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Bids to Be Received on New Annunciation Parish High School J School Days, Happy Days \Two-Story and Basement Structure to Relieve Crowded Situation; 762 Enrolled I ^ ^ Plans for the new Annunciation high school building in Denver will be released for bids next week, according to an announcement by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Charles H. Member of Audit Bur mu of Circulation Hagus, j)astor. Blueprints will be completed this week by John K. Monroe, architect. Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1949— Permission to Reproduce, Except on The new school building, to be erected in the Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. 3600 block on Lafayette street on property ad and study hall, two other classrooms, and toilet joining the convent of the Sisters of Charity of facilities. Leavenworth who teach in the grade school, will The semi-basement will have windows com contain two stories and a basement. Overall di pletely surounding it, and will be used as a meet mensions of the building will be 63 by 106 feet. ing or assembly room. The boiler room will also It will be constructed in simple style of reinforced be in the basement. concrete and faced brick, and will be designed It is hoped that the new building will relieve to permit the adding of two more wings in the crowded conditions caused by great expansion DENVER CATHOLIC future years. in student enrollment in the past several years. The first floor of the new building will have If possible, all high school classes except the a large art room with an adjoining work room. science department will be moved to the new Provision is also being made for a kiln in the base building. It may be necessary, however, to keep ment for work in ceramics. Also on the first one high school class in the present building. The floor will be a • combination typing and book enrollment in the parish’s grade and high schools keeping classroom and three other classrooms. this yeaK is approximately 762. Monsigiior REGISTER An office, teachers’ room, a nurse’s room, and Hagus, in discussing arrangements for the various toilets- will also be on the first floor. classes, said that it will not be possible, even with The second floor will house a biology room, the added space, to move the first grade from the Price per copy, three cents with a projecting bay window for plants and an classroom adjoining the church or to discontinue aquarium. A sewing room with adjoining space the split sessions inaugurated last year. The sec for fittings and storage will also be on the sec ond and third grades will also remain in a sepa VOL. XLV. No. 4. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1949 DENVER, COLORADO ond floor, in addition to a combination library rate building at the corner of 37th and Humboldt. Catholic Schools Save State $19,000,000 Speakers Speakers at ACCW Deanery Workshop Seven-Year Figures Selected Revealed in Report; By Nurses Large Growth Shown THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS of Colorado saved the taxpayers Anne V. Houck, executive of the state almost $19,000,000 in the past seven years. This fact is THE 16,000 PUPILS of Catholic schools of the .secretary of the National revealed in the annual report on Catholic education in the Archdio Archdiocese of Denver, now just breaking into the long Council of Catholic Nurses, cese of Denver and the Diocese of Pueblo as compiled by the Rev. year of study, face the prospect with a smile, if we are to judge by Washington, D. C., will be one Edward Leyden, superintendent in the archdiocese. this little Miss. She is Pennie Louise Whitney, daughter of Mr. In the school year of 1948-49, the Catholic educational s;^stem and Mrs. J. P. Whitney of 2208 E. 17th avenue, Denver. She is of the principal speakers at saved the Colorado taxpayers $4,117,508. These figures are based on enrolled in the second grade of St. Mary’s academy, conducted by the 43rd annual convention of the the total expenditure per pupil in the public schools in Colorado the Sisters of Loretto. Colorado State Nurses’ association from 1942 to 1949. at the Hotel Colorado, Glenwood With an increase of 1,280 pupils in the past year. Catholic schools Springs, Oct. 6, 7, and 8. in the state continued the phenomenal growth that has characterized Chapel Floor Next Members of the Denver Arch the post-war years in Colorado. diocesan Council of Catholic * • • • Nurses and of the Pueblo Dioc FIFTEEN THOUSAND AND SIXTY-THREE students are now esan Council of Catholic Nurses enrolled in the schools of the Archdiocese of Denver and 5,244 are New Presentation School will