Proudly We Speak Your Name

What was Monsignor Tribou called after he was elevated to this position?

"Father Tribou" or "Father T". He preferred it.

How Father Fred says a radio works

"It's magic!"

Number of meals served to CHS boys by Mrs. Woody (Kathryn) Butler

1,440,000

Score of 1st BB game in the gymnasium

34-33 Rockets! vs North Little Rock

Kill the Man with the Ball

A recess game in which the person with the ball is chased by everyone else whom are trying to get the ball

L.S.M.F.T.

Actual meaning: "Lucky Strike means fine tobacco."(a commercial slogan long ago. CHS joke.."Lord Save Me From Tribou"

Female Biology and English teacher

Bernice Ritter Elias

Female English teacher and Library Mom (after retirement)

Beverly Billingsley

Ronny Tollett

Biology teacher and BB coach; introduced the faculty to overhead projector

Missing at CHS 1957

Black students

Happy Mahfouz

CHS BB coach who watched Mike Moran dribble the ball off his foot and scramble and fall

Richard Althoff

CHS alumnus who taught math, came from a big family, and was almost too good to be true

The Guardian

CHS newspaper

Gil Gerard

CHS student and future actor who tried to revive Burch Raley

"Current Events Fridays"

Coach Malham's Civics class weekly assignment describing an occurrence from the Arkansas Gazette; "no need to hear that sort of thing" (Actress Jayne Mansfield getting married)

banged two heads together like coconuts for chatting while this coach was teaching Civics

Coach Mike Malham

Sunday, February 26, 1961

Date of formal dedication of the CHS Lee Street building

Female staff past and present

Eleanor Hannah and Joan Finnegan

Teacher with "volcanic outrage"

Father D

Nick-Name for Father DeBosier

Father D or Bernie

Who said, "Boy, you are fracturing the King's English!"?

Father DeBosier

CHS's own rocket scientist

Father Fred

Loud laugher

Father Fred

put the pearl in the mussel

Father John Doyle in biology class

Rector of CHS

Father Lawrence Frederick

Which faculty member read the printed announcements out loud in the faculty lounge?

Father Rossi

former LOUD Latin teacher

Father Rossi

Roy Davis

Football coach (2 state championships) and computer guru

Female English teacher

Gretchen Gowen

Female biology instructor at CHS

Jackie Thomas

Father Z

Latin Teacher who was an All-Star at "Kill" the one time he played it

25th and State Streets

Location of the first CHS

Female staff who served 10 or more years at CHS

Marie Woeltje and Barbara Pierce

English

Mike Moran's best class as a student

Head of the CHS cafeteria for 20 years

Mrs. Woody Butler (Kathryn Butler), aka "Ma Butler"

reason Father Tribou changed the CHS dress code from "Fonzie" style to how it is today

New York Times photo; "I want our boys to look like that."

Female Math teachers at CHS

Norma Martine and Pam Hunter

Father William Galvin

Oversaw the efforts to raise money to build a new Catholic High; CEO of CHS

Ambidextrous faculty member with a long golf shot (hit a police car with his long shot)

Richard Althoff

Introduced computers to CHS; also kept up with others' golf scores

Richard Althoff

CHS faculty who played golf on Fridays @Rebsamen

Richard Althoff, Mike Moran, Don Lawson, and David Westmoreland; also Steve Wells, then Dick Heien

Female typing teacher at CHS

Shelby Schichtl

Paul Spencer

Social studies teacher to freshmen and seniors

English, Religion, Latin, WH, National Problems, Introductory Mathematics, Driver Education

Subjects Mike Moran taught while at CHS

Female librarian

Sylvia Chudy

Tim Ezzi

Taught health and BB (championship winner after 78 years without one)

Father Lawrence Frederick

Taught religion physics and mechanical drawing at CHS. Worked double for more than a decade by teaching religion at Mount Saint Mary's as well

Ferdinand "Ferdie" Kaczka

US History student who took notes to keep from falling asleep in Father Groff's class; made the highest grades both semesters

Father Bernard DeBosier

Upper-Classmen teacher of English(not grammar, only American British Literature) who was not one to be trifled with because no one wanted to be responsible for unleashing his inner fury

"I've seen everything now!"

