 Jerry Jindra ’70 Theodore J. Haag, O.F.M. Student News ....................................................................... 16 Vice President for President Institutional Advancement Susan Huber Laurie Keco Grabowski ’89 Treasurer ALUMNI NEWS Assistant Director for Gerald R. Jindra ’70 Institutional Advancement Secretary The Adventure of Serving Others ..................................... 18-20 Rob Holz ’90 Genmarie Stiber A 390-Mile Quest to Honor Fallen Officers ....................... 22-24 Director of Alumni Affairs Vice Chairperson Martin K. Zanotti ’70 Lillian Gathers CALENDAR Director of Admissions Chairperson and Marketing James A. Climer Cheryl Kuhn Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M. ’71 What’s Happening Through October 2011 ............................. 21 Administrative Assistant James M. Dighero Tom Hamzik ’13 Nick DiGioia SPORTS UPDATE Contributing Sports Editor Ann-Marie DiPaolo ’86 DESIGN & LAYOUT Timothy Dobeck Sports Notables .................................................................... 25 Charles Gunti, O.F.M. Soccer and Lacross Facility Project Update ........................... 26 427 Design, Akron, OH Phil Hogan, O.F.M. © 2011 Padua Franciscan Nick J. Iafigliola SOMETHIN’ BRUIN High School Gerald M. Koler ’86 6740 State Road David J. Sibits ’68 Parma, Ohio 44134 Update on Our Padua Grads ................................................. 27 440.845.2444 Maury Smith, O.F.M. PaduaFranciscan.com John M. Veres PADUA ALUMNI: Update Information Sheet Name Class of Address City State Zip Home Phone: ( ) Work Phone: ( ) Fax: ( ) E-mail: College We are very Degree/Major interested in what you have College accomplished. Degree/Major Now you can Employment: Business/Position update your If married, spouse’s name: profile online! Names/ages of children: Do you have Somethin’ Bruin? Write your news here: Interested in participating in the Padua Alumni Assoc.? Yes, please send me an invitation to the next meeting. SEND TO: Padua Franciscan Alumni Association, 6740 State Road, Parma, Ohio 44134 OR fax us at 440.845.5710 at any time, seven days a week, or go to PaduaFranciscan.com/alumni FEATURES FROM WHERE I SIT... 50 Facts You Probably Never Knew About Padua .................. 4-8 50 Years of Memories .............................................................. 9 …it really doesn’t matter whether or not I his dream of knighthood, and, after the Blessed are know who wrote it. It matters whether or experience of war, put aside his arms those who en- You Should Be the School Historian When You Retire ........... 11 not I try to put it into practice. and armor to better follow and serve dure in peace, the Master Who had come to heal the for by You, The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis isn’t wounds of sin and division, Who had Most High, STUDENT/FACULTY LIFE his. That is, he didn’t write it. Research come to make peace through the blood they shall on the prayer by Dr. Christian Renoux, of His cross. be crowned. a professor at the University of Orleans, MedTrack Students Exploring New Paths .............................. 13 Then the Mayor and the Bishop France (and published in 2001: La prière Yet Francis had not only come to know Summer Experience ......................................................... 14-15 found within themselves and between pour la paix attribuée à saint François) the abiding peace of God in his own Student News ....................................................................... 16 themselves what they had lost or indicates that the prayer seems to have heart but he was, therefore, on countless forgotten: mercy and kindness — so appeared for the first time in 1912 occasions and in countless ways, an that, in the finding and the sharing of (almost seven hundred years after the instrument of that peace… ALUMNI NEWS those gifts, harmony and peace was death of Saint Francis) in a French …In 1219, in the midst of the Crusades, restored for them once more. spiritual magazine which offered it as “A The Adventure of Serving Others ..................................... 18-20 Francis went to Damietta not as a While someone else may have given us Beautiful Prayer to Say During the Mass.” warrior but as a person of faith to seek A 390-Mile Quest to Honor Fallen Officers ....................... 22-24 the prayer, Francis has given us the There was no reference to an author out the Sultan Malek el-Kamil. In their example. He teaches us to remember of the prayer in that publication. Later, meeting together, they did not argue who we are: children of God, holy and CALENDAR around 1920, a French Franciscan about their differences but spoke loved, filled with every gift and grace. had the prayer printed on the back of a together instead about the God in He teaches us to share what we have holy-card of Saint Francis – entitling it A whom they believed, the God whom What’s Happening Through October 2011 ............................. 