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St. Dominic's New Parish School Relief Drived Mullen Home for Boys Adds New Buildings Nets 15 Tons More than 30,000 pounds, IS tons, of clothing and 1,S00 pairs of usable shoes were coilerted in the clothing drive held Sunday, Jan. 15, in the parishes of the Archdiocese of Denver. This was' a record for the archdiocese. The collection, which was held in conjunction with a nation wide drive for clothing and soap sponsored by the NCWC War Relief Services, was made iit Denver under the direction of ’ the Very Rev. Monsignor Elmer J. Kolka. In the report tendered by Monsignor Kolka, the Denver parishes were listed as contribu ting a total of 20,375 pounds and the outlying parishes of the arch THE TWO CLASSROOM BUILDINGS shown above a study hall, library, and typing room on the second floor. The second diocese as having donated a total of 9,792 pounds. are nearing completion at the Mullen Home for Boys near building will house a drafting room, physics laboratory, rchemiatry CONTRACTS WILL BE SIGNED the is hoped to have the building ready for occupancy The material gathered was Fort Logan and will permit the doubling of the student body under laboratory, and storage room on the second floor, and a large by September, 1950. There will also be space for baled and shipped by the a new program ^ a t is to go into effect in September of 1950. The machine shop, faculty lounge, rest room, and storage room on - the • week of Feb. 12 for the new grade school expansion of facilities will enable the Christian Brothers who conduct of St. Dominic’s parish, Denver, and work is ex kindergarten and primary classes, offices, and a local office of the St. Vincent first floor. ! the school to enroll some 50 day students, and thus will'provide easily pected to begin soon thereafter. An architect’s nurse’s room. John K, Monroe is the architect. de Paul society to an Eastern The new buildings will enable the school to provide manual sketch of the building is shown above. The need of a new school has long been felt in seaport, from where it will be accessible #iigh school facilities for Catholic boys at Fort Logan, training courses in machine shop and woodwork. Heretofore the pnly Englewood, and Littleton. There will be 12 classrooms in the building, the parish because of the rising enrollment. This forwarded to needy persons in trade experience available to the boys has been in the large d^iry which will be erected adjacent to the church at Fed year there are almost 400 pupils in the school. The the war-stricken countries, One of the two new buildings, both of frame construction, will and farm, on which they all do the work. The home has some il80 (Complete Reports on Page 10) contain four classrooms and a principal's office on the first floor and acres of land.— (Register photo by Smyth) 5 eral boulevard between 29th and 30th avenues. It Very Rev. Peter O’Brien, O.P., is pastor. — ■ "" . ------ ■■ ■ ■ ■ - g . ■ Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1950— Permission to Reproduce, Exception In Brighton and Welby Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. j 2 Parishes DENVER CATHaiC To Build Gymnasiums R E G IS T E R I Price per copy, three cents Plans are being made for the erection of gymnasiums by St. Augustine’s parish, Brighton, and Assumption par VOL. XLV. No. 25. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1950 DENVER, COLORADO K. o f C . Select ish, Welby, it was announced this week. The new buildings, which will be combination gymnasiums and auditoriums, will be used for parish, social, and youth Msgr. Swanstrom Presiding Oratory Contest activities in both parishes. Officers Named The Rev. Roy Figlino, pastor of the Brighton parish, says that construction will begin as soon as possible on the new build ing, and that it will probably be completed this summer. John K. For Dedication Topic for 1951) Monroe is architect for the project and will begin drawing plans Relief Directors Tjje topic for the annual next week. Knights of Columbus orator To be of ifermanent conitruction, the Brightoa building At Presentation ical contest, sponsored by the will be the first unit of a proposed school building program, ac- , cording to Father Figlino. Some 600 children in the parish The combination church- Denver council 539 for stu receive religious instruction from the Missionary Sisters of Our school building of Presenta lnDenverFeb.14 dents of Denver’s Catholic Lady of Victory, who maintain a convent in the parish. The tion parish, at W. 7th avenue The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Edward E. Swanstrom, execu schools, is “ Outstanding Catholic classes are held in the church basement, which can be divided by and Julian street, Denver, will tive director of the NCWC War Relief Services and chair Contribution ta American Achieve movable partitions into classrooms. man of the National Catholic Resettlement Council, will Ar ment.’’ The finals of the contest be blessed by Archbishop Ur will be held March 20 in the K. To Cost More Than $50,000 ban J. Vehr Thursday, Feb. 16. rive in Denver Saturday, Feb. 11, for a regional meeting of of C. hall, 16th and Grant streets, THE $40,000 ST. ANTHONY CHURCH in Hugo is The dedication ceremony, which the diocesan directors of the Bishops’ War Relief drive. The The gymnasium in St. Augustine’s parish will probably cost will begin at 10 o’clock, will be at 8 p-m. between $50,000 and $60,000. It will be erected next to the rectory. shown above. It will be blessed by Archbishop Urban J conference will be held at the followed by a Solemn Mass of a graduate of the New York School Contestants, who will be selected Besides the main auditorium, which will be used for parish and Vehr on Monday, Feb. 20, at 11:30. A frame structure,-it has a Brown Palace hotel on Tuesday, seating capacity of 254. It is of conventional design with red cedar fered by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor of Social Work. He received the by intraschool competition, will youth activities, the building will also 'provide extra meeting Gregory Smith, pastor of St. Fran Feb. 14. vie for a first-place trophy, with rooms for smaller groups. siding and has a partial basement. Other national leaders at the degree of doctor of philosophy at The Rev. Francis Pettit is the pastor of St. Anthony’s, which has cis de Sales’ parish. Fordham university in 1938. two cups to be given to runnerups. The officers for the Mass, as meeting will include Thomas Co- Work was completed last fall on the enlargement and re about 50 families. Construction on the edifice was begun in August, The school of the top orator will modeling of the parish convent. More than $7,000 was expended announced by the Rev. Matthias hane, publicity director for NCWC After engaging in pariali receive a wall plaque, and second 1949, and the cornerstone was laid in early December. J. Blenkush, administrator of the War Relief Services, and Edward work in Brooklyn, be was ap to add a community room, three bedrooms, and a reception room, , The plana for the building were drawn by John K. Monroe. and third-place schools will be and the building was completely redecorated. The chapel was re parish, are Father Barry Wogan, Kinney of the New York central pointed associate director of given framed certificates. finished, new flooring was laid, and a new backdrop and canopy who will deliver the sermon; Fa office of NCWC War'Relief Ser the children’s division, Brook The student speakers will be were provided for the altar. ther John Doherty, and Father Jo vices, Invitations to the conference lyn Catholic Charities, in 193$. rated by five judges outstanding in seph Leberer. were sent out from New York to He also served as director bf Brighton was once the Catholic center of the entire northeast the art of rhetoric, one of whom Proi of Cowboy History Assisting the Archbishop in the diocesan directors in several of the the Catholic Guardian society will be a member of the clergy. part of Colorado. The first resident priest in the area, the Rev, dedication and at the Mass will be of the Brooklyn diocese, secre William J. Hewlett, made Brighton his headquarters after he ar states adjacent to Colorado. The contestants will be allowed a Monsiraors Bernard Cullen, Jo The first pers^ to establish mor tary of the diocesan commission period of six to seven minbtes for rived in 1887. The parish has shown steady growth through the seph O’Heron, and Achilla Som- of Catholic Charities, and chair years and boasts a beautiful church. To Hit Trail to Australia ale and welfare activities for dis oratory, with a two to three-min roaruga. placed persens under the auspices man of the Priests’ Social Ac ute period at the conclusion for ex Welby Plans are Tentative Dr. Cliffort P. Westermeier, acting head of the depart Membart of Presentation par of private agencies in post-war tion committee of the diocese. ^ temporaneous discussion. ment of history, Loretto Heights college, Denver, has been ish will be hosts Sunday, Feb. Germany, Monsignor Swanstrom 3Ionsignor Swanstrom haa lec Members of the committee work Plant are ttill in the tentative stage for the gymnatiuni In 19, at an open house at the new invited by Reg. M. Williams, secretary general of the Aus succeed^ Archbishop Patrick A.