Bishop Baraga High School - Baragan Yearbook (Marquette, MI)

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1 903 1 953 Qofdea Z6414 As Baraga enters its golden jubilee year, the thought strikes us that all our years at Baraga have been golden. Our days have been gilded with joy - - sports, dances, parties, and clubs. Lastingfriendships have been formed. A sound education has prepared us to make our contribution to American living. Golden, too, is the aurora our years here cast over our whole lives: through the Catholicfoundation we have received, we canface the trials ahead of us with the strong confidence that our lives are in His Hands. Our golden years at Baraga will lead us, we hope, to the Golden Years of Eternity. ..5 ..7 QoZdmZeafw7 Nl? U37 4

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519464 lts one hundredth year finds Marquette a flourishing diocese under Bishop Thomas L. Noa, its eighth bishop. The diocese has expanded from seven parishes in 1853 to 93 parishes in 1953, from three grade schools and no high schools to 26 grade schools and six high schools. The priests and people of Marquette can look back on these one hundred years with pride in their achievement and with gratitude to their saintly pioneer bishop and his successors. Bishop Noa came to Marquette in 1947 from Sioux City, Iowa, where he had been coadjutor bishop. Wel- comed by an eager chorus of Marquette Catholic School children then, our bishop has ever since shown a keen interest in the progress of the Catholic school system in our diocese. We at Bishop Baraga High School are especially for- tunate in having him so near to grace with his presence all our performances and to bestow upon us his episcopal blessing as we receive our diplomas from his hand. 7 ?55 Since 1903, our school has been known as Baraga High School. This year, with the formation of an Alumni Association and under their leadership, it has been renamed Bishop Baraga High School to honor more specifically that pioneer prelate. Wfith succeeding years, the curriculum, too, has changed. The subjects offered now would scarcely have been dreamed of in 1903. Commercial, science, art, and speech courses as well as a physical education program have been added to the limited academic course of 1903. 3

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7703- 7255 T- Z Q 1 'I ,Hx n n n WN , ' 1 X I w I 1 1 I hw! 1' I 5 The priests ofour diocese and the Sisters ofSt. Joseph of Carondelet have devoted their lives in teaching as how to be good Christians and citizens. Now we wish to thank them for their eawofsewdce