Annunciation Alumnus Recounts'Second Spring' of Grand Old Eastside Denver Parish APPROXIMATELY 1,000 PER- humble beginning for this insti­ us who have been educated at An­ program of a complete and modem fronted Father Hagus when he SONS attended the dedication Oct. tution we honor today. Two Sis­ nunciation have cause to be grate­ school. Thus, in 1929, 12 students stepped into his pastorate. His was Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 7 of the new Annunciation high ters of St. Joseph, Sister Mary ful. were graduated by Annunciation the responsibility for meeting the ♦ * » Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1961—Permission to Reproduce, Except oa school, 36th and Lafayette streets, Wilfred and Sister James Stanis­ under the sponsorship of Father needs of a rapidly expanding par­ Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. Denver. Among the visitors who laus, traveled from St. Patrick’s THE CONVENT IN WHICH Callanan, Sister Mary Patrice, ish and the subsequent steady in­ took advantage of the open house church to educate their pupils they live today was purchased in principal of the school; and all the crease in school enrollment. New after the dedication ceremonies through six grades, meeting in two 1907. One year later the new good Sisters of Charity. classrooms were needed at the were 150 alumni of the school. small rooms heated by coal stoves. church was not only completed During the succeeding years An­ same time that the third floor of Archbishop Urban J. Vehr of­ * * * but consecrated, indicating that nunciation students accredited the old grade school was con­ ficiated at the blessing of the new THE PARISH GREW. Neither the debt was clear before the first themselves and their school well demned, causing the temporary building and spoke following the church nor school provided ade­ Mass was \ celebrated. It remains in scholarship and extracurricular closing of the school. It was neces­ rites. Other speakers on the pro­ quate space. In 1889 a new loca­ today one of the few consecrated activities under the guidance of sary to rent the Old Ironton school DDIVER CATHOLIC gram were John Schlereth, an tion was selected by Father Raber. churches in the Archdiocese of Monsignor Hagus. It is of special for classrooms and to use Hagus alumnus of the class of 1929, who Immediately afterwards. Father Denver. No greater memorial interest to recall the appointment hall, the sacristy and chapel of outlined the early struggles of the Henry Robinson was appointed as could be established to honor Mon­ of the then Father Hagus in 1934, the church, and the convent. Annunciation parish and school; new pastor of St. Anne’s. He rec- signor Robinson than the Annun­ and the fact that he was baptized Despite all these difficult con­ the Rev. Edward Leyden, archdioc­ ogmized the urgent need for a ciation church and school. by Monsignor Robinson and re­ ditions, the education of Catholic esan superintendent of schools; larger church and school. Under With the appointment of Father ceived his First Holy Communion boys and girls in this period con­ and the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Charles his direction a new building pro­ Callahan in 1915, his devotion to from Father' Callanan, both of tinued with no lessening in stand­ the education of youth was re­ whom preceded Father Hagus as ards of achievement or teaching REGISTER H. Hagus, pastor of the East Den^ gram was formulated. The old ver parish. church and school were sold. With flected in the continuous growth pastors of this great parish. caliber. the proceeds therefrom and dona­ and modernization of the parish * * * A year later the remodeled In the pre-dedication procession school for the following 19 years. VOL. XLVIl. HoAS. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1951 DENVER, COLORADO from the grad§ school to the new tions of parishioners the site GREAT DIFFICULTIES con­ (Turn to Page 3 — Colum n 1) formerly selected by Father Raber It was during his time that the building were the officers for the need for a high school became ur­ ceremonies, a Fourth Degree guard was purchased. Within a year a large three-story edifice, combining gent and in 1925 the ninth grade of honor, visiting clergy, and the _ _ was added.to the curriculum. Dur­ students of the parish schools. Tha ,church and School, was ready for ing the following three years the Just Kids’ band led the marchers. occupancy. It was then that Father * * * Robinson' obtained Bishop Matz’ 10th, 11th, and 12th grades were added to round out the educational IN HIS ADDRESS, Mr.'Schler permission to rename the parish in St. Vincent Parish Jubiiee Oct. 28 eth recounted the humble be. honor of his