Central Catholic High School - Centripetal Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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L-,A i I 1 Yen Wars Away From the Ola' School at Page and Cherry EN YEARS old! Yes, just ten years ago, on February 6, 1929, the new Central Catholic High School building was completed and ready for occupancy. It is quite fitting, then, that we pause at the crossroads of the first decade of its existence to reminisce a bit. As we gaze at the present Central Catholic High School building, we realize that it was only through the prayers and sacrifices of those students who were never to enjoy it, that we are now able to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the school's com- pletion. The weekly Buy A Brick campaign, held by the students of old Central High, was the true start of the new school which was to become a fitting memorial to their prayers and efforts. In 1914, under the name of Cathedral High School, the four-year high school from which Cen- tral originated was established under the direction of the Right Reverend Monsignor .l. T. 0'Connell. The first graduating class, in 1915, was composed of two members. In 1920, Central Catholic High School was moved to a building at Cherry and Page Streets, to replace the old Cathedral High School, Page 8 and the Very Reverend Monsignor Francis .l. Macelwane was chosen principal of the institution. In 1921, the Reverend Arthur .l. Sawkins took lllonsignor Macelwane's position, and he, in turn, was replaced, in 1925, by the Reverend Raymond G. Kirsch, who still acts in that capacity at Central. It was only through the generosity of he Cath- olics of Toledo, that a former dream was realized. With their pledge of jC1,115,542, the Right Rever- end Samuel A. Stritch, D. D., the then Bishop of Toledo, and the present Archbishop of Milwaukee, broke the ground for the new school, on March 5, 1928. After eleven months of hard work, hundreds of eager 'students flocked through the doors of the new diocesan high school for Catholic Boys and Girls. Ten years in the new school . . . ten gradua- tions . . . 2010 Seniors have reluctantly left the classrooms of Central to take their place in the whirl of life. Now it is our turn-the turn of the two hundred and eighty-six Seniors of the class of '39- to bid our Farewells and Adieus to the school and to those we love. May God be with us who go, and with those who follow.

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IIIS HOLINESS, POPE PIUS XI Prager uf H12 Glhllfllh fur at Pereaseh Pups GOD, Who in Thine unspeakable profoielenee was pleaseal to number among the .supreme pon- liffs, Pope Pius XI, Thy Serfoanij grant fwe be- seech Thee, thai he who on earth was 'oiear of Thine only-begolfen Son, may for evermore, have place among the holy bishops who in heaven reign wills Thee. Amen. Page 7

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