St Johns College High School - Taps Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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i 1 UUAHDIA S. . . LE DHHS. Below, His Excellency, Archbishop O'Boyle, flanked by One hundred and three years ago, the Arch- bishop of Baltimore and Washington invited the Christian Brothers to establish a college for young men in the nation's capital. Since that time, St. John's College has maintained a record of service to the Archdiocese, and since that time, St. John's has counted among its warmest friends the hierarchy of Washington. His Excellency, the Most Reverend Archbishop Patrick I0'Boyle, D.D., became Spiritual Shepherd of Was ington in l948. His xcellency received his college education at the Christian Brothers' college in Scranton and hc is the only American Ordinary who wears a relic ol SI. John Baptist de LaSalle in his Pectoral Cross, visible in the photo at left. O O l I I members ol the Latin-American hierarchy, passes through the guard of honor formed by Cadets at thc annual Pan-American Mass Thanksgiving Day. x .-

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. . . 1953 They come from the streets and the avenues, the parkways and the suburban roads into the imperial view of the Capital city-then west to Thomas Circle, to the military academy which plants daily the seed of America's strength in the heart of the nation, to the preparatory school which molds boys into citizens, soldiers and gentlemen, which is St. John's College. They come from o'er the city, joined in the great common denominator of St. John's, learning with one mind, one purpose: to do iustly, to walk humbly with my God. Hear and see, then-the majestic story of a year at St. John's. THE DEMUCHACY

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X Y .- 'r iii' w . i As Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, His Excellency, the Most Reverend John M. McNarmara, D4,D.,.Y f . , - -, Vicar-General, above right, has served the Archdiocese lor twenty-three years. At left, His Excellency, who also serves as pastor ot St. Gabriel's Parish, and the Very Reverendr igmnus Smith, OLPX L?-Lf ' A'-'X-f- ' Professor ol Philosophy at Catholic University lead the academic procession at fU's mid-term commencement, Washingtonians were shocked last winter by the untimely death of the Most Reverend Patrick J. McCormick, Ph.D. D.D,, -.1-Y x.Yx4 K A ' me--. Titular Bishop of Atenia and Auxiliary Bishop of the Arch- diocese. Bishop McCormick was appointed to assist Arch- bishop O'Boyle in 1951. Bishop McCormick, below, was also rector at the Catholic University of America, the Pontilical College ot the United States. ln addition to his duties as Archdiocesean Superintendent of Education, the Right Reverend Monsignor , W S.T.L., serves as pastor of the parish of St. John Baptist dc LaSalle in surburban Chillum, Maryland. The parish was created in 1952 to honor the tounder of the Christian Brothers.