Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Olympics
...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 and the team never competed in the Olympics because of President
Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence
...ley Powell. Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. Letter written by John Wesley Powell, Geologist for the U.S. Department of the Interior, on October 27, 1876 requesting Shea's scholarly assistance. Another large correspondence file comes from
Marian Year
...Lady of the Blessed Sacrament. Halvey_K409_001 Halvey_K409_002 East and West: a unity of Faith The biggest Philadelphia event was the Marian Congress of the Oriental Church held on October 22, 1954. The congress was a joint celebration between the Exarchate of the Byzantine Rite, the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of