Our Lady of Angels High School - Amaranth Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Our Lady of the Angels High School HEN his Grace, the Most Reverend Archbishop John T. McNicha olas, accepted the archbishopric of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, the gigantic task of completing the organization of the school system was awaiting him. After surmounting obstacles that would have overwhelmed a less courageous spirit, and after long, wearisome hours of work and worry, the present school system, the best in the country and the pride of every true Catholic, became a splendid reality. As plans alone are worthless, the next step that confronted His Grace was to find willinq workers who would give a wholeghearted spirit of cooperation. With this intention in mind, His Grace called upon his priests and a number of superiors of religious communities to aid him. Among these was Mother Clarissa, Superior General of the Sisters of St. Francis. She, although fully aware of the tremena clous sacrilite entailed, gladly acceded to the Most Reverend Archbishopk request to take upon herself and her community the responsibility of erecting and maintaining one of the proposed high schools. Mother Clarissa immediately took steps to obtain a proper site and to draw up plans for the building. After careful deliberation the pres cut site was purchased from Mr. Bernard H. Wess for the sum of $65,000. Mr. Henry F. Hess of St. Louis. was engaged as architect with Mr. George Michaelis of Indianapolis, as general contractor and building supervisor. The J. 8 Ft Harig Company assumed the respon- sibility of building and labor contractors. All this was done before the new school received a name. Mother Clarissa requested His Grace to provide a name for the new high school that was to serve his Archdiocese. He kindly responded by naming it Our Lady of the Angels,,, a name dear to all Franciscans and especially dear to His Grace because of haIIOWed memories of inspiration received at the shrine of Our Lady of the Angels in Assisi. Ground was broken on July 16, 1927. Work on the building progressed rapidly and on October 4th, the feast of St. Francis, the cornerstone was laid. This was a perfect day in every respectethe SkV could not have been more clear and blue, the rays of the sun more bright and inviting. His Grace ofliciated at the impressive ceremony for which a large crowd had gathered. The solemn procession of clergy, religious. and school children. formed at St. Clement School and moved to the site of the new building. Here, in the most solemn manner, His Grace performed the ceremonies prescribed by the Church. The many voices then united in singing America and a hymn to our Lady. Father Juvenal Berens, O,F.M., then responded with an e10- quent address on Catholic Education. His Grace brought the perfect day to its close by his words of encouragement and cheer. Winter came on. Storms swept over Our Lady of the Angels. Yet work on the building continued, now fast, now slow, but at no

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T. 1 26, 1928, the building was ready to he dedicated to the noble cause of the education of girls. Our Most Reverend Archbishop honored the occasion by ofliciating 1 at. the ceremonies, and favored the large audience that had gathered 1 :11 w1th a pointed address in Which he stressed the necessity of Catholic 1 111: educatlon and reminded his hearers of the tremendous sacrihces the Sis- 1 HT time was the noise of crane and hammer silent. At last on August T T T 1 ters of St. Francis were making and would continue to be obliged to make to pay for and maintain the schoolt Very Reverend Monsignor Nau in an eloquent address proved to the audience that the present . system of Catholic education could not fail because it had already 1:1 proven a success. T T T T We The new building, built in classical style of architecture, is stately T in its simplicity. Over the entrance six magnihcent Doric columns T add to the massiveness of the structure. The building consists of three 1 1 . stories and a large, light basement. The main entrance opens into a '1; FT spacious white marble wainscotted lobby. Two beautiful angels, each 1111 holding an electric torch, stand near the central archway. The direc- 11911 T tory assigns to the hrst floor the oche rooms, the library, reading room, 1 -' sewing 190m, cutting and f1tting room, book store, check room, com- bination auditorium and gymnasium, shower rooms, rest room, senior T recitation room, and a suite of seven music rooms. On the second T 1 floor are listed a commodious study hall which can, by means of fold- T TL' 7T ing partitions, be converted at Will into three classrooms; the balcony T T T T T T T T T T T 1711': 1 0f the gymnasium that has a seating capacity of four hundred; the WT! commercial department consisting of a model ofhce, a typewriting 1 ; room and a bookkeeping room and five recitation rooms. The third fioor comprises the spacious cafeteria and perfectly equipped kitchen, the home economics cooking department the physical and biological T laboratory, the chemical laboratory, two art rooms, and f1ve recitation 9'3 T rooms. The steel lockers are recessed in the marble wainscotted walls of the wide light corridors. The floors of all the corridors are made of T; terrazzo. A Warner elevator adds to the convenience of the workers TTTT- and faculty In the basement in a beautiful white tile lined room T T is the large swimming pool ttwenty by sixty feetT, adjoining this to ' the left is the shower and dressing room, and t0 the right the boiler room and the room containing the ventilating apparatus. The build ing is heated by steam which IS regulated by thermostatic control. The state regulation ventilating system prevails throughout The equip- ment in the building is the best and most modern that money could W, 1 purchase. The approximate cost of the building is $700 000 On Armistice Day, through the kindness of the Knights of St. John, Commandery 166, the stars and stripes Were raised over the new ' school. The flag that was to grace the pole was blessed by Reverend B. 1T ? Dottman, of St. Charles Parish. To the senior girls belonged the Cit T1 honor of raising the flag for the first time.