What Coach Happy Mahfouz said after watching Mike Moran fall after scrambling for the ball

"OK, boys, tell me what you see."

What Father Z (Frederick Zarilli "Zeke") would ask boys as they helped him drive (when he drove CHS boys to out of town BB games)

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

Where Father Tribou was from

1968

Year Mike Moran began at CHS as a teacher

1961

Year that Mike Moran graduated from CHS

Father John Doyle

a Yankee priest from Philadelphia who moved to the Little Rock diocese

Mike Malham

a coach and Civics teacher in 1957; he who is to be obeyed

Father Reuben Groff

a former boring US History teacher; all note taking stopped except for one kid who made the highest grade both semesters

Father Frederick Zarilli "Zeke"

a friendly priest who shuttled CHS players to out of town BB games. He was color blind, as in red/green, so he needed assistance identifying traffic lights

Sister Scholastica Vogelpohl

a nun and CHS English teacher

Bishop Albert Fletcher

approved construction of the CHS Lee Street location and oversaw the formal dedication

When is the Richard Althoff Memorial Golf Tournament each year?

beginning of Spring Break

How did Richard Althoff die?

cancer

Coach Mike Malham

coached football and BB and pushed the team to peak with conditioning..."Run it again!"

Lesson from Coach Mike Malham at a BB game

don't take the shot because Rockets are too far ahead and we aren't gonna rub it in. Compassion for another team

Buddy Cagle

football player; and end in 1957 who caught most of the passes in 1957 when the Rockets won 10 games and lost 1

Tom Barre

football player; quarterback in 1957

Ronnie Pyle

football player; scatback touchdown-maker in 1957; once needed 12 guys to tackle him...led to the other team violating the rules and resulted in the Rockets winning the game

Roger Armbrust

friend of Mike Moran who played BB with Father John Doyle

How did Father D increase the volume of the choir?

he dismissed the boys early.

40 years

how long Mr. Mike Moran (the author) taught at CHS

4 years

how long Mr. Mike Moran went to CHS as a student

How the junior class of 1960 eclipsed the senior class

in dancing

teacher and principle

jobs of Father Tribou; more than 50 years

the power of goodness and gentleness and devotion to duty

lessons of Mr. Marion Mortensen

Which disciplining technique did Father Galvin do to Mike Moran (as a student) that Mike Moran later used as a teacher?

made you stand in the hall outside class if you were misbehaving and expected an apology

5

number of boys in the first graduating class

Father Raymond Rossi

passionate Latin teacher who had frequent outbursts of enthusiasm

Father John Doyle

priest who was jolly, smart, athletic, and was a joker; played basketball with the boys

"I'll buy that!"

saying by Mr. Marion Mortensen when a student got an Algebra II problem right.

CHS dress August, September, May

shorts and polo shirts

oddest course at CHS taught by Father Hebert

speech (where other subjects were taught: bridge, how to work a washer/dryer, cooking, table manners)

basketball

sport the author played at CHS for 4 years.

Burch Raley

student who drowned at the annual senior picnic in Hot Springs

Biology

subject Father John Doyle taught

Paul Stiedle

taught Calculus

Father (now Monsignor) Gaston Hebert

taught the oddest course at CHS, Speech.

Brother Richard Sanker

teacher of Religion and Romantic languages, counselor, and irrepressible punster

Jerry Reasor

teacher of keyboarding and computer programming

7000 students

the # of students Mr. Mike Moran taught during his CHS years

rot

the most beautiful word

Mr. Marion Mortensen

the non-Catholic Algebra II teacher

Bishop John Morris

the person who established CHS

"magnanimous"

the word Mike Moran (author) used to describe Bishop Albert Fletcher when making the request for the day off after the CHS building dedication (they got the day off)

Initiation

week-long (Monday morning to Friday noon) test where Freshmen were assigned to a senior and tormented

Mr. Thomas Morrissey, Sr.

who wrote CHS Alma Mater

1961

year CHS moved to 6300 Lee Avenue (now Father Tribou Street)

1930

year CHS was established in LR, AR.

2001

year Father Tribou died

May 2008

year Mike Moran retired.

1931

year of the first graduating class...5 boys