All Saints Commercial High School - Excelsior Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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ALUM AE UTES Graduation days should he happy days and indeed they are, hut some- where in this houquet of gladness there lies hidden the thorn of sadness. We lind ourselves priclced hy the thought that our dear old school days are gone foreverg hut with this comes the rememhrance that we all shall meet again in these hallowed halls. Lest old acquaintances he forgot!! from time immemorial each Alma Mater has hequeathed to those who left her portals a lcey which would unloclc the heavy iron gates-a lcey in the form of memhership in the Alumnae, and this lcey is yours to use. Your Reverend Pastor, Father L. Ahhate, PSM., your Principal, Sister Gertrude Magdalen, OP. and the Sisters of the Faculty will be waiting to receive you with a royal welcome. So wipe away those tears and smile again for we shall all meet again in the near uhye and hyeu. You rememher the old story of gratitude so well told hy the writers ol Sacred Scripture, don,t you? Qur Lord, Jesus Christ, had cured ten lepers of the dread disease which had made them outcasts from society, He had so com- pletely cured them that they were ahle to go out into the marlcets again and sell their wares. After this miracle only one returned to the Master to give thanlcs and He, who does not need the gratitude of men, meelcly aslced, HAnd where are the other nine? So, too, when the afternoon set aside for thc Alumnae Meeting comes around on the calendar the Faculty often stop to wonder-Uvxfhere are the other-not nine, hut nine hundred and ninety-nine who should have returned, not to return thanlcs hut to pay the proper respect to our former teachers and fellow-students? The love you have for your own class- mates is clearly manifested hy your attendance at these meetings. Resolve now, on your Graduation Day to he Hsemper Fidelisu and your All Saints will he very proud of you. Sister Venard, QP., Moderator of the Alumnae, extends a cordial invitation to all graduates to return and have a gala reunion the afternoon of the Sundays hefore Decoration Day and Thanlcsgiving Day. Should you have a date. just hring your Van Johnson along. While you are reminiscing with your former classmates the Sisters will entertain the 'Boy friendn hy telling of your outstanding achievements while at All Saints. The entire Alumnae hody extend the very hest greetings to the graduating classes of 1947. To them we wish nothing hut the hest-Happiness, here and lierealterl

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ALL SAINTS COMMERCIAL HIGH SEIIUIIL Uur aim here is to give a hrief history of your Alma Mater, the School you Iove so weII. Its history dates hack to the days when Vxfittiamshurg was in the heart of the country, when not a tree hut many trees grew in Brooklyn. The completion of the Williamshurgh Bridge in 1904 effected great changes in the WaIIahout district. There was a great iniIux of Jewish people who hought some property within the Iimits of the parish. Littte hy IittIe all the husiness went into their hands. An aImost continuous exodus of the pio- neers of the parish took pIace effecting a steady and continuous decrease in the pupiI register. Ctasses were consotidated and hy 1905 the entire upper 'floor of the heautiful schoot huitding was vacant. Right Reverend Monsignor Kaupert, ever anxious to promote Cathohc education, gave weighty consideration to the prohIem of the empty cIassrooms. He conferred with Reverend Mother Augustine, Prioress GeneraI, and with Reverend Mother Chrysostom, PrincipaI of All Saints SchooI, and after dis- cussing the matter and viewing it from every aspectl steps were taken with the diocesan authorities to make possihte the opening of a Commerciat High SchooI for Girts. With the decreased revenue of the parish, it would have heen an irn- possihihty to assume the financiaI ohIigation necessary to equip a commerciaI schooI. Typewriters, expensive machines of aII types, the instaIment ot furni- t.ure needed for machines, Iihrary faciIities, aII that was necessary to give stu- dents the advantage of a good husiness training meant a Iarge outIay of money. Af ter due consideration, Reverend Mother Augustine consented to open the Commerciat High Schoot as a Community High School, the outIay to he defrayed hy Community funds. The First ctasses met in the wen equipped and compIeteIy renovated upper Hoor in Septemher 1916. The pIan was for a two year program. The suhjects offered were ReIigion, Business Engtish, Typing, Shorthand, Business Arithmetic, Booldceeping and Business Law. Sister AdaIhert was the Hrst teacher appointed and tweIve students were graduated in June 1918. During the two years 1916-1918 the register graduaIIy increased and when the First cIass graduated there were seventy students enroIIed. From the outset high standards of scholastic exceIIence were maintained. The University of the State of New Yortc granted a Charter of Registration in 1918 and this was renewed annuaIIy. In 1918 Right Reverend Monsignor LLVS. IVIcCIancy, Superintendent ot Cathotic SchooIs in the Diocese of Brooldyn, was authorized hy His Excel- Iency, Most Reverend Chartes E. McDonneII, D.D., Bishop of Brootdyn, to