Looking back

50 Years Ago
Parish Council Officers for St. Mary Parish, Mobile were: Tony Naman, president; William Demouy, vice president; Sister Joan Serda, RSM, secretary. 
The Catholic High Knights basketball team defeated Montgomery Academy 68-59.
Steve Shelton and Carlton Ross led the St. Jude Pirates in its win over Prattville.
The recently completed McGill-Toolen Library was in full operation.
Rev. Joseph M. Doyle, S.S.J., chaplain, Tuskegee Institute, served as retreat master at St. Patrick, Phenix City.
Susan Simpson of Catholic High, Montgomery, was winner of the Betty Crocker Homemaker Award.
Mrs. Maynard Sanders and Mrs. John Klosterman served as retreat captains for Convent of Mercy alumnae.
Martha Ballard, Lee Davis and Yoliie Unutia collected soda bottles to raise money for St. Columba, Dothan CYO treasury.
Officers of St. Bede’s CYO were” Theresa Catt, resident; Susie Langford, vice president; and Mickey Eddington, secretary and treasurer.
More than 250 parishioners celebrated the 25th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima Parish. Former pastors attending were Fr. Joseph Jennings, Fr. Francis Murphy and Fr. Anthony Zoghby. Present pastor was Fr. Maurice Shields.
25 Years Ago
Guest speakers announced for the Archdiocesan Youth Conference were Molly Kelly and Mrs. Kathy Wolf. The conference was to be held in downtown Montgomery.
Michael G. “Jere” Harbin donated a gift in his mother Anna Mary Harbin’s name to the Fr. Walter Memorial Child Care Center.
The theme for Catholic Schools Week was “Catholic Schools – Schools You Can Believe In.”
Catholic High’s Idrion Reed, a junior, passed the 1,000 career point mark in his 40th game as a Knight, becoming the youngest player to cross the mark in school history.
The Respect Life Committee of the Knights of Columbus Council 48696 of St. Michael Parish, Auburn, made and placed 37 crosses on the front lawn in commemoration of the 37 million babies aborted since the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade.
Bradley Donaghey and Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb presented Msgr. Oliver Adams with the Junipero Serra Priest of the Year Award at the annual Serra Club of Mobile Banquet held at St. Ignatius Parish’s Marian Center.
The inaugural McGill-Toolen Coming Home Court and Dance was held at the Mobile Convention Center. Kenyon Moody was named Mr. McGill. Other members of the Coming Home Court were: Phillip Keller and Curt Wooten, freshmen; Harry Brislin and Alex Irving, sophomores; Chris Flanagan, David Morris and Terrance Pettaway, juniors; and Phillip Graf, Tyron Johnson and Miles Worsham, seniors.
— Anne Baggett compiles information for Looking Back from past issues of this newspaper. Anne is a member of St. Mary Parish in Mobile.