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/ St. Augustine's, Brighton, Will Build School Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Laying of Cornerstone Is Planned for Sept. 18 Contents Copyright by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1955— Permission to Reproduce, Except on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M, Friday Following Issue On 25th Anniversary Date of Parish Church Construction will begin* in the proof building will be located on will cost $108,723. The O'Fla feet, the auditorium 39x59. The toilet rooms, which will be tcr» near future on a four-classroom the northwest corner of the par herty Construction Company was building is SQ placed that a gym- razzo. ■ * DENVER CATHOUC school and auditorium for St. auditorium addition can be placed ish property, bounded on the east low bidder on the general and 881 Enrolled Augustine’s Parish, Brighton, ac by South Seventh Avenue and on electrical contract, with a base bid at a later date to the west, run In Classes cording to the Rev. Roy Figlino, the south by Egbert Street. of $88,600. Slattery & Co. was low ning parallel to Egbett Street. The parish has maintained a pastor. It is hoped that the cor Cost Estimated on the mechanical work with a Clossrooms catechetical center in the church nerstone laying can take place on bid 6f $20,123. To Be Added basement for the past several Sept. 18, the 25th’ jubilee of the At $108,723 For the immediate future, the years. ' In the period between REGISTER ohurch. Archbishop Urban J. "rhe school, planned by Johh school building wiH be used as a classrooms can readily be added September, 1954, and July, 1955, Vehr will be present for the rites, Connell, Denver architect, in con catechetical center. to the north end of the planned there were 881 enrolled in reli "rhe one-story, brick-faced fire- servative contemporary design, The classrooms will be 2 4 x 3 9 school, and the auditorium can VOL. L. No. 50 THURSDAY, JU LY 28, 1955 DENVER, COLORADO gion classes— 762 in the grade + + + + .+ + . be converted into classrooms. The school; 93, freshman and sopho school will also have boys’ and more; 26, preschool. girls’ lavatories, a teachers’ rest Four' Lady of Victory Sisters Opening Is Delayed room, an office, three storage teach 30 religion classes per week. rooms, and a boiler room. Eighty-three special classes were The corridor walls will be face conducted, in addition. brick. The walls of all rooms ex Activities of the center were For Aurora School cept the toilets will be pumice Knights of the Altar, a Catholic block; the walls of the toilets will Boys’ Club, Sodality, Legion of St. Therese’s School, Aurora, which had been sched be glazed tile. Mary, choirs, and parent-educator uled to open for the second semester of the 1955-56 school The ceilings of all rooms will meetings for mothers. yeat", will not open until September, 1956, the Rev. John The sisters prepared 115 first Regan, pastor, announced at Massps on July 24. be plastered, and overlaid with communicants, and made 1,141 He said the “ intangible area of the construction acoustical tile in corridors, class rooms, and auditorium. All floors visits to homes. They also con schedule” makes it impossible to Wins Scholarship be certain that the school and will be covered with asphalt tile, ducted vacation school classes for convent buildings would be com except that in the boiler room, children from Brighton and sur To Catholic Univ. pleted in time for the target whicn will be cement, and the rounding communities, date,.and that “you cannot hold up sisters indefinitely” with an + + r "T estimate of the completion date. Father Regan had some good news along with the bad: There Brighton Parish Was Center will be four, instead of the origi nally scheduled three. Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth to con duct classes when the school does For Vast Mission Regidn open. Starting with the first four grades, the school will add at Members of St, Augus religious instruction to the par least one grade annually until tine’s Parish, Brighton, 'who ish children, and the new school the full eight grades are in ses will be a monument to the same- The architect’s sketch of the new planned for the future. Additional classrooms can be added in the plan to lay the cornerstone sion. Brighton Parish School future to the right of the building above, which faces the east. The interest in education. school for St. Augustine’s Parish, for a school on the 25th Initial Enrollment Brighton, is shown above. The building at right will be erected now, entrance is to the