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

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Dedication ★ Ten years ago Rev. Michael J. Walz, a man deeply devoted to his work, came to Central to assist Monsignor John L. Harrington in guiding the youth of Central Catholic High. Father, who was born in Defiance, Ohio, attended St. John grade school there. He completed his education at St. Joseph, Rensselear, Indiana, St. Gregory Seminary, Cincinnati, and St. Mary Seminary, Norwood, Ohio. On June 15, 1935, he was ordained a priest by Bishop Karl J. Alter, now Archbishop Alter of Cincinnati. His first appointment was to SS. Peter and Paul parish, Mansfield, Ohio, where he served as assistant pastor. From there he went to Immaculate Conception parish, New York, where he continued his studies for a Master’s Degree at Fordham and Columbia Universities. Upon his return to the diocese Father Walz served as principal of St. Wendelin’s high school in Fostoria. In 1950 he was appointed assistant principal of Central. During the past ten years Father has been an inspiration for every Centralite whom he directed and guided through the teen years. It was with mixed feelings of pride and sorrow that the students heard the news that Father was assigned the first principalship of the new Cardinal Stritch High School, the first co-institutional high school in the diocese. On this, the occasion of the silver jubilee of his ordina¬ tion, the Centripetal staff in sincere appreciation for his fatherly guidance, dedicates this, the 1960 Centripetal, to Rev. Michael Walz, assistant principal of Central Catholic High.

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Master Guidance • • • . . . offered by Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Light, to all students who turn to Him for perpetual guidance. Monsignor Harrington distributes Holy Communion at Student Mass. Page 3

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Silver Jubilarian • • • Rev. Michael J. Walz, M.S.E. Assistant Principal . . . whose ten years at Central have been spent in directing students in their quest for knowledge.