Central Catholic High School - Echo Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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' THE ECHO . 17 In his response, Bishop Alerding thanked the faculty and students for their hearty congratulations and for their pleasant program. He recounted the difficulties that Were surmounted in the experi- mental days of the school, and expressed his sincere pleasure that the school is and has been so bene- ficial to so many young men. As for me, he declared, it is a mat- ter of gratification, for one is not human if he does not feel the-ef- fects of the success of an under- taking. Locals and Personals We wish to thank Father Quin- lan for the use of Library Hall this year again for our basketball games. ' In order to show our sympathy for the Irish cause we assisted in a body at the services at the Cathe- dral for Lord Mayor MacSwiney. As usual, the ring and pin sales- men stormed the school during the first few weeks of the year. As a result of the frequent visits of the best talker, the Seniors are now sporting a display of gold. Leslie Logan and Frank Doriot, star forwards on the basketball teams of '18 and '19, are making strong bids for positions on the Notre Dame varsity quintet. Herels wishing them success. The sphere of C. C. H. S. influ- ence is widening with time. This year Besancon, Hesse Cassel, Ar- cola, New Haven, Monroeville, Waterloo, Buffalo, N. Y., and hfifexico City, Mexico are represent- e . The latest addition to our li- brary is a thirty-volume set of that complete, up-to-date encyclopedia, The Americana. We Wish to extend our sincere thanks to our Right Reverend Bishop for the same. Robert Kelty, a junior of last year, is attending the high school at Hartford City where he now lives. While, Bob was with us his chief diversion was drawing car- toons. Most of those in the Echo are his ideas. By a happy coincidence, the first mass assisted at by the student body this year was celebrated by the Reverend Charles Girardot, '13, who received the first diploma given by the Central Catholic High School. Father Girardot is doing parish work in Michigan City. J. Stephan Weber, '13, was re- cently elected Cfrand Knight of the Fort Wayne K. of C's. The Knights are contemplating an extensive building program,-and Steve is the right man to see it through. Eugene Cull and Edmund Bres- nahan of the sophomores showed the way to the rest of the school in getting Echo subscribers. The two working in partnership got one hundred and twenty-five. Two of the C. C. H. S. men hon- ored at Notre Dame are Leslie Logan, ,19, who was elected presi- dent of the Sophomore Class, num- bering four hundred, and Clifford Ward, '19,who was made a mem- ber of the Students' Activity Com- mittee. The basketball court was made up-to-date by moving the back- boards out two feet from the sup- porting standards. Leo Suelzer, ,19,and George DeWald engineered the job. We wish to thank Leo Weber, '16, and the Knights of Columbus

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THE ECHO 19 for the interest they have taken in C. C. H. S. athletics. Recently Leo made a raid on his Brother Knights and collected a very ma- terial sum of money to help defray expenses on the school football uniforms. Five of the fourteen graduates in the Class of 1920 are now doing university work. Jerome Arnold, Richard Deininger, Emmett Mil- ler, and Gordon Conway are at Notre Dame, and William Gocke is at Purdue. Herman,Centlivre and Robert Blee also registered at Notre Dame, but crowded condi- tions there made it advisable for them to wait until next year. Twenty-five of the thirty mem- bers of the Senior Class went to Notre Dame to see the Purdue- Notre Dame football game. George DeWald and Bruff Cleary journey- ed also to Indianapolis to see N. D. beat Indiana. DeWald became so enthusiastic that he went to Chi- cago to see the Notre Dame-North- western game. We want to take this occasion to thank the young ladies of St. Aug- ustinels and St. Catherine's acad- emies for the enthusiastic support they showed the football team. In former years this support was al- ways in evidence, but never so prominently as this year. As a result, a large number of fellows in school have learned what en- couragement and support really is. Among the recent guests of the faculty and students we are happy to record the Right Reve end Bishop Legrand, C.S.C., Bishdp of the Diocese of Dacca, Bengal, East India, and Reverend Timothy Crowley, C. S. C., his Vicar Gbif- eralg Very Reverend Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C., Provincial of the United States Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Rev- erend Joseph Boyle, C.S.C., Super- ior of the Holy Cross Mission Band, Reverend William Bolger, C.S.C., Dean of the Economics Depart- ment of the University of Notre Dame, and Reverend John Mc- Carthy, our former professor of religion. Old students returning to school in September found several changes in the faculty. Brother Daniel, the genial principal who directed the work here for the past six years, was relieved of his responsibilities, and returned to us as professor of Latin and Spanish. He is succeed- ed by Brother Owen who has been teaching here for the past two years. Brother Edmund is now teaching at Holy Cross College, New Orleans, where he succeeded Brother Gilbert, who spent three years in the South before coming to Fort Wayne. Brother Augustus was transferred to the Cathedral High School, Indianapolis, Brother Killian taking his place here. Just when we thought all was settled, Father McCarthy was appointed to do parish work at Lafayette, and Father Dillon took his place as professor of religion. The depar- ture of Father McCarthy who had been with us for eight years was deeply felt by both faculty and students. All unite in wishing him success in his new work. A wise man is always ready to learn, an ignorant man imagines he is already well-informed. The wise are silent when fools ventilate their notions.