NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Oct. 4, 1968 SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy – Hundreds of persons lined up in front of the main church in this southern Italian town, waiting to pay their last respects to the stigmata Capuchin Friar, Padre Pio, who died here at the age of 81. (NC Photos) […]

NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Sept. 20, 1968 SOME DAY—Paul Turgeon, a fourth-grader in Los Angeles who intends to join the Notre Dame class of ’81, looks up to George Kunz, co-captain of this year’s N.D. grid team, while at left is N.D.’s basketballer, John Pleick of El Segundo, Calif. Paul’s father […]

NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Sept. 6, 1968 First Mass Offered in New St. Stephen Church Parishioners and friends crowded the newly constructed St. Stephen’s Church on the Pali Highway last Sunday when the Most Reverend John J. Scanlan blessed this new church and parish hall complex. … Bishop Scanlan spoke during […]

NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Aug. 23, 1968 Bishop Will Bless St. Anthony’s Church Sunday After 52 years of service in the Kalihi-Kai District, St. Anthony’s Church, built by Father Ulrich Taube in 1916, has made way for a new St. Anthony Church, (pictured at left) to be blessed by the most […]

NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — Aug. 2, 1968 Before Father Comes Left, Emmett Devin as Valere enjoys a stolen moment with the miser’s daughter, Elise (right), played by Andrea Anderson, while her trusted maid, Brindavoine, starring Stephanie Hall, tries to separate the couple before Elise’s father arrives on the scene in the […]

NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — July 19, 1968 An undergraduate research program in biological sciences aimed at tying in theory with practice and providing the experimental means by which the student can apply concepts, techniques and general “know how” to actual research projects, will be introduced at Chaminade College this fall. 25 […]

NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — July 12, 1968 CYO Summer Fun Youngsters Enjoy Use of Y’s Pool Getting the Word – A group of CYO Summer Fun students listen attentively to Miss Dawn Longham, CYO swimming instructor, as she gives them pointers on water safety. The swimming classes are being held at […]

NEWS FROM PAGES PAST 50 years ago — June 21, 1968 Honolulu’s First Bishop Dies on 70th Birthday June 19, 1968, was only five hours old when the Reverend James J. Sweeney died at St. Mary Hospital in San Francisco, California. Bishop Sweeney lived only five hours of his seventieth birthday. … In one more […]