Bishop Timon High School - Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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A ' adm PriesT, missionory, educoTor, odminisTroTor, social worlcer, Troil-blazing Bishop: The MosT Rev. John Timon, o VincenTion, was all These. He mode hisTory here. He did iT ThroughouT The 20 yeors oT his EpiscopoTo. When he died in I867 heileTT behind him ToundoTions which assured o cer- Toin TuTure Tor The Diocese. AT his requesT The Fronciscon Foihers TirsT come inTo WesTern New York and begon Teoching oT ST, BonovenTure College almosT IOO years oqo. Bishop Timon wroTe The inTro- ducTion To The Fronciscon chopTer in The his- Tory oi The Diocese. lT was TiTTing, ThereTore, ThoT The Friors should nome The new high school Under Their core To honor him. IT is iusT os TiTTing ThoT he be remembered now, when o new chopTer oT hisTory is being wriTTen by The school which bears his nome -Bishop Timon High School. The audience of Bishop O'Hara Dedic.1Tion Day. Thousands of people had shares in The building of The school, Through Their Cafholic ChoriTies Con- tribufions. .,, 6 x ty-

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1 9. 4 ,,,, hjfgr? . 3 :ft 4 - ' laments Alfhough he came inlo a well organized Diocese as lhe sevenfh successor lo lhe firsl Bishop of Buffalo, Bishop Ol-lara has been a pioneer-lhe inauguralinq anal moving spiril behind lhe Diocesan High School Syslem. Thai is how we will always remember him. Bishop Q'l-lara broughl many 'rhings wilh him 'ro Buffalo--lhe love lor souls ol a Mili- lary Bishop, lhe adminislralive abilily of a Preside-nl of Nolre Dame Universily, lhe zeal for Calholic Eclucalion born of 20 years of leaching. We leel, Your Excellency, lhal you have used 'rhese powers especially lor us Sludenls of a Diocesan High School. We are happy fo lcnow we have parlially realized wilh you lhe dream of a wider Calholic Educalion for lhe youlh ol lhe Buflalo Diocese. 44' .IV 4.

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-fav- wmzfdeafal Bishop Timon l-ligh School mode ils debul inlo scholoslic sociely in Seplemloer, IQ46, when live Friors ond 72 boys golhered for Jrhe lirsl czsseinbly of one of lhe seven clioceson high schools inouguroled by Bishop Q'l-lcuro. The ploce wos Our Lody of Perpeluol Help School, 84 Vondolio Slreef, 'rhe heorl ol lhe Firsl Word-wilhin sighl of lowering groin olevolors ond wilhin souncl ol shilling roilrood engines ond o belloviing foghorn on The Lolce. The sludenls were moslly from lhe Word ond Soulh Buffolo. The lirsl boy lo enroll wos Morlin Monn. The pioneers-72 shong. The original sfudeni body in fron? of fhe W .im 'U'--W, ,,.ns..' 4 div...- .-.fic 'film ldlyw-uf frvnl!