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Volume 26 Perryville, Missouri, October, 1955 Number 1 FATHER ZIMMERMANN ELECTED ASSISTANT GENERAL New Minor Seminary Opens at Lemont In God's Providence another Bons away standards, exercising equipment Enfants has been raised in the com- and a spacious locker and shower room. munity, situated, however, on the outskirts of Lemont, Illinois instead Grounds Beautifully Terraced of in the heart of Paris. As three men the Bons Enfants, began the work of The grounds surrounding all the so three of our confreres are beginning Enfants; the buildings are beautifully terraced and the work of the new Bons planted. In all, the grounds cover ap- first Bons Enfants was originally a one; proximately 360 acres, included in this technical school, so was the new with Fournier Enfants was giv- is the farm connected and as the first Bons Institute. On the grounds are also six- en through the beneficence of a gen- new Bons En- teen residences used by former pro- erous benefactor, so the fessors and by Mr. Schmitt. fants, St. Vincent's Seminary of Fournier Institute, is used through the charity of Mr. Arthur J. Schmitt, History of Seminary owner of the property and buildings of the new seminary. To the Community The history of this Vincentian Prep- in the Western Province this new semi- aratory seminary dates from, July 1, nary comes as one of the greatest bless- 1955 when Fathers Carl Schulte, Su- ings it has received in its long history. perior, and Louis Derbes, Prefect of Discipline, moved into the new semi- Accommodations Perfect nary. The administration building which they occupied had been erected Very Rev. John Zimmermann, C.M. by the in, 1929. In 1941 Mr. Schmitt purchased The confreres of the Western Pro- The accommodations offered it a seminary the building and began to remodel this past sum- buildings are perfect for high school vince were gladdened originally erected for a private military that one of their num- because they were 1943. Four years mer by the news novitiate. The which was opened in Rev. John Zimmermann, had to serve as a seminary lower grades were ber, Very comprised of five later, in 1947, the General Assem- entire plant is years of College were been elected by the only two are used dropped and two to our buildings, of which place as the initial steps bly in Paris to be an Assistant the administration added in their Father, William Slattery, by the Seminary, toward a transition from a military Most Honored building and the gymnasium. past in directing the affairs of the Con- to a technical school. For the will be Father Zimmer- a tech- gregation. It several years it has operated as Slattery in Administration Building Those who mann's task to aid Father nical school of Engineering. of the Con- education there and the general administration were receiving their throughout the world, but a three graduated are completing it gregation The administration building, had not especially in regard to affairs pertain- story building, houses all the living at the University of Notre Dame. sisters ing to English-speaking provinces. accommodations for the priests, Father Zimmermann's election to this and students at the seminary. Situated are very responsible position does not come on the ground floor of the building Open House Held confreres students' as a surprise to the many the kitchen, dining room, who have known him throughout his convent and the recreation hall, sisters' Three weeks after moving in, on July .twenty-one years of priestly activity in laundry. On the second floor are class- and 24th, an open house was held for the the Province. After teaching Canon rooms, a study hall, parlors, offices and five years he suites. On Chicago area seminarians for Cape Law at the Barrens for the treasurer's and rector's About two Rome to pursue graduate a chap- Lemont and their families. was sent to the third floor the dormitories, the High the Collegio Angelico where rooms, a Mass hundred p'eople attended study at el, prefect's suite, faculty sung by Father Carl Schulte he received his doctorate in Canon faculty recreation hall Mass room and the at the day's opening. The seminarians Law in 1939. are found. were directed in the singing of the Mass by Father Thomas Barrett. Master of Novices Gymnasium Father Comerford O'Malley delivered For the next eight years he held the the sermon in which he compared the post of Master of Novices and during The other building occupied by the beginnings of St. Vincent's Seminary that time trained over seventy-five of the priest confreres now working Seminary is the gymnasium. This is a of Fournier Institute to those of the Bons Enfants. in the Province. In his position as No- very spacious building furnishing (Continued on Page Ten) (Continued on Page Three) room for a fine basketball floor, roll Page Two The DeAndrein' BISHOP QUINN, FATHER GOLI SAIL FOR MISSION In the Kaohsing Prefecture of For- REQUIESCANT IN PACE! mosa, the Vincentians work in con- junction with the Spanish Dominicans. FatheBe rnard Miller Father John The Spaniards speak Formosan, but McWilliams ;are limited in their command of the On July 31, 1955, Fr. Bernard Miller, Fortified by a four year period of other Chinese dialects which are spok- a quiet, unassuming, and holy priest, silent preparation culminating in the en by the refugees from China prop'er. gave his life back to his Creator. reception of the Last Sacraments, The Vincentians complement this be- Fr. Miller was born on September 18, Father John McWilliams died on the cause they are more thoroughly ac- 1904, in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up afternoon of October 2, 1955. He was quainted with some of the chief main- under the guidance of the confreres of seventy-six years old. land dialects. This knowledge of the St. Vincent's parish. More than likely Those four years of silence and in- various dialects is important due to it was the good example, charity, and activity must have been trying for a the presence of 2,000,000 Mandarin- piety of these men that encouraged man as active as Father McWilliams speaking refugees on the island. The the young Bernard Miller to follow had been throughout his fifty-nine situation on this Nationalist stronghold Christ in the way of St. Vincent de years in the Community, fifty-two of is a graphic instance of Our Lord's Paul. As might be expected, he went which had been spent as one of God's words, "The harvest is indeed great, but to the Apostolic school at Cape, and priests. the laborers are few." But there is later entered the novitiate on May 19, room for optimism. Our total of five 1922. Priestly Activity Vincentians has increased a hundred- fold in the past several months. During Community Appointments These many years of varied activ- the summer, three Chinese diocesan ities began with his ordination to the priests, who were ordained in Rome last June 4, 1931, found Bernard Miller Priesthood on June 13, 1903. Shortly year, joined them. Their new total was kneeling before the bishop and about to thereafter he headed North to Chicago reached when the Most Reverend start his short, yet ever so fruitful career for his first appointment as a profes- Charles W. Quinn, C. M. and the Rev- as an Alter Christus. His first appoint- sor at the old St. Vi'ncent's College, the erend Wilhelm A. Golli, C. M. arrived ment was to the St. Louis Prep as a, predecessor of De Paul University. His in Formosa last imonth. physics teacher. Several years later lie three years there passed swiftly and was sent to St. John's, Kansas City, and for the next six years he was to be Both Experienced then on to De Paul University in 1939. stationed at the old Kenrick Seminary Having already studied at St. Louis on Cass Avenue in St. Louis. In 1912 China is foreign to neither of these University, Fr. Miller was sent in 1941, Father was moved to a Community men. In fact, Bishop Quinn can fall to Washington, D. C., where he not only house he held as a favorite, the Cape. back upon the experience of seventeen received his degree as a master of That his years since ordination, had been missionary years in that country-elev- science, but also served as an assist- full of virtue and zealous activity is en of which he spent as Bishop of ant professor of chemistry. The follow- attested by the fact that his major Yukiang in Kiangsi Province. Father ing year he reurned to De Paul's up- superior saw fit to make him Master of Golli's experience in China has not town campus, where, for the last thir- Novices in 1917, a position which been as extensive. When Poland was teen years, he was characterized by his would allow him to instill his love for "liberated" by the Russians in 1947 selflessness and devotedness to his com- the Community and its works into the he was missioned to the Chinese Pro- munity, to his subject,,and to his stu- souls of others.