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BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE GRADUATION—Participants in the 81st graduation exercises at Belmont Abbey College, upper left, Dr. Charles H. Malik, Commencement speaker; upper right, the Most Reverend Bishop Joseph H. Hodges, Baccalaureate preacher; and recipients of honorary degrees, bottom left, Dr. James M. Godard of Miami, Fla., and Dr. Charles B. Norris of Charlotte. 73 RECEIVE DEGREES FROM BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE RIGHT REVEREND VIN CENT TAYLOR. O.S.B. — One of the most widely known and highly esteemed members of the order of St. Benedict in the United States is the Right Rev. Vincent George Taylor, O.S.B., D.D. Under Abbot Vincent’s able, scholarly and deeply spi ritual guidance, the Abbatia Nuilius of Belmont has show in the thirty-four years since his installation a progress which compares with its remarkable advancement under his illus- trous predecessor. BELMONT — Seventy-three candidates for the Bachelor of Arts and Science received de grees at the 81st annual gradu ation exercises held at Belmont Abbey College on Tuesday, June 2nd. The Baccalaureate service was held in the Abbey Cathed ral on Tuesday at 10:00 a. m. The Most Reverend Joseph H. Hodges, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, preached the baccalaureate sermon to the graduates. The solemn academic convo cation was held in the Haid Gymnasium at 8:00 p. m. The academic procession of faculty and graduates formed at 7:15 p. m. and proceeded to the South Campus for the flag cere mony. There the class flag was lowered and the new class flag presented to the president of the rising senior class of 1960. The last Benediction was giv en in the Abbey Cathedral, af ter which the procession return ed to the gymnasium for the conferring of degrees. In addition to the 73 degrees granted in course, three prom inent men received honorary degrees. The degree Doctor of Humane Letters was conferred on the Hon. Charles H. Malik, Presi dent of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Foreign Minister of Lebanon and former Lebanese Ambassador Extraor dinary to the United States, in recognition of his statesmanship and scholarship. Dr. James M. Godard, Execu tive Vice President and Admin istrative Dean of the University of Miami, received the Doctor of Pedagogy degree. Dr. Godard is the former Dean of Queens College. Dr. Charles B. Norris, Char lotte physician and Abbey alumnus, was recipient of the degree Doctor of Medical Science. Belmont Abbey Has Made Valuable Contributions To Catholic Education College Receives Grant BELMONT — Belmont Ab bey College has received a grant from the United States Steel Foundation, it was announced recently. The President of the college, the Reverend Cuthbert. E. Allen, O.S.B., was notified that the abbey was designated as a re cipient of the grant which will be implemented annually. The funds of the grant are unre strict and are intended for ope rational expenditures.. The notification received in dicated that the Abbey is one of the institutoins to receive aid from the Foundation’s Aid-to- Education program. The notification received in formed the Abbey officials that Belmont Abbey College is one of twelve North Carolina insti tutions designated as partici pants and recipients of the Unit ed States Steel Foundation funds. Queens, Davidson, and Johnson C. Smith were also giv en grants under this program. BELMONT — Belmont Abbey has made many valuable con tributions to education, especial ly in the foundation and estab lishment of other various insti tutions of learning. One of the first foundations from Belmont was St. Leo’s at St. Leo, Florida, which dates back as early as 1889. Chronologically speaking, a second foundation was made at Bristow, Virginia, not long af ter the first foundation in the year 1893. Here Belmont was responsible for St. Joseph’s In stitute, a training school for the poor homeless boys. In 1926, the school and property were deed ed over to Benedictine Sisters, who combined it with their own Miltary School for small boys, Linton Hall. In 1902, another educational foundation was laid at Savan nah, Georgia, the seeds of this foundation being sown as early as 1887. The School, a military high school, is located in the heart of the city and is today one of the leading schools in the city. It is still manned and staf fed by members of Belmont Ab bey College. Another school, similar to the one founded at Savannah, is Benedictine Military High School in Richmond, Virginia, which is also under the direc tion of the members of Belmont Abbey College. Today it ranks high in Richmond’s educational circles. Aside from the above men tioned institutions, Belmont Ab bey College has also been re sponsible for several grammar schools, one of which is St. Ben edict’s School in downtown Bel mont. Under the direction of Father Gabriel Stupasky, a new and most modern structure was erected in 1952, replacing the old structure, which is now used for social purposes. In the city of Gastonia, an other beautiful and modern grammar school, St. Michael’s School, was put up in 1952 by Father Gergory Eichenlaub, a member of the college staff and pastor of St. Michael’s Church. The school is staffed by the Sisters of Mercy. In the city of Belmont, just a half mile distant from Belmont Abbey College, is Sacred Heart Junior College for young ladies, conducted by the Sisters of Mer cy, who were brought to Bel mont in 1892 by the Benedic tines. As part of the educational facilities provided by the Sisters of Mercy is also Sacred Heart School for girls as well as St. Leo’s Military School for Boys. These six large foundations ■HE