Sacred Heart High School - Vine Leaves Yearbook (Vineland, NJ)

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SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL

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Editorial Staff Editor-in-chief Assistant Editor-in-chief Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Advertising Manager Reporter Artist 9 Dolores A made Veronica Rafter Charles Reilly Adelene Cavagnaro Mary Kearney Helen l-angley Veronica Downey

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Leones History of the Sacred Heart High School Success had marked the desired goal of the parish and its progressive pastor, Rev. James A. Bulfin. and the highest rung in the ladder of accomplish- ment was reached, when, after the erection of the beautiful new Church, our Alma Mater opened its doors to the children of High School age. W hat had seemed so far from accomplishment was now most successfully made true. When the new church was nearing completion work was begun on remod- eling the first floor of the combination building (Church and School). One room was built in the northeast corner of this floor, enabling our first class to l c housed in the High School department. Long strides were being taken and eight days after the dedication of the Church on September 2. 1927. the High School was started. With the beginning of the first high school class, on September 10, many of the usual comments were made; some praised and encouraged its beginning, others of a more pessimistic turn, doubted the success of such a project. But those who had worked for and sponsored the move, together with those whose children attended the school, were determined to help make a success of it. As a preliminary we must certainly stop for a few words concerning those chiefly interested in this great move. First and foremost, then, comes Rev. bather Bulfin, our pastor, who worked and worried so incessantly, yet successfully over this problem. To him the credit is unbounded. Were it not for him. our Catholic boys and girls of High School age would not l e blessed with the local Catholic education they are receiving. It was he who imprinted on the heart of his parishioners the necessity of the Catho- lic High School education which had, until then, been made possible for very few graduates of the Sacred Heart Grammar School. In Reverend Father Fritz the assistant priest, the parish has been Messed. I he fact that bather Fritz’s work is more obscure no reason for l elieving that he sat back and watched while others were working. Father has taken a very active and interested part in the beginning and management of our High School, especially the sports. He urged the project on, he helped it when it had been accomplished and has always been ready to render his much appreciated services. Enough cannot ! e said for the first Sisters of Saint Joseph, who, with Mother Albertine in charge, came here and lal ored so strenuously and under so many disadvantages. Success was heralded for the school and pupils when it was guided by such a learned and experienced principal as Mother Albertine. The Sisters’ wonderful work will never permit that they l e forgotten; for to them we owe progress of the school in its early stages. To Mother Davidica, new to pupils and parish, belongs the credit of start- ing the first High School Class and doing her utmost to make them learned schol- ars, good Catholics and excellent citizens. Last, but not least . many of the lay persons in our parish have been per- severing and generous in their offerings, without which the school could never have been started. And these, knowing that their help has been gratefully re- ceived and seeing the rapid progress of the still young High School, are still doing their best in all respects to make it a grand success and a pride for Vineland as well as for the Sacred Heart parish. The hazy glass through which the prospect of a Catholic High School had 11