this is sad news, wish someone had a photo of 1966 Student President Cooker making one of his Orations. btw, that '64 Team was to attend a Luncheon on Oct 25 to be Inducted into the CD Hall of Fame. I guess that down the Tubes!
Remember back when the subject of closing Roman Catholic HS would come up every few years? CD is "out-a-here!" cause their Alumni is no-where near as strong as the Cahillites...and what the heck is a Cahillite?
RCHS was founded and initially "FUNDED" by Thomas Cahill. "Cahill-ites" is taken from the founder's last name. Cahill's dream, as laid out in his will, was to have a "Free" catholic HS for boys. It was founded in 1890. This school year RCHS has 940 students and a waiting list for freshman and sophomores. You now must take an admission exam in order to be accepted. There is no truth to the rumor that you must be 6'5" and a great shooter to be accepted.
What Gay failed to state is the fact that the exam is given standing up. The desks are 72 inches off the ground and the test paper is affixed to the desk, ergo, you must be at least 6' 3" to READ the test which is a pictoral test.
Thus the average height of incoming freshmen is 6'3" !
I don't hate CD but I can honestly say I have no emotional ties to the place. My "connselor" was Fr. Nevins and the one and only time I met with him was the very last day of school as they lined the seniors up outside his office to have our "counselling" session. The session lasted about 1 minute and amounted to the question, "Army or college next year?"
An example of too many kids, too few staff, men who were drafted from the sem to teach, and a generation of parents who didn't question what was going on.
It filled a pressing need at the time to educate baby boomers in a cost efficient manner and nobody thought about building "tradition". Time to move on.
How about if we have a major sporting event without Referees, Umpires, Judges or Stewards? I Love that a 65 to one shot did ...
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this is sad news, wish someone had a photo of 1966 Student President Cooker making one of his Orations. btw, that '64 Team was to attend a Luncheon on Oct 25 to be Inducted into the CD Hall of Fame. I guess that down the Tubes!
My, how time has changed things..very sad in some respects, not totally unexpected though.
Guess my alumni check bounced. Think they'll let me take my Joe Pa type statue when they shut the doors?
Remember back when the subject of closing Roman Catholic HS would come up every few years? CD is "out-a-here!" cause their Alumni is no-where near as strong as the Cahillites...and what the heck is a Cahillite?
RCHS was founded and initially "FUNDED" by Thomas Cahill. "Cahill-ites" is taken from the founder's last name. Cahill's dream, as laid out in his will, was to have a "Free" catholic HS for boys. It was founded in 1890. This school year RCHS has 940 students and a waiting list for freshman and sophomores. You now must take an admission exam in order to be accepted. There is no truth to the rumor that you must be 6'5" and a great shooter to be accepted.
What Gay failed to state is the fact that the exam is given standing up. The desks are 72 inches off the ground and the test paper is affixed to the desk, ergo, you must be at least 6' 3" to READ the test which is a pictoral test.
Thus the average height of incoming freshmen is 6'3" !
I don't hate CD but I can honestly say I have no emotional ties to the place. My "connselor" was Fr. Nevins and the one and only time I met with him was the very last day of school as they lined the seniors up outside his office to have our "counselling" session. The session lasted about 1 minute and amounted to the question, "Army or college next year?"
An example of too many kids, too few staff, men who were drafted from the sem to teach, and a generation of parents who didn't question what was going on.
It filled a pressing need at the time to educate baby boomers in a cost efficient manner and nobody thought about building "tradition". Time to move on.
I wholly agree with Slim's sentiments...
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