Bishop McGuinness High School - Chi Rho Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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purchase land for h1s church and consequently bought a square Clfy block at Northwest Thlrty second and Western Avenue two blocks north of the Faxrlawn Cemetery The flrst bulldmg constructed by Father Monnot vsas the school lhe flrst floor of the school served as a temporary chapel Then 1n l9Z4 the present Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral xx as completed and dedlcated It was also at th1s t1me that the Cathollc Home a newsPaper put out by the Carmel1te Fathers 1n Hartshorne moved 1ts plant to Oklahoma C1ty under the new name of the Southwest Courler and became a drocesan paper Also durmg th1s year Blshop Meerschart went to h1s eternal reward and Father Franc1s C Kelley became the new Brshop of the growmg dlocese Nlneteen twenty f1VL was a b1g year 1n the c1ty wlth two of the large present day parlshes Corpus Chf1Sfl and St Franc1s belng es tabl1shed Corpus Chr1st1 had rts begmmng rn a prxvate resldence at 6ll Northeast Erghth Street lt was there that Mass was flrst cele brated but after the erectlon of the school the chapel was moved to a room ln the school bu1ld1ng The erectlon of the school put the parmsh very deeply 1nto debt lt took the comlng of Father John J Walde IH l926 to frnally put the parxsh on 1ts feet and make lf the When Blshop Kelley came to the dlocese he recognlzed the need for a parrsh 1n the sectron of the c1ty surroundxng h1s offrcral IQSI dence at Elghteenth and Kentucky Thus St Franc1s of ASSISI came 1nto exrstence Durmg 1ts fxrst few years xt was not an mdependent parlsh slnce all of rts burldmgs and property were st1ll owned by the Blshop bexng the Brshop s off1c1al resldence lt contlnued to grow though l1ke all of the other parrshes mn the cxty and ln 1928 had progressed enough to merrt the openlng of 1ts school Also at th1s trme St Anthony s was growlng out of rtself and 1n l927 had to add a sxxty SIX bed add1t1on Wlth the completlon of th1s wmg, the orrgrnal structure was completely burred Also 1n 1927 Father James A Gary ey started Holy Angels parlsh rn the west central regxon of the c1ty at 317 North Blackwelder The par 1sh was started to serve the poorer sectlons of the c1ty surroundlng that area In l93l the c1ty experlenced two blg moves The Cathedral of the dlocese was moved from St Joseph s to Our l ady s and the B1sh H S AHOL :IO H.L El DHD HDH N O 'DI OHV VW D AJ. Cf: ENE? lC '11'D 'ac ar-me DEQ lifes- F'-US -mE: is D' , r--4 1 I 1 Y, X . . . 7 n r-YT 1 ' , 4 5 Y 5 J V . ' x I 3 -I . y 4 ' 1 a 1 gi . . , 1 4 P11 beautlful ed1f1ce rt IS today. Y . . ' ' '

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NLSH HO A :JO .L FIH OHW HHH N SDIO OHV VW D AJ. og? CMV' HER KSQS 121.295 ie: 'Ulm SES 52: Fen D' the Catherdal and thus the off1c1al church rn Oklahoma st1ll ar rrved before statehood St Joseph s Cathedral was completed and des1gnated Cathedral of the drocese of Oklahoma Theophlle Meer s hart Brshop 1n 1905 The seeds of farth that had been planted were now held down by an lmmovable root Whtle th1s was golng on 1n the center of town toward the south west extremlty of the c1ty the Srsters of Mercy were maklng the1r mark on the growlng ommumty The Slsters had been stafflng St Joseph s school from thelr mother house 1n Sacred Heart Oklahoma but reallzlng the place that Oklahoma Crty would have 1n the state IH years to come they decrded to moxe thelr mother house here and also erect an academy for the Catholxc g1r1s of the c1ty The Slsters took up resldence at St Joseph s but located the s1te for the1r academy and mother house at Southwest Twenty frfth and Shartel Avenue ln 1903 Mount St Mary s Academy came mto exrstence It had been a hard struggle for the Sisters who often had to walk from St Joseph s to the Mount crossmg a small footbrrdge over the North Canadlan Rlver Thelr flrst