Bellarmine High School - Cage Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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I as Oil 'E -st- rex purchase school The site corner But great and be- of the pres- Fr. David, his Name their free days desolate spot at 23rd cut down the trees, thc stumps, burned the did the remote work in prep- for the actual building. Marshalled also into the execution of the plains for the future Bellarmine were: the Philomathea Club, the Alumni Association of St. Leafs, the Knights of Columbus, the Ancient Order of Hiber- 1 - Martini , James 0 Brian, F William Becker, George W Louis Warter. On Mar. 18, 1928, the Bellarmine cornerstone was laid by Hi: Excellency, the Most Rev. Edward J O'Dea, D.D., Bishop of Seattle. Ther with the pledged support of the Knight: of Columbus and the approval of Bishol 0,Dea, a city-wide solicitation of fund: was begun that day to finance the nev school. Moving day was quite exciting, sayf Fr. John Mc-Astocker, SJ., was we left tht old desks at St. Lco's on the assurance 0: Mrs. Martin Petrich, president of the Philomatbea, that the club would raist enough money that year to pay for tht new desks. I ordered the fine steel desk that are still used in the class rooms. Tlu physical and chemical laboratories at St Leo's had been purchased by the Philo mathea in-Fr. lJriscoll's time as principa of St. Leafs. These we transferred to the new school. The old construction shacl he had shingled and turned into a cafe teria, ably presided over by Mrs. Charlie Paugh. Charlie Paugh became our firs G6 engineer and janitor and during his in cumbency gave unstintingly of his time and energies. And during that .1 we were most grateful to lilliotllilfletg of the Tacoma News Tribune for his ciiiil sistently sympathetic writeups about the new school, its and sports.

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