Proudly We Speak Your Name
project of taking a year and researching it
"Time Magazine project"
Money raised for Oxfam at CHS
$3010
"To teach as Jesus did"
CHS mission
John Moran
CHS student and son of Mike Moran
What was the last book Father Tribou added to the CHS reading list?
Catcher in the Rye
Jim Edge
Chemistry teacher
Cody McDaniel
Fed Challenge team; golf coach
Ms. Jo Schneider
Great Female English Teacher who now subs and tutors students regularly
Female English teacher
Gretchen Gowen
Why didn't the boy like the poem "The Ballad of Oysterman"?
He didn't like oysters.
Paul Shaffer and Sherrill Baker
JROTC
Jack Hennelley
JROTC and trained the 1st CHS national championship physical fitness team
Tom Handloser
Latin teacher; "Magist"
"an evil genius" (according to Steve Straessle), graduated from Harvard and taught world history
Lew Marczuk
created the "Time Magazine project"
Lew Marczuk
Assigned math grades to students whose teacher quit and took the grades with him
Lew Marczuk and Mike Moran
legend who watched a CHS BB game in 1969
Muhammad Ali
priestly brothers who taught math and science
Oswald, John, and Richard
John Hall
Religion teacher
who is Father Tribou buried beside?
Richard Althoff
SHARC
Sunny Hills Athletic Retirement Club; a CHS basketball league for some faculty
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
Where Father Tribou was from
Oxfam
a charity that Mike Moran proposed for CHS to support to get food to starving people in Africa by raising $3000
why Father Tribou didn't want to give students MLK Day off
because he thought MLK would want everyone to go back to work; so no day off at CHS
Mr. James Perry
harmonica-playing custodian
Carl Imhauser
head of maintenance
Don Lawson
history teacher who watched a student catch a bird bear-handed in study hall so as not to disrupt the whole class
Father Hebert
organized school wide spelling bee
700:16
ratio of CHS students to CHS National Merit Finalists
1000:6
ratio of Kansas students to Kansas National Merit Finalists
Scott Langford
student in 2007 in American Literature; uttered, "DUDE!" when the teacher smashed the bee
Doug Pilcher
taught history and was head football coach
Tommy Coy
taught math
Dan Smith
taught math and coached
Bob Palazzi
taught math and introduced psychology and driver ed
Jack Pritchett
taught music and CHS band
Tim Glancy
taught science and coached several sports; went to CHS
Don Lawson
taught social studies for 25 years
Steve Straessle
teacher and principal
Dick Heien
teacher, coach, counselor
where is the CHS swimming pool?
the basement below the gym
When was Father T lonely?
the day after graduation
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 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)
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
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
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"