Eddie Shepard Retiring After 32 Years' Service

To Bless School Wing; New Convent Plnnned At St. Philomena': At Most Precious Blood A two-story $168,000 addition at St. Philomena’s school, Denver, Construction of a two-story $127,384 convent at Most Precious will be blessed by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr Sunday, Feb. 24, at 4:30 Blood parish, Denver, has been announced by Father Bernard P. p.m. The new annex brings the estimated value of the school building Degan, C.M., pastor. It will be situated facing S. Harrison street, to about $575,000. about midway on the block of parish property between Iliff avenue Added to the north, end of the existing school, the addition pro and Warren avenue. vides three classrooms on the Father Degan noted that the second floor and a lounge for increased enrollment of pupils lay teachers. A large meeting at the school made It Impera room for parish gatherings is tive to have an adequate con on the first floor. vent for the nun-teasers. The The Rt. Rev. Monslgnor Wil past several years, the nuns liam M. Higgins, pastor, said DENVER a TH a iC have been living in a remodeled construction was planned to per house near the parish site. mit adding a third floor if ex The split-level arrangement pansion is needed in the future. designed by Henry J. DeNicola, Three more classrooms can be architect, has stairways leading from the first floor to a full-size (See picture on page 2) REGISTER basement with windows above the ground and another Stair provided by minor alterations Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations way leading to the nuns’ quar in the first floor meeting room. ters on the second floor. At present the school has 12 A chapel on the first floor classrooms in use for 530 pupils. V O L LVIl No. 27 DENVER, COLORADO THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 1963 may accommodate 14 Sisters. Eight Sisters of Loretto, with Furnishings include a sanctu Sister Margreta as principal, ary, Cathedral glass windows, and four lay teachers are on a sacristy with a private en- the faculty. Other facilities in rance, a confessional, pews, the building are a library, a After 18 Years in Red Jails, altars, and other appointments. music room, a lunchroom for Other facilities on the first Great iNomenf for Scouts the nuns, the principal’s office, floor are a conference office, and a nurse’s room. • the superior’s office, a refectory, Bernard M. Engler of St Catherine’s Rev. John J> Danagher, C.M. (at right), rec ST. PHILOMENA’S first Ukraine Archbishop Freed kitchen, pantry, housekeeper’s Troop 155, Denver, reflects the happiness and tor of St. Thomas’ seminary, assists the school was opened in Septem suite, utility closets, and a com reverence of 103 Boy Scouts from 28 parishes Archbishop. Harlyn 0. Price (at left), scout ber, 1922, in the rectory base By Bob Ramsey ary. He was “a very, very great for informal talks. He wanted munity room. in the archdiocese who received their Ad Al- master of Troop 155, witnesses the presenta ment with only a small number A Denver priest who was a scholar,” he recalled, “very to know everything about, each tare Dei awards from Archbishop Urban J. tion. of pupils enrolled. In 1924 the student of the Primate of serious, and very strict” student.” PRIVATE ROOMS for 12 Sis Vehr in the Cathedral Feb. 10. The Very first unit df construction was Ukraine, Archbishop Joseph ‘There were more than 100 Father Small saw Archbishop ters and a guest room are begun at the present site, 940 Slipy, was overwhelmed with seminarians in the class,” Fa Slipy for the last time in 1941, planned on the second floor. Fillmore street. Joy upon learning that the ther Small continued. “I met Shortly before his ordination Ample closet facilities and an To meet enrollment demands, Archbishop has been released him every day, and twice a in St. George Cathedral, Lviv, infirmary room are provided. Work of Scouts' Leaders another addition was added in by the Communists after spend year he would call us together Father Small talked to the In the garden-level basement, 1928, which provided three more ing 18 years in Soviet prisons. Archbishop, little realizing that facilities include a recreation classrooms. In 1939, three more Father Paul Small, a native in four short years his close area, sewing room, music room, rooms were built. And in 1950 of West Ukraine and pastor of friend and former teacher laundry space, trunk storage, Cited by Archbishop Vehr the entire second floor was the Church of the Transfigura would begin his long Good Fri pantry storage, boiler room, and added at a cost of $150,000. tion of Our Lord (Byzantine day under the iron heel of athe a separate service entrance. Adult