Looking Back

By Anne Baggett
For The Catholic Week
50 Years Ago
Clergy appointments included: Fr. Casimir J. Cichanowicz, SSE, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes, Mobile; Fr. William J. Le Page, SSE, assistant pastor; Fr. Maurice J. Butford, SSE, pastor of St. Edmund, Dauphin Island; and Fr. Russell F. Wise, SSE, assistant pastor, Assumption/St. Elizabeth, Selma.
Sr. Sara Butler, MSBT, was named CCD Director of Adult Education, Mobile.
McGill Yellow Jackets ran its record to 7-0 defeating the Vigor Wolves 23-7 behind the running of Steve North and William Powell with Dale Halliday as quarterback.
Teresa Bamburg presided over the St. Ann Society meeting at St. Bede Parish, Montgomery. 
Named National Merit Semifinalists were: Gregory R. Watts, McGill; Kathleen A. Collier, Marian W. Diemert, Marie I. Leach, Mary Ann Nolan and Jennifer Zeitz, Bishop Toolen.
Mrs. J. Kenny Crow was named chairman of the annual Diocesan Council of Catholic Women Convention to be held in Mobile.
Officers of Corpus Christi PTA were: George Fadalla, president; Charles Barter, vice president; Frank Horan, secretary; and Mrs. Frank Hale, treasurer.
St. Margaret School of Nursing, Montgomery, welcomed 49 students to the freshman class.
Catholic High PTA officers were: Mr. Donald Deiters, president; Mr. Marty Taylor, vice president; Mrs. Margaret Olive Jones, treasurer; and Mrs. Jesse Garris, recording secretary.
The Brothers of the Sacred Heart celebrated their 150th Anniversary.
St. Robert Bellarmine, Atmore, Altar Society officers were: Mrs. Teresa Sutton, president; Mrs. Marjorie Lalak, vice president; Mrs. Mary Helen Graham, secretary; and Mrs. Gwen Dorriety, treasurer.
25 Years Ago
Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb announced clergy changes for the Archdiocese of Mobile to include Fr. William M. Allegretto, C.M., pastor of St. Mary Parish, Opelika; and Fr. Eugene Sheridan, C.M., St. Patrick Parish, Phenix City.
Sr. Mary Lawrence Ewing, S.L., a native of Mobile died in Denver. Sister served for 57 years as a Sister of Loretto.
Sr. Mary Alma, MSBT, died at the motherhouse of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Blessed Trinity. She served the Archdiocese of Mobile at St. Patrick, Phenix City, St. Peter Claver in Holy Trinity and St. Michael, Auburn.
Fr. W. Bry Shields, president of McGill-Toolen, welcomed the Class of 2000, nearly 300 students, and their parents. Fr. Shields was pictured at the event with Sam and Debbie Covert and their twin daughters, Erin and Natalie.
Gwen Byrd, Superintendent of Catholic Schools, introduced Sr. Mary Ann Barrett, O.P., keynote speaker for the teachers’ orientation session.
Members of the McGill-Toolen Dirty Dozen volleyball team coached by Becky Dickinson, listed in the National High School Record Book as “the winningest high school volleyball coach in the nation” were: Erin Hostrander, Beth Olen, April Dodd, Amy Connelly, Mary Stone, Mollie Walsh, Leslie McInnis, Feah Williams, Emily Sebastian, Kristin Gears, Holly Miller and Mandy Reimer. Ashley Davis was assistant coach.
Invited into the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem for the Archdiocese of Mobile were: C. Vearn Partridge, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Raue, Jr. and Very Rev. G. Warren Wall.
Spring Hill graduates receiving graduate fellowships from the Educational Foundation of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity were James Alex Wyatt, III of Birmingham and Christopher L. Hawkins of Daphne.
Officers of the McGill-Toolen PTO were: Tela Constantine, president; Evely Allen and Dr. George Allen, vice presidents; Jeanie Graham, treasurer and Suzann Holtz, secretary.
— Anne Baggett compiles information for Looking Back from past issues of this newspaper. Anne is a member of St. Mary Parish in Mobile.