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j Father Powers 25 Years a Priest $2,200,000 Building Plan in Cheyenne Diocese ■^ + + -f + -f Six New Churches, Expansion in Schools First of Six New Churches in Wyoming The dedication of a $175,000 addition to St. Anthony’s school, New schools are to be erected in the Laramie, Rawlins, and two Casper, Wyo., on Sept. 24 marked the'completion of the first unit in Rock Springs parishes. St. Mary’s elementary school in'Cheyenne will a $2,200,000 expansion program <n the Diocese of Cheyenne, which be replaced, and an addition will be constructed on the Sheridan school. will see one school structure replaced, substantial additions to two A new church was erected in Buffalo, and new parish churches are other schools, four new elementary school buildings, six new parish under construction in Thermopolis and Gillette, and contracts will be churches, one recreation hall, and two new rectories. The Diocese of let shortly for new churches a^ Riverton, Torrington, and Newcastle. Cheyenne is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Denver. A new rectory has just been completed at Casper, and another is under Under the direction of Bishop Patrick A. McGovern of Chey construction at P o i ^ . St. Joseph’s parish in Cbeyetine recently dedi enne, parishes had been gathering funds during the war years for the cated a new parish Hllli. expansion of parish facilities. To augn\ent these funds in view of 'The new schools being planned in four southera Wyoming com rising building costs, campaigns were held in each of the parishes munities will be completely modern, and will embrace die latest ad planning a building program, and more than a million dollars was vances in school construction. Contracts have been let in the past three subscribed in the past 18 months, for the needed improvements. These months for the buildings in Laramie, Rawlins, and in Our Lady of campaigns were under the sponsorship of Bishop McGovern and Sorrows parish in Rock Springs. Sts. Cyril and Methodius’ parish, Coadjutor Bishop Hubert M. Newell of Cheyenne. j also in Rock Springs, will remodel a building recently putdiased. The Rev. William V. Pow Architects expect' that, with ers will observe his silver Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation an expenditure of approximately jubilee as a priest at a Solemn u $50,000, a modern,'efficient eight- Mass of Thanksgiving on Tues Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1950— Permission to Reproduce, Except on room school will be available next day morning, Dec. 19, at 10 o’clock. Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. fall. Father Albin Gnidovec is .Archbishop Urban J. Vehr will pastor of. Sts. Cyril and MethO' preside in the Mass. Father Pow dius’ parish. ers has been pastor of St. James’ The Rev. John McDevitt, pastor since 1940. After his ordination of Laurence O’Toole’s parish, Lar by Bishop J. Henry Tihen, Father amie, has announced that the new Powers served as assistant at St. parish school in his community will Patrick’s parish in Pueblo and St. include six classrooms, a princi John’s, Denver. In 193.3 he was DENVERCATHaiC pal’s office, a music room, and a named pastor of St. Peter’s in combination auditorium-gymnas Gunnison. Further details on the ium, and is being built at a cost observance and biographical data of $175,000. A residence near the on Father Powers will be published school site has been purchased for ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST’S CHURCH, Dedicated by Coadjutor Bishop Hubert M. Newell later. a sisters’ home. The Rawlins Buffalo, Wyo., is the first of six new Nov. 8, the building is a glorious expression in rose- school is also a six classroom churches to be completed in an extensive building colored stone of English countryside architecture. structure, and will include a gym program being carried oh by the Diocese of Cheyenne, REG ISTER nasium-auditorium, a meeting Built at a cost of $125,000, it will seat 325 persons. under the direction of BishoR Patrick J. McGovern. John K. Monroe of Denver was the architect. Collection Set Price per copy, three cents room for parish organizations, a cafeteria, and will have a base ment, which can be converted later In SO Years of School VOL. XLVI. No. 15. