May 22, 2015

What was in the news on May 21, 1965?

Marian College expands, and archdioceses seek racial justice with buying plan

Criterion logo from the 1960sBy Brandon A. Evans

This week, we continue to examine what was going on in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through the pages of The Criterion.

Here are some of the items found in the May 21, 1965, issue of The Criterion:
 

  • Marian College buys Park School property
    • “Marian College this week purchased the 20-acre Park School property adjacent to the college campus on Cold Spring Road. The site, located between the colleges north and south campuses, is expected to be used for needed expansion, including the erection of a proposed new library building. Negotiations on the transaction, spanning several years, were telescoped this week by the offer by two members of the prominent Lilly family to relocate Park School on a 55-acre tract at 71st Street and College Avenue. A gift of the property was made to Park School by Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly and Mr. and Mrs. Josiah K. Lilly. According to the terms of the agreement, Park School will also reserve space at its new location for the possible relocation of Tudor Hall School, which now occupies 43 acres immediately north of Marian College on Cold Spring Road. Should Tudor Hall wish to relocate, the Catholic college would be given the option to purchase its present campus.”
  • High school graduates to top 1,600
    • “More than 1,600 boys and girls will be graduating from 13 Catholic high schools in the archdiocese during the coming few days. Archbishop [Paul C.] Schulte will confer diplomas at all except the Latin School.”
  • St. Benedict’s milestone: Terre Haute parish to mark centennial
  • Groundbreaking set for Home for Aged
  • Rushmore is world’s largest monument
  • Backs bill to raise wages of farm workers
  • Just how old is old?
  • Vatican names UNESCO observer
  • Blind girl to enter convent
  • Sees crisis of authority
  • Festival season to open May 28th at Holy Trinity
  • Greater mission effort needed today, pope says
  • Plan to oppose bias by selective buying
    • “Two major archdioceses have launched formal programs to use the purchasing power of their institutions to advance job opportunities for Negroes and other minorities. Forty more dioceses in large metropolitan areas are expected to be operating similar programs by September, 1966, thus turning most of the business side of the U.S. Church into muscle to push racial justice forward. The 1.4-million-member Detroit archdiocese announced that all companies doing more than $50 business annually with a branch of the archdiocese will be required to advise a new Catholic office of their equal opportunity policies and practices. The 500,000-member St. Louis archdiocese disclosed that Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter has sent pastors a letter advising them of the beginning of the program.”

(Read all of these stories from our May 21, 1965, issue by logging on to our special archives.) †

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