\ Another Milestone for Lorettines By Lujo Bruer Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations ^ (As TOLD TO B il l W a r n e r ) (Ground Is Broken Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1962 — Permission to Reproduce, Except on 1 FIRST BROUGHT UP the '' Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. ^ rid ay Following Issue subject of escape with my Jfriend and fellow classmate, Dragan. He was ndt what one Fdr New $388,400 vyould call a lion of courage, •but, like myself, he had had ■’enough of Tito, the Commu­ nists, and all that they stand DENVER CATHaiC for. Dragan had been over­ Academy Structure trained by the Communists; he was afraid to make any move The Sisters of Loretto in Colorado marked .another on his own initiative— to the ‘milestone in their history with the breaking of ground May point where he was becoming a iervops wreck. What Dragan 13 for - a $388,400 building at St. Mary’s academy, 4545 S. facked 'in courage, however, he University boulevard, Englewood. The new structure, which ^ made up for with sincerity, des­ will follow Georgian Colonial style to conform with the peration, and confidence’in my present academy building, will house 10 classrooms, labora­ leadership. - f .. As for myself, I was^com-. tories, art and typing rooms, an auditorium-gymnasium, voL. X LV Il. No. 39. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1952 DENVER, COLO. and administrative offices pletely. disgusted and fed up + + , " with the Reds. Twice I had been Plans for the addition to the imprisoned. The first time, I academy facilities have been /w a s chargpd with trying to es­ studied since the academy moved Advisers at Vyork' cape and WaS sentenced to five to its 10-acre Englgwood site from ^^cavation Is Begun months in * prison. lActually, I the old school at 14th avenue and was sentenced for having at­ Pennsylvania street, Denver. The tended Midnight Mass on New move was made in the summer of \ Year’s eve while visiting my 1951, and was the fourth change of parents in Dubrovnik. Only scepe for the academy since its Foriichool Annex at shortly before that, I had been founding by the Loretto nuns in •, observed going to Mass in a 1864. The academy was the first small church outside of Zagreb, high school of its kind in Colorado. whiere I was attending the uni­ Suparior General St. Mdfy Magdalene's versity. On that occasion, I had Present for Ceremony been picked up by the UDBA, Excavation work has begun preliminary to the start of Present for the ground breaking the secret police, and lectured construction of two neiv classrooms and a Jjasement cafe­ for three hours for not setting ceremony were Mother M. Ed- better exumple for other Yugo­ warda, Superior General of the teria at St.^Mary Magdalene’s school, Denver. The brick slav youths. I was nationally Sisters of Loretto; Mother M. and concrete addition will make possible a seventh grade in known as a skier and water Rebecca and Mother Kathleen, the school, which is staffed by two Franciscan sisters and’ poloist. members of the Lorettines’ general * * • council; , Sister M. Prancetta, three lay teaicheTs. Another riun has been promised the I WAS“ RELEASED'at the superior of Loretto Heights col­ school, according to the Very ReV. Monsignor James P. Flan­ end of three months, however, lege; and all the members of the agan, pastor, find an. eighth grade is contemplated. to play water polo with the present Loretto community at the There are 170 attending the national team in ' a match> in academy, headed by Sister Georg- first six grades now. With-J;he 80 Czecho-Slovakia against the'na- LUJO (GINO) BRUER, now a corporal in the air force etta, principal and superior. pupils the new classrooms can ac­ [ngagements of , tional team of that country, after, escaping from Yugoslavia less than two years ago, Monsignor Higgins commodate; the school enroUment After winning the match and Patrolman Mike Horvat, a member of Sacred Reart parish, Is Speaker cah be brought to approximately 250. The annex is expected to Archbishop Vehr' •• “ K "> '>■' ' " ' I - ™ » ' The Rt. Rev. Monsignor William find that*they speak the same language. When the picture was taken, be finished In time for the fall M. Higgins, pastor of St. Philo- I was not permitted to go. The the obliging patrolman was explaining in Serbian that his mother is opening. - * Thuriday, M a y 15, St,' \ » ^reason they gave was that I was mena’s parish, spoke at the cere­ The $63,000 addition brings from Split, Yugoslavia, a coastal city just north of Gino’s native PARTICIPATING IN the breaking of ground May Thomas’ leminary, Cura Anima- i J being replaced by a better mony, and participated in {he the