MARIAN LIBRARY
NEWSLETTER (New Series)
IN
MEMORIAM
August and September 1985, the Marian Library bid farewell to its first two directors. This 'Newsletter is dedicated to the memory of these pioneers to whom we are so immensely indebted. In
Rev. t.wrence w. Monheim, S.M. (1905-1985) Lawrence Monheim, the ninth of fourteen children, was born in Pittsburgh on May 25, 1905, the son of Charles and Catherine H. (nee Kier) Monheim. He attended St. Leo's School on the North Side, and in 1920 came to the University of Dayton's Preparatory School to finish his high school. His clear intention in coming was to become a Marianist. On October 2, 1923, the Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels and anniversary of the foundation of the Society of Mary, he made his first vows in the novitiate at Dayton's Mount St. John. He pronounced his final vows in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at the University of Dayton in 1928. After teaching in Philadelphia and Cleveland, he entered the seminary in Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was ordained priest on March 8, 1936. Following his ordination, he began a long pastoral ministry which took him to Mineola, Dayton, Washington, D.C., Sioux City, Puerto Rico, and finally back to Dayton. Father Philip Hoelle, who in 1954 succeeded Father Monheim as director of the Marian Library, was homilist at his Mass of Christian Burial. Fr. Hoelle summarized the second half of Fr. Manheim's six decades of priestly ministry by recalling his various apostolic roles in Dayton: "teacher, chaplain, assistant pastor, professor, chairman of the University's department of religion, hospital chaplain, Marian Library founder and director, mission preaching for the Marianist Mission, coordinator of mission circles, volunteer services to the elderly and the sick, tireless promoter of the Marian Library." During his last fifteen years, . Fr. Monheim served as a temporary associate pastor or administrator for some twenty parishes in the Dayton area.
No.14
January, 1986
Fr. Monheim deserves a great deal of credit for his enterprise as the founder and director (during two terms in office) of the UD's Marian Library. He entered upon this task in August of 1943, when Fr. John Elbert, in his capacity as UD president, asked him to begin this work; at that time, Fr. Monheim was serving as Head of the Religion Department. The two men had discussed this project, originally an idea of Fr. William Ferree, S.M. (d. August 30, 1985), as an appropriate way to mark the anticipated Mari1)1849-:anist Triple Centennial of 1949-50: arrival of the first Marianists to the U.s.; 2)1850-founding of the University of Dayton (begun as St. Mary's School for boys); 3)1850death of Fr. Chaminade, Founder of the Marianists. With characteristic verve and enthusiasm, Fr. Monheim launched the project and made it known to a wide public within a very short time. On September 23, 1943, he sent out a hectographed letter to all publishers of Catholic books announcing the founding of the Marian Library; he requested a ''list of all the books you publish under the title of Mary" as well as "any suggestions that you in your experience with books would be able to give" (Marian Library Studies I [1969] 13). On October 15, 1943, another letter was sent to some 260 librarians in Catholic colleges and seminaries, requesting information about their Marian holdings and the donation of duplicate copies. Then, on October 20, 1943, Fr. Elbert officially opened the Marian Library by presenting a copy of his own work, Devotion to Mary in the Twentieth Century, to Fr. Monheim.
Marian Library seal -- designed in 1949 by George Yehle. Latin motto translates : •of Mary never enough. •
The media helped spread news about the new foundation and its purposes. Fr. Manheim, with the initiative and daring of a pioneer, labored energetically and effectively. He had ~o find a room and clientele, make contacts, obtam books, and, of course, locate or generate somehow the necessary funds. Furthermore, as Brot~er Fackovec wrote in his history of the Marian Library: "Humanly speaking, there could hardly have been a less propitious moment for launching such an enterprise. World War II was raging with una bating fury. Money was in short supply. Important book markets outside the country could not be reached. But these and other obstacles proved to be neither permament nor insurmountable. In any event, the library did get off to a good start, albeit a slow one" (Marian Library Studies I [~969] 13).
