Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception - Annual Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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1914-Cathedral Collegefl964 Rarely has a diocese undertaken a work of greater importance and of more splendid promise. Its future suc- cess rests entirely with the clergy, whom it aims to serve and assist. And its success is assured, for the priests of the diocese have prayed for its coming 5 they will welcome its establishment , they will co-operate with its work. Long after we have been called to receive the vineyard laboreris wages, may it be a source of blessing to this diocese, pro- ducing zealous and loyal priests, laboring solely for the glory of God and the salvation of countless souls. - George Cardinal Mundelein

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To Mary, Loving Mother of the Redeeming Christ To Mary, Beloved Mother of Christ in us To Mary, Immaculate Mother of the Eternal Priest In thanksgiving for these Fifty Years

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St. ,Iohn's Chapel, Site of Cathedral's First Classes In the Spring of 1914, His Excellency, Most Rev. Charles E. McDonnell, D.D., Bishop of Brooklyn, seeing the need of fostering and cultivating the grace of a voca- tion in a young man, entrusted the building and direction of a diocesan minor seminary to his Auxiliary, Most Rev- erend George W. Mundelein, D.D. To help raise the necessary funds, Msgr. john Fitz- gerald succeeded in gaining the interest of Mr. George Duval, who generously donated fifty thousand dollars toward the purchase of property on the S.A.R. Moses estate. lastic year of old Sai in its temporary quarters in the vestry building nt john's Chapel on Vanderbilt Avenue near Greene Avenue, the site where Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School now stands. The faculty consisted of Dr. Anthony J. Reichert, . teaching Latin, Greek, and Christian Doctrine, Rev. Francis J. Healy, English, and Rev. Francis A. Woods S.T.L., mathematics and history. The Rev. Thomas E. Molloy, la ter Ordinary of the diocese, was appointed as Spiritual Director, assisted by Rev. joseph W. Sweeney. Aiding the faculty were three modern language professors The first class, consisting of 110 students, ranging for Italian, German, and Polish, and a music professor. in age from eleven to twenty-four, began its first scho- WHTZT., ' fwmil' -'I'T'- .1 'fT'tQ?.' '-Wai?-E-x,F'f'ff'5-'-14 frf,j'-3'f.f:r:1a3's'af' airs--ffi?'1'..--n-.njqrf z- --'--- V . lg 5 D ,gJar,:,,.:,. V :i,'l,12-,',. Y- ' bg 3.51, ,.,.L.U, ll, if, t -. 1 , 4 N J l ,rH1,59-. .... 5 r 'i3','yfLA ,n.f,.'fQ.-,V'l' w ,-EZFQ' Q 'fx-511-1fts ?12'? .fl5f i:iw'.f.f?fQ?. -4.f-.E5'QlSEffHj'Z-dw,'7-4 .'-- I, ' f',gf.w'. ?'f,E1'f3l'ifftT ifit' '-U ' ff '-3f?f,17'- lj' if iff! Q'?45'f.J1.- ' ' ,' 4 .135.Gf.T.fQgZ:,-L.g j,jQ--Jig, -3'-Q ,3.4:1.4.,1-'irifrg,fi '15, VE- , J lfailfll J ,F if-' gt- :'5F5,Q-ELI'-,fljQ4 I , L' Q-Li' A- U.-'fl'f:'W1s.::L1ig-lffvggggfi.f-11.Q 5gg:QL:.fL!5f.l 1' ' - Q. iv S 7 M Nr' I ,t A L-.-.-,Q 1, Zf1 '.I all '