BULLETIN, June Facts About Belmont Abbey College is a full four year Catholic institu tion conducted by the Benedic tine Monks and dedicated to the work of preparing youth for the business of living life to its full ness. Life is given to man by God. that it should be used ful ly and completely and effective ly in the attainment of man’s ultimate and eternal happiness. This end, the last in attainment, is the first in intention, and as such, it colors and directs the whole of living. Life, to be full must be lived from a supernat ural motive. An educative pro cess that prepares for living must be motivated and per meated with this principle. The training of the body, the inform ing of the mind, the strength ening of the will, the developing of habits and skills and attitudes all these must be for God and in accord with God’s Will. In its effort to attain this end, Belmont Abbey College seeks as immediate objectives for its stu dents: 1. The habit of study and re flection in the search for know ledge and Truth. 2. The mastery of the curricu- la-contest leading to general culture as well as to vocational fitness for continued study or for industrial and business. 3. The appreciation of the good, the true and the beauti ful in nature and art. 5. The love and appreciation of physical well-being, and the formation of habits of corporal and mental cleanliness, neatness and orderliness. 6. The love of cooperative competition and fair play. 7. The practice of tolerant gentlemanliness. 8. The courageous pursuit of American Democracy. 9. The persistent following of a conscience made right and virtuous by sound philosophy. The college opens its courses to all worthy youths regardless of religious affiliations. There is no subject in the curricula that is ever approached from the viewpoint of indifferentism, yet, no effort is made to undermine religous convictions. God’s gen- I tleman is the ideal of the Ab bey. “We must educate man first for what he is and then for what he is to do. We must : educate him for his ultimate end and then the proper use of the means to this end, i.e., full liv ing.” THE ABBEY CREED To do this effectively, Bel mont Abbey College, its faculty I and student body, subscribe to the following practical and fun damental principlse: 1. We believe in God. 2. We believe in the dignity j and sanctity of the human per sonality. 3. We believe that man pos sesses certian rights that are in alienable because they come from God and not from the State. 4. We believe that liberty is.a sacred right, and that law which regulates liberty, is a sacred ob ligation. 5. We believe in inculcating all the essential liberties of American Democracy and that open and frank issue with all brands of false “democracy.’ 6. We therefore are oppposed to all forms of dictatorship j which holds that the “total man” belongs to the State. 7. W T e believe in the natural I right of private property, biit likewise that private property 1 has its social obligations. 9. We believe that Labor has ! certain rights but also definite obligations. 10. We believe that Capital (owners and managers) has not only rights but also obligations. 11. We are vigorously opposed to all forms of racism-persecu tions or intolerance because of race, color, creed or nationality. | 12. In fine, we believe in | Jesus Christ, who taught that morality muSt regulate the per sonal, family, economic, politi cal and international life of all civilization. Belmont Abbey Founded In 1876; Only Abbatia Nuilius In U. S. BELMONT, N. C.—Belmont Abbey, officially titled Our Lady Help of Christians, is sit uated one mile north of Bel mont, Twelve miles west of Charlotte, 800 hundred feet above sea-level, in the healthful Piedmont section of North Caro lina. It was in 1876 that the first Benedictines came from St. Vin cent’s Archabbey in Pennsyl vania to found this community. Nine years later in 1885, the foundation was raised to the dignity of an Abbey with Fa ther Leo Haid, O. S. B., as the first Abbot. The new Abbot and his monks and brothers, all from St. Vincent’s indeed labored hard and experienced the rigors of pioneers in their first years. Dispite great difficulties, they built; they developed a high school and a seminary, they did a great deal of missionary work; they grew; and God Blessed them. The Abbey of St. Leo in Florida was founded from Bel mont from Belmont in 1889. The Holy See named Leo Haid from Belmont Abbey College are but the most prominent con tributions to the educational field. Numerous others could be mentioned which were indirect ly fostered by the Abbey. as Vicar Apostolic of North i Carolina in 1887, and elevated him to the episcopacy. In 1910. ; Belmont Abbey was honored . with the unusual dignity and privileges of an Abbatia Nuilius (An Abbey Nuilius is almost identical to a Diocese: i. e., a certain territory is set aside over which the Abbot is Ordinary. This territory of the Abbey Nui lius is completely distinct from i the surrounding Dioceses. An Abbot Nuilius has all the rights and privileges an obligations of i a Bishop in his Diocese, except , an Abbot Nuilius cannot ordain, to major orders and cannot con secrate the Holy Oils). Here in Belmont the territory comprises Gaston County: the Nuilius contains the Abbey Ca thedral. Belmont Abbey College, Sacred Heart Junior College, Cathedral School, St. Leo Mil itary School, St. Benedict’s , School (for colored children of the Cathedral Parish). St. Michael’s Parish in Gastonia, 1 St. Helen’s Church, Spencer Mountain, and St. Joseph’s Church, Mountain Island. At his lamented death in 1924, Bishop-Abbot Leo Haid was suceeded by Abbot Vincent Taylor, O. S. B., During his abbacy, which is still happily (Continued on Page 5)