The University offered some money and Albert Emmanuel Library made available a room which had formerly been used for the law collection (first UD Law School: 1922-33). Fr. Manheim's first term as director of the Library, however, lasted only until February of 1944, when he was assigned to Philadelphia; in April of 1944, Fr. Edmund Baumeister was appointed to succeed him at the Marian Library. During the next five years spent in Philadelphia and then in Sioux City, Iowa, Fr. Manheim maintained close contact with and strong interest in the progress of the Library. Called back in 1949, when Fr. Baumeister was sent to Puerto Rico, Fr. Manheim found that a good base had indeed been established, making it possible to expand the Library's activities beyond its own confines.
In September 1949, Fr. Monheim introduced a
Marian Library seal with the motto De Maria numquam satis; he also commissioned the carving of the now-familiar Our Lady of the Marian Library statue. These distinctive external signs helped establish the Library's public identity and garnered increased recognition for it. In 1951, Fr. Manheim began a publishing program to provide worthwhile articles-papal docume~ts, theological treatises, other texts-on Marian dogma and devotion to a br?ad aud.ience; . these publications were not otherwise available m the U.S.A. Originally called Marian Reprints, this series boasted some 500 subscribers within just three months.
Our Lady of the Har ian Library statue -- commissioned by Fr. Honheim 路and carved by Xaver Hochen1eitner of Oberammergau, Germany, in 1951.
A charter member of the Mariological Society of America (founded in 1949), Fr. Manheim presented at the Society's First National Conventio~ in January of 1950, a lecture devoted in large part to the purposes and activities of the Marian Library. He described the Library as "the gathering into one place of ~ll . possible !nformation about the Blessed VIrgm Mary, mcluding the printed word, art and music, with a view toward establishing an INTERNATIONAL MARIAN CENTER" (Marian Studies I [ 1950 ] 50). That same year, the first stamps, films, slides, and microfilms were added to the Marian Library collection. In May 1950, a letter from .a librarian at the University of Notre Dame notified Fr. Manheim about a rare book dealer in New York, H. P. Krause, who was offering for sale a large collection on Marian shrines. These 1,800 bound volumes and 8,000 unbound books and pamphlets ranged in age from the mid-16th through the early- 20th century. Dating mostly from 1840 to 1910 , these materials had once been the private collection of French librarian and author, Leon Clugnet. After three years of negotiations, with the help and permission of the Provincial, Fr. Elbert, and the financial support of various benefactors, the Marian Library was finally able to acquire this collection. The debt incurred was liquidated the following year (1954), the Marian Year and centenary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Co~ception . The acquisition of this important collection more than doubled the size of the Marian Library at that time and proved to be a major factor in its development as a center for scholarly research .
Another significant Marian apostolic endeavor was inaugurated in 1953, a series of yearly meetings known as Marian Institutes. These sessions, lasting between one and three days, were addressed by some of the country's leading Mariologists and, according to the Program for the First Marian Institute (June 10, 1953), were intended "to study Mary's role in the Divine Plan, and the cooperation which we, her sons and daughters, must provide in order that her mission路 in the modern world might be accomplished." In conjunction with the first Institute, Fr. Monheim also introduced the granting of a Marian Library Medal. A suggestion from the Bruce Publishing Company, made to Fr. Baumeister in 1944, had seeded this development. Initially, an award was bestowed on the author of the best book on Mary written in English and published in the U.S .A. "within a given year. A carefully chosen panel of judges selected the book they believed would do most to make Mary better known and, therefore, more loved and better served. The first medal was awarded to Bishop Fulton J, Sheen in 1953, for his work, The World's First Love, a book that has since been translated into several languages. To acknowledge these many achievements of Fr. Monheim for the advancement of Marian studies, the Mariological Society of America decided to honor him with the Mariological Award of 1953 at its annual Convention of January 1954.
