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

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BROTHER NICHOLAS, PRINCIPAL Brother Vivian was appointed to re- place Brother Philip. He was not much of a school man and was in charge only a short while. Brother Nicholas replaced him, 'Coach Phee had a successful football season, a ' league championship in basketball in Varsity and Lightweight divisions. He also coached baseball and tennis. Rallies were held and cheerleaders were selected. Thirty-three students graduated the second year. The curriculum was college preparatory, but few actual- ly went on to college. Times were 3 hard, and most graduates went on to l work. after graduation. 3 l INSTITUTE OF THE BROTHERS 0F THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS .., - . '5!Z?bL .. .,, . .T I Dillfl I I EAN FRAACIHCO-Clrlwnlml V al ..,... .... - ........ .. . .....x. ......... . .... . ,,.... .-..,,,........................,.,.,,.,. STATEMENT UF ACCOUNTS CURRENT FOR THE QUARTER ENDING Ll19,l4 lflh lnunnl. ui which IM Dlnrl-ur :hall nhl: A dwllnnh. :hull nut Ah Vhllu nv nv bdrm an lil ul Jnun. Avril. hli ml Danni. U04 I cfisx-I Accoum f cm im and me ln Bank au. . ..,,. rum of lui Q mnunn ..... ,..... ,... .,......,. Cash rushed from lll wnmn nlnca....M............ .,..., .... ......... ,.... .... . ....... -... ......,,. M.... ' -' I SSTL' ' 'i iTfET,i.QZZZa32ZjiC.f.13312ijjiiiiiiiiji .ijizfiafiii BALANCE ACCDUNT cum on num ma ln awk mn au.........,. .... -.......'! ..... 3571- Pmvi-lou, ce-1. Q e,. im uma. I me -... ..... -.........-.--- --e ------ - Doull Ind Slltlonlff KPuDlll'Ul:J nhmd,ll audi--..-... E ... , Dun for........,..........................................................-....,. ....... ...,. ....... ...T ,,, p .. . , ,,-,M-,,, .... .- in .,.A2!e6Z.fz I iz.. ,.... 1' ' me m un nun-1:1 PmmmWf.?'. .-- ....... .....fl.4'2 .fif- Dun to th! Nd1lllllL........1. mu m xmr.mu,....,lL'l- ., Dua nf- ,.. Luna- H M I I t M -Liflfta .-.--....... I J Nu fum. up uqmnrarmn au.....,.......... ...... .ae 2.5. 1 ff! Nu mm fn u-mnihue -munun: --..-T .......-........ Glln :Z ui in-s.,....,-., .,.. .... ....... Uhr dsldl at Rlulllll Ind EXDQHIGI. IM ravens., 'PERSONNEL can um nn on Quinn! Number or ummm-.-,.,2i-,..-Ni-mba: ur enum Tmhn---:i...d.a .... ..Numm ur serv-nu,.e..4.......- Number in Pupim.....82:Q.....cnmrqgg-runim ..,. . ..... ..-...-D-.v Pupil- ........................ .......-1. is... .1 -.'iL6 .'f!.Qf.......m-....Z. ........ w nr- -....-..- .. ..... 19-2? X555 2444, lilmndy .PT6c.EaaF.m75.:uTlE.,- qaimm. ,,....... -..EEE'.Im3.lT-.F. cslnmJ..-.H.,....Hga3:- .... .... Enmlnod by thu Br. Villwr the --.--.---.- --M---M7 of ------- -- ----- --- ---- - ----------- -19 ---- --- l9lKM4U4--.----------------- v-v--- ------ no ui cum one or om . r mu. wana. u me me mv N. : 0 1 .. f 2 ' E 'sn it Christian Do ine - English - - . . Mathematica View F Q 2. o 5 Latin - Spanish - . . History - . General Science Biology Laboratory . Chemistry - - . Chemistry Laboratory - - Physics - - . . Physics Laboratory - . Civil Government - - Public Speaking - - Book-keeping . . . . Conduct f Times Late - . . Times Absent - . . Hdmlfkli Pirelli, Guirdiin - 1. Brothers' residence 2. Letter from Cantwell to Brother Joseph 3. The Class of 1927 4. Quarterly statement 5. Report card, April 1927 bishop's roadfl 7

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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.

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CHANGING TIMES A SCJURCE OF GREAT A The decade of the Thirties saw five men as principals of the new school. Brother Christian Victor, who joined the school in its second year at Sacred Heart, replaced Brother Nicholas and remained until June 1932. His staff of 19 had 10 Brothers on it and 9 laymen. Brother Vantasian, who had been director of the Commercial Curricu- lum at St. !Vlary's College came in 1932. A college man and unsuited to the job, he left in mid-year after a year and a half, under fire from students and Brothers alike. Brother Conrad was sent down in January of 1934. Matters returned X lETY away from the center of the San Francisco District, as punishment. Brothers too involved in the social life of the Bay Area were likely to be transferred to the South for the good of their souls. Los Angeles was also then considered missionary territory, Brother J. Robert, who volunteered to leave St. Louis to teach in the missions , found that most of the community he joined were from out of state. Nlost of the students were new to Los Angeles as well. Of the 34 graduates of the Class of '28, only 13 were born in the state. ill T llllnllll Ill HIIR T TI 18!changing times to normal. When he left two years later, again at mid-year, Brother Comgall James became principal and Brother V. Albian, director, This unusual splitting of the two jobs -the principal of the school was al- ways the director of the Brothers' community--'ended when in 1936 Brother James assumed the director- ship as well as the job of principal. MISSIONARY TERRITORY The Brothers on the staff changed frequently, too. During this period, each year ton the averagel 5 Brothers would arrive and 4 would leave. The community, made up mostly of young Brothers, grew in the early Thirties from 8 to 15. Cathedral was then a last chance school. Brothers about to leave the THE FINANCIAL PICTURE By 1934, four hundred students were enrolled in the school. The tuition of of 54.00 a month was supposed to cover the cost of running the school, But Bishop Cantwell found that the school was costing the Archdiocesan Office over 520,000 a year. The economic situation of the Cathedral School has been to me a source of great anxiety, he writes to Brother Conrad. And well might he be anxious, as the 520,000 subsidy was 54,000 more than what would have been raised had every student paid his tuition, Nlost likely great numbers of students were attending without paying. iThese were hard times.l And likely too is the possibility that the Bishop was by means of this complaint applying pressure to obtain more Order were sent down to Los Angeles, Brothers for the school,