Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Olympics

...men’s Basketball Team. Michael Brooks representing the La Salle University Explorers on the court. Image is in the public domain. Michael Brooks, a graduate of West Catholic Preparatory High School and La Salle University, was named Captain of Men’s Basketball Team to compete at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Brooks

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Cardinal John P. Foley

...umbia University. circa 1975 He maintained his position as editor for the next 14 years, a period which saw some of the most important events in the history of the Philadelphia Church, including the Forty-First International Eucharistic Congress, held in 1976, the canonization of St. John Neumann in 1977 and

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The Story of Duffy’s Cut

...ia and Columbus Railroad. For these new immigrants, organizations like the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick for the Relief of Immigrants would assist them in finding jobs in and around Philadelphia. Philadelphia and Columbia horsecar near Duffy's Cut, 1832. From Watkin's History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1896 The men

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John J. Bonner papers, 1909-1945 (MC 49)

...ited with establishing the Philadelphia Catholic League and was one of the best-known Catholic educators in the country. Born in Philadelphia on November 2, 1890, John Bonner entered St. Charles Seminary after graduating from Roman Catholic High School. He transferred to the North American College in Rome, and was ordained

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