During the summer ot 1954, Father was assigned to Puerto Rico as chaplain and religion teacher at Colegio San Jose. When he returned to Dayton in 1956, he assumed responsibilities in the Religion Department and as University chaplain. Throughout the succeeding years, although always actively involved in other ministries, his concern for the Library never ceased. At a special ceremony in 1969, the Marian Library presented Fr. Monheim with the first copy of a new Marian Library medal designed to commemorate 路 its t wenty-titth anniversary. He was an honored guest at various Marian Library celebrations, most recently at a small fortieth anniversary prayer service and reception in 1983. Touchingly, his deliberate, though somewhat shaky, signature appears on the bottom of a page of the Marian Library's guest book from this past September 3, 1985. In the final stages of his long battle with cancer, he had requested a wheelchair outing and, accompanied by a nurse, had made a quiet after-hours visit to ~he Marian Library. On Saturday-Mary's day-September 14th, at 1:30 A.M., Father "Larry," with his rosary and his scapular, was . ready when our Blessed Mother summoned him Home. Two years earlier, on the occasion of his Diamond Jubilee, October 2, 1983, Fr. Monheim received a personal letter of congratulations from Very Rev. Jose Maria Salaverri, Superior .General of the Marianists, containing this message:
First di rector -- Fr. Monheim -- at his desk in the Marian Library's first home.
My dear Father Monheim, It is for me a great pleasure to write you on the occasion of your Diamond Jubilee. In fact, on October 2nd you will celebrate 60 years since your first profession. You made your vows on the Day of the Holy Angels, anniversary of the foundation of the S.M. I am writing this letter to you as Superior General in the name of the entire Society of Mary to extend to you our congratulations and warm appreciation. You have worked very much during these 60 years of faithfulness: in Cbaminade-Mineola, in the legendary Cathedral Latin of Cleveland, in the University of Dayton. Including, I believe, Puerto Rico .•• I feel sure that the Virgin will reward you for all these fine works. Furthermore, the Virgin Mary bas been for you one of the greatest loves of your life . For i t was you who started the •Marian Library• from scratch, and i t is now known all over the world. In the booklet that you published in 1950, you wrote: •we dream of the day when we shall have a building completely apart from the University of Dayton Library, The Marian Library Building. It will contain as complete a collection of MARIANA as possible, even a chapel and a room for Marian lectures and meetings : a true center for Marian activity in the U.S . A.~
I felt ~his dream is already a reality. very happy to visit the Marian Library. I spent 2 entire mornings looking at books and would like to have been able to spend much more time there. It is a glory of the Society of Mary. And this is entirely due to you. You have created in a most wonderful way what is said in Article 15 of the Rule of Life, talking about the vow of stability. •In the spirit of this vow we to make Mary known, loved, served ... •
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It is thanks to you that more people know and love Mary. I know that in 1953 you were given the •National Mariological Award. • The virgin will give you an infinitely greater Award. In the name of the entire Society of Mary: thank you!
For his work of inaugurating a truly outstanding resource for scholarship and for the many ways in which he expanded its activities and influence, we of the Society of Mary-especially those in the Cincinnati Province and above all those of us here at the Marian Library of the University of Dayton-owe Fr. Monheim a tremendous debt of gratitude. For what he accomplished here and in other parts of the Lord's vineyard during his nearly sixty-two years in Mary's Society, may God grant him many, many blessings. ·
Rev. Edm\Dld J. Baumeister, S.M.
