St Rita of Cascia High School - Cascian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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. 9 3 i OPPOSITE PAGE ABOVE They sure were the good old days ...' 'No more Latin, no more French, no more sitting on a hard board bench - Study Ha1l?? . . . Father Harris 1918-35, teacher, coach, lack-of-all-trades , educator, priest, loved and respected by all Rita men. More boys - dudes of the Roaring Twentiesw - and more athletes - Basketball champions of 1927-Fr. Harris coach, Baseball cham- pions 1928-Fr. Donovan coach, Coach Tom 'O'Shaughnessy and Capt. Harry Locke . . . more boys: concentration, exultation, .Ind determination power house. li i ll ill' ,. A .5 3 ,,:'- 1 A i 4 il!! UO!! The south view of the campus: buildings lleft to right? Egan Hall, Harris Gym, Green Hall, Circa 1930, foreground football field and we wire! lecacle 1925 was a year of expansion which saw the construction of a new unit in the school plant. The new building, to be known as Egan Hall, was equipped with the most modern class room facilities and laboratories. lt was completed by September of 1926, and it was opened for the school year. lmmediately it relieved the burden from over-crowded Green Hall, where in addition to classrooms were living quarters of the priests and faculty mem- bers. Reverend loseph B. Kepperling was appointed rector to this bigger and better St. Rita H.S. ln March 1929, a plan was conceived to bring together the mothers of the students of St. Rita H.S. Because of its many achievements, and its as- sistance to the administration and faculty, the Mothers Club became one of the more prominent parent school activities. Father Kepperling was a brilliant and progressive administrator. How- ever, after only three years in the rectorship, he died lune 4, 1929, the end of that school year. His immediate successor was the Reverend Iohn I. Harris. lt was during his administration, that two St. Rita publications had their origin in 1930. The high school newspaper the Ritan, was the first of these, the other was the yearbook, the Cascian, a name previously used for an earlier bi-monthly magazine. Ph the period preceeding 1931, St. Rita had become well known for its championship baseball teams. ln 1928, 1929 and 1930, St, Rita won the South Section Championships, and in 1929 and 1930 went on to win the Catholic League Championship. An increase in the number of students in 1930 caused the demand for a larger library. Accordingly it was enlarged six times its original area. A book drive was held in which thousands of books were acquired as dona- tions. Finally, in October of that same year, the library was reopened for use. Because of the success of the Mothers Club, the Fathers Club was organ- ized in 1930, One of its first successful protects was the remodeling of the stadium. A new cement wall surrounding the stadium was built, and new wooden stands were set up. The dedication was held on September 27, 1931. Mayor Cermak presided at the dedication, which was climaxed with a football Qame 15 l