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

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After a quarter of century, Cathedral could look back on a period of growth. She had trained many good laborers for the vineyard of Christ, under the direction of a conscientious, capable and commendable faculty. The 1940 Annual dedicated itself to Christ the Priest. Its staff explored the morality of war and the problems of peace and liberty in the modern world. This same year, Rev. Richard B. MCI-Iugh, who served the longest Rectorship in Cathedral's history, sixteen years, was named Papal Chamberlain. In keeping with the special problems of war admin- istration, lectures were given to instruct the students in matters of civil defense. A Morale Corps was instituted to provide entertainment during air-raid drills. In 1944, a Victory Corps Committee was set up to aid in sending food and clothing to all the ,Allied fields of war. War stamps and bonds were sold, while contri- butions were solicited from both the faculty and student body for the National War Fund and Red Cross. With 1945, Cathedral returned quietly to the pur- suits of peace. In March 1947, the official recognition of Cathedral's College Department came from the State Board of Regents by the granting of a provisional charter. The remaining years of the forties were years of new expansion for Cathedral, both physically and spirit- ually. They were years of recovery from a war and of realization of an ever present warfare, the struggle for souls. On Christmas Eve of 1949, with the celestial notes of the Sistine Choir resounding in the background and the echoing words of Pope Pius XII, Open to me the gates of justice, the I-Ioly Year of 1950 was solemnly proclaimed. lt was a new decade for the Church and for Cathe- dral also. The fifties would bring about the beginning of a still greater phase of the Minor Seminary and her dominant role in educating young men for the priesthood in the Diocese of Brooklyn. elf- f A 1 f Q' 1 7? if , '

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Two outstanding changes were made in the educa- tional programs of the school: the high school department became affiliated with the State Board of Regents and a sixth year was added to the course of studies. ln order to provide a class for this new year, only 40 members of the Fifth year class were graduated in june 1927. The remaining 18 were graduated in June 1928. The 450 students of Cathedral were saddened by the death of Mr. George Duval, who was buried from St. Patrick's Cathedral on the eighteenth of March, 1931. It was his generosity and interest which never waned that had made the first wing of the College possible. l-le also donated sums of money from which prizes for the Immaculate Conception Essay Contest are awarded each year. In May 1931, the Diocesan Major Seminary opened its doors and Father I-loar was appointed as Rector and Original Chapel 4 1 The Diocesan Major Seminary, Huntington, Long Island raised to the rank of Papal Chamberlain. I-le was suc- ceeded in Cathedral by the Rev. John D. Wynne from the Parish of St. Barnabas, Bellmore. By 1932, the small library on the third floor Cthe present music roomj proved inadequate for the stu- dents' needs and resulted in the dismantling of the chapel and the conversion of the room to a library. A small chapel was equipped on the second floor to provide for the students' Mass, while all other religious exercises were subsequently held in the auditorium. During the summer of 1934, the Rector was honored by the I-loly Father with the rank of Papal Chamberlain. On November 20, 1936, Msgr. Wynne was ap- pointed pastor of St. Peter of Alcantara Parish, Port Washington. Father Richard B. Mcl-lugh, a member of the faculty since 19121, was appointed to succeed him. 11

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The Five Episcopal Alumni More than ever before, the necessity for a sound scholastic training for the priest was seen. The Church was compelled now to be ready to defend her rights against the materialistic forces arrayed against her. In addition to the protection promised her by Christ Himself, the Church must be strengthened by the spiritual and intellectual powers of her priesthood. The priest must be capable of pointing out fundamental errors in modern thinking wherever they may exist. He must be well-equipped to lead his people to the truth. In the person of the Most Reverend Thomas E. Mol- loy, the Brooklyn Diocese had already found a priestly leader and wise shepherd. On April 7, 1951 he received the personal title of Archbishop. After a tenure of sixteen years as Rector, Monsignor Richard B. McHugh left Cathedral in 1952 to become pastor of St. joseph's Parish in Long Island City. His position was taken over by Rev. Charles R. Mulrooney, a member of the faculty for twenty years, then Dean of Studies in the College. zggpiiifs, 2-.1 1 . ' To celebrate the centennial of the Brooklyn Diocese in 1953, Cathedral presented a dramatized history of the Diocese, over radio station WWRL on December 6th of that year. 1956 saw the first Music Festival, an event, which was so well received that it found an immediate place among Cathedral's most popular presentations. On an exceptionally bright day for Cathedral, in june of 1956, Monsignor john J. Carberry '24 became the first of the five alumni of Cathedral to be elevated to the episcopacy. Bishop Carberry came from Saint Boniface's Parish and was a classmate of Bishop Mulrooney. When he graduated from Cathedral, he was sent to Rome to study and was ordained there in 1929. After teaching in the Major Seminary at Huntington for some time, Father Carberry was made Officialis of the Diocesan Curia. He held that position until the time of his consecration, when he was installed as Bishop of Lafayette, Indiana. I u. hxyilrm H . ,- .4 g -L , I- ', X .' I ...u 'L-3 . ml 1:14 . 1. ,L ,J-H, 45,1 , - -. -Q ' rv , t .. A -V A15 5 ' , T'5!Li'?lf5:'C2'f'l35'f-4-w':1- '54 l'.....-,g-4g.-..,L-g-'2-L ' ' ' '