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1 Fr. Leonard Abercrombie Parochial School Expansion Continues Named Reserve Chaplain Little Helen Marie Invites Annex, New Building Are Ready for Use With Air National Guard Friends to Nursery Party DESPITE MATERIAL SHORTAGES and soaring prices this week, with the east side of the basement expected to be com The Rev, Leonard Abercrombie, Denver, founder of caused by the defense program, expansion of the parochial school pleted by the end of the month. the well-known Don Bosco club for Underprivileged boys, system in the Archdiocese of Denver moves forward. This week • The new Loyola structure, which will cost slightly more than Cathedral high school began using the new Monsignor McMehamin $179,000, will include an incomplete basement, four classrooms, a has been passed by the board of military examiners for a Memorial annex, and the new Annunciation high school building nurse’s room, a teachers’ room, and the principal’s office. At chaplain’s post in the Air National Guard Reserve at Buck- awaits only the arrival of steel lockers to be ready for occupancy. present a contract has been signed only for the completion of the ley field. Father Abercrombie volunteered for army service Work is going forward on the new Our Lady of Mt. Carmel high first floor, although future plans call for a two-story structure. school and the addition to Blessed Sacrament school, and progress The parish will have a debt of $115,000 when the first phase of at the outbreak of hostilities in Korea and his application has been made on St. Dominic’s grade school and Loyola grade the construction is complete. ■ was approved by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr. school. ' ' The St. Francis de Sales’ parish The second and third floors of the Cathedral high school annex Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation assistant will receive a first lieu are ready for occupancy, although the new equipment has not yet Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1950— Permission to Reproduce, Except on tenant’s commission to serve iwith arrived. Pupils have already begun using the Music room, however. Articles Otherwise Marked, Given AJter 12 M. Friday Following Issue. the 86th fighter wing at Bucjcley. and the health room was used last week for the examination of Since the commission is with, the pupils. J'he two commercial rooms will be put into use this week active reserve, the South Denver by moving in the old equipment; the new equipment is not ex priest is on base duty tfnly ^ree. pected to arrive for at least two weeks. times a month at present. He' aaid * * * his first Mass at the field for mili THjE FIRST FLOOR OF THE ANNEX, which houses the sci tary personnel Dec. 10. ence rooms and laboratories, cannot be used until equipment has Father Abercrombie was bom been secured and installed. Some delay is anticipated in this. There DENVER CATHOLIC June 27; 1921, in Kansas City, Mo. are no definite plans for a formal dedication of the new building. After he was graduated from a This will probably be delayed until after Jan 1, since it is planned grade school there he came to Col to redecorate the interior of the old high school building first, orado and attended Cathedral high according to the Very Rev. Monsignor Walter J. Canavan, pastor school, Denver, where he rMejved of the Cathedral parish. his diploma in 1939. He enrolled Use of the new annex will relieve congestion especially in the in St, Thomas’ seminary in 1'939, commercial and science departments of the school, according to finishing his course there and be Sister Marie William, principal. Enrollment in the high school is REGISTER ing ordained by Archbishop Vehr now some 580, and 400 in the grade school. It is hoped that it will in 1946. During his seminary term be possible to move the speech classes from the Holy Ghost Youth Price per copy, three cents he aided the R t Rev. Monsignor center, where they are now being held, after the annex is put into Joseph J. Bosetti, V.G., as (i^un- full use in the second semester. VOL. XLVI. No. 17. