Calling All Volunteers

Both of the All Class Reunions were smashing successes! Everyone had a great time and it was so great to see so many friends again. It would be a good idea to get new people involved in planning the next one. Most of the work is in the year that the reunion will be held. The present committee feels it shouldn't be every FIVE years - so the next one will probably be in four or six years.

If your class will be having a reunion - why not make it the ALL CLASS REUNION? Or if your class isn't having a reunion one of those years - and you have that St. Mary Cathedral High School Class Spirit and you feel the urge to volunteer. Or if you just had a great time and want to help out with the next one......

Call or email Jim Shea today!

jiml82@aol.com

America the Beautiful

I received an email from Marc Melvin - class of 1973 - he sent a picture of a clipping from the school newspaper in either 1969 or 1970 when Jim Schaeffer and he were freshmen. It was a project we did for Mr. Kraemer's Civics class.

Girls Choir - 1948

In 1948 the inside and back cover of the labarum had this picture taken on the steps of St. Mary Cathedral. I assume it is the girls choir.

NEW PICTURE ALERT

As alumni send pictures of the 2008 All Class Reunion I will post them at the top of the blog - also - I'll change the background.

2008 All Class Reunion

Take Me Back to the 50's

Click on the link below to go back to the 50's!


Take me back to the 50's

Back to the 60's

Click on the link below to see a great slide show about the 60's!

Take Me Back To The Sixties

Note From The Oldest Known Classmate - 1923

This was a note from the oldest known classmate of 1923 - Flora M. Ewald. She sent her best wishes for the reunion - it was read to everyone in attendance. I sent her a note thanking her and telling her we all sent our best wishes back to her.

Alumni Sharing Comments About the Reunion

Add a comment about the 2nd St. Mary Cathedral All Class Reunion

Leave a comment - it's easy! Just click on comment, sign in with your email address, make up a password - and start sharing your stories.

St. Mary Cathedral Fight Song

Click on link below:

St. Mary Cathedral Fight Song

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

Every time I get pictures I will redate this blog to send it to the top so you can see new additions - please email a few of your favorite pictures.

Email them to Mary Ellen

mesclifford@charter.net

Thank you!

The Reunion

The reunion was held at Horizons Conference Center in Saginaw. The banquet center was a beautiful facility and the room was set for 865 people. Everything went so smoothly and it was an exciting fun evening.

Jim Storey and Jim Shea headed the program and Bishop Carlson was the guest speaker.

There were several interesting items:

We had reservations for 864 people (graduates, spouses, teachers, clergy, etc) and 576 of them were graduates of St. Mary Cathedral High School.

They came representing residences in 29 states. We used Google map from doorstep of St. Mary’s at 615 Hoyt Street to the address listed in our master roster. So this distance is not as the “crow flies.”

Richard & Leslie Mikulich – Class of 1966 from Santa Rosa, CA 2439 miles! Rich and Leslie received a bottle of champagne. And close runner up was Howard Korth – Class of 1937 from Piedmont, CA 2415 miles!

Louise Becker LaVere – class of 1933 was the oldest attendee. Louise also received a bottle of champagne again a close second was Howard Korth – class of 1937

The most graduates attending from a Class were 26 from the Class of 1968.

A BIG Thank You

Reunion Committee: Stella Thelen and Jim Shea – co-chairs

Committee members: Ann Kerns Shea, Carol Newas Moody, Jim Keyes, Mary Ellen Shea Clifford, and Cindy Shea.

St. Mary Cathedral Staff - Past and present - for help with printing, postage, fielding phone calls, mail, etc.


The Diocese of Saginaw for providing the souvenir bricks that graduates received.

And last, but certainly not least, to those who participated in providing our Catholic education at St. Mary’s. Pastors, sisters, teachers, coaches

Monetary Donations Made To Our Reunion

Denny Troester – Class of 1953

Arlene Coty Holtman – Class of 51

John & Mary Beth Looby – Class of 70

Carol & Claude Creswell – Class of 54

Special Thanks
Steve Dise – who provided the video of the school building.

The Labarum Staffs through the years. Without those precious history books from each graduation year, so much of the documentation of our heritage would be lost!

Liturgy at the Cathedral - August 9, 2008

The reunion began with a liturgy at the Cathedral. Bishop Carlson presided. As the liturgy began, I thought about the many times we celebrated Mass together when we attended St. Mary High School and how so many of us found classmates to sit with at this liturgy - the bonds that began so many years ago were so evident last night.

