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“The First Graduating Class on
Charles Street”
Written by Alma R. Homrighausen ‘44
Miss Alma
Homrighausen ‘44, alumna and former classroom teacher at the School of
the Cathedral for seven years in the 1950’s, says she looks forward to
the upcoming Bull and Oyster Roast 2010, to see many of her former
students. She writes, “In the summer of 1952, I was asked to become
the first and (only) lay classroom teacher at the Cathedral School
from which I graduated in 1944. I taught third grade for five years
and sixth grade for two. As a faculty member, I moved with the SSND’s
to Amberly Way and taught one of the two sixth grades for a year and a
semester. I hope I will be able to come in October.”
She
enclosed an article written about one of her former students at
Cathedral School from the Catholic Digest, 12/93.
“More than 30 years ago, as a young priest in Baltimore’s Old
Cathedral Parish, I taught catechism at the parish school on Mulberry
Street. One day a third-grader kept misbehaving, so I finally invited
him to go to the principal’s office. His teacher, Miss Alma, later
directed him to send me a letter of apology.
I have always
kept that letter. “I’m sorry I was bad,” it reads. “It will not happen
a third time.” For years I have quoted that letter, chuckling over it,
and wondering about that mysterious “second time.”
Not long ago, I
ran into the now-retired Miss Alma. Mentioning the famous letter, I
finally learned its secret. The youngster, she told me, wasn’t sure
how to spell “second.” Father Joseph Gallagher, the Catholic
Review.
“The youngster
became a member of the Cathedral’s first graduating class on Charles
Street,” Miss Alma now shares. |
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