Holy Cross Seminary - Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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L x , . ., .. --s:'aa'21' i ' I Lrg ' 1,3 if - Early spring saw the beginning of steel erection atftlle in ' snows slowed down the construction schedule. Efforts. were ,. A l i g li which were to contain the dormitory and refectory. Atflheli l E 3 1 arrived in Lo Crosse from Wuldbreitbach, Germany, l'O'QSSUmB:ll1B' l K ' They were Sisters Aloysia, Gangolfa, Donata, and Coelesta. ' ' it The building really began to look like a building in'lJune,,with ing at top speed. The dormitory unit was first to assurne its Hnallform an stone work completed, and windows going in rapidly. Towering overltheg entire lqre foot smokestuclc, and near it the building which was to house the maze bf heqtihkj equipment for the sprawling building. 'A i ' ' 1 l f ,.o-:Ii-...f'--'7-u-x4 'sk 41-- ' ' -,.. f-,...-L...-'. '!n'f'H A Ma,-,se fzfiiiw .,f-4--at I .-.,, Q ,A WTWH . .5

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I PF N. . N W,..l-.--l- 1, --5 - ' ggiss.L'.:'.5!s,ffj,,.:-i , J, 1fEu9m-my,-siqgtegQpt'lxg5iHer similar X 5, senjinfariesl,i1l1l?QllfQlff?1-ifQ11.1l 5 A' , K . A tryll.sl'i?QmjQF9'1YinC 5fl2ftliGf?ii1fiii- ftiiiiaiiiggltifi-ietm iind'fy:-wil1fiibi3,be . mf? li r --I .1 lr I 1 ii , LXR! I ig W 1. i. 1 f l X, it During the Summer and Fall of 1950, all efforts were bent toward completing exfeflofsiiig - that interior work might be carried on throughout the Winter. With those aims C1Cf0mPl'5 eh.' the coming of Spring, 1951, ww Holy Cross Seminary far along the road to completion. AS 7 E book is being compiled, final operations are being rushed to completion in the dormito Y 0:0 refectory' units - floors, cabinets, hardware, etc. Furniture and equipment are on hand, feady ,t be moved in and used by September. The combination gymnasium-auditorium is the lf1Sf Um to be- built, and it is still in the brick-laying stages of early construction. But it, too, Will have only interior work remaining when the building is dedicated in mid-Se tember p . Holy Cross Seminary, with a past record of high achievement in the face of great obsfdclesf looks to a great future in its fine new home, prepared and eager to fulfill the needs of the Diocese of La Crosse. 50 I .J 98