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Campaign Opilections Are Past $1,000,000 Mark The $1,000,000 mark in contributions and payments on pledges to the Archbishop’s Seminary and Missions Campaign was passed Nov. 9. The Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations drive is midway through the sixth month of the 24-month payment period. Contents Copyright by the Catholic Press Society, Ino., 1953— Permission to Reproduce, Except on Campaign officials stress, however, that the Articles Otherwise Marked, Given A fter 12 M. Friday Following Issue final goal can be reached only through the con their pledge payments are urged to make up past- due payments as quickly as possible before they tinued and united effort of all. There can be no turn into a great financial burden. let down. The campaign officials are continuing the The $1,000,000 includes the contributions of policy of making the regular payments of pledges those who made their donations in one lump sum as convenient and as easy as possible. Priests bENVEk CATHOLIC •as well as those who are meeting their pledges and seminarians work throughout the week at in weekly and monthly payments over the desig the campaign collection offices counting an,d re nated two-year time diat the drive is to remain cording the payments. x' in operation. The loyal and united sacrificial effort of all The final success of the campaign depends the Catholics in the Denver Archdiocese mCist upon the consistent payment of the relatively be continued to guarantee the final and'complete i r e g is t e r small weekly and monthly amounts pledged. success of the Archbishop’s Campaign to p ro All persons who have become delinquent in vide for the vast needs or the archdiocese. V O L XLIX. No. 13. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1953 DENVER, COLORADO + + Father Mershoh Needs Athletic Equipment for His Flock in Philippines ~ Seminary Refectory Christmas Gifts for Denver Missionary A MISSIONARY in the pong equipment,’’,plus check lies for every priest, are des be satisfactory because o f the Addition Is Planned; Philippines, in need o f athletic ers and chess sets, as his great perately in need of such things deteriorating effects of the equipment for the youth of est needs. as athletic equipment to arouse climate (the temperature his mission, has appealed to the interest of parishioners in never goes below 93 and often his friends in Denver for the Church. HIS MOTHER SAID she will hits 120) a n d insect life assistance. She added that probably Trees to Be Moved be glad to wrap and mail any (white ants once ate her son’s The Rev. Richard Mershon, only high quality items would such items because the postage Breviary). Construction will begin next and w ill increase its length by M.M., is selling his owti motor is a “ big item.” Mrs. Mershon month on a 37-foot addition to one-half. cycle for 1,500 pesos (about said' also that she would ar the dining hall at St, Thomas' The south wall of the present $750) to build up ah athletic range to pick up the equipment Seminary, Denver, as a step in the refectory will be allowed to re fund, but still needs outside if donors call her at GL. 1709. help, according to his mother, Her son’s address, to which St. Philomena’s huge expansion program made main intact until the annex is Mrs. D. S. Mershon, 4205 Irv possible at the seminary by the completed. Then the wall will be ing Street. success of the Archbishop’s Fund knocked out and the interior re Father Mershon listed “ bas Campaign. finished. New lights, concealed in ketballs, softballs, any old ball The announcement was made by the ceiling, also will be installed. gloves . and some Ping- Parish Convent im. Film Star Ann Blyth, exemplary Holly- Construction at the seminary C o m i n g t o D e n v e r CathoUc who win appear in the the Very Rev, William J. Ken- Loretto Heights Star Nights, will be accompanied to Denver by her neally, C.M., rector, who pointed will necessitate the removal of aunt, Mrs. Patrick Tobin. out that the new annex will en 60 trees. These w ill be trans Seminary Burse Students at the college are anticipating the big moment Wednes able the refectory to seat com planted in line with a landscap day evening, Nov. 18, when Miss Blyth will climax the opening Addition Begun ing project planned between the night of Blossom Time by crowning the Star Nights Queen, to be fortably 225 students. The din 'aelected from four candidates representing each of the four ing hall now seats about 210, and refectory and the ne^w assembly