Columbus Catholic High School - Compass Yearbook (Marshfield, WI)

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SEVENTY - FIVE YE H5 K God wants the whole globe to be given back to Him by men, thought Columbus. Sargent, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS And so the faith came, seventy-five years ago, to the meld OPEC .... .... 'LC tw ..,.-avi' .1 .Eg

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R PRI CIPAL Very Rev Hugh J Deeny Your COMPASS IS a beautiful book Take at with you Keep nt wlth you It wlll recall memories of tumes you enloyed whnle you were a student at Columbus Hugh School Your COMPASS will do more than lust recall pleasant memorles The name wull recall the dlrectlon glven your llfe whsle you were un school The real compass of your llfe must be the faith that has been That fanth must be the guide through all the storms and calms of the hte ahead The destmatlon of our voyage ns set by faath, it IS too easy for the slren song of the world about us to tempt us to stop mldway In our voyage or to sanl to other and more allurmg ports short of our real destlnatlon let the COMPASS be a remlnder to you that there IS only one shore to whlch all must sall, let the compass of falth take you to the sh'ortest safest and most direct route to your home port Heaven God bless you and prosper your tourney' planted in your soul, and that has grown during your school days.

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4' rf R Sevencty-'jeigtllt years ggoxpuly, UISZA--tge V - ifftfl a i everen . ernin, o isconsin api s, 3-.tag , .X ,Nhg X--sgrcbfm. . .- celebrated the first Holy Mass in the Marsh- - ' ,' 'i . 3 X, h Qi ffX'Yf W' f' ' f field area. A shanty belonging to Louis ' ,'. , J' , ...NN - ' hfk' If .J . Rivers of Marshfield served as church. During -fr , 1 .3 'f U ,P 1 , N X the next four years only occasionally did a 1-'Q 'X , A , , H . - 3 priest visit Marshfield to celebrate Mass and 1' ' -Lf, ' ,ff XN'l - ,jf . , D Stix administer the Sacraments. A,i3ff'Q'!jJ,,' 1 fwfr: ...Li vjigiiif From l878 to 1880, the Reverend A. T. j, H- , ,Q fit Xl Schuettelhoefer of Medford cared for the r -24.4, il ' ' . . XX .X Marshfield mission, saying Mass in a'public ' A -'- -:-'-- . if N i schoolhouse while the church was being V: ,fx x in . ,ii , , XX built. Late in l88O, he was appointed fiist C as-4 'N 1 , , 3' If ' 6 YQ resident pastor of Marshfield, he was trans- ff! 3 A A . J Q ferred before the church was completed. His successor, the Reverend Ignatius Schaller, built a modest rectory and directed the work of finishing the church which was finally blessed and dedicated on July 27, 1882, by the Most Reverend Kilian C. Flasch, Bishop of La Crosse. ln the same year, a small frame building was erected, where the first Catholic school in the area was opened, in November, with an enrollment of eighty-six pupils. ln charge of the new school were the School Sisters of Notre Dame from Milwau- kee. Six years later when the increased enrollment necessitated more room, a four- room brick building was erected. The old school was remodeled for the Sisters' convent. The Reverend Paul Geyer succeeded Father Schaller as pastor in l889. Within three years he was transferred to La Crosse, the Reverend 'W 55 s it .f Rev. Eugene A. Comiskey Assistant -wg.: 1 ,f I Q .4 J . A I St. John John Eisen was appointed his successor. Father Eisen immediately laid plans for the building of the present St. John the Baptist Church which was completed and blessed in l894. Since the school enrollment had increased to four hundred, a new and larger school was built in 1897. Q ILM i vin, ,'. 1 . 5... l lu.. ..' u ,w s the Baptist Church