Alleman High School - Pioneer (Rock Island, IL)

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mm like Ms LMAO- LUG-'lk The MosT Rev. Archbishop Cicognani addresses The people aT The dedicaTion ceremony Dedication Monsignor Durlcin, pasTor OT ST, Joseph's Church, h Rock Island, Then gave a deTailed accounT oT T e early appeals Tor a Rock Island CounTy CaTholic high school and Told of Bishop Schlarman's gen- erosiTy and assisTance in The maTerializaTion OT The school. H ulo ized The eTTorTs oT The laTe FaThcr e e g Culemans in insTigaTing acTion Tor Alleman. Per- ha s more Than anyone else in The viciniTy, Mon- P signor Durlcin, Vicar General oT The diocese, has . . h Tound in The new school The realizaTion oT is d ms, He was one oT The TirsT To see The need rea Tor a cenTral CaTholic high school and was one oT The principal Torces behind The purchase oT The necessary properTy. From The beginning, every . . . h I sTep in The planning and building oT The sc oo has had The beneTiT oT his enThusiasTic supporT and advice. Following Monsignor Durlcin's address, Bishop S hlarman inTroduced The AposTolic DelegaTe. c As a prelude To The inTroducTion, His Excellency ' ' ' II ex ressed his graTiTude To The CaTholics and a T3 oTher residenTs OT The counTy who gave Time and ' ' h w Tinancial aid Toward The erecTion oT T e ne hool Having paid a TribuTe To Monsignor Dur- sc . lcin's eTTorTs, The Bishop sTaTed ThaT The idea Tor The . . d resenT school was originaTed by The lafe Reveren P T S d HearT Parish, Moline. J. B. Culemans o acre The AposTolic DelegaTe Then delivered The dedi- 'T' T caTion address. Discussing The signiicance o d Ti n in The lighT oT The CaTholic Church, e uca o he said: The Church has always TormulaTed her 'raTio sTudiorum,' her program oT educaTion, on The Two ToundaTions oT TaiTh and reason, because i T his TaiTh and reason have been g.ven To man or Tion, Tor The acguisiTion oT TruTh and Tor The aTTainmenT oT his Tinal end. Torma The TruThs oT TaiTh and oT moraliTy, he con- Tinued, Tar Trom clipping TruTh, illuminaTe iT, develop iT, and render iT easier To lcnow. Gne musT noT believe ThaT The principles oT Tailh and oT moraliTy impose a Tyranny oT ThoughT7 on The conTrary, The church condemns any enslavemonT oT mind or ThoughTg only TyranTs make use oT ii To sTrip man oT his liborTy and digniTy. The church, he wenT on To say, is promoTing d caTion ThaT Takes man as he is, wiTh inTellecT e u and will, an inTelligenT and spiriTual being wiTh an immorTal soul: all These are comprised in The TormaTion oT man. Man is indivisible . . . we call him an individual . . . and wherever he is oes he carries wiTh him all oT himselTg IT is or g , ThereTore necessary ThaT The same principles direcT, inspire, and animaTe every phase oT his liTe, aT home and in school, in privaTe and in public. Thus . . . . I you have a man who is conTormed To his princip es, a man who is True To himselT.

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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

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