favorite devotion, the + + ■ + ginnings of Annunciation parish, Joyful Mystery of the Annuncia. and pointed to the important role tion. Thus in 1890 a pioneer Enters Convent the parish and- its schools have church in a pioneering community ' Education for God and Country Huge Building Plans played in the history of Denver. became the Church of the An­ His address follows: nunciation at 37th and Humboldt. One day last year all of you The ’90s were a decade of rapid present were attracted to an event growth, and with the parish con­ of some significance in the expand­ tinuing to enlarge, the school kept Celebrate 25th Year; ing development of this city, the pace to include eight grades with dynamiting of a prominent Den­ an enrollment necessitating more ver landmark, the old Grant smel­ classrooms. It became necessary to ter stack. It had been a prom­ increase the teaching staff. Dur New Church Rising inent landmark in 1883 when a ing this decade the Sisters of Char, frame church was erected at 38th ity of Leavenworth, Kans., as­ The cornerstone of the new St. Vincent de Paul’s church, and Nebraska, now Delgany street, sumed the teaching duties. The in the newly organized parish Sisters of Charity are still devot Denver, will be laid on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 28, at 4 know as St. Anne’s. ing their energies to the schooling o’clock by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr, the Rt. Rev. Eugene There the Revi Godfrey Raber of Catholic youth at this location, O’Sullivan, pastor, announces. Benediction in the present built the first parish school, a Theirs is the order to which all of church in the basement of the school will follow the blessing of the cornerstone. Prominent Speakers On th^ ^ame Sunday, St. Vincent’s -will mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the parish. A High Mass in observance of the silver jubilee ;--------------------------------------- will 1 1 offered by Monsignor parish property, purchased a resi­ 3 Mission Day Masses O’Sullivan. On Saturday evening, dence adjoining the building site, Oct. 27, St. Vincent’s Altar so­ which is now serving as a rectory, ciety will sponsor a parish jubilee and supervised the planning of the Jo Anne Bisant (above), dinner. new hall and church, now under youngest daughter of Mr. Scheduled on Oct. 12 Work if progressing nicely on construction. the new $575,000 church and The new plant ■will be a far and Mrs. J. D. Bisant, 501 Wads­ Preparatory to the Denver archdiocese’s celebration of parish hall. It is hoped to have cry from that of the first 14 years worth avenue, members of St. Ber­ the hail under roof before the of the parish, which was hard hit nadette’s parish, Lakewood, has Mission Sunday, Oct. 14, the seminary, high school, and col­ joined the Sisters of Mercy at ML lege members of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade will winter weather sets in. The in the depression years. During walls of the church are now up that time the church, school, and Loretto in Council Bluffs, la. Miss attend special Solemp Masses in three Denver churches at to four feet in height. priests’ living quarters were all Bisant, who is 18, was graduated 10 o’clock Friday, Oct. 12. The Mission Masses will be offered Parish Established housed in the one building, in- this year from St. Joseph’s high in the Cathedral and in Holy Ghost tended for use solely as a School, ischool, Denver. and Loyola churches. By Monsignor Walsh St. Joseph's Burse The sermon in the Mission Mass It was in March of 1926 that at the Cathedral will be delivered the late Bishop Henry J. Tihen ap­ by the Rev. Clifford King, S.V.D pointed the Rev. Francis W. Dedication of New School, Increased by $31 who has gained international fame Walsh (now Monsignor Walsh, for his activities in the promotion P.A., pastor of St. Gabriel’s, River- The St. Joseph burse for the of minion work. Credited as one of dale, N.. Y.) to establish the Parish education of Denver archdiocesan the o^anizers of the CSMC, Fa­ TWO SIGNS IN THE VESTIBULE of indivisible, •with liberty and justice fo.- all.’’ The of St. Vincent de Paul. The first Gym in Sterling Nov. 25 students for the priesthood, which ther King is now American secre­ the new Annunciation high school building, pledge at right reads: “I pledge allegiance to the Mass was offered in the combina­ Archbishop UTban J. Vehr has set Nov. 25 as the day was begun last week at the com­ tary to Cardinal Thomas Tien of tion church-school building on the 36th and Lafayette streets, Denver, which was ded­ Cross of Christ and to the faith for which it stands, for dedicating both the new grade school building and gym­ pletion of the Little Flower burse, China. The Rev.