De La Salle Institute - Torch Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Ill ll FORLWORDl As our Hzgh School days draw gradually to a close 'we find at neressary to emulate the example of our predecessors and offer for your approval our year book In the preparatwn of thzs chromcle of our actzvmes we have trzed to show 5011 our school lz e to getlzer wztlz our sports and soc1al attaznments We have trzed our best and publzshed the Torch of 1927 1 QW l 'W-mi I 'E' we l 0 . l . . ! I .., ,, , ' -if ,

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RIGHT REV. JOHN J. MITTY, DJD. Class 1899, Bishop of Salt Lake , Bishop Mitty was born in New York City on'January 20, 1884: His early education was obtained in St. Joseph's Parochial School, De La Salle Institute and Manhattan College, New York, from which latter institution he graduated in June 1901. In September of the same year he entered St. Josephs Sem- inary at Dunwoodie, Yonkers, New York and was ordained a priest by the late John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York, on December 22, 1906. Following his ordination, Father Mitty was sent to the Catholic University, VV ashington, D. C., for post-graduate work and in 1907 he was enrolled at the Pontiiical Seminary in Rome, Italy where he received t.he degree of Doctor of Divinity. . W'hen the United States entered the llforld VV ar in 1917, Father Mitty responded to the call for chaplains and' was assigned to a regiment. His work at the front especially in the Meuse-Argonne region won for him the highest commendation of his superiors. He was appointed on june 22, 1919 as pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Highland Falls, New York and Catholic chaplain of the United States Military Academy at VVest Point, where he labored for three years, after which he returned to a larger Held of work in the Arch-episcopal city. Father Mitty assumed charge of St. Luke's parish on East 138th Street where he was laboring at the time of his selection by the Holy See as the third Bishop of Salt Lake. One of the first acts of Bishop Mitty after his consecration was his visit to Alma Mater, De La Salle Institute. After being intro- duced by the Rev. Brother Edward, Director of De La Salle, Bishop Mitty addressed the entire student body assembled in the auditorium. Bishop Mitty is the first graduate of the new De La Salle to be raised to the Episcopate, as their Eniinences Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York, and George Cardinal Munde- lein, Archbishop of Chicago, graduated from the old De La Salle then located on Second Street. De La Salle is proud of Bishop Mitty, the third of her glorious sons to be honored by the Holy See. XfVe extend to Bishop Mitty our congratulations and ardently hope that all his labors in the vine- yard of the Lord will be rewarded a thousand-fold. l7l

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