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

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On the exe of the Jub1lee October 7 I entered the sulte of rooms at the Sacred Heart Hosp1tal reserved for our guest HIS Excellency Alexander J McGav1ck of La CIOSQL to extend to h1m the greetlngs of the students and to obtaln any message that he m1ght lllxe to send to St Patrlcks Hlgh School To me It was an unusual opportumty In appearance the Blshop IS tall thm a11d statelv looklng He remlnds me of Lmcoln xx1th that same determmed GXDFOSSIOII of assurance HIS deep set klnd eves gaxe me the 1mpress1on of one who undelstood the real x xlue of l1fe As he sat back 1n h1s arm chalr my tea1s xanlshed completely and I felt pexfectly at e xsc I recogmzed that I was 1n th presence of one of God s great representat1x es H1s Excellency smlled x hen I asked h1m about h1s early llfe Well I don t know he Sald 'Ihue 1sn t much worth pr1nt1ng storx xxhlch I rexxexv here for I belleve ex erv 1nc1dent has lmportance These facts xx 1ll not be new to all Fox Lake Ill1no1s xv1s the place of hls b1rth on August 21 186' H1s earlx educfl t1on was 1ece1x ed Wltlllll the boundfulcs of h1s home state He was onlx slxteen years old when he entered St V1ators College at Bourbonnals Ill1no1s Except1onf1l brxlllance m the classlcs won for hxm many honors and great d1st1nct1on W1th the CIQQIFQ for the p11esthood s h1s mot1xe he returned to St Vmtor s to study theoloffv When h1s l11'1ll1 mg xvas consplete he xvas ordamed to the holy pr1esthocd by the lxte Archb1shop Fee han of Cll1C1L,O on June 11 1887 at the age of txventx th1ee H1s p'111sh work at St John s and Holy Angels Church ln Ch1cago xx s 0LltSt'1Ill1llQ' and elex en xears after h1S 01d1nat1on he xx 'ms made aux1l1a1v blshop of Ch1cago IH answer to a request from the Archb1shop Holv Name Cathedral 1n Chl OUR BISHOP Ann Couture 36 cago was the place of hlS consecratlon the f11 st day of May 1899 He had the unusual exper1ence of ass1st1ng three Archblshops Archb1shop Feehan the flrst Archb1shop of Ch1cago Archb1shop Edward Qulgley and Alchblshop Mundelem now Cardlnal A leader was needed to establlsh the Holy N zme Soclety 1n the dlocese Th1S leader was found 1n the person ot Blshop MCG3VlCk The new appo1ntment was made by Cardlnal 'xlundelem H1 Fxcellencx told me of hlS work xx 1th boxs xx h1le Ill Ch1caf 0 Mx xxork was concemed ch1eflly w1th dclnnquents ex aders of the law We olgan md con1m1ttees of Blg Brothers 1n exery branch of the Holv Name Soclety explamed the B1shop and th se Blg Brothers showed 1 wondeuul 1nte1est 111 the young lads and xere xx llmg to make any sacrxflces to help tl un Bx mect1ng these youths speakmg to them gettlng thelr hlstory and fl11d1ng out cultus and the par1shes from whlch they came they were ex entually helped One could readlly see the results In many cases these boys xx ere turned axx ay from a course that xx ould haxe led them to cr1me and puson It was only after a splendld record of achxex ements wh1le ln Ch1cago that the at tentlon ot Rome was called to H1s Excellency xx ho xx as then transferred to th1s d1OC6S6 He was appolnted Blshop of La Crosse IH 1921 the 'lst of November and came to hls new d1ocese th 22nd of March 1922 C'1tl1ol1c bdLlCd.tl0I'l 18 of course of 1nter est to ill of the Falth but especlally to Ihshop McG1x1ck Cathollc educatlon to my m1nd IS the most 1n1po1t Ilt xx o1k 1n the d10CQS9 sald the Blshop There are about fifteen thousand students e11rolled 1n our glade schools but tht IL are about elght thousand OLIIISICIG That 1s xx here our fallen flxvays come from Grow 1. 5 V I f N , xl, V - I 1 A Q -iliik fi -1 7 V , . . Q Y 1 , . , , 1 ' I . . . Y a , ' 1'1 1, r s 1 1I 1 ' 1 fc ,A I D A I 1 4 ' 1 . v - , - . 1 . 1 , 1 N I ' ' . 0 n n 1 1 1 . . C n ' ' ' 1 D 0 O C v 1 I 1' 1 - . . . , . 1 U . , ' Y 1 1 1 W . I Y 0 D 0 1 1 1 . - , ,t S 41 r Y 5 ' x ' 4 Y . . . 1, , , , I, K 1 . lt, . I 'll . 11 Y , L , ' ' Q 0 l v . U I 1 , my I 1 ' xl v 1 1 - Y L. , . . A X . V 4 . J , . Y 1: 1 1. gy ' ' e . . ' H ' ' . u , 1' 1' V 1'. 1 ' Y U ns 5 ' y ' 1 , C ' A J ' 1' 1 ' 1 19 ' 1 Y ' v Y K Y C ,A C . . I X' v 1 . V . as , 1 ,xr - . U x X , 4 lx . Ur 1 ' LY, K L A ' , , , , U V . . . . n x 9 r L 9 . . . 1 From Outqide Sourceg I had learned his as lar as they could the cause of thelr dlffl- 1 1 . . . 4 A ' xx , ' ' Y - . Y Y Y A .Y ! Y , v a 4 n I c l, ' 7 . v' 1 L 5 L ' l . A ,, Y 1 Y Y. Y , , 21 1 Y 7 , n I 1 1 , lx. ' x c '. ,, . .vc A . 7 . . C ,. is 1 . . Y 1. I I ' A . C V 1 i 1 U , ' 9 7 - s I a s C I ' 1 Y L . 1 , . c , s n n Y ' . . C A , N. tx H 1 . y 1 L , - 1 1 1.1 1 1 , 1 . . n , V n n lx' .X Q ' c 1 on . 1' 'c ' A ' . . it V . U X r A. .K , . - 1 1 , 1 f 9 ' A x 2 ' x 1- 1' E ' . , ' .' ' 1 kr Y , 1 i 1' ' 2 ' . Y . . .1 ' U . . . . If - o x C x u K . , w, . . . 1 6 V' ' . . ' ,, . 1 C, 1, 1 L. 1 , 1 V . V Y . . U 1 c K , 1 V 1 . 1 ,L .L K . .C , 1 . I 'A Z 1 . . , 1 1 p 1 1 , 4 1 . . . . 1 . I I 'L . ' .