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Phil Gagliano Baseball Card
No full textPhil Gagliano is wearing his St. Louis Cardinals uniform as he poses for a photo, smiling at the camera and learning to the left with his right arm resting over his leg. The photograph is like a polaroid in that it has the extra white space at the bottom, which is adorned with his signature.
Native Memphian Philip Joseph Gagliano was a Christian Brothers High School graduate who became a Major League Baseball player. He played baseball while at CBHS under the coaching of Tony Gagliano, Phil Gagliano’s uncle, and with his classmate Tim McCarver, who also became a Major League Baseball player. Gagliano established a 12-season, 702-game career as a utility infielder/outfielder and pinch hitter between 1963 and 1974. He debuted with and played for the St. Louis Cardinals for most of his career. While with the Cardinals, he earned a championship ring when the Cardinals defeated the Boston Rex Sox in seven games in the 1967 World Series. He is one of four CBHS alumni to play in the World Series
Freshmen Initiation
No full textUpper classmen required incoming freshmen to wear red derbies as a sign of their being at the bottom of the ranks at Christian Brothers College.
Derby-wearing was a form a hazing. According to Henry Pellegrin, student president in 1957, it was inspired by the derbies sported by many of the characters in Walt Kelly's comic strip, "Pogo." The designation, "worms" for Freshmen also came from "Pogo," though none of the worm-character in the comic strip were among the derby-wearers.
Freshmen were required to wear the derbies at all times until Halloween unless they could beat the Sophomores in a touch football game in mid-October
Brother Luke Grande at Rozier Ground Breaking
No full textBrother Luke M. Grande took the shovel at the ground breaking for the Christian Brothers College dormitory, Rozier Hall
Ground Breaking : "Blow-by-Blow"
No full textThis detailed schedule broke down the who-does-what for the Rozier Hall ground breaking ceremony. Rozier Hall was Christian Brothers College's second dormitory
Brothers Gather at Rozier Ground Breaking
No full textOne hundred and twenty Christian Brothers came to Memphis for Christian Brothers College's ground breaking for its new dorm, Rozier Hall
Aerial View of CBC Campus
No full textA view of Christian Brothers Campus showed Maurelian Hall, Kenrick Hall, the Bell Tower, the East Parkway Entrance, a colonnade of Arches, and the north end of Barry Hall as they were in the 1960s
Brothers
No full text(L-R): Brothers Michael Nathan Alford, Michael Neil Johnston, Martin Hugo Nabholz, and Jeffrey Walter McCarver made music in the grove near the Scholasticate
Ground Breaking for Christian Brothers High School on Walnut Grove
No full textThe growth of Christian Brothers College (and High School) at its East Parkway location became such that the physical plants of the college and high school needed to be separated. To that end, the Brothers purchased 28 acres near the intersection of Walnut Grove Road and the Expressway (now I-240) for a completely new high school.
It was rainy and muddy at the ground breaking for the CBHS in 1964. Bishop Durick of Nashville wielded the shovel. Others seen the picture were (L-R): Brother J. Stephen, Brother Terence McLaughlin, Reverend Joseph Wesley, Brother J. Alfred, Lawrence Guidi, and Edward Barry
Adams Street Building before its Demolition
No full textAfter Christian Brothers departed the building on Adams Street in 1940, it became the Memphis Vocational School, which it remained until 1963. It served as a warehouse for the Memphis Board of Education in its final year. This photo was taken shortly before its demolition.
The Shelby County Juvenile Court now stands on the space
Jules Rozier Hall
No full textThis press release explained the terms of Jules Rozier's bequest to Christian Brothers College, the reasons for naming the new dormitory in his honor, and described some of his life's history