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third provincial. Then on June 8, 1935, the first two graduates of St. Henry’s were ordained. As vocations began to trickle forth more responsibilities could be assumed and in 1937 a new mission house was opened at Campus, Illinois.
Father Alphonse Simon, O.M.I., became the fourth provincial in 1940 and largely through his efforts funds were assembled with which to build Mazenod Hall on the property of St. Henry’s. This building was to fulfill the need for an indoor gymnasium and also provided a stage, recreation rooms, music rooms and chemistry lab. This might be called the first step in an expansion that would reach its culmination a dozen or so years later—its culmination but not its end. By 1941 the number of fathers had grown to forty. Already in 1940 two men had been sent to the foreign mission in the Philippines, Father Paul Drone, O.M.I., and Bro. Michael Braun, O.M.I. The new vice-province was beginning to feel its true vigor. Also in 1941, a shrine to Our Lady of the Snows was dedicated by Father Paul Shulte, O.M.I. Devotion to Our Lady under this title had been strong before and this merely served as an impetus towards the erection of the beautiful Shrine Chapel which was completed in 1951. Our Lady of the Snows has always been the special Protectress of the Central Province.
A larger and more consistent supply of vocations was still a grave concern. What was needed was a juniorate which would
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operate solely for the benefit of vocations to the Oblate Congregation. As a result, when in 1944 a beautiful three-story building originally designed as a college was discovered in Carthage, Mo., steps were hastily taken to buy it and prepare it for reception of students in the least possible time. The first juniors arrived in September of 1944 and Father Valentine Goetz, O.M.I., was the first superior. Certainly this happy solution to such a grave problem can find no explanation other than the Providence of God. The building which became Our Lady of the Ozarks had been idle for almost twenty years. Yet its purchase was reserved for the Oblates. Improvements were begun immediately and finally in 1949 the fathers were able to undertake construction of the magnificent field house which helped turn Our Lady of the Ozarks into one of the finest minor seminaries in the country. But now that a steady supply of vocations was assured, new needs once again presented themselves. The Vice-Province still had neither novitiate nor scholasticate. Since its beginnings, it had depended on other provinces for these and now the need for at least a novitiate became imperative. So in 1947, the first Immaculate Heart of Mary Novitiate was opened on an estate near Alton, 111. Father James Kievel, O.M.I., after twenty years as a member of St. Henry’s faculty, was appointed as first novice master. In 1950, the Oblates acquired another estate near Alton and therefore the novitiate for scholastic brothers was moved to the new property, La Vista.
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