leaders, men and archdiocese were singled nition of outstanding study and Giving particular beauty to Ukrainian), Denver, was taught istic Communism. A. Gruber and Sons, Denver, women, in the scout pro out for praise and appre service to the Church. the building is the tower at the dogmatic theology by Arch The Archbishop was impri gave the low bid, which includes gram in parishes of the ciation by Archbishop Scout Troops represented 28 south end. It was designed by bishop Slipy from 1933 to 1938 soned by the Soviet regime on Hie heating, ventilating, and Urban J. Vehr in Scout parishes in the archdiocese. Un John K. Monroe, architect of in the Ukrainian Theological electrical work. The heating electrical work. The heating Sunday ceremonies in the its came from parishes in Fort Monroe, Monroe, and Dunham, seminary, Lviv, Ukraine. April 11, 1945, for “collaborat system is hot water baseboard Collins, Longmont, Loveland, in a Gothic motif, with bricks of ing” wili the Germans. He la radiation with copper piping Cathedral Feb. 10. Frederick, Louisville, as well two-tone red, trimmed with pat FATHER SMALL remembers ter was sentenced to two more throughout. Mother Seton Once a scoutmaster and troop as from a number of parishes terns of interwoven, smoky col the Archbishop, who, at that prison terms. The exterior of the convent chaplain himself, the Archbishop in the metropolitan area. ored cut stone. time, was rector of the semin- (Turn to Page 2) (Turn to Page 2) Beatification cited the indispensable role of (See pictures on page 3) DESPITE SNOWY weather, the Cathedral was filled to ca Daboto Rages On March 17 adults, scoutmasters, den moth pacity for ttie annual ceremony. ers, and other lay leaders in Auxiliary Bishop David M. Ma Brotherhood Day Founder Washington — The beatifica making the scout movement a loney, a number of Monsignori, tion of Mother Elizabeth Seton, Biff to Protect success. priests, nuns, and hundreds of tentatively scheduled in Rome Some 103 Boy Scouts and Ex lay persons were present for the for Sunday, March 17, will cul Praised at Plaque Rites plorers received the Ad Altare colorful program. minate 52 years of investigation Dei award from the Archbishop. Civic leaders present included “ ‘Father Mac’ spent his were officials of the state and Archbishop Joseph Slipy into the life of a woman who Sunday Readied Four Explorers received the Judge Philip B. Gilliam of the priestly life in the service of city, leaders of the Catholic, win probably become the first Pope Pius XII award in recog (turn to Page 3) Coloradans of every race, creed, Protestant, and Jewish faiths, native-bom American saint. By Edward T. Smith and color. This tribute to him and representatives of commu (See Begixtotlal. Page S> is an h(«or to all the citizens nity organizations. HER CAUSE, begun in 1911, St. Jude Burse Members of the Colorado State Legislature are being of the state.” The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Wal was officiaUy introduced in the With these words. Gov. John swamped with letters, telephone calls, and petitions ex Holy See in 1941. Committee to Decide Use ter J. Canavan, rector of the Receives $400 pressing support or opposition to a proposed Sunday A. Love accepted on behalf of Cathedral, accepted custody of Fifteen donors this past week The heroic nature of her vir the people of Colorado a bronze Sales bill scheduled to be introduced within the nerf tues was declared by a general the plaque to be*placed in the contributed a total of $400 to Of 30-Acre Site at Regis plaque presented by the Na raise the St. Jude burse for the few days. assembly of the Sacred Congre vestibule of the Cathedral. A growing cancer of “business tional Council of Christians and education of future priests, to storing Sunday as a day of com gation of Rites in 1959, after Formation of the Regis Cen This nroperty. Father Ryan Its presence there. Monsignor as usual on Sundays,” launched $5,513.54. munity rest. which she was caUed “Vener ter. Study committee to deter said, is considered unassigned (See picture on page 3) Canavan said, “will serve as a for the most part by discount for immediate college expan Donors to the burse from able.” After beatification. mine the best use of approxi reminder that brotherhood is houses in the suburban Denver THE CONSTITUTIONALITY mately 30 acres of property on sion. It is, therefore available Denver were Mrs. J.E.B., $50; Mother Seton’s title wiU be Jews honoring the late Rt. Rev. not a one-way street. Men area, is eating its way into the of such laws was upheld in for interim development. M.S.D., $5; Anonymous, $150; “Blessed.” the eastern side of the college Monsignor Hugh L.

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