participate in the state con in attendance in the Diocese of Pueblo. Colorado Catholic schools vention. Another speaker at the are now caring for a total of 21,307 pupils as compared with 16,606 convention will be Margaret Duffy Monsignor John R. Mulroy Rev. Joseph J. Walsh Mrs. John Murtaugh five years ago. of Fort Logan, assi.stant chief of According to a prospective based on the present enrollments Has One Story Completed nursing education at the Veterans’ 4* " f + + + + the number of students to be enrolled in the eighth grade in 1961 Administration hospital. Fort Lo will total 1,660 as compared with 758 in the 1948-49 school term. The main floor of the new pari.sh building which will gan, and a member of the Arch In grade 12 the enrollment is supposed to increase yearly until the provide four new classrooms in Presentation parish in diocesan Council of Catholic Program Is Announced peak of 748 is reached in 1961 as contrasted with the 447 students West Denver is nearing completion, and work is soon to Nurses, Denver chapter. of 1948-49. In both classes the gain of students will be better than begin on the chapel which will form the second floor of the A board meeting of the Denver 100 per cent in the next 12 years. This increase will not be limited to structure, reports the Rev. Matthias J. Blenkush, pastor. chapter of the ACCN was held the two classes used in the example but will extend to all. Wednesday evening. Sept. 14, to Workshop of Denver Deanery * * * To be constructed with tempo- consider plans for the luncheon in THE PRIMARY PROBLEM in the city of Denver is adequate rary partitions marking off the Glenwood Springs Oct. 8 at which facilities to accommodate the large number of pupils who Jesire to Fr. Kenneally sacristy and sanctuary, the new Miss Houck will be the speaker. attend Catholic educational systems. Father Leyden stressed. chapel will later be converted to a Miss Houck is a past president “ Last fall,” he said, “ for example, it is estimated that 1,600 parish hall. With a seating ca and treasurer of the National To Be Conducted on Sept. 19 children were turned away from Denver Catholic schools because To Speak on pacity of nearly 500, as con Council of Catholic Nurses and is facilities were lacking to take care of them. Although no attempt is trasted to the mere 220 which the a member of the state board of Mrs, John F. Murtaugh will preside over the morning made to register non-Catholic children, nevertheless 531 were en old church would accommodate, nurse examiners of Ohio. session of the Denver ACCW deanery workshop, Monday, rolled during the past year.’’ CBS Sept. 18 the temporary chapel will greatly She is at present making a tour Death Calls relieve the crowded condititjns Sept, 19, in the Knights of Columbus hall, 1575 Grant street, The report also revpaled that 3,139 children were given religioui of chapters o f the National Coun instruction in 63 vacation schools in the archdiocese, “ Christian groups are di which have existed in recent cil of Catholic Nurses in the West Denver. Following the initial, address by the Rt. Rev. Moiv- * • • years. vided on many issues; but the and Middle West. She will visit signor John R. Mulroy, the program of the committee system Redemptorist REGIS AND LORETTO HEIGHTS, Colorado’s Catholic col- the Denver chapter Oct. 6 and 7, of the National Council of Catholic ~—~— --------------- eges, maintained a capacity enrollment during the past school year. one issue on which they are Will Be Beautiful, and will visit the Pueblo chapter The Rev, Ambrose 21eller, Women will be presented by arch Pueblo Diocesan council, will give Ground breaking ceremonies for the,construction of a new student all agreed is that the Bible is Architect Promises a message. C.SS.R., who was stationed at St. activity building and additional dormitory space were a part of the the word of God,” said the diocesan committee chairmen. Joseph’s Redemptorist parish, Den The new brick and steel build Reservations must be made no Loretto graduation exercises. Regis college is offering^evening classes, Very Rev. William Kenneally, Mrs. L. J. Holmes will give the ver, for 18 years, died in St. Jo with full college facilities on the campus during the coming year. ing, finished in a modern motif, later than noon Friday, Sept 16. seph’s hospital, Wichita, Sept. 9. C.M., rector of St. Thomas’ semi will be one of the most beautiful report on parlimentary law and Seven hundred and ninety-two full and part time teachers staff Those who wish reservations A Solemn Mass of Requiem was nary, Denver, in connection with structures in the area, reports public relations; Mrs. Thomas the Catholic schools in the state.