church plant investment to DubrovnilC Before they parted, Gino thanked Patrolman Horvat rum ex a m in a tion , 10 a.m. player. K «’as the fifth-ranking breaking of the earth. Also present 13 for the new St. Mary’s academy building are members a^ yiroxim ately $228,000. The for his courtesy and told him that the only consideration he ever re­ Goldert, Confirmation, 7:30 player in\he country. I went were the Rt. Rev. Monsignors of the school’s advisory board. From left to right are Heripan Seep, church-school building is located ceived from the police back in Dubrovnik was that they did not dr»p p .m . / * tor the secret police and told John P. Moran, Eugene O’Sullivan, Arthur Maroney, William Ahern, wielding shovel; and Emmett Dig- in the center of a rapidly growing him on his. head whenever they threw him in jail.—^(Register staff them that, so long as my coun- and Joseph P. O’Heron; the Very residential district. The building Friday, May 16, Queen of "^.ry did not trust me^to leave photo)_____________________________ ]_______ _________________________ _ Rev. William J. Kenneally, C.M., is on an’ eminence overlooking Heaven orphanage. Confirma­ tion, 4 p.m. the country, I no longehywanted rector of St. Thomas’ seminary; Archbishop to Speak at Luncheon * ' Sloan’s lake and much of the city to play bn the national team. I Also 4 for Archdiocese Am6ng Ordinand.s the Rev. Edward Leyden, arch­ of Denver. Sunday, May 18, Walsenburg .was hauled into court and diocesan superintendent of schools; The classrooms o f the school annual convention o f the banned for life from playing the Rev. John Regkn, and the Rev. are on two sides .of the hall, to the Knights of Columbus. the game in any form. Frederick McCallin. Deputy Defense Director east and to the north. Each o f the Tuesday, May 20, Annual Some time after the ban, the Last Group of Viatorians Members of the academy ad­ classrooms has its own entrance meeting of the Archdiocesan people of Dubrovnik threw the visory board present with their from outdoors. Classes were Council of Catholic Women. judge into the pool at a match wives were Messrs, and Mmes. Will Address ACCW'Rally opened for the first time in Sep­ Wednesday, May 21, Long- for hot letting- me play. The Ends St. Thomas' Studies William Ahern, E. Duffy, Emmett tember, 1950. ’ Archbishop Vehr mJnt, Confirmation, 7:30 p.m. « home team was losing and they Dignan, Arthur Maroney, Herman Col. Hadley Quaintsnce, deputy ling member.ships’ in the ACCW con- dedicated the combination .church- Thursday, May 22,| Holy Ro- ^ wanted me- to help uphold the An association that began more Edward Shanahan, and John Seep, and Albert Seep. The archi- director of the state civil defense tinues, announced Mrs. Leonard school, situated at W. 29th avenue sary. Confirmation, 7:30 p.m. McHugh,^ Archdiocese of Santa town^ reputation. A riot en­ than a dozen years ago comes to ect, Edwin A. Francis, was pres­ program, will be one of the prin-l Swigert, president, who wrote to and Zenobia street, in February, Friday, May 23, St. Francis Fe; Alan Kennedy, Portland sued,"'and’I was blamed for it. a close this month with the ent with his wife. Guy Elder, the cipal speakers at the 26th annual all sustaining members that it is 1951. < . de Sales’, Confirmation, 7:30 archdiocese; Martin Matulik, This time I was put in.jail for ordination of four clerics of St. contractor, also attended._ Archdiocesan Council of Catholic The cafeteria in the new addi­ p.m. Youngstown diocese; Matthew their help that makes possible the three weeks. The UDBA knew ■Viator who are finishing their The academy Mothers’ cWh was Women convention May 20. Colonel ACCW’s work. Membership is $5 tion will be equipped with modern Sunday, May 25, Loretto Lehn, Belleville diocese', and that L,h^.^^^Ml®rted the riot, theology course at St. Thomas’ represented by Mrs. H. B.*Maltby Quaintance will speak on “ The furnishings, and .*will fill a long- Heights, graduktion, 3 p.m. Ronald Dunfrey and Francis per year, and all Catholic women but^-tn^had menut in jail as seminary, Denver. They are the and Mrs. Frank Muto; Miss Mary felt need at the school. It will pro­ Monday, May 26, Boulder, Cowgill, Diocese of Juneau. .....1'liitMi.iiiiHiimiiiinmiiiiimiiiiimiimNimiitiiRimuiiiimiiMiiiiiiimNiiiiTlfimhi in the archdiocese are eligible. a soflwing-up melfiure. Because last Viatorians to be enrolled at Ellen Logan represented the vide a nucleus around which a Mt. St. Gertrude, graduation, 4 Please make luncheon reserva- ^ Cheeks should be made payable to I was well known, they had the Denver seminary now that the Rev. Hugh W. Robbins, C.S.V. alumnae; and the high ^"school complete grade school plant can p.m.