Red Bank Catholic High School - Emerald Yearbook (Red Bank, NJ)

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Activities, Events, Involvement, Impress Others With Our Energetic Response. 15

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1928 1928 HORIZONS ’77-78 A PAST TO HONOR, A FUTURE TO MOLD The first fifty years have come and gone, leaving their indelible marks upon us. We suffered through meeting the challenge of the times in 1927, with the help of Monsignor McCloskey, whose dynamic leadership of his parish made possible the dedication of the present Red Bank Catholic High School on Board Street. Since then we have prospered from a senior graduating class of 12 students from 6 parishes in 1928, to a graduating class of 296 students from 39 parishes in 1977. In 1934, Sister Mary Wilfred (current principal), gained an accredited membership in the Middle Atlantic Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. Several major changes occured in 1944 when the elementary grades were moved to separate quarters, and the Broad Street building became exclusively a high school. Concurrently the first issue of the “Signpost”, the school paper, and Volume I of the “Emerald” appeared. Ah yes, those were the good old days! On December 11, 1960, the auditorium-gymnasium and cafeteria, built as a separate wing of the new Saint James Grammer School, was dedicated. Ground was broked for the new addition on May 22, 1960, by the Most Reverend James J. Hogan, and the cornerstone laid in December of that same year by Right Reverened Monsignor Emmet A. Monahan. The first faculty of 8 Sisters of Mercy and 2 lay teachers has since grown to include 1 priest, 13 Sisters of Mercy, and 54 lay teachers. For Red Bank Catholic these fifty years have become a time of expansion, recognition, and adjustments: of dreams come true and realities gone stale. How can we forget the glowing defeats we gave Red Bank Regional; the candle and ad drives; the unavoidable Saturday detentions; and all the other well-deserved triumphs and unnecessary tragedies? For a Casey, the past has been terrific, the present worthwhile, the next time has to be a little better - after all, who knows, the best may be still to come. Whether the best is yet to come nobody is certain, but what’s happened here at R.B.C.H.S. over the last fifty years for the most part deserves praise, and we can only hope that the next fifty years are just as glorious. Mary Buccafusco 1977 1977