Cathedral High School - Cathedralite Yearbook (St Cloud, MN)

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Contents THE pictures here depict the pro- gress made in the construction of our new building during the sum- mer and autumn months. In like manner the rest of this book represents: Progress In the mind of the student as the climbs the four rungs of the scholastic ladder. In the number and efficiency of the faculty. In the spirit of the organizations as they move ahead in activities. In the sportsmanship of our athletes as they fight against odds. In the ideas of our advertisers who have made this book possible. IN CONSTRUCTION 1. i f -17 ul-'H N I rf- ff

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Foreword YEARS ago our parents moved along leisurely at a speed of ten or fifteen miles an hour. Today autos Whisk us to our destination, While over-head huge planes roar even faster. Just as the horse and buggy stage has progressed to the age of streamlined speed, so has Cathedral High stepped ahead in every phase of education. Our candid cameraman has snapped the stages in its fourth ad- vancing stride from lesser buildings to the present one. We have shifted from low to second gear and then into high to send ourselves rolling along the Christian road to perfection, pro- gressing in sociability, education, and spirituality. PROGRESS rf

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Our School---Then and Now IT was a fine spring day in May, 1905. The graduating senior class was patiently awaiting the parchment symbol of success. At last the call came. The class walked to the front, and the solitary graduating senior, Emily Ladner, received her diploma. It is a far cry from that day to the present. Graduating classes have increased nearly a hundred-fold. From that first enrollment of twenty-one students the number has leaped to six hundred, and four different buildings have been called into use to house the ever increasing student body. The fall of 1904 found the four-year high school in its first year of infancy housed, with room to spare, in the top floor of the old grade school building. By 1915 a new school had been com- pleted, and the students numbering now 113 shared it with several of the grades. Eight years passed. The over-crowded condi- tion of the school then forced the lower classmen to find quarters in the Institute Building. Twenty years after its inception, 1924, the enrollment hit a new high of 343, over sixteen times the original and showing an average increase of almost 80 per cent a year. In 1927 the school was devoted exclusively to the high school students and the lower classmen returned. Just ten years later the high school was housing twice as many students as the building was intended for. In the spring of '38 rumors of a new school materialized and construction began. Finally this fall after a brief stay in the original grade building, the students moved into the new build- ing on November the third, and Cathedral had taken another step forward. What the future holds no one knows, but what has been done in the past may be repeated in the future. At any rate time will find Cathedral matching progress step for step.