(1901-1985)
Edmund Baumeister, the eleventh of fourteen children, was born in Cleveland on July 5, 1901, the son of John and Anna Maria Baumeister. He was one of six religious from his family. An older brother, Joseph (d. 1981), and a younger brother, Walter (d; 1972), were also members of the Society of Mary. Two older sisters, Cecilia and Clara, became Ursuline Sisters; a younger brother, Alfred, was a member of the Society of Jesus. · After attending St. Mary's parish school, Edmund entered the Postulate in 1915. Completing his novitiate, he made first vows on August 18, 1918, at Mount St. John. He then taught in Detroit and Philadelphia and did some further studies in Washington, D.C., before returning to Mount St. John in 1927. In 1928, he entered the Marianist International Seminary in Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was ordained priest in 1932. His first priestly assignment was at the Mount; from there he began his doctoral studies, earning his Ph.D. in 1939 from Ohio State University . . In his thesis, ''Secondary Education of the Society of Mary in America," he criticized the theory and methods of Thomas Dewey. Already in 1938, he had begun to serve as professor and administrator in educational studies . at the University of Dayton. From 1944 through 1949, in addition to these responsibilities, he added the directorship of the Marian Library, succeeding its founder and first director, Fr. Lawrence Manheim. Fr. Baumeister was also Dean of the Graduate School and Fr. Elbert, then-President, recommended to him in a letter that the Marian Library be used in connection with the UD graduate research program. At Fr. Elbert's suggestion also, Fr. Baumeister began to publish a quarterly Marian Library Newsletter about the activities of the Library.
The most significant contribution which Fr. Baumeister made to the Marian Library was the development of the Union Catalog of Marian books in America and, eventually, throughout the world. This valuabl~ compilation resulted from a simpler idea offered by a Benedictine priest who was interested in Marian holdings available With the assistance of in the United States. interested collaborators, the first published Booklist ~f the Marian Library appeared in April 1945, a hst of some 2,600 titles. By October 1945, a supplement was added with 1 600 more . t1tles. Reports on the project carried in the Newsletter spurred further collaboration. Three years later, in October 1948, the Booklist included 10,538 entries. In April 1949, a special copy of the 1949 Booklist of the Marian Library •was sent to Pope Pius XII to mark his Golden Sacerdotal Jubilee as well as the centenary of the University of Dayton (1850-1950)-the inspiration f?r the founding of the Marian Library. Fr . Baumeister's efforts to obtain materials from Europe, once the Second World War had ended comprised another memorable contribution h~ made to the advancement of the Marian Library.
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In 1949, when Fr. Monheim returned to assume again the direction of the Marian Library, Fr. Baumeister went to Puerto Rico to begin what became twenty-three years of apostolic missionary service in the Third World. He was soon named head of the pivotal Department of Education at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico which existed to train young people, who would otherwise not have been able to afford an education, to become teachers for their island. In his "spare" time, Fr. Baumeister travelled into the mountainous region to give priestly ministry to the isolated and neglected. This one-priest service later developed into what was known as Mission Noell. In 1965, Fr. Baumeister was sent to Peru, then a mission of the St. Louis Province and now an independent province of the Society. There, on May 31, 1970, at Chimbote, he experienced a major eartlxluake which left indelible memories of tragedy and devastation. He spent 1971 in Puerto Rico helping at Mission Noell; upon his return to the States in 1972 and until 1976, he served as Mission Procurator for the Cincinnati Province. His last years were spent in the UD Health Center and at the Marianist Care Center opened in Alumni Hall in 1984. He died on August 13, 1985, just five days short of the 67th anniversary of his religious profession. His life of Marian devotion is well summarized in the four-line verse which he composed for his memorial card: All for thee, 0 heart of Mary, All for Jesus, thy dear Son. Naught for me, 0 heart of Mary, Save with Jesus to be one.
Fr. Bertrand Buby, Provincial, in his homily at F~. Baumeister's Mass of Christian Burial, paid tr1bute to the three Baumeister brothers who together gave 183 years of service to the Society and the Church:
Fr. Edmund J. Baumeister, S.M. -Marian Library's second director, 1944-49, with his two Marianist brothers and a sister.
Fr. Ed, we thank you for the gifts you have shared with us so many years. we also appreciate and thank God for your fidelity to community lire .and for your apostolic boldness in the service of Mary. We know that you, Joe, and Wally not only made this world a lot better for your having lived among us, but if we may dare say so, Heaven is a better place today because the Baumeister brothers are together again in the presence of Mary!
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