Alleman High School - Pioneer (Rock Island, IL)

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il-.q 549 ' es, gd ill Elm ZA e walfd. 9 40 ' an ancf dllaul . iq, up GJ- Rf. Rev. Msgr. P. H. Durkin b K, 3: ,,k., f Wyyxxm K. lessee The ground for A A I ' , NQSQF' Q 1 K ,,,,,5w4, Herman High School

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.1 I-L e 44, z Q 0 Z 14, as Foreword This is our TirsT Holy Year. This is our iniTial annual. BoTh of These TirsTs have a proTound significance Tor us, The sTudenTs of Alleman. One is a record of The pasTg The oTher, a promise of The TuTure. The Two combined reTlecT our CaTholic heriTage which we have received: our CaTholic obligaTions To which we musT give ourselves. WiTh our idealism undimmed, we are sTriving To make This yearbook The besTg This Holy Year, The holiesT. The Holy Year will pass wiTh our youTh, buT The eTTecTs oT iT will be wiTh us ThroughouT our lives. TwenTy-Tive years Trom now, in The year l975, There will be, if TradiTion proves True, anoTher Holy Year. Our dreams and hopes oT Today will have been realized Then, and we will look back wiTh nosTalgic remembrance upon our TirsT Holy Year-The year when our Alleman days became acTualiTies, when we prayed Tor The peace +ha+ The world cannoT give, when we Turned our eyes Toward The Holy CiTy and uniTed wiTh Pope Pius XII in pledging our TideliTy To his five maior inTenTions Tor The Holy Year.

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. . . wan! am! laaailewoi Bishop Schlarman blesses The cornersTone Tor Alleman High School CornersTone Laid An area oT six acres adjoining Lincoln Park and exTending Trom ElevenTh To ThirTeenTh Avenue and Trom ForTieTh To ForTy-second STreeT com- prises The Alleman grounds. The ground was TirsT broken in I948. Upon The TeasT oT The AssumpTion oT Our Blessed MoTher, as Bishop Schlarman blessed and seT in place The cornersTone oT This sTrucTure, The Alleman High School Board voiced Their graTiTude To God and Their deTerminaTion To emulaTe His loving concern Tor The youTh so dear To The HearT oT ChrisT. The consTrucTion conTracT was To be TulTilled by June, I949. The TirsT school year was To be T949-I95O. The cornersTone conTains Bishop Schlarmans address, a sTone Trom The TirsT church oT The area, The names oT The diTTerenT parish churches, and The hisTory OT FaTher Alleman and Alleman High. School DeclicaTed Highly honoring The CaTholic people oT Rock Island CounTy oT The diocese oT Peoria, His Ex- cellency, The lviosT Reverend AmleTo Giovanni Cicognani, fXposTolic DelegaTe To The UniTed STaTes, oTTiciaTed Sunday, AugusT 28, T94-9, aT The colorTul and impressive dedicaTion oT The new Alleman High School. BrighT sunshine and a cooling breeze augmenTed The laTe summer background To Torm a perTecT ouTdoor seTTing Tor The colorTul and impressive ceremony which Took place in TronT oT The school aT The corner oT ElevenTh Avenue .and ForTieTh STreeT, and aTTracTed a crowd oT men, women and children esTimaTed aT nearly seven Thousand persons. Opening The program was The Reverend Enos H. Barnes, pasTor oT ST. lv1ary's Church, Moline, who spoke on The schools hisTory and paid Trib- uTe To Monsignor Durkin, FaTher Culemans, and FaTher Alleman. , 1 1