The Year

Making up the Class of 1928 were 14 graduates – nine girls and five boys. They were Gertrude McDougall, Charles McKenna, Josephine Allen, Thomas Dugan, Evelyn McClelland, Lawrence Brennan, Dorothy Vallandingham, Jerome Stoffel, Rose Foley, Edward Hummer, Margaret O’Connor, Alice Horan, Mary De Groot and Therese Reice, who passed away in 1995. ­Fr. Joseph Keefe was principal.

The football team went 4-3 under Coach Harold White, a three-year letterman at Northwestern University and honorable mention All-American in 1925. He was freshman football coach at the University of Utah in 1926 under Coach Ike Armstrong. Larry Brennan was captain of the 21-man team.

Basketball was dropped as a high-school sport. Students had played in the Catholic Youth League.