Catholic Educational Endeavors 345 ✓ charge of St. Gerard's Parish in San Antonio at the invitation of the Redemptoris Fathers. They built up the school into a grade and fully accredited high school whose enrollment was over 900 students in 1951. From this center, the Sisters have gone among the Spanish-speaking chil- dren in San Antonio to gather them for religious instruction and Sun- rlay Mass. When the school in Forney was closed in 1945, Bishop Lynch asked the Sisters to take charge of the new St. Gregory's school in Tyler. The school was built by a prominent Catholic layman, Mr. Glascow, in memory of his young son, deceased. Mother Evangelista, S.S.N.D., was presented with a beautiful bowl of famous Tyler roses when she first went to inspect the new school. The people of the parish were most anxious for the Sisters to come to Tyler to teach their children. Growtli and Development. Between 1947 and 1950, at the urgent re- quest of bishops and parish priests in dire need of Sisters for their new schools, Mother Evangela, the Mother Provincial has, at great sacrifice, been able to meet the missionary appeals in five schools of Texas by sub- stituting lay faculty members in the older schools. The schools opened since 1947 are: Christ the King in Corpus Christi; Immaculate Concep- tion School, in Liberty; St. Elizabeth, in Alice; St. Anthony, in Long- view; and Holy Rosary, in San Antonio. 108 The Vincentians Return, r905. The Vincentians of the Western P~~~nce or the Onit~ States re-entered Texas in 1905, at the invitation of Bishop E. J. Dunne of Dallas. Upon their arrival, they established Holy Trinity Parish in Oaklawn and soon afterwards opened a parish school. Their traditional interest in education and great need for a Catholic college for boys in the growing city caused them to sign a twenty-year contract with the Bishop in September, 1907, binding themselves to open and maintain such an institution. At the outset the boys' Academy was incor- porated as Holy Trinity College. It was inaugurated that year with Father Patrick Finney, C.M., as president, aided by fifteen priests drawn from Vincentian colleges in Chicago. I.os Angeles. and Cape- Girardeau, Missouri. When Bishop Joseph P. Lynch succeeded to the Diocese of Dallas in r911, the program of the college and its faculty were enlarged consid- erably and the school was reincorporated as the University of Dallas. It soon became apparent, however, that the Catholic population of Northeast 1oasummary based largely on letter to Author from Sister M. Theodosia, S.S.N.n., St. Louis, July r 4, 1951.
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