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i * f Benedictine Military School Occupies New Facilities On Monday morning, Septem ber 23rd the Cadets of Bene dictine Military School assem bled for their first day of class es at their new school located on Seawright Drive off of Inter mediate Road. The expansion program which cost in excess of one million dollars is not yet completed. The Chapel, Gymnasium and Monastery are still in the con struction stage with comple tion of all units scheduled be fore the first of the year. Benedictine Military School, formerly called Benedictine College, was officially opened on September 29, 1902 by the Very Reverend Bernard Haas, O.S.B. The school was then located on the southside of 32nd Street, between Lincoln and Habersham. Twenty-one pupils were enrolled in the first class. The faculty consisted of Fa ther Bernard, instructor in the academic subjects and Colonel Jordan F. Brooks, commandant of the Military Department which had been introduced at the same time. On June 16, 1905, the late Bishop Benjamin J. Keiley of Savannah officiated at the dedi cation of the building located on the southwest corner of 34th and Bull streets, which served until last week. The first student to be regis tered at Benedictine was Thom as A. Furlong.; The roster of the first class is as follows: John J. Berry, Holbrooke E. Bolan, Frank M. Brooks, Chris R. Conner, Frank R. Cullum, William D. Dupont, Thomas Furlong, J. Spears Futch, John Benedictine Military School Section October Page 1-B Best Wishes From CARRIKER LABORATORY EQUIPMENT INCORPORATED T Y SIN Monroe, North Carolina Phone 753-1891 Area Code-704 Manufacturers INSTRUCTORS’ DESKS STUDENT TABLES DARK ROOM EQUIPMENT BASE CABINETS UPPER CABINETS SINKS PEGBOARDS TOPS: Stainless Steel Asbestos Stone Fibre Wood Plastic Etc. CASE & COUNTER CABINETS SERVICE FIXTURES FULL HEIGHT STORAGE CABINETS COMPLETE PLUMBING CONNECTIONS STOOLS & CHAIRS TITRATION RACKS CARTS RESEARCH TABLES SHELVING UNITS AQUARIUMS FUME HOODS GERMINATION BEDS HOME ECONOMICS EQUIPMENT ARTS & CRAFTS EQUIPMENT J. Gailina, Edward A. Gannon, Harry E. Gaudry, Alphonse T. Hussey, Walter Lyons, James J. McAuliffe, Michael E. Mc Carthy, James J. Mooney, Dan iel J. O’Connor, James W. Pe tit, Leon A. Speigle, Edgar G. Strous, John M. Trapani. Continuously since 1871 the Benedictines have labored in the State of Georgia. For the pur pose of erecting a Monastery at the Isle of Hope, French Benedictines came from Europe under the leadership of Father Grabriel Bergier, O.S.B. They built a chapel on the Isle of Hope which to this day serves the congregation there. This mission is the only remaining indication of the early Benedic tines on the Isle of Hope. Their ambitions were frustrated by the epidemic of yellow fever which claimed Father Gabriel and most of his Associates. But this disaster did not dis courage the sons of St. Bene dict. In response to a plea from the late Bishop Gross, Abbot Boniface Wimmer, Abbot of St. Vincent’s Abbey in Pennsylvan ia sent Father Oswald Moss- muller, O.S.B., and Father Mel chior Reichart, O.S.B., who es tablished St. Benedict’s parish in Savannah and endeavored to erect a Monastery on Skidaway Island. In 1885, when the Bene dictines from St. Vincent's founded Belmont Abbey in Bel mont, N. C., the members of the Order located in Georgia affiliated with Belmont Abbey and carried on their Apostolic work under the supervision of this newly-founded Southern LA-: Cadets assemble in quadrangle of new school on opening day of school. Abbey with the Right Rev. Leo Haid, O.S.B., D.D. as Abbot. In 1961 the Benedictines an nounced plans and launched a fund drive for the new Benedic tine Military School which re ceived its first students last week. Also in 1961 Savannah’s Benedictine community became an independent conventual pri ory. The Sacred Heart Priory belongs to the American Cassi- ness Congregation of Benedic tines. This move enables the monks to concentrate on their work for the Diocese of Savan nah. RUINS OF OLD MONASTERY—Picture from the Thomas Gamble Collection shows the old monastery on Skidaway Island. In addition to establishing the monastery, the Bene dictine priests operated an industrial school for negroes there. The Benedictines Reprinted from PAX—Bene dictine Review. Inquiry into the history of the Benedictines takes the investi gator back nearly fourteen hun dred years to that obscure and troubled period, (between the death of the Emperor Theo dosius I, A. D. 395, and the coronation of the Emperor Charlemagne, in the year 800), which witnessed the decline of the ancient Roman culture and the first uncouth beginnings of Medieval Christendom. St. Benedict, an Italian, and a pro duct of the expiring Roman world, was a contemporary of the Emperor Justinian I, the Great, the formulator of a com pendium of laws which bears his name, and the builder of Sancta Sophia. Justinian mount ed the imperial throne, in Con stantinople, in the year 527. Fifty-one years before, in 476, the city of Rome had fallen into the hands of the barbarian chief tain, Odoacer, and the sover eignty of the Empire which, since the death of Theodosius I, had been shared by Rome and Constantinople, now de volved solely upon the latter. Justinian became Emperor in 527, and in 529, two years later, Benedict of Nursia, emerging from his first retreat at Subia- co, established a little family of monks upon Monte Cassino, a mountain overlooking the road that leads from Rome to Na- Best Wishes To BENEDICTINE MILITARY THE BENEDICTINE FATHERS FROM H. T. Beasley Plastering-Cement-Stucco Accoustical & Ornamental Plastering Actual Experience of Over 40 Years Furguson Avenue Phone 355-1875 Savannah pies. From this eminence, the spirit of Benedictine monasti- cism and its civilizing influ ence was destined to go forth to the frontiers of a Europe, in Benedict’s day, as yet unborn, and beyond those frontiers, in due time, to lands of which his world did not so much as dream. St. Benedict did not invent mon- asticism. The impulse to re nounce the ordinary ties of Christian family life and seek another form of consecration to the service of God is found in the primitive Church. At first this impulse sought expression in the life of the solitary who lived alone in a cave, or a hut, in the wilderness. Gradually this severe individualism gave place to the ideal of live in a monastic community under a more or less rigid rule. St. Benedict took monasticism very much as he found it, adapting it to the spirit and tempera ment of the West only where this adaptation seemed necessary. It is a tribute to his genius that the "Holy Rule," which he wrote for the guidance of his little community at Monte Cas sino, came in time to supercede practically all of the older mon astic codes throughout the West. St. Benedict’s contribution to monasticism is to be found in the emphasis he lays upon cer tain elements already implicit in the institution. In the Rule, which he left as a legacy to his disciples, special promi nence is given to the communal character of conventual life. The superior is to be an "ab bot,” that is to say, a father, and those subject to him are to be regarded as so many spiri tual sons. Abbot and community are to dwell together as one Christian family, praising God in common in the monastery church, at the appointed hours, gathering as one around the conventual board, sharing alike the burdens and the good things of their state of life. St. Benedict did not prescribe any particular kind of labor for his monks. His first disciples probably occupied themselves mainly with agriculture. Very soon, however, a task came ready to hand, in the perfor mance of which the monks were (Continued on Page 6-B) () L person - to - person Service ids for at( your bantuny neei SAVANNAH BANK & Trust Co. Savannah, Georgia Member F. D. I. C. Savory notes from the Nest Down here at Robbins Farms things move at a leisurely pace. 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