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

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In june, 1962, Pope john XXIII appointed Right Reverend Monsignor Vincent J. Baldwin '26 to serve as the first Auxiliary Bishop of the Rockville Center Diocese. He had been Chancellor and Vicar General of the Diocese since it was established in 1957. The Bishop studied at Cathedral, Huntington Seminary and Capranica College, Rome, where he was ordained July 26, 1931. He was named a member of the Diocesan Marriage Tribunal and then, years later, became its secretary. In 1948, he was elevated to the rank of'Papal Chamberlain and be- came Vice-Chancellor of the Brooklyn Diocese in 1949 and a judge in the Diocesan Court in 1954. He is now pastor of Saint joseph's Parish in Garden City. On September 9, 1963, the new division opened with a Solemn Mass attended by the total student body of 570. This joining together at St. james Pro-Cathedral was more than just a symbol of unity. It represented a reality. Though there would now be two buildings, one in each borough, the two would be inseparably bound together, one in the priesthood of Christ. In her Fiftieth year, Cathedral still possesses all the vitality and spiritual energy of her first years. This is certainly due in great measure to the pastoral zeal of Bishop McEntegart, whose generosity of time and inter- est is evidenced in the Scholarship Fund he has set up for Cathedral, his building of a Queens Division and his personal attendance at the yearly play, the Christmas Entertainment and Commencement Exercise. Wars, struggles, tensions, new awakenings-our world today still has need of Christ, His truth, His love, His sacrifice. To Cathedral has been entrusted a most important role in perpetuating that Sacrifice, dispensing that love and preserving that truth. It is Cathedral's essen- tial purpose, her reason for existence, to bring forth in each new generation other Christs, formed by prayer, disciplined by study, receptive to grace and devoted to Mary. I ,X-fvbff , fo-fx fl 'XXX 'kkfxk fv- ,fb- ff Z- gxf- I L - -. ... V-qw ---g--Vmimnmylliii 16

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the Immaculate Conception on june 10, 1930. He re- turned to Cathedral in 1932. Besides teaching English, Father Mulrooney was also Prefect of Studies. From 1952 until the time of his consecration in April of 1959, Bishop Mulrooney served as Rector. He was also President of the four-year Liberal Arts College and a former member of the general executive board of the National Catholic Educational Association. Bishop Mulrooney is now pastor of Saint Jerome's Parish in Brooklyn. Bishop Denning graduated from Cathedral in 1926 and was ordained in 1932 from Saint Mary's. He re- turned to Cathedral in 1933. During his twenty years, he taught English, mathematics, geology, chemistry and physics. ln addition, he served as Prefect of Discipline. In 1953, he was appointed to Queen of Angels Parish in Sunnyside, Queens. After his consecration, Bishop Den- ning became pastor of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish in Forest Hills. The sixties ushered in for Cathedral a time of ex- pansion unparalleled since the earliest years of her his- tory. In September of 1960, Father Robert E. Welsh suc- ceeded Bishop Mulrooney. The next year, on October 31st, Bishop McEntegart announced plans for a Queens Division to Cathedral to be built in Elmhurst. In the course of the building operations, still another note of recognition came to the school, when Father Welsh was named Papal Chamberlain. In May of 1962, the Holy See announced that Brooklyn-born Right Reverend Monsignor William F. Kupfer, M.M., had been named Bishop of the newly erected Diocese of Taichung, in central Formosa. Father Kupfer had devoted twenty-nine years of his life to mis- sion work in the Qrient and was Prefect Apostolic of the Taichung Prefecture. After fifteen years in China, he went to Formosa in january, 1951, because of Chinese Communist hostility. Cathedral Preparatory Seminary, Queens Division 1rrf'v:'L'f.'g. f' ' N A :F .L 1azfififffli-Af'?fFTF9.iffff'teifff Fr' 7 'aw QW -51.4, ltt'l1lr.',,ffa'i f , , , 2. .3 -mn. :': I'-GSW, lg... .im 1. 1.3171-W:-' 1' di 11--:-ina '.'-'..it.'?1'37f--M'' -Q6 il 11 .4 U-1' pw ' Kin... A .J P- f -' i '- ' . '- - J' - fir-'1?,.'-M 'Lis-rm-, -'-:. 1 'ii'e'51'kf'v'1'fu'w.'4 +'1:1.' 211-'ff f'- Ili - . ev 'L 1 Ji if P lq'u'1?Lp' - 33. 1 ...ff J ' '- V La - :iff--1'l'1.if-.jj-1.'n,1'Em'-Q,L-'--.1 IP .Y , 7I ,Ll.'i',-f'.',fy5'f rv',i,-...'- timIliad-2' . H- ' 4 lguft'-'wiki-.-+.':,.'r-fwf,f11 r-2- r - - 'i in up 'f . - f Y'.-.tai-M14-'f'.:a'wi-.f:'a-'Hai '214.g.!-if 'J-.'.'.1 :He-. vi- -.-1-w.u-rl-si,.1,1fg'f'r,fz1f:f,.f'- 5 - Ga ,fl 1 ,. ...:r a . ': -,... - . . ,. .. v , p: -Y A 5 '-, nf- 1:-L. 15.,.,f, 3.15 lr. .- L,-.31--5 ,,.. - nf 1' W.---V.-.,-14 5 .:F'-Quai 41. 7---':- -Ali:-f:41:i:+4 4' -- 1 1 ' .+L ',- '1.' ...U .,..'LgL,L- Clk, ....:Jri' '-ig-L! --,fi1,,Lfi.2....-f .fs 4. , '- '. Ili'-' ' . .fi 'LY'-4l.' Q HM if!-fn A921

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On this, the Colden Jubilee of Cathedral, let us pause to look before and after. The work begun so hopefully a half century ago has, through God,s favor, been abundantly blessed. More than half of the priests now serving the faithful in the two dio- ceses which comprise Long Island were trained at Cathe- dral. A great many other Cathedralites found that God's plans for them led in directions other than to the altar of God. Both groups have been the richer for having attended Cathedral, and she, in turn, is justifiably proud of her sons among the clergy and among the laity alike. A To some, Cathedral may seem to be old, but she still manifests the vibrancy of youth. The opening of the new Queens Division is abundant evidence of her undiminished vigor, and a portent of even greater service to the Diocese in the years to come. With gratitude for the manifold blessings of the past fifty years, and with confident reliance on the continued favor of Divine Providence, we place our beloved semi- nary sub tuum praesidium, Sancta Dei Genitrixf' - Very Reverend Monsignor Robert E. Welsh