21 received. He teaches us to seek and find Prayer for Peace. Whether or not it was they loved, the God whom they knew and go to those places of hurt and hatred the result of that connection between as the Benevolent, the Just, the and sadness, of doubt and darkness and SPORTS UPDATE the prayer and the image of Saint Francis, Compassionate One, the Infinitely despair. He teaches us to bring light and it seems that the prayer was first attributed Good, the Merciful; the God whom pardon and love, to bring faith and hope to him some years later (around 1927) they knew who is beauty and gladness, Sports Notables .................................................................... 25 and joy. He teaches us how God can by a French religious movement called who is joy and hope, who is rest and Soccer and Lacross Facility Project Update ........................... 26 make us instruments of His peace. The Knights of the Prince of Peace. The security, who is all our riches, who first known English translation of the is all Good, great and wonderful, our It really doesn’t matter whether or not we prayer was around 1936 – and, without SOMETHIN’ BRUIN merciful Savior. know who wrote it. It matters whether or a doubt, by the time of the Second World not we try to put it into practice… War and after, the prayer was becoming …And Francis, confident and unafraid, Update on Our Padua Grads ................................................. 27 increasingly more and more popular went to the town of Gubbio to tame Lord, make me an instrument of throughout the world and was being the wolf that terrorized the citizens your peace. called the Prayer of Saint Francis. of that place. With a heart full of Where there is hatred, let me sow understanding and a love for all that love. Where there is injury, pardon. I have been thinking a lot about this God had made, Francis made peace Prayer of Saint Francis, this Prayer between that creature of God and the Where there is doubt, faith. Where for Peace in recent weeks since our people of that town – so that Brother there is despair, hope. Franciscan theme for this academic Wolf went peacefully from house to year is the theme of Peace – and, as the Where there is darkness, light. house and door to door, harming no Where there is sadness, joy. Padua Franciscan community, we have one and not being harmed by anyone, been using this prayer as the foundation fed and cared for till the end of his O Divine Master, grant that I may not for much of our reflection together on days. so much seek this important Franciscan value. …And Francis, in the final days of his to be consoled as to console; to be It really doesn’t matter whether or not own life, gathered the Mayor of Assisi understood as to understand; Saint Francis wrote the words of this and the Bishop of Assisi, who had to be loved as to love. prayer attributed to him. He may not been separated by anger and hatred For it is in giving that we receive. have written the prayer with his hand, for each other. In his desire to be a but he certainly wrote the prayer with means of peace and harmony for them, It is in pardoning that we are his life. Saint Francis was a peacemaker. Francis had composed another verse pardoned. He had heard the words of Jesus and for his Canticle and, in their presence, knew the incontrovertible truth that And it is in dying that we are born had it sung: Praised be You, my Lord, to eternal life. to be a peacemaker was to be a child through those who give pardon for Your of God – and to be a child of God, one love, and bear infirmity and tribulation. Amen. must be a peacemaker. He had pursued Fr. Theodore J. Haag, O.F.M., President 3 FACTS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW About Padua Some of you lived through many of these events and activities, so they aren’t quite new to you. However, you probably don’t know everything on this list. Therefore, here are a few of the more interesting items that have come to light as part of the school’s 50th Anniversary celebration. This issue’s cover was inspired by a mosaic video created for the Anniversary kick-off to represent 50 years of Padua history. To view the video visit padua2.com/50. The original invitation to build a boys’ high school in the Cleveland area was extended to the Franciscans by Archbishop Hoban back in 1955. It took several years of discussions before an agreement could 1 be reached to commence building in 1960.