Cathedral Boys High School - Cathedralogue Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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.jwadfory of Kafka! af gow .NQA 3400! FATHER O CONNER The husTOry OT CaThedral Hugh School daTes baclc To The summer OT l93O when The laTe Buswop GruTTun announced The openung OT a new hugh schoou Tor CaTholuc boys un The cuTy OT Sprungheld The school was To be conducTed by The Clerucs OT ST VuaTOr The Rev Danuel O Conner C S V was named pruncupal OT The new school un adduTuOn To hus beung appounTed pasTor OT ST Joseph s Parush To assusT hum un Thus posuTuon Fr J E Wulluarns was made hus assusTanT and Fr James Sees was hus aThleTuc durecTor The school was OTTucually opened SepTember 2 l93O wuTh a regusTraTuon OT nm'-W nuneTy Two Treshmen Classes were conducTed un Three rooms OT ,gum The CaThedral Grade School IT was planned To uncrease The number OT classes wuTh The end OT every Term so by The Tume ThaT These Treshmen were senuors There would be all Tour grades M U ' semesTer Br Ray Wullcun served as subsTuTuTe Teacher Sunce The conducTung OT classes un The CaThedral Grade School was To be Mg, only Temporary The old ST Mary s Grade School aT 7Th 81 Monroe was repaured and remodeled Tor The Openung oT classes un The Tall The TaculTy resuded un The ST Marys RecTory New Treshmen were reausTered and courses Tor sophomores were added The FATHER OCONNER Teachung sTaTT was enlarged by The arruval OT Br DroleT and Fr Brown Under The durecTuon OT BrOTher DroleT a drum and bugle corps and a DramaTucs Club were esTablushed T'ue PTA was organuzed wuTh Mr Nucholas Amrheun as uTs TursT oresudenT BeTween The semesTer The TursT reTreaT was guven The old CaThedral was remodeled To allow an uncrease un classrooms and The TrOnT parT was Turned unTo a gymnasuum Thus year saw The arruval OT Fr Nolan and Br Carlon By Thus Tume The Treshmen had become senuors and The school was now a Tu ly creduTed hugh school FursT com mencemenT day exercuses were neld un June I934 Unde The durecTuOn OT FaTher SuprenanT The TursT school paper was Organuzed As The school opened un I936 The enrollmenT was abOuT Two hundred and TOrTy seven Durung Thus year Fr OConner was called To serve as delegaTe TO The General ChapTer OT The VuaTOruans un Belguum I8 o 7 I ff' L Tk T A n I n I n 1 . 1 T u T i . . . . up fi ,M-QF TW T T ' . F uf TT . T , 6 wwf - . y , , . r. 2, Earl Reavy was made The coach. AT The beginning OT The second . , . . . i T

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IIC!! f Bro'rher Raymond Wzfken C S V Brofher Brofher William Dunlap C S V Maumee Wagner C S V 554 Brorher Brorher Brofher Pafruclc Calnulf C S V Carla Paradiso C S V Anrnony Rodla C S V Mr John Fnngan Mr Joseolw Beya Mrs Edmfh Schulfz I 7

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,fr i FATHER SEES FATHER HARBAU ER FATHER SEES FaTher Sees was made prlnclpal To succeed FoTher O Conner and The TaculTy was bolsTered by The adduTlon oT Fr John Ryan Messrs Greg Sloan and Don Anderson served Tar one year CaThedrals aThleTlc durecTors The year I939 was Tne end oT The school s exnsTence aT The ola CaThedral Bishop GrnTTnn had succeeded rn obTann1ng The old Converse School Trom The sTaTe and The Tollowung year The sTudenTs enrolled aT The new residence aT 8Th 81 EasTman However The old CaThedral gym was .Jsed Tor sporTs and The TaculTy sTnll resncled IH The old recTory down and The annual VarneTy Show came under The durecTuon oT BroTher DroleT The Tall aT I942 anoTher change In admlnrsTraTuon Tool: place FaTher l-Tarbau r was appovnTed pruncupal To replace FaTher Sees and FaTher Brown reTurned To CaThedral as Dean OT STudnes The +hrrT enTh year aw The TnrsT Tull yeor aT The new locaTuon EnTerang The nexT year we see ThaT Mr Rlchard Neeson us made The musncal dnrecTor Tns year saw The combined gradu aTlon aT The CaThedral aT The l'nmaculaTe Concephon The TnrsT yearbook was publnshed during Thus year under The dnrechon oT Fr Noonan IT was also The year ThaT Mr Al Lewus produced The Tune baslceTball Team ThaT wenT To The sTaTe quarTer Trnals T91 FATHER HARBAUER . . as 0 .,.. r . , . , . . . 'Q A2 I si U l . Town. FaT'her BeaTTy made his enTry inTo our annals in l94l, l