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

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Dedication A Teacher affects eternity, he can never tell vvhere his influence stops. Many qualities are evident in an outstanding teacher-unselfishness and dedication, wisdom and understanding. Student at St. Xavier need look no further for such a man than Brother Columba. His teaching career began in l9l5, soon after beginning his life as a Xaverian Brother. Though he has taught in several other schools, St, Xavier has been his home for a total of twenty-three years. During these years, whether in coaching teams, teaching in the classroom, or helping students in need of advice or encouragement, Brother has helped St, Xavier to preserve the ideals and achieve the goals of the Xaverian Brothers. We feel especially proud, then, that as we mark the centennial year of St. Xavier, vve can also celebrate the golden iubilee of a teacher who has been so much a part of the school's tradition. To this end the class of '64 dedicates this yearbook to Brother Columba with heartfelt thanks and best wishes.

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Foreword Our years aT ST, Xavier have vviTnessed many-direcTioned Tugs and pulls as we relentlessly fif aT Times haphazardlyj ground our way Through The formaTive years. UndoubTedly we can all recall Times when we chafed aT The academic biT buT we came To accepT The Trials, as well as The Triumphs, as all parT of The grand process of geTTing an education. ln The remoTeness of The TuTure, recollecTions oT The evenTs of The high school years seem To grow Tonder, if perhaps less vivid. This yearbook is devoTed To The rewarding Task of keeping Those memories ever fresh in our minds.

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The Centennial Stor . . . a Proud Past The Xaverian BroThers landed for The firsT Time in America in New York on Aug. 4, 1854. ThaT was To be The beginning of a long and prosperous life for Them in This counTry, a life which was To be considerably brighTened by The rise of ST. Xavier High School of Louisville as one of The naTion's ouTsTanding schools. By Aug. 16 of ThaT same year The BroThers had arrived in Louisville. The firsT home of The Xaverians in This ciTy was ST. PaTrick's on 13Th ST. lmmaculaTe ConcepTion was To be Their second. The conveniences of comforTable mod- ern living ThaT we Take so much for granTed was noT parT of Their loT. From a iournal kepT by old Bro. Philip we lisTen To one man's com- menT on Their siTuaTion. We had no such luxuries as gas, ToileTs or baThs. Candles and coal oil lamps were used for lighTing pur- poses. Small sToves for heaTing apparaTus. The waTer supply was in Two cisTerns-The rain wafer had To be carried To The baTh. For drinking waTer we had To geT The supply from The public sTreeT-pumps. CondiTions for The BroThers sTeadily pro- gressed, and in 1863 They founded ST. Aloysius SelecT School-The beginning of The ST. X we know Today. In 1864 The BroThers moved To Their fourTh home in Louisville, This Time on FourTh ST. IT was here ThaT ST. Aloysius School was renamed ST. Xavier's lnsTiTuTe. Bro. Philip Tells of his reacTion To The change: The communiTy of sevenTeen mov- ed from Green ST. To FourTh ST. on The eve of The AssumpTion, Aug. 14, 1864. Oh! how happy we were. EveryThing was in our favor: in The cenTer of The ciTy, finesT sTreeT, fine surroundings, large house, on a loT 70' x 200', gas and waTer, no ora- Tory, buT someThing beTTer Than all -a beauTiful chapel wiTh The Blessed SacramenT. When ST. Xavier officially opened in Sep- Tember of 1864, There were seven subiecTs of- fered To The sTudenTs: caTechism, Bible hisTory, geography, bookkeeping, algebra, geomeTry and French. Such sfudies as calculus, physics or chemisTry were noT To be inTroduced for many years.