1961: ST. ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL - IN THE BEGINNING

I remember standing among the corn stubble on the Kuser Farm cornfield with many of our St. Anthony parishioners as the field was blessed and result in what I call  "miracle of labor." The above article will recall those early years and refer to many of the "movers and shakers" literally spent countless hours in hard labor making Monsignor McCorristin's dream come true. Read on.

1987: ST. ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL

Today it's called the Trenton Catholic Academy, McCorristin Campus. The younger generation who took over the school when the change was made chose to use the above name rather than the name most of us who were parishioners at St. Anthony Church preferred, namely McCorristin Catholic High School, Trenton Catholic Campus. Old timers in the parish were very aware of the back-breaking labor Monsignor McCorristin and his volunteer workers expended in order to build that school which was to be called St. Anthony High School. I was at the dedication of the field on which the new high school was to be constructed. At the time, there were still corn stalks sticking up from the ground.

1973: St. Anthony High School Honor Students

2008: THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, MIKE

Mike Kuzma is a regular visitor to my website. The interesting message reprinted below was entered in my guestbook and I wanted to post it in case any visitor can come up with further information on the gentleman who was the victim of the St. Anthony High School wall collapse back in the 60's. I also found Mike's reference to his Uncle Vic of Hamilton's late, great Vic Rice Driving Range on South Broad Street. I would like to have a photo of that huge golf range where Don Slabicki and I spent a number of bucks driving balls out into the arc-lit field, trying to hit the guy driving that little go cart that picked up the balls. Thanks for being a reader of my column in the Times, Mike, and thanks for the memories you sent in the message below. Always a pleasure to hear from you. As to Harry Hartman.....another name I had forgotten about until you mentioned it.

MIKE WROTE:

Tom:

As always, I enjoyed going back in time with you to a better time in
life; the 50's! My mind keeps going back to the "DeCou" carnival on the
site of Uncle Vic Rice's driving range. The bands were out of sight. As
a kid with my dad, we used to make regular stops at Sheriff Harry
Hartman's Slaughter house, where his brother John Hartman ran things.
I noticed a mention of McCorristan in one of the other posts.
I'm trying to remember the name of the popular Insurance (man) who died when
the foundation walls collapsed while the high school was being built.
Keep up the great columns, they are my only life line to the good old
days in the Trenton area.

Mike