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A Given Life

A Given Life: Padre

February 17, 2015 By Carolyn

Pope Francis has dedicated 2015 as The Year of Consecrated Life.

Many meanings and associations flow from the term ‘Consecrated Life’, one of the first would be the thought of those men and women who pursue the vocation of religious life as nuns, brothers, monks, priests.  Another association is the way in which a person might consecrate or bless life by using the gift of our days as a blessing in life.

Consider this University of Portland legend. Rev. Arthur M. Schoenfeldt, C.S.C.

Schoenfeldt Series Tribute to Wallace Stegner. Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, William Kittredge, Br. Donald Stabrowski, CSC, Rev. Arthur Schoenfeldt, CSC, John Daniel, George Venn, James Hepworth, 1993 (University Archives)
Schoenfeldt Series Tribute to Wallace Stegner. Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, William Kittredge, Br. Donald Stabrowski, CSC, Rev. Arthur Schoenfeldt, CSC, John Daniel, George Venn, James Hepworth, 1993 (University Archives)

Born in Portland, “Padre” first ventured onto the Bluff as a student at Columbia Prep (’48).  He went on to become a Holy Cross priest serving in educational works, and returned to the University in 1978; for the next thirty years he served our community as pastoral resident, hall director, and counselor-at-large.   For all the fame of the Schoenfeldt Writers Series [named for his parents], Father Art’s true legacy at UP is his extraordinary grace as a counselor.  His oceanic patience, his gentle nature, his willingness to listen as long as necessary, his quiet wisdom, his shy playfulness, his remarkable generosity, his wry humor, his sweet selflessness made him a trusted and beloved counselor, advisor, and spiritual confidant to many, many  men, women, and children.  His University community, his Holy Cross brethren, and the thousands of people whose lives he touched with such wit and grace mourn the loss of such a sweet, kind, gentle man now at home in the hands of the Lord.

Memorial Mass program
11 January 2008

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Rev. Arthur Schoenfeldt, C.S.C., Ordination, 1959
Fr. Schoenfeldt presides over a Hall Mass, no date
Fr. Art Schoenfeldt, Steens Mountain, 1983
Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series, 1993
Fields & Schoenfeldt Halls, September 2009

 

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A Given Life: Geo. Dum

February 10, 2015 By Carolyn

Pope Francis has dedicated 2015 as The Year of Consecrated Life.

Many meanings and associations flow from the term ‘Consecrated Life’, one of the first would be the thought of those men and women who pursue the vocation of religious life as nuns, brothers, monks, priests.   Another association is the way in which a person might consecrate or bless life by using the gift of our days as a blessing in life.

Consider this University of Portland legend.  Rev. George L. Dum, C.S.C.

Columbia Prep Fight Song by Fr. George Dum, C.S.C., 1948 (click to enlarge photo)
Columbia Prep Fight Song by Fr. George Dum, C.S.C., 1948
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Fr. George Dum, C.S.C., directing choir, 1975 (click to enlarge photo)
Fr. George Dum, C.S.C., directing choir, 1975
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Fr. Dum came to the Bluff in 1934 assigned to teach philosophy.  Which naturally put him in the Mathematics classroom, then as director and moderator of the Band, Gleemen, Chorus, Nurse’s Choral, Singing Wings (AFROTC), and also as performer with the Portland Philharmonic Chorale.  But his hobby was bridge, achieving the rank of Life-Master in Contract Bridge.   And of course he celebrated Mass at parishes throughout the area, delivered food to Blanchet House, and did wood-working in his retirement; only departing UP in 1987, after 53 years of service in the Portland community.  He taught in both the college and high school division, and contributed ‘Fight Songs’ for both Columbia Prep and University of Portland (School Song; On Pilots, On), as well as composing and arranging liturgical music.

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Fr. George Dum, C.S.C., at Math Chalkboard, 1945
Fr. George Dum, C.S.C. in Performance Tuxedo, 1968
Delivering Food to Blanchet House, 1979
Rev. George Dum with musical compositions, 1987

File sources: The Beacon, 1935 on; plus 50 years of the Log; Portland Magazine, Winter 2011.

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A Given Life: Rigley

February 3, 2015 By Carolyn

Pope Francis has dedicated 2015 as The Year of Consecrated Life.

Many meanings and associations flow from the term ‘Consecrated Life’, one of the first would be the thought of those men and women who pursue the vocation of religious life as nuns, brothers, monks, priests.  Another association is the way in which a person might consecrate or bless life by using the gift of our days as a blessing in life.

Consider this University of Portland legend.  Rev. Maurice S. Rigley, C.S.C.

Fr. Maurice Rigley with Beacon Staff at Rigley Field, 1946
Fr. Maurice Rigley with Beacon Staff at Rigley Field, 1946
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Professionally, an English teacher.  By vocation, priest and religious.  Moderator of the Beacon, the Preface, the Log, Monogram Club, the Biolog.  Volunteer campus park ranger and grounds keeper, providing a piece of clean lawn to relax and lounge.   Friend of student boarders; friend of the city as one of the Blanchet House mid-wives, taking charity and care to the homeless exile in Portland.  He filled his hours, blessed his days, and impressed the same values on other people and lives involved within his own consecrated friendship while at UP from 1938-1961.

Fr. Rigley with Science legends, Fr. John Molter and Br. Godfrey Vassalo, 1953
Fr. Rigley with Science legends, Fr. John Molter and Br. Godfrey Vassalo, 1953
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Alumni Bulletin text, 1952
Alumni Bulletin text, 1972
Alumni Bulletin text, 1976

File sources: Alumni Bulletin, September 1961; The LOG, 1962; The BEACON 28 February 1964, (photo with caption to the current sign board); Alumni Bulletin, April 1972; Alumni Bulletin, April 1976; The BEACON, 6 April 1978 (tree photo with caption); Portland Magazine, Spring 1992; The Catholic Sentinel, 2 July 2009.

Photo credits:
1946 Log, with Beacon Staff
July 1953 Indiana Province Review
Alumni Bulletin, September 1952, p. 3
Alumni Bulletin, April 1972, p. 7
Alumni Bulletin, April 1976, p. 14
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