Bishop Noll High School - Marquette Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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THE GROTTO The Lourdes Grotto of our Blessed Lady on the school campus is an important place for every Noll student. It has been especially so during the past year because of the many special Marian Year blessings that could be obtained. The Grotto was built by former Noll students in their spare time under the direction of Sister M. Ivan. After much hard work, it was completed and dedicated in September, 1942. An important feature of the Grotto is the stone that it contains from the Lourdes Grotto in France. All Noll students meet at the Grotto each October to form the Living Rosary and again in May to crown Mary and sing her praises. It is a custom, too, for the football team to make a visit to Mary before and after home football games. The Grotto is a favorite meeting place for all students.

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CHURCH OF SAINT MARGARET MARY The beautiful Norman French Gothic Church located on Noll ' s campus is dedi¬ cated to St. Margaret Mary. In 1947 Archbishop Noll authorized Rev. Everard N. Klein, then a member of Noll ' s faculty, to form a parish in the vicinity of the school. Until the completion and dedication of the church. Sept. 21, 1952, Mass was held in the school gym. Students now have the privilege of attending Mass and receiving Holy Communion daily before classes, and an especially large number is present on every First Friday of the month. Students also have an opportunity to visit the Blessed Sacrament during lunch or after school.

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ADMINISTRATION PERE MARQUETTE was explorer and teacher. For that reason, we place him rightly at the head of these pages filled with the accounts of faculty members of 1955 who join their endeavors with those of previous educa¬ tional explorers who have led the thousands of BNHS students through the labyrinths of religion, science, history, and language. Bands of Catholic students have emerged with Marquette leaders at their head to join the ranks of Christian citizens of the Calumet area. In the following pages are friends as well as educators. Here are the teachers whose example and friendship we shall cherish long after we have forgotten the algebraic formula they taught. Here are the heroes and the heroines whose lives of dedication we silently chartered as they led us through the wonderlands of lives of religious, civic, and cultural colossi. Yes, here on these pages are pictured those intrepid Christian explorers who helped us to discover US.