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MAN and the MOMENT By Rev. Thomas J. O'Donnell, C.S.C, '41 Men of Past and Present: Fathers DeSeille and Petit HE STORY of Taiher Dcsfille reads like Ta short sion*. It is much too short a story for a man who was a licro of the Wilderness. He was a mild man, venmuch unlike Father Badin. who, according to reports, was a "torrential personality." We have no information on the early years of Father Dcseille nor of the exact time he came to Xotrc Dame. It is known that he traveled hundreds of miles in evcr>* direction to minister to the Indians. In 1832 he had joined Father Badin in Pokagon's village. This village was about seven miles from Notre Dame. An old manuscript, referring to Father Deseille, says: "The time of his min:str>* here ^vas somewhere between the years 1830 and 18-10." This is enough to give us some idea of the date. A Heroic Death U is interesting to note that Father Deseille died as a young priest. He was less than forty years of age. It is also a point of interest to note that when Father Deseille got sick two messengers were sent to get a priest — one to Logansport and one 16 to Chicago. "The two messengers returned three days afterwards, without a priest, as both priests were too sick to travel such a distance." In those days the ravages of a hard life ended many a career very early. \ Lost People Most people who come to Notre Dame visit the Log Chapel. Ghosts of yesterday, heroes of yester\*ear arc in the silence of the flickering candles before the altar. On the north wall is a painting of the dying Father DesciUe. The storj- has been told many times of how this priest prepared himself for death. He asked to be carried from his sickbed to the altar. There he showed his great faith by giving himself the Blessed Sacrament as his final taste of food for a long journey. In less than an hour he was dead. When the Indians came to visit their dead priest, they remembered his last words to them: "I have a great journey to make." So there they stood, those people of the prairie who had learned to pray from the now stilled lips of their padre. They were a lost people in their LIBRARY ASSN., headed by Fr. O'Donnell, is fiâicful for fifty books about Canada presented to the University by the Canadian government. Here FT. Hesburgh examines the books with Senator John J. Connolly, government leader in the Canadian Senate, who made the presentation; and C. F. Wilson, Canadian consul general in Chicago. Connolly, a former faculty member, represented Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, who received an honorary degree from Notre Dame in 1963. In a statement, Pearson declared: "It is my sincere hope that this gift of books will stimulate interest in the relation between our countries and in so doing will help strengthen the unique partnership that our two nations are so fortunate to share." Notre Dame Alumnus, Year End, 1964 own wild house, lost because a great love had left them and they were lonely. The bones of Father Deseille are in the cr>'pt of the campus church. Ne.\t to him are tlie mortal remains of a Father Benjamin Petit. Father Petit should be known and remembered as one of the first who dared to be coimtcd with a minority group. The Great Journey Many of the white people were hungiy for land. They could sec no reason \v\^ they should go far west when it would br easier to get the government to move the Indians. The poverty of the Indians, their simplicity and ignorance, their lack of union made them easy victims for the growing greed of the white people. It was easy to stir up trouble, then point to the Indians as the cause. The United States Government, at least it seems so, wanted to be fair but was goaded into action that would force the Indians to reser\ations farther west. A great many early settlers who tried to avoid bloodshed and who wanted to se" some semblance of justice thought the best plan was to niovc the Indians and have the government take care of them. They wanted this socialism for others so that they could claim the countn- for themselves. Between 1820 and 1830 conferences and treaties were the order of the day. Between 1830 and 1840 the real-estate merchants were on the move. .-Vn order was given that the Indians of Indiana sh()uld be transferred beyond the Mississippi. In early September of 1838 the forced march to the unhappy hunting grounds was begun. General John Tipton was most anxiouP to avoid cruelty and needless fighting. He begged the young priest who was ordained less than a year and who had come to Notre Dame to take the place of Father Deseille to make the long journey with the Indians. But Bishop Gabriel Brute needed this young missionary* in northern Indiana. *Train of Terror* It was only when he heard of the sick^ ness and death and the wretched condition of the forced march that the Bishop granted permission to Father Petit to leave Notre Dame and to catch up with his beloved Indians, At Danville, Illinois, he met the miserable "red train of terror." Two months later, on November 4. they reached the banks of the Osage River. Father Petit turned his charges over to a Jesuit priest, Father Hoeken. Then Father Petit started on the long road home. -Already sick and weak he got as far a^ St. Louis. There, even with great care from Jesuits,, he died. It was another great life gone to eternity from the shores of Notre Dame. Almost twenty years later, in 1857, Father Sorin journeyed to St. Louis to bring back the body of Father Petit. Father Sorin knew then, as we know now. that these men of the past are part of the present and forever a part of Notre Dame. T. J. O'Dox.N-ELL, C.S.C.
TEE-OFF by Jack Purdy is admiringly obscr^'ed by the rest of his foursome, •^ (from left) Club Chaplain Msgr. Daniel ' Cunningham, Coach Ara Parseghian and Jack Barry, at the outset of CLUBHOUSE BOUND (above) after playing a gruelling 18 holes in their golf cart at Elnihurst Country Club, Lou Zcfran (left) and Dick Cook joined the more than 323 Irish (at right) gathered for a sparkling dinner program. CHAMP TOM WALSH, in the picture to the right, accepts the ^ Fred Snite Jr. Memorial Trophy from Col. Frederick B. Snitc, host • at the Elmhurst Club, who donated the trophy to commemorate his famed son. Young Fred spent many years in an iron lung after he was stricken by polio as a student. and Sports Night Dinner COACH JOHN DEE (at mike, left) capped a stellar head table which included (seated, I.-r.) Bert Metzger, Fr. John E, Walsh, Col, Snite (partially hidden), Alumni President Phil Facccnda, Club President Paul Fullmer, Toastmaster John Camichael, Coach Ara Parseghian, Athletic Director Ed Krausc. Notre Dame Alumnus, Year End, 1964 17
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