south, Estimated at 300 and the building indicated at left, a gymnasium-auditorium, is jubilee of their church, saw The initial enrollment will be the present St. Augustine’s con about 300, structed in the depression year Mass on July 31 Besides the four nuns, he said, Parishioners Reminisce About Early Days of 1930. Father E. J. Ver- there will be two lay teachers shraeghen was the pastor then. on the staff. The four grades The start on the school comes will be divided into si.x class in the 68th year of the parish, lo Be Said for rooms. Pioneer Bishop Built 1st Golden Church which was founded in 1887 by Prospective pupils were reg the Rev. William J. Hewlett, istered last rpring, but there will By Mrs. IVm. H. 'Wagenbach church built outside of Denver Mrs. Susan Spieles arrived in new brick church which is still well-kno-wn biographer of Bishop Msgr. B o s e t t i be another registration in May, (Member of St. Joseph’s Parish, by Bishop Joseph P. Machebeuf, the parish several years after used today. Mrs. Louisa Joseph P. Machebeuf and his 1956, to verify the continued Golden) in 1867. Mr. O’Donnell, and she has long (Thuett) Hokanson was in that torian of the early Church in A Requiem High Mass for the residence of those who reg Fifty or sixty- years in the life Mrs. Elliott is undoubtedly the been associated with parish life first class which was taught by Colorado. Father Hewlett be late Rt; Rev. Monsignor Joseph A three-y e a r Basselin istered before and to take into of a parish does not always oldest church worker in the par and enterprises. Her grandson, Father Bernard, a Franciscan came the first resident priest for J. Bosetti, Chancellor and 'Vicar Foundation Scholarship to consideration newcomers to the represent a long time, but in the ish, for she recalls scrubbing the Billy Spieles, was one of the from St. Elizabeth’s. St. Joseph’s the whole northeast district. Be Genera! of the Arc'idiocese of the Catholic University of Amer parish. lives of its members it repre rough wooden floor and kneelers four boys' from the parish who church did not have a resident fore then, visits of priests wore Denver and beloved friend of ica in Washington, D.C., has been Work began June 1 on the sents a period alive with many many times when she was a died in World War II. priest until 1913, but the Fran restricted to sick calls to the countless boys, seminarians, and awarded to Richard Ling $300,552 project, part of which, vivid memories of the changing young girl. She was married in It was a great day a t’ St. Jo ciscans came out each week end ranchers and herdsmen of the priests, will be offered in St. it was originally hoped, could be (above), who completed his sec times. Probably no generation the present church, and was seph’s on June 30, 1901, for on to care for the mission church. plains. Catherine’s Chapel at Camp St. ond year At St. Thomas’ Semi completed in time for classes to has witnessed greater changes in widowed at the age of 39 with that day the initial First Com Although the present rectory Malo, near Estes Park, July 31. nary, Denver, in June. be held next September. Then the world about them than those five young children to support. munion services were held in the (Turn to P a g es — Column S) 10 Families Built The Very Rev. Monsignor Ling, who attended Cathedral the completion date was set for early pioneers of the Catholic Through hard work she reared First Church Walter J. Canavan, pastor of the the end of January, 1956. High School and St. John’s Church in Colorado, and the early her little brood close to God and Cathedral Convert Class Father Hewlett, with the aid Cathedral, will offer the Mass at Grade School, will leave in Sep E.xcavation has been done for members of St. Joseph’s Church, provided each with a fine educa 10 o’clock. Part of the Cathedral both the school and the con of but 10 Catholic families, built tember to begin work on his Golden, are no exception; they tion So today h?r four living St. Augustine’s first church in choir, which Monsignor Bosetti vent, but concrete forms have recall many interesting facts of bachelor’s and master’s deg^rees children are all outstanding the founding year of the ilarish. founded and led for many years, been laid for only part of the the past years. Many and Varied Paths in philosophy. At the end of that Catholic professional people. In 1888, Father Hewlett divided will sing. school. One of St. Joseph’s earliest time, he will return to St. Thom^ Mrs. Elliott retired last year his missions with Father James Allan Hobbs will be organist.

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