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1950 DENVER, COLORADO into additional recreation facili For Catholic U. ties. Support of the Catholic Father John Meyer is the pas University of America in tor of St. Joseph’s church, Raw Contracts Let for All Saints' Church; lins, which is spending $225,000 Washington, D, C., is urged for the new school facilities. Our 1.110 Nurses Graduated by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr Lady of Sorrows parish. Rock in a letter to be read in the Springs, will have a school with churches of the archdiocese this Work to Begin Soon on $40,580 Project six classrooms, a ..principal’s of Sunday, Dec. 3. A collection for fice, and a combination health and the university, which Archbishop music room. The outlay for the Vehr points out is of tremendous new school, according to the Rev. By St. Joseph’s Hospital benefit, especially in the educa S. A. Welsh, pastor, will be $145,- tional work of the Church in 000. In its 50 years of history the St, Joseph hospital school of nursing has graduated America, will be taken up the fol $450,000 School 1.110 nurses, 1,050 lay persons, and 60 religious. Of this number, 75 have pass^ to their lowing Sunday, Dec. 10. The let The Cathedral parish in Chey eternal reward. ter follows; enne has let the contract for a These astounding figures were released in connection with the golden jubilee of the $450,000 school to replace the old academy building that has been Denver school, which will be observed at a Pontifical Low Mass to be offered by Arch used in recent years for elemen bishop Urban J. Vehr in the hoa ' IVorld war I, 46 nurses fropi SL Hoffman retired in 1939 because tary school classes. It is anticipated pital chapel Thursday, Dec. 14, at of ill health. that the new school will be ready 9 o’clock. An open house will be Joseph’s were in service; in World At present Miss Lucretia de for use next fall, and will offer held in the hospital and nurses’ war II, 123 were in service. ultra-modern facilities for 800 home in the afternoon, and a re Schmeinits and Miss Margaret La- Among these, several held high Prath Griffith, both of the class children. The school will include a ception in the nurses’ home at 7 :30 Nov. 27, 1950 p.m. will conclude the observance. positions. Miss Lillian Ryan, class of 1940, are in Korea just 50 miles (TumtoPageS — Column i ) of 1912, was chief army nurse, and Reverend Dear Father and In 1900 the St. Joseph school from'DiS fighting front, and Miss Miss M ^ Hoffman of class of 1915 Beloved People: of nursing was established with Margaret Dombeck, class of 1943, Once each year the Catholics of served four years as superintend has been recalled to the navy nurse Archbishop to Talk Sister Felicitas McCarthy as the ent of th* navy nurse corps. Miss our country are asked to contrib first superintendent of nurses. St. corps. ute to the support and extension Joseph’s hospital had been estab of the splendid work done bv the At Dec. 1 Meetings lished in Denver in 1873 by the Catholic University of Amenca, Sisters of Charity of Xavier, Kans. Archbishop Vehr W ill Give The Catholic university, in its Several speaking engagements In view of the nation-wide em graduate schools particularly, has are included in the appointment of phasis on a richer program of given thousands of priests, sisters Architect's Sketch of All Saints' Church, Denver Archbishop Urban J. Vehr of Den preparation for the graduate pro and laymen opportunity, under ver fbr the immediate future. They fessional nurse, the school of nurs not include the church furnish Diplomas to Seton Nurses Catholic auspices, of advanced ed Contracts have been let fo"^r and toilet facilities will also b* are as follows: ing was affiliated with the SL construction of a church in All ings.) Dec. 1, Friday, speaker at meet The Seton school of nursing of ucational and technical training, provided in the building. Mary college, and the basic pro Reed, deacon; and the Rev, John These graduates in turn have Saints’ parish, Denver, one block The one-story building, de The new southwest Denver ing of First Friday club, 12 noon. Glockner-Penrose hospital will Nelson, O.M.I., subdeacon. Music south of Harvard avenue on Mural room, Albany hotel. gram was extended to 39 months. served the Church as teachers and signed by John K. Monroe, arch parish, for which property was The first students in the new pro have commencement exercises will be under the direction of S. Federal boulevard, announces bought early in 1949, contains Dec. 1, Friday, speaker at meet Sunday, Dec. 3, in St Mary’s administrators in our seminaries; itect, will have a seating -capac gram were enrolled in September, C. Hammer. Archbishop Urban J.*Vehr. The 322 families comprising 1,265 ing of 'Tabernacle society in the church, Colorado Springs. In the universities, colleges, teacher ity of about 225 in the church 1948. Following the ceremony in the general and electrical contracts individuals, according to the home of Mrs. Ella Mullen Weck- ceremonies, which will be^n at 4 training institutions, and hospitals.

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