graduatlng class conslstmg of SIX young lad1es who were graduated rn 1906 SIX years later 1n 1912 a par1sh Sacred Heart was started across from the academy Lrke most of the parlshes ln the years to come rt bullt tts school frrst and conducted servlces rn If The Slsters of Mercy also undertook the job of stafflng the school Nxneteen twelve also saw the openrng of St Joseph s Orphanage by the Sxsters of Mercy Durlng the years from 1900 to 1919 Oklahoma C1ty contlnued to grow Though Henry Ford s automoblle had not yet replaced the horse and carrlage and the crty s mam thoroughfares of today such as Western Avenue were st1ll muddy lrttle lanes the c1ty had spread untll rt was slowly begmnmg to swallow up Farrlawn Cemetery which had long been considered the outermost extremlty of the town Then ln 1919 the avalanche of growth 1n that area called for the establxshment of a parlsh to serve that sectlon of the c1ty Father A F Monnot was commrssroned by Blshop Meerschart to set up the parrsh that was later to become the home of the Cathedral Father Monnot flrst sald Mass for hls new parlshroners 1n a garage at North west Thlrteenth and Classen Boulex ard, but he was soon able to Y .- - r 1 V V - r' x, , , . . V - . H . . . L . . A v - v . v I .. . . Y Y . xA . , . . F-1 ' , . . 7 x , . - , vk v 1 . Q . . . . , . . . , . 3 , - . . , . r 1 Q v . f w- . . . . 9 ' . v

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KNO SH 4C ml VOX OHX VIA. 'D .LL C400 N33- :Sm-f.Ci ff a :Zi zu-:W mage' CJ'T7'.2 QQ'-+ 235 'S-'S-9' op mox cd to hrs present manslon at Northwest Frfteenth and 1-lud son The next year Father Connor took over the YQIHS of lcadershxp at thc Cathedral and two years latcr the Blshop turned over the burldmgs and properties of St Francls to the par1sh makmg xt 1n dependent ln 1926 Corpus Chrrstl mox ed to 1ts present locatlon at North cast Flfteenth and Kelly Axcnuc and Father Walde began work on the bcaut1ful structures that non grace the s1te and whxch make up the center ofCathol1c1sm for the entlre Northeast sectlon of the c1ty Father James A Garvey took the post as head of the Assoclated Cathollc Charrtles 1n Oklahoma C1ty 1n 1940 and undertook the task of buxldmg and enlarg1ng the Assoc1at1on to what lf IS today homa C1tV area was establ1shed m 1940 The home was set up on the orphanage grounds outsrde the c1ty but 1n 1945 was moved to 1208 North Shartel At th1s tlme the Brothers of Mercy who had been carmg for the allmg Brshop Kelley started St Vmcent s Home for the Aged on Northeast Twenty thlrd Street Th1s home took only men and the women were taken care of at the Shartel home These bulld 1ngs also became madequate before long and xt became 1ncreas1ngly evldent that a modern up to date home would have to be bu1lt The erect1on of th1S home became a part of the over whelmmg growth of the church all over the state after the close of the second World War One of the most lmportant dex elopments of th1s surge of growth 1n the CIIY was the purchase of the Oklahoma Clty General Hospital by the SISYQFS of Mercy The S1sters took over the hosprtal and named lf after thelr order Mercy Hospltal Thls gave the church the care of the two mam hospltals m the c1ty area The present church at St Francxs was also begun m 1946 In 1947 plans were la1d for a new par1sh to be bu1lt to serve the Nrchols H1lls area and th1s resulted 1n the foundmg of Chrlst the Kmg par1sh 1n 1949 In 1950 St Ann s Home for the Aged was completed and the sorely needed new cen tral Cathollc Hlgh School was opened The eastern most part of St Francrs par1sh was separated and made rndependent and St Patr1ck's par1sh came 1nto exxstence Durlng these years Father Schlllo started hrs back breakmg mrssronary work 1n the Sandtown and Walnut H . L . L D . - :T VL 3 3 l T I l 4 T1 Q 1 'I . J , J Y .. A 3 I Y 73 1 L , F , . . . . l'2 4 ' 1 As a result of th1s the frrst Catholxc home for the aged 1n the Okla- N . g . 1 . . . ' . V .