St Xavier High School - Tiger Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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BROTHER EDWARD DANIEL, C.F.X., Principal Administration BROTHER BERNARD, C.F.X. Assistant Principal

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Twenty days with two other freshman classes so that they would not lose the ST. X spirit. Disregarding The protests made by bigots, St. Xavier became The first school in Kentucky history to compete with a colored school. X played Central in football to a 7-7 tie. It was to be The beginning of a long and friendly re- lationship between The Two schools. Ensign Bob White Cclass of '391 was in a place called Pearl Harbor on a quiet Sunday morning on Dec. 7th, 1941. He was The first St. X alumnus killed in This second war-to-end- all-wars. Marine drill sergeants came to ST. X for The next few years to drill The Seniors in aeronautics. The Students became as familiar with ration tickets and victory gardens and war bonds, with fireside chats and synthetic rub- ber, as They were with The initials G.l. Their knowledge of geography extended To places called Corregidor, The Coral Sea, Dunkirk, The Aleutians, El Alemein, Normandy and Hiro- shima. After more Than Three quarters of a cen- tury of Trying to supply Louisville's needs for Catholic higher education, St. X welcomed The arrival of Flaget on Sept. 8, 1942. Trinity, De- Sales and Bishop David were soon to ioin The ranks. While The fuss' about the 380 Parallel was going on, St. X was continuing its educational leadership. In 1954 Bro. Thomas More inaugu- rated The Honor Club, Career Night, College Night and The Testing Program. With The old school falling apart at The seams, Bro. Thomas carried on The intensive ten-year search for a new home for St. Xavier. The best location possible was found to be on Popular Level Road. Work was begun, and on a warm Sep- tember day in 1961 The new, modern St. Xavier stood with its arms open, ready to receive new generations of Catholic youth. Passing into history were the anguished pleas from Hungary and the cries for indepen- dence from Africa. The shattering noise of the intercontinental and interplanetary rockets was to be drowned out by the roar of an assassin's gun on a Dallas street. But these are our times, iust as much as the Civil War was for the St. Xavier student of 1864. With such a wonderful legacy, St. Xavier has grown from a small school on The corner of 2nd and Broadway to a renowned institution of learning, keeping pace with the rapid growth ofthe nation. It has grown from a student body of fourteen to that of nearly fourteen hundred. The achievements of this school know no bar- riers or comparisons. Excellence is pre-eminent and Christian gentlemen are its students. Its alumni number among the greatest men of the state. In short the influence of Xaverian training and the fine tradition of the school have become inseparable from the education of its graduates. The memoirs and heritages of This century are ours, but they will only be called ours if we, too, as the others before us, build upon them and nourish the hopes and achievements of The next century of education at St. Xavier High School.

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BROTHER JUSTIN, C.F.X. Prefecf of Discipline BROTHER PAUL, C.F.X. School Treasurer Secretaries MRS. SALLY JURGENSON Secretary To the Principal MRS. VERA HECKMANN Secretary To The Assisfant Principal MRS. VIOLET TOTTEN MRS. ANITA LOTZ Secretary To the Treasurer Cafefefla Manager