Lima Central Catholic High School - Flame Yearbook (Lima, OH)

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RIGHT REV. MSGR. WM. J. McKEOWN is the pastor of St. Rose Parish and the Dean of the Lima Deanery. Before his ap- pointment as pastor of St. Rose, Msgr. McKeown served as pastor of St. Boniface Parish in Oak Harbor, Ohio, St. Peter Parish, Upper Sandusky, and St. Michael Parish in Findlay. Msgr. is also chairman of the LCC Pastors' Advisory Board. m xxxsmNsN'3 f . 'Y 2 A 1 ff 5 5 'U' I juli E 15 Ii ri-us PAGE SPONSORED BY I I A CHARLES R. NULTY Xl I AND 1 or-no Powsk Cur Pastors We, the Seniors of I959, wish to express our deepest and most sincere thanks to you the four pastors of our DUl'l5he5 in Uma- Through you, we have been helped goals, and your co-operation has been the key to the successful oper- ation of Lima Central Catholic. Most notable during this past year was the very well-received T-Bird carnival. Its unparalleled success, due to the leadership of you, our pastors,made possible a substantial step toward our building fund goal. TO HIS PRIESTS - Permit Us, finally, to direct your attention to that which has already been quite fittingly the burden of your ministry, that is, the training and education of youth. There must be constant vigilance, not only on behalf of the children of the rich but also of the poor, and careful attention must be given that under the guidance of religion they be instructed in the truth and molded foran honestlife. This is indeed of greatest importance both for the con- ditions ofthe future will be deter- mined by the way the tender and weak youth of today is fashioned . - Pope Pius XII Y VERY REV. VINCENT KELLY, C.SS.R., S.T.D., Pastor of St. Gerard, was bom and raised in Boston. He graduated from St. Mary College. He was ordained to the priesthood In I939. Three years later he was awarded a Doctorate in Sacred Theo- logy from the Catholic University of Amer- ica. He spent the two subsequent years as chaplain in the U.S. Air Corps. In I956, he became pastor at St. Gerard. REVEREND WALTER HANLEY, Pastor of St. Charles, Is a native of Lima. He studied at St. Charles College in Kenville, Mary- land, and then attended St. Gregory Semi- nary and Mount St. Mary in Cincinnati. In T931 he was ordained to the priesthood. After serving as assistant pastor in the Diocese of Toledo, he volunteered and served as chaplain in the U.S. Army. 4 immeasurably in our school b R kbN.KNNx SR RIGHT REVEREND LEO F. GRIFFIN, Pas- tor of St. John Parish, came to Lima on October 28, I956. Msgr. Griffin entered St. Gregory Seminary in the fall of I925. He studied theology in Austria under the Jesuit Fathers. He was ordained to the priesthood on April 6, I930. ln August he returned to the U. S.and was sent to Toledo. Bishop Rehring appointed him pastor of St. John in I956. N X Z Q 2 7 5 A A A 4

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M rs- , o 1 s ' 9 , six u , 4 ,sf I . l le X, X':u-v Q 1 '. QQ l l ll Father Edward C. Herr is in his second year as Principalof Lima Central Catholic. Father Herr teaches seniorapol ogetics, is director of athletics and dramatics, and adviser of the Flame Staff. Father was born in Huron, Ohio, in l9ll, and graduated from St. John 's High School, Toledo, in l928. He received his A.B. degree in l'-732 from St. Gregory's Seminary and his M. A. in Philosophy from St. Mary's Seminary ln I936. He wasordained June 6 I936. He received his M.A. in English from Columbia University in l938. For nineteen years before cominq to Lima Central Catholic, Father Herr was Principal at Delphos St. John's High School. AN EXHORTATION l Pope Pius Xll We exhort all, and es- pecially priests who teach religion in the higher schools, to recall very often that they will be requiredto .f f 1 ' 'lyj lil mari! THIS PAGE SPONSORED BY FI THE OHIO OIL CO render to God a very strict account of their students. . . On the other hand, if those who have heldor are holding po si t ion s ofauthority and honor in local and national govemment have stood firm in the Catholic faith and promoted it generously, it has been due very often to the leaming and zeal as well as the inspiring example and k virtue of some priest. FR. JAMES SIEFKER - was born in Miller City, Ohio, on April 26, 1930. He attendedGlandorf Elementary School. From Glan- dorf he went to Pontifical Col- lege Josephinum in Columbus where he obtained his A.B. degree from that institution and also his theological training. He was ordained at the seminary on Nlay 25, l957. Among his duties at LCC, Fr. Siefker is Assistant Principal, teacher of apologetics and Freshman reli- gion, dean of the Freshman, and disciplinarian. He is also The assistant Pastor at St. .lohr1'S-