Cathedral High School - Chimes Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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duty to finance it should the returns from the pupils not belarge enough. tLetter from Cantwell to Josephl The bishop himself frequently visited the school. It fronted on Bishop's Roda. Unlike Loyola, it was sup- ported by diocesan funds and directly accountable to the bishop. For these reasons the school was occasionally referred to in official, private com- munication as the Bishop's school. THE TRANSFER Students from the Brothers' classes at Sacred Heart came with them to the new school. Thus, for the first year, the school had an eighth grade but no twelfth. The first seniors were graduated in 1927. The Brothers lived still at Baldwin street and were driven to school un- til their residence was completed in 1926. Difficulties surrounded its con- struction. The traditional story says that Brother Joseph did not want the new residentze to be more luxurious than the quarters then being built at the new campus of St. Nlary's College, in Nloraga. A few students came in their own cars. lBrother Phillip had them drive up and down Bishop's Road to pack it down.l Nlost of them came on the trolleys which ran up Broadway, A few took the red cars in from the outlying areas. They came from all over the city. tcontinued pg. 161 THE CAMPUS - Cool, bcckonmg shadows . . . light afternoon breezes through the coughs-.1 del-ghttul and trnnqu-I part ol thc Campus . . . with seats beneath the pleasmg shade of the sturdy and impressive pcpp t l y grntttvmg rendu:- vous. Truly emblematic of the school . , . the fortitude of trees-and character t th t I ks at Cod .all day. Sensors dislike to say farewell to this garden spot typically redolcnt ol all beauty c th h hade. 1. Title map for site of school 2. From dedication speech of Fr. lVlarron 6 3,4,5,6,7. From photo album of David Jones, president of Second High, Class of '29, 8. Etching by J. K. Fabris bishop's road!15

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BlSHOP'S ROAD A PLACE OLD CALVARY CEMETERY Arrangements for the building of the new school were completed in the spring of 1925 when Brother Joseph came south to speak to the bishop before Cantwell went on a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem. Perhaps because the site finally chosen was the Old Calvary ceme- tery, little publicity surrounded the construction of the new school, Father Donahoe supervised the Con- tractors, The erection was so quietly, yet so well done, the FOR ALL OUR BOYS TIDINGS states, that in some parts of the city the project was not known. By September of 1925 the new building was complete, The dedication, on October 18,1925, was attended by over 100 priests and by many Catholic civic leaders. Nuns from thelteaching communities gathered in a room next to the speakers' platform. All listened to speeches by Father Nlarron, Nlr. Joe Scott, and Brother Joseph, The Catholic Girls' High School Orchestra played the Nlarch Romaine by Gounod, TR UE Cl TIZENSHIP The Bishop spoke last.The TIDINGS 1 14!bishop's road l l A 2 reports: He praised the clergy for their zealous loyalty and the laity for their generosity which made it possible for him to establish this new high school for all boys regard- less of their financial or social con- dition. 'I want, ' said he, 'every high school boy in our diocese to feel that school is a place not for the rich, not for the poor nor for any other class in particular, rather is it a place for all our boys to come and be educated, to be trained for true citizenship. ' The school was christened, at the insistence of the bishop, the Cathe- dral High School. It was, after all, in the parish of the cathedral, and the Vicar General would have the There are some criminals, no doubt, to be found amongst the graduates of our Catholic schools and colleges, but it needs no criti- cal acumen to perceive that such an anomaly arises in spite of the system and not as its logical conse- quence, You can no more blame a duly accredited and properly con- ducted Catholic school or college for the back-sliders and renegades and criminals occasionally to be found amongst its gradutes than you can blame Christ Himself for the defection of Judas Iscariot, As fas as the bulk of the children of this nation is concerned--ninety per cent of them--we have tried every- thing else but religion in our efforts to educate them for decent citizen- ship. We have tried everything from free toothbrushes to free text books and from the removal of adenoids to the specialized discipline of reformatory schools. It is now time that we try the remedy that is older than the flaming sword of the Archangel at the gate, the remedy which consists in in doctri- nating the children of the land with that fearand love of God which can provide the only balm for the healing of the' nations.

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T H E B I S H 0 P I S QE? lllimcssn nf line fkrgnlrn anti Sam Jllingu SCHOOL lcontinued from p. 153 In its second year, the school en- rolled students from 47 different parishes--a fact, the 1927 yearbook says, that shows their appreciation of the education imparted in the institution, THE HOME OF PHANTOMS It was a strange.campus which greeted the students. Bishop's road continued up the hill into the rural community of Chavez Ravine. A few cottages facing the school, Basso's Essex-Hudson dealership on the corner, and old St. Peter's Church were the only buildings nearby. Be- hind the school were tall pepper trees, oil derricks stood at the back edge of the property, And, of course, there were the tombs. Depressions marked old graves. Tom bstones and mausoleums were scattered across the fields. Students would trip over human remains. KA student opened a crypt and was expelled within the hour,J A ghostly phosphorescence hovered over the field in evenings after wet weather. PR E C E DE N TS Brother Philip was called East at 16!bishxop's road 'A ll!! ment Sunni! Strut lisa 15mgzlzs,QIs.l November 5, 1925. very Rev Brother Joseph, Prcvlncia , Christian Brothers Novltiate, Martinez, California My dear Brother Joseph: Press of business prevented me an swering your letter, particularly as I told you I cheerfully agreed to your request I would ask, however, that the new re 'ulatlons go into force at the openinr of next sumner the reason is that I wish to adjust nw payments to meet ow ohll getions I would ask that a report be nude to me every three months in order that I may see the collections that may possibly be taken up in the schools lith us it will not be difficult to get 382 O0 a month from each boy, the bel ance of 335 00 or S4 00 must be made good from the parishes Six months in any business is too long to walt for a statement The monthly statement is always more satisfactory and much simpler to make out than a quarterl statement, however, if there is objection to the monthly state ment I will be glad to compromise on the quarterly statement The other rratters to which you refer are mere details, which already have adjusted themselves in this Diocese- I refer to arrangements for transporting the Brothers from their residences to the schools, etc-, etc., I do not accept as readily as you suggest the proposition that we must be contented more or less with lay teachers in our Brothers' Schools- This will never work with us. However, circumstances alone oem con trol this matter. 'Vlth kind ref-ards and a Blessing for ell, I am Yours very Devotedly in Christ, 4- I Bishop of Los Anreles and San Diego. .1Jcfs. fflixj -. 3 ' ill 5. , li. F - 1 . Y the end of his three year term, but returned for a fourth year to see the first class through to graduation. He was a popular figure in the local community and, accordingto some, a bit of a martinet in the school. He and Brother Christian Victor, wh taught the class of 1927 during its last three years, encouraged the first class to set precedents of ex- cellence in all they undertook. And so they did, They published the first issue of the CHIIVIES newspaper in January of 1926 and put out five issues during 1926-27. The Class of '27 also produced the first CHIIVIES annual. Seventy-eight pages long, it contains a detailed class history and prophecy and an individual O paragraph on each graduate. A football team was fielded and played four games, losing two, winning one, and tying one at O-0. This may not look too good in print, says the annual, but every inch of the field was hotly contested, The basketball team lost to Loyola three times: 2 to 12, 8 to 16, and 1 to 10. They did better against their other rivals. And the baseball team managed to beat Loyola, 14 to 3. From the first class came Fathers Arthur Johnson and Patrick lVlcGoldrick, both diocesan clergy, now deceased. The Bishop's hopes were being realized.