Alumni & Friends

Welcome to the Cathedral High School Alumni & Friends Web pages. Whether you live in the Boston area or live hundreds of miles away, this section has been created to keep you connected with the school and its programs.

Please be sure to inform us of changes in your address so we can notify you about upcoming events and keep you on our mailing list.

Alumni Please Note: At this time, the school does not host or organize reunion celebrations for classes other than those included in the Golden Diploma program (for May 2011, the Classes of '61, '56, '51, '46, '41, and '36). For information on the reunion celebrations planned by the separately incorporated Cathedral High Alumni Association, please contact James “Jim” Keenan ’60 at 781-337-9216 or keenan02191@yahoo.com.

We regret that we do not have extra copies of older yearbooks that we can send to alumni.

Thank you and Farewell to Principal Christol Murch

Alumni and friends of Cathedral join the current students, families, faculty and staff of the school in extending thanks and best wishes to Principal Christol Murch as she leaves Cathedral after a 26-year tenure. Mrs. Murch began her career at Cathedral in 1984 as a Special Education teacher and in the years that followed also taught math, social studies, and English, before becoming Principal in 2002. At the Commencement Exercises for the Class of 2010 on May 22 of this year, Headmaster Thomas P. Arria, Jr. recognized Mrs. Murch’s countless contributions to the life of the school and its students with the presentation of the St. Joseph the Worker Award. The text of his remarks follows.

The Saint Joseph the Worker Award

The Saint Joseph the Worker Award is given annually to an adult member of the wider Cathedral Community who, by dedicated use of talent and time, seriousness of purpose and extraordinary fidelity to people has genuinely contributed to society.  We have adopted as a school motto “Vigor in Arduis,” the motto on the coat of arms of William Cardinal O’Connell, the Archbishop of Boston at the time of Cathedral’s founding.  The English translation is “strength in hard work.”   We have chosen to name this award in honor of Saint Joseph because of his humble and dedicated service and loyalty to Mary and to Jesus. 
 
By conferring the Saint Joseph the Worker Award at Commencement, Cathedral High School intends to present to you, its graduates, a model of someone whose life testifies to the value of hard work and service to others.  We make this presentation in the hope that you recognize in our recipient those qualities and commitment to serve that we have striven to impart over the past four years.  Further, we hope that you will emulate that commitment.

This year’s honoree is an individual who has labored long and hard for the benefit of the students of Cathedral High School for over a quarter of a century.
  
Our recipient is no stranger to you; we see her every day.  She has worked at Cathedral High School tirelessly since 1984 teaching math, social studies, English and doing whatever else was asked of her.    She is oftentimes the first person to arrive in the morning and always the last person to leave at night.  There is no one who takes the responsibility for the care and education of the young people of CHS more seriously.

In 2002, Cathedral became an independent high school.  In that same year, our honoree was called upon to guide and lead our school through this transition.  She did so with a steady hand, managing finances, overseeing facility and directing the educational programs.  This was not an easy time. She can claim among her many successes the realization of a dream that one day Cathedral High School would have its own gym. Her leadership insured the viability and sustainability of Cathedral.  For this guidance we can never adequately thank her.
 
She is one who is not comfortable in the limelight, but is much more at home working behind the scenes to get things done.  She is humble and there is a holiness about her.  She cares deeply and demonstrates that care on a daily basis.

She is a person of intellect, and faith, but importantly a person filled with love of people and dedicated to the service of those people.  She has responded to God’s call to serve, and we have been blessed that for the past 26 years that service has been to the Cathedral Family.
 
And so it is with great pleasure that we hold before this graduating class an individual we believe worthy of your emulation – a woman who has spent her life investing in the promise of young people. 

Women and Men of Cathedral High School, I present to you and to this assembly this year’s recipient of the Saint Joseph the Worker Award, Mrs. Christol Murch.

Headmaster Thomas P. Arria, Jr.
Commencement Exercises of the Class of 2010
May 22, 2010

For more information, please contact Ms. Bonnie McBride at (617) 542-2325 x 202 or at bmcbride@cathedralhighschool.net.