Pushes Toward Work has been started on an addition to the con-vent classes. Ann will appear between acts both Wednesday and Thurs this number is only by crowding. building*dedicated by Archbishop of St. Philomena’s Parish, Denver, according to the Rt. day evenings. Urban J. Vehr last month. John K. Monroe, Denver archi Rev. Monsignor William M. Higgins, pastor. Jean Peck, Sharon FitzPatrick, Joan Prohosky, Charlotte One phase of the plans envis tect, is drawing plans for the ad Its Completion The project, which will cost about $65,000, will pro Scavarda, and Mary Ann Cavanagh, all silSging leading roles in ions the removal of the bell the production, will be jo^ed by Fred Nesbit, Dick Over, Walter dition, which ,will be built onto vide badly needed accommodations for the Sisters of Lo tower to a central point in the The sum of $5,176.25 is the Sawicki, Anthony Samarzia, David Langfield, and John L. Larson the south end of the present re present total of the Guardian retto who teach in the parish landscaped area. A new grotto school. The faculty has had to be this year, with nine Sisters of in the male leads. fectory and form an extension. Angels’ Burse, a special fund set Loretto and two lay teachers on Tickets for the four evening performances at Phipps Audi also will be built in this spot. up by the Archdiocese of Denver augmented in recent years after 'The addition will have the same the completion o f the addition the faculty. Sister Mary Godfrey torium Nov. 18-21 are on sale at Loretto Heights College and at 'The new building will not to assist seminarians in their is principal. width as the present dining room, to St. Philomena’s School in 1950 the May Company box office. interfere with the location either studies for the priesthood. The four.donations sent to the burse and the consequent increase in of the present grotto or with the in the past week amounted to $45 enrollment. grave of Father Julian Layton, Donors to the burse are J.O., The new addition is to the Beginnings of West Side Parishes south of the presefit convent on Holy Name Men 3 C.M., revered former professor at City, $5; Mrs. F. Wedlick, Den Detroit Street facing the church. the seminary. ver, in thanksgiving, $10; anony Rev. Richard Mershon, M.M. mous, Denver, $25; and the Sa The exterior will be of brick, To Begin in Spring cred Heart League of St. Francis the articles can be sent di and the entire building will be Told in Paper for Historical Society finished to harmonize the old and Meeting Nov, 16 On Main Building de Sales’ Parish, Denver, for the rectly by those who want to parish hurse, $5. do so, is the Catholic Rectory, new portions. gift o f Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Os- Mrs. Bertha Snapp, a meitiber in German, and the English- It will be the spring of 1954 Pakil, Laguna, Philippines. The first floor will contain a o f St. Joseph’s Redemptorist speaking people of the neighbor ner, and wa.s christened St. Mary High school halls hum these before construction begins on the days with the discussion of plans Father Mershon, a 1939 chapel, 20 by 37 feet in size, To Expand Work Parish, .Denver, presented the hood started to campaign for St. Joseph Wilhelmina. The third million-dollar residence building f o r homecoming celebrations graduate of Cathedral High which will seat 20 and is large history of the three oldest Leo’s Church, which was built was donated by Mrs. Weitbrec of enough to accommodate Aore. The principal purposes of I churches of West Denver at the a few blocks away. Denver and Mrs. Averbeck' of and library at St. 'Thomas’ Sem when former students return to School, attended St. Thomas’ A sacristy will adjoin the chapel. the Archdiocesan Holy meeting of the West Denver Au- In 1890 Father Koch built St. Pittsburgh, Pa., and was chris the place o f their spiritual and Seminary until 1945, when he inary. To be built to the south of A new reception room will be Name Union meeting Mon raria Historical Society on Nov. Elizabeth’s School and in 1891, tened St. Elizabeth Helen. mental formation.- Doubtless the entered the Maryknoll Major the present dormitory, the new res alumni know now why so much Seminary, Ossining, N.Y. Or provided, and the present dining day, Nov. 16, in St. Vincent 11 at the Byers Branch Library. the monastery. Franciscan Sis No doubt many will remember idence building w ill extend east care was taken in their high dained two years later, he was room will be enlarged. ters carte to teach in the q?hool. the great tragedy that happened de Paul’s Parish hall will Sf.