Cathedral High School - Chimes Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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all Q5 Cathedral High School 1253 Stadium Way January 31st, 1975 Dear Friends The Archbishop of Los Angeles gratefully acknowledges the Indebtedness of the Church for the fifty years of sharing its apostolic life by Cathedral Hugh School It has trained a body of men that are today the backbone of the family life of the community, and also given many religious to the service of God as priests and brothers in the Church These traditions have continued, and we pray God to insure us another such a half a century for His greater honor and glory Very sincerely yours, Timothy Cardinal Manning Archbishop of Los Angeles -px - . A ., . ' Los Angeles, California 90012 GREETINGS What follows is a sketch, a rough sketch, of the first half century of the Cathedral High School. It is offered not as a history but as a suggestion that a history of the school is possible, might be interesting, and could prove enlightening. It is offered primarily as material for reflection. An early reporter on the school wrote that a school is judged by its graduates. Pictures of buildings do not tell the worth of a school. Its worth is to be measured in the quality of the lives of those who pass through its doors. This historical booklet contains but few references to alumni and rather more pictures of buildings. The causes of this are perhaps obvious: pictures of the buildings are close at hand and easily identified, the lives of Cathedral graduates are not found in our files. Only if a student re-enters the world of the school, as a teacher or coach, or joins its sponsoring institutions as priest or Brother, is record kept. And even that record is sporadic- ally kept and incomplete. Apart, then, from the few references to those students who have returned to become the school's own in some sense, no mention is made of those Christian gentlemen it has always been the school's hope to produce. Also slighted in coverage are events of the school's most recent past. Because we are too close to see them clearly, because they are more familiar to more of us, because they are not as faded as the far past, recent events do not find much room here. The sketch follows. It needs completion and, certainly, correction. Let us all think on it. 734.0444 , Brother Kenneth Cardwell chronology' 6 baldwin street 1 O bishop's road 14 changing times 18 brothers' school 21 spring concert l renewal greetings!5

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Los Angeles Calif November 8 1921 Reverend and Dear Brother Provincial I am very anxious that the Sons of St De La Salle should open some schools in this diocese I realize the difficulty that at once comes from the lack of sufficient subjects The time has arrived for us in California to perpetuate our institutions among ourselves through the mstru mentality of the children of the soil, so that we may not be obliged to go elsewhere and selfishly bring others in to do a work of which we and our children are unworthy and unappre ciative. I believe that the American boy is just as self- sacrificing, just as susceptible to religious in- fluence as the children of any other race, and that he needs only the co-operation of the parents, and the priests, with the superiors of our religious communities, to bring him into the training ground that we have ready for the athletes of Christ in the work of Christian edu- cation. With renewed good wishes, I remain yours in Christ, John J. Cantwell, Bishop of Nlonterey and Los Angeles ilfgreetmgs Nlarch 13, 1956 To the Graduates and Students of CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL Los Angeles, California IVIy dear Young Men: If our high School training does not leave an indellible mark upon our intellect and character, it has failed in its purpose. We are confident that the instruction and train- ing in a Catholic High School will leave such an impression upon each of its graduates, and strengthen them in the basic principles with which to meet the problems of life. Praying for the Graduates and the Students all blessings, I am Faithfully yours in Christ, James Cardinal Francis lVlcIntyre

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ZCHRONOLOGY- 176 9-Gaspar de Portola and Fr. Crespi reach present site of L .A. on the feast of Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles de Porciuncula. 1781-L .A . is granted status of Pueblo. 1835-L.A. is capital of California . 1848-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo cedes California to U .S . Christian Brothers come to United States . 1849-Gold Rush 1865-St. Vincent's Col- lege, predecessor to Loyola, opens on Olvera Street, 1880-USC founded . 1885-Santa Fe R.R. con- nects L ,A: with the East. 1887-Occidental opens . 1890-Sacred Heart Academy begins as grammar school. 1 91 1-Loyola College on Venice Blvd, 1 913-Owens Valley aqueduct brings water to L .A. 1914-San Pedro Harbor completed . World War I be- gins . 1 917-John J . Cantwell be- comes bishop of L .A. 1 91 9-UCLA opens . 1 920-Women receive the vote . Harding elected. Tea Pot Dome scandal follows . lVIovie industry comes to L.A. Population has doubled in last ten years . 1 922-IVIonterey diocese is separated from L .A , 6!chronology