St Patricks High School - Shamrock Yearbook (Eau Claire, WI)

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'Q -1' Q 3 Ni ASS UB H Oi HJ Q Blb iOP M ,FAVICK AND 'I' lli 'X SII' N CLI' RGY ENTERINKJ T I- l

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October elghth w1l1 long remaln lll the memorles of St Patrlcks par1sh1oners who paused that day to commemorate the three quarters of a century of Cathohc hte lll Eau Cla1re and to recall the flftmth bnthday of the present church Frlends and acquamt ances had come that mormng to 1o1n ln the f6St1V1t18S From the parochlal resxdence the proces slon began It was a beautlful and cololful sxght Fscorts of honor to H1s Lxcellency Blshop McGav1ck wolc the full dress of the Fourth Degree KH1ghtS of Columbus They were follow ed by the Sxsters of St Be nedlct the S1sters of St I'r11c1s from the Qzcred He'11t Hospltal and prlests rcprescntln the CHOCQSES of La Cross M1lWQllkGL St Cloud St Paul 'Superior 'md Wmona AUYll11TW Blshop Grxffm followed clad ln lns 9CClQNl astlcal robes As H1s Excellency BlSl101J McGav1ck entered the church thf Opclllllj, chords of the maJest1c hymn I me Sm-mrfos Magnus sung by a mvced chon ot foxtx XOICSS greeted the guest of honor fo1 thc OCCRSIOH As the Bxshop walks d slowly down the alsle he ralsed h1s hand blessmg those who had assembled for the ITlO1lllllf cue mony The church was brllhantly l1ghted the candles gleammg among the yellow chrysan themums IH burnlshed gold xases Generous glfts were made to St Patrlcks for the occaslon among them an xmported gold plated mlssal stand wlth sllver 1nl ws used for the H1 st tlll e 'mt thc Jubllce lllass x gut of the grade and hxgh school students Solemn H1gh Mass has always been 1m presslve to me the day of the Jubllee It was doubly so I could not help I'lOt1C1llg' what 1 beaut1ful ceremony It was Hls Excellency the Blshop asslsted at Mass ln Cappa Magna Reverend Thomas Doyle was the celebrant of the Jllbllel? Mass All the other OfI'lCQ1s of the Mass that mormng w ere Ill formex x eals '1sslst1I'1tQ here I 1the1 I'o1 ester I' ather JUBIILEE DAY Betty Baumgurfner '36 Pollack Father Pxttz Father O Toole Father MCCUIYE Father Sherldan Father Slngleton Father Duffy F ther Weller and Father Do1an Father Kaluza retlred Chaplain at the Sacled Heart Hospltal a former Pastor of the congreqltlon was ln the sanctuary The Jllblltt QGIFIOFI preached by Father O Toole w1ll ex er b remembered by those who heard It In h1s 1n1m1table Way Father OToole plctured the haldshlps and trlals wh1ch the evrly DIONCCTS had to undergo to make St P1t11ck s w hat It IS today One of thc first pastors to come hero and the bullder of thls church was Father Collms When I c :me to Fau C'la1re Father OToole sfud than w xs m l 1 e D1Ctlll of Pathcl COlllllS ll2.Il,f.,1Yl1,, 1n the hzllw xx of the old rectorv I r mn remember It serv dlstmctly He was a Ntlfllll, handsome man w 1th black curly ha1r and wlth '1 stl ong face and body and a deter mmed chm It was th countenance and form ot '1 bullder and '1 W0lk91 and such Was lather Colllns I tllllllx w 1th the close of hls p 1sto1ate the modem h1sto1y of St Pat11clL s bu lll In recalllng the splcndld work of Father Dunne Father O Toole sfud He was s oung Ill xeals but wlse and able ln mental and moral strength a man rlchly g1fted by nature w 1th every manly, beauty a form as a poet savs upon whlch even God would seem to set Hls seal to g1ve the world assurance of a man A s oung man w1th eloquence beyond the ordmnx eloouencc 'lCqlllI'9d by study and practxce w1th 1 volce now soft as the gentle zephyxs of Spllflg agam rmgmg out wxth all the stormy strength of all the ele ments at once persuasne and commandmg easlly able to mfluence others wlth h1s maf netlc personalxty He was a truly Eucha11L t1c puest lfVhen Fathe-1 Dunne passed away Fxther OToole sa1d there was need of a new leadel Bw thxs time St Patrlck s parlsh h 1d become accustomed to produclnv lts own , . 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-it slim!!! wi-4. :JA L r fix.-If po ww M-:waaw W N 9.-sf A GROUP OI' X ISI ORS ANU PARIS IONERS AFTER THE JL B LEE IN AHS