The picture above was taken from the balcony at Communion. I realized how many decades of classes these people represented - all joining together to thank God for the blessings we have had in our lives; including the experiences we had at a great school with good teachers.

It was a good way to begin our 2nd St. Mary High School All Class Reunion.

TONIGHT!

The long anticipated event is now just hours away. This will be such fun - to see so many friends in one room at one time. The reunion committee has worked so hard to make this event a memorable one. Thank you so much for all of your dedication and commitment to plan such a fantastic night.

This blog will continue - don't forget we are still looking for some of the yearbooks. (Listed on the left side of the blog.)

Continue to log on - sign up and make comments - and I'm looking forward to seeing you tonight.

Catholic Museum

Click on the link below to read the article at the SAGINAW NEWS section of MLIVE.com.

An article in the Saginaw News this morning reports there will be an exhibit honoring the diocese's five bishops from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday in the basement of the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw, 5800 Weiss in Saginaw Township.

Welcome

This is a blog for the St. Mary Cathedral All Class Reunion. The committee for the All Class Reunion

Jim Shea and Stella Mudd Thelen co-chairs
Ann Kerns Shea
Jim Keyes
Carol Newas Moody
Cindy Shea (Jim's Wife)


I am Mary Ellen Shea Clifford, Class of 1970, and I have offered to monitor the blog. This will be a place for memories, posting information about the reunion, asking if you have addresses for people we are still looking for to contact, etc. Have fun looking back on articles from different years - catching up with friends - keeping informed on the activities for the 2nd All Class Reunion.

Is there something special you remember about St. Mary's? Do you have a picture you want posted? Scan it and send it to Mary Ellen. mesclifford@charter.net

So - welcome - we look forward to hearing from you!

Wizner Family - 1965

ALL FROM ONE FAMILY - "A typical Saginaw St. Mary Cathedral family" is Msgr. Eugene A. Forbes' tongue-in-cheek evaluation of these 10 Wizner children who are scattered from the first through the 12th grades at St. Mary school this year. Above Msgr. Forbes welcomes five-year-old first grader Marion on opening day. Others in order of age and height are John, 18 and Kathy 17, both seniors; Mary 16, a junior; David 15 a sophomore; Noreen 13, 8th grade; Ruth 11, 6th grade; Joseph 10, 5th grade; Nanette 9, 4th grade; and Cheryl 7, 2nd grade. Still at home are Christopher 4, Suzanne 3, and Michael, one month. The 13 are children of Mr. and Mrs. John Wizner, 1418 Crapo, Saginaw.

This picture was in the Catholic Weekly dated 9/10/65 and the Detroit Free Press dated 9/18/65.

5th Grade Boystown Basketball

THIS IS A 5TH GRADE BOYTOWN PICTURE OF THE CLASS OF 1955.

TOP ROW LEFT TO RIGHT--MIKE GREEN, MIKE HARDEN, JOHN PENDELL, CLARENCE WEISENBERG, JIM ROCCHIO, DICK ALONSKI.
BOTTOM ROW LEFT TO RIGHT -- TOM SCHULTZ, FRANK DECORTE, TERRY WARD, JOHN NICKODEMUS,TERRY MCINERNEY, TOM NIKODEMUS

PICTURE SUBMITTED BY TERRY MCINERNEY

Baccalaureate - 1948 and 1970

Class of 1970

B A C C A L A U R E A T E

St. Mary Cathedral High School

Saginaw, Michigan

June 7, 1970

Baccalaureate Mass 9:15 A.M.
Breakfast - Cathedral Auditorium

Breakfast Program

Blessing - Rt. Rev. Msgr. Eugene Forbes, J.C.D.
Salutatory - Laura Hendrick
Musical Selection - Cathedral Chorale Accompanist, Susan Siers
Presentation of Honors - Monsignor Forbes
CIVITAN Presentation - Mr. Thaxton Schneider
Address - Mr. Howard G. Sheltraw, Director of City Planning
Class President's Address - Paul Slaggert
Valedictory - Susan M. Siers
"The Bells of St. Mary's" - The Graduates

Master of Ceremonies - Anne Marie Witchger, Student Council President

Acknowledgement, St. Mary's PTA

Frank Walsh

Stella sent this picture of Frank Walsh, who used to own a book store here in Saginaw and who died this year in Florida - she thought that he was a graduate of 1946. His children also went to St. Mary's and he lived on Hoyt Street down my Genesee I think.