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1950 DENVER, COLORADO selor at Camp St. Malo in several * * ♦ summer vacations. In that capacity ALTHOUGH A DEFINITE DECISION has not yet been he became interested^ in the youth made, it is thought that the new Annunciation high school may be work that led him to form the Don occupied soon after the installation of the steel lockers, which have A Deluge of Dolls to Brighten THE Day Bosco club for lads at 9 Pearl street not yet been delivered, but are supposed to be shipped very soon. in 1946. His beneficent efforts in Should it be thought advantageous to wait, according to the Rt. behalf of unfortunate youths'are Rev. Monsignor Charles Hagus, the building may not be occupied well known in the Denver area* for some time, but it will be ready for use. The new chaplain’s first appoint The impressive new high school building, of two stories and ment wa? to S t Joseph’s, Golden, semi-basement, contains seven classrooms, three special rooms for as assistant to the Rev. Barry ,Wo- sewing, art, and a biolog:y laboratory; a library, and offices. gan. In the fall of 1946 Father • * « Abercrombie was given an assist ant’s post at St. Francis’, where THE CONCRETE AND STEEL for the new Our Lady of Mt he remains until called to full LITTLE HELEN MARIE invites all her friends to Carmel high school, which will be one of the most imposing in the time duty in the- National Guard parochial school system, has all been put into place and.work has unit At St. Francis’ he teaches in the annual Christmas party for the Infant of Prague begun on the brick facing. Steel girders have been placed for the nursery, 3720 W. 27th avenue, Denver, from 2 until 4 o’clock on the grade and higfh school, as well roof and the sheet metal ducts for air conditioning and heating as in the regional high school of Wednesday, Dec. 20. Gifts to the babies and to the nursery will be have been installed, according to the Rev. Thomas LoCascio, O.S.M. religion, held weekly for public welcome at the party.— [Register photo by Smyth) The building, which contains'two stories and an English base school students. + 4~ + + ~F ment (even with the CTOund level), will contain 10 classrooms and 16 other rooms for laboratories, offices, and special classes, etc. It is 201 by 56 feet in size apd is situated on a full block of ground at W. 36th avenue and Zuni street. It is hoped that the building An Average of 43 Infants will be ready for use next fall, when a ninth grade will be inaugu Golden Rectory rated. A grade will be added every year subsequently until a full high school is in operation. Is Cared for at Nursery * • * Addition to Be AT BLESSED SACRAMENT SCHOOL, the brick work has been completed on the cla.ssroom section of the addition, but is still Mrs. T, A. Cosgriff appointedepi and rubber dolls and pull toys for the older babies as well as in progress on the gym-auditorium. Although the work may be fin Mrs. John F. Murtaugh chairman ished by the end of January, the addition will ndt be put into use for the annual Christmas party for any clothing for children from 12 Put Up for Bids the Infant of Prague nursery. The months to three years old are wel until next fall, according to the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Harold Camp bell, pastor. The classrooms could be used now. party will be at the nurserj’, 3720 come. Bids will be taken on an ad The addition will contain five large classrooms, meeting rooms, W. 27th avenue, from 2 until 4 The nursery averages 43 babies dition to the rectory of St. Jo and a cafeteria that will accommodate 500, besides the gymnasium- o’clock on Wednesday, Dec. 20. at all times. It requires six shirts auditorium. It will help solve the problem of overflow enrollment seph’s parish, Golden, in the Mrs. Co.sgriff and Mrs. Murtaugh each year for each child, and about office of the Borelli & Mc- join with the babies in inviting four dozen diapers for each' child. in the grade school. everyone to the Christmas party. The sum of $35 sponsors one child Cahe Engineering company, Gifts to the babies and to the for one month. Several organiza ST. DOMINIC'S new grade school structure, which was begun 829 15th street, on Wednesday, nursery will be most welcome. tions sponsor one child per month. the past April, is getting “ under roof,” part of the roof concrete Dec. 20, at 2 p.m. The addition, Rubber toys are preferred; balls St. Elizabeth’s parish sponsoi-s having been poured by Dec. 13. which will be of brick and stticco, several children. Brick work is expected to begin soon on St. Dominic’s school, is expecteJ' to cost several thou All the volunteers will be on a two-story structure with 12 rooms, which only partially fronts on sand dollars. Pope Asks Peace hand to show visitors through the Federal avenue, the main part of the structure “ wrapping around” Included in the addition will b' nursery. Mrs. L, A. Higgins, volun the two-unit dwelling to the north. The building, which will be fire IN A LITTLE GIRL’S DREAMLAND, project carried on by. volunteer workeia o f Dep'ver.