Cathedral Griffin High School - Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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Brother Dupuis' prize winning float. 1 . fi' Fall Homecoming gathering. The football team 12-71 disap- pointed, but the homecoming floats were some of the most elaborate ever that year. South Pacific was the theme of the mid year dance and it proved to be one of the more elaborate of such affairs held at Griffin. The faculty-junior basketball game was one of the fun highlights of the year complete with faculty cheerleaders. The real basketball team took the City Championship and the track, golf and baseball teams all had respectable seasons. The jirst organized Grjjin swim team in 1965 coached by Dan Cusick.

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e Y it f X 1 X. xii :itilli Bro. Robt. Schoffman Fr. Geo. Harris Dan Cusick Mrs. R. W. Bradford No one was terribly surprised by the announcement that Father Edward Heitjan would succeed Fr. Canella as principal. Brother Dupuis became treasurer of the school and Brother Robert Schoff- man and Father George Harris arrived as the only two new Via- torian staff members. Mr. Ron Hull joined his older brother at Griffin, also Mr. Dan Cusick and Mrs. Bradford joined the faculty. Father Canella was now the Provincial Director of all of the schools in which Viatorians Joe Schweska, 66 taught and in the Fall of 1964, he visited Griffin at the head of a team which evaluated the school. While the work of the various de- partments were rated as good, fair and poor, and only one subject area was listed under the last category, call was made for re- ligion teachers trained in the new methods that were emerging as a result of the Second Vatican Council whose impact was begin- ning to be felt in Catholic schools. A new Board of Faculty Members was elected to advise Larry Evoy, 916 , CA.-2 Vietnam Vietnam the principal in academic and dis- cipline matters. Involvement in the Vietnamese war, which spanned the terms of four U.S. Presidents, began to es- culate in January. Once again it would effect the lives of Griffin students. Not a popular military involvement, it would bring pro- testing and dissension among the American people. Some students would serve their country in a spirit of patriotism, others would object. None would be immune to the politics of the war. Mike Maloney, 63 v ,xx u u A it v, Vietnam K-1-A IENG raw F remix vi Sam Zamri, 63 Vietnam X Vietnam Vff-1 Steve Maloney, 67

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The school was used frequently by outside organizations. A gen- eral memorial service for deceased servicemen sponsored by the Knights of Columbus took place in the school and in late Febru- ary, the Diocesan Institute con- Seven hundred forty four stu- dents were enrolled for the 1965- 66 school year. Joining the faculty were Father Hopkins, Mr. Al- berto Cortes, Mr. Richard Turasky, Mr. Michael Waller and Mr. Bob Martin who remains on Alberto Cortes ducted a demonstration Mass facing the people, an innovation of Vatican ll that soon became thefnorm in Catholic parishes throughout the world. The class of 1965 was the larg- est in the history of the school, 172.6 the staff as Assistant Dean of Discipline. Constant work to update teach- ing methods had led to three types of courses being offered: general, commercial and reme- dial. Most of the students were enrolled in the general courses. Guys in disquise at the Junior! Faculty basketball game. Rich Turasky Michael Waller Robt. Martin