Cardinal Dougherty Memories in Philadelphia
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Home movies of two Baccalaureate Masses at what was the largest Catholic high school in the world in the 1960s. There is also a short clip of the famous CDHS band and drill team performing at a Center City parade in the 1960s. From a peak enrollment of more than 6,000 student in 1965 to a low of around 600 early in the 21st Century, the once flagship school of the Philadelphia Archdiocese closed its doors amid much alumni anger in 2010.
Nancy Devlin was in my homeroom. My name is Bridget Diamond. The homerooms were alphabetical. I remember how pretty she was! Give her my good wishes! God bless!
Graduated in one of the years between these, but this was my neighborhood, just the other side of 2nd St. Bulls-eye on the musical backing!
St.Martin of Tours in Philadelphia would transfer it's graduates to Father Judge High School; then decided to transfer it's student's to Cardinal Dougherty High School. That was the year I went to CDHS. This would be a good / bad thing for me. Everybody in my neighborhood went to FJHS. This was a tradition in my parish, everyone I grew up with who went to Catholic school would be transferred the FJHS. I would be the first to go to CDHS in the neighbor hood. The tradition was broken and I felt like I lost that connection everyone shared: This really was profound. I have many found memories of my four years at CD, and the '70s were great times: they were different times. I never would have believed how much the world would change for this generation. Even my HS is gone.
They were very different times. Wonderful times! I think on them often especially in a world I no longer recognize..
And for many years before the kids went to NC!
CD had a great tradition. The 1960s was the golden age of Catholic education in Philadelphia.
Richard D'Ambrosio
Thanks for the post John Devlin!
Jane Liebsch at the piano.
Drill team and CD grad 1968.
Sister Marie Lawrence a Sister of St. Joseph at the piano. She was a friend of my father's sister also a St. Joseph nun and her name was Sister Lawrence Marie. Patricia Conlen Cassidy '62
My father's cousin. Marie Robinson
Great yet sad video...I'm 74 and I remember back in the day was had a REAL Catholic Church in those days...too bad the damn leftists ruined it all starting in 1966; 'from the cock of the walk to a feather duster.' Tina Turner (Mad Max)
Hello, my name is Susanne and my mother is Nancy Devlin. She graduated in ‘65.
Does anyone here know the fight song you guys used to sing at football games? My mother only remembers the beginning and I would love to surprise her with all the words before her memory is completely gone. This is the part she sings:
Cheers Cheers for Dougherty high.
You bring the whiskey I’ll bring the rye
(something something something )
And don’t let a sober sophomore in
Like I said, I would love to learn the rest for my mom before she forgets everything. Sadly, she is in the early stages of dementia.
Thank you.
Susanne Murphy I think it’s a copy of this Notre Dame chant ‘Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame. / You take the Notre, I’ll take the Dame. / Send the freshmen out for gin, / Don’t let the sober sophomores in. / We never stagger, we never fall. / We sober up on wood alcohol / While the loyal faculty / Lie drunk on the barroom floor.’
Your mother and I went to St. William grade school. She married a fellow who lived on VanKirk St. We shared a driveway the Leopolds.
How is she? How is Ray?
I remember her.
I saw eyeglasses and hats like Moms. BG was that your band?
Wow,the nuns look like nuns!!