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EW CGLUMBUS Seventy fuve years of sturdy and steady growth of the Church un thus sectuon of Wus consun reaches a gratufyung clumax un the buuldung of Columbus Hugh School a Catholuc Central Hugh for students un the Marshfueld area The conceptuon and buuldung of such a school us proof enough of the foresught courage and wusdom of both clergy and lauty The udea of a Catholuc central hugh school was conceuved by Hus Excellency the Most Reverend James McGavuck late Bushop of la Crosse who on Aprul I7 1947 bouqht for that very purpose the strup of land on Van Ert Street where the new school us located The offucual announcement of the establushung of Columbus Hugh was made on January lo l95O by Hus Excellency the Most Reverend John P Treacy Bushop of La Crosse who entrusted the sponsorung of the tremendous prouect to the Very Reverend Hugh .l Deeny pastor of St Johns Marsh fueld where a two year hugh school already exusted At the ground breakung ceremony on Aprul 22 l95l whuch drew many student and frtends un spute of the butter damp cold Father Deeny offucuated The Reverend An thony Fuscher pastor at St Joseph s Strat ford speaker for the occasuon stressed the umportance of Catholuc educat on Constructuon started ummeduately Three months later on August I8 Bushop Treacy loud the cornerstone unsertung thereun offucual documents concernung the new school After that the buuldung pace quuckened soon the school began to take shape In spute of de lays caused by the weather the buuldung was practically under roof by Chrustmas When school opens next September every thung wull be un readuness a mulluon dollar school for Catholuc students un the surround ung area Modern best descrubes the archutecture of the block long one story buuldung whose length us broken near the maun entrance by the recessed rught wung Made of lan non stone and bruck the buuldung has beauty strength dugnuty Nuched over the umpressuve stone entrance us a unique carved statue of Columbus Surroundung the school us a cam pus of eughteen acres ln the rear un a fuve foot drop us the sports practuce fueld to the left us a charmung wooded area The unteruor of the school us attractsve sumple admurably planned wuth ample sun lught un all rooms To the rught of the central lobby are the admunustratuon offuces wuth an aduounung room for the publuc address con trols and the nurses offuce ln the north wung are the chemustry physucs and buology laboratorues wuth aduounung classrooms and stock rooms the busuness department and the lubrary wuth uts spacuous annex The south wung contauns classrooms art studuo and publucatuons room The metal and woodworkung rooms home economucs cafeterua gymnasuum audutoruum and chapel are all located un the west wung ln the basement area are showers dressung rooms armory for the naval unut of the ROTC and the heatung plant The school us buult to accommodate about sux hundred students Thus us the new Columbus Hugh School buuldung beautuful superbly desugned and equupped but uts purpose and functuon are uts uustrfucatuon and glory Here Catholuc youth wull be guven a complete educatuon one that trauns the whole student s physucal socual untellectual spurutual powers an educatuon permeated and unformed by a Catholuc phulosophy that reaches unto all phases of lufe one that us desugned to help youth attaun successful cutuzenshup un thus world but above all un the next 'QQ if ' ll Il ' ' - - I - I I . , . I I - ' . . . . . - , . . . I I I I I I I I . I I T . . . , , I I I I , ' I I I i 1 . , . , ' I ' ' , ' . . . , , . I I - I - I I I '5 . 7 l I T I - ' . . . ., - u . . . I ' I ' . I I - . . : A s . -- I I I ' , I - , ' I . . . ' Q - h, I I ' I - s . . . . ' I I I I I I ' I . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 - ' . . 1
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BRE KI GROUN At the ground-breaking ceremonies, Father Anthony Fischer addresses the assembled group, stressing the importance of Catholic education. Father Deeny removes the first shovelful of ground, In the back- ground are chilled, but happy students, friends and clergy.
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