St Ignatius High School - Ignatian Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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MASS OF THE HOLY GHOST

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Fall meant, first of all, new things: new classes, new fire walls on the school stairways, new posters to boost the football campaign. Fall . . . The opening of school . . . One morning we boarded buses and street cars and returned to Ignatius. We found new things there in the September sunshine; with eagerness we watched for the return of old October. We renewed old friendships. We found new freshman faces and saw excitement and fresh wonderment in their eyes. Workmen were still building the new firewalls around the stairways. All through September we tracked white plaster-dust up and down the stairs, down the halls, into the classrooms. We registered for new classes, bought new books to read. When October came we bought football passes, talked of lab experiments and coming dances. 8

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Very Rev. John J. O’Brien, S.J. President Father O’Brien had always been our priest. He taught us algebra; but it wasn’t because of that that he was our priest. It was because he gave the talks at our First Friday devotions, always had time to hear our problems, and could give the kind of advice we needed. When he was made president of St. Ignatius we wondered whether the new office would change him and leave him no time for us. But he still gave the talks at our First Friday devotions and still had time to help us spiritually. We found that except for a new title Father O’Brien had not changed. He was still our priest. At 10:30 every morning we heard the friendly voice of Father Murray interrupt our classes with a P. A. message of the day’s announcements. The man, like his voice, was friendly. Of course he could be severe, but that is not the way we remember him. We remember Father Murray as the priest who gave us advice and help when we needed it, the tall priest who stood in the first floor hallway at the change of classes and smiled. Reverend Thomas F. M urra Principal