Mascot -- Cathedral High School -1960
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Raymond L. Telles, Jr. (September 5, 1915 – March 8, 2013) was the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city, El Paso, Texas.[1] He was also the first Hispanic appointed as a U.S. ambassador.
Born in El Paso and educated as an accountant, Telles worked at the United States Department of Justice for eight years. He was drafted into the Army in 1941. Telles then served in the U.S. Army Air Force where he became Chief of the Lend-Lease Program for Central and South America. Telles left the service with the rank of major.
Telles received the Peruvian Flying Cross, the Order of the Southern Cross from Brazil, the Mexican Legion of Merit and Colombian wings in recognition of the Lend-Lease Program. Telles served as aide to several Latin American and Mexican presidents visiting the United States, and as military aide to Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower when visiting Mexico City.
Telles was elected county clerk for El Paso County, Texas in 1948.
In 1951, Telles was recalled for the Korean War. He served as Executive Officer of the 67th Tactical and Reconnaissance Group, U.S. Air Force.
Telles was elected in 1957 mayor of El Paso and ran unopposed for a second term (1959–1961). He was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as Ambassador to Costa Rica. In 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Telles chairman of the U.S.-Mexican Border Commission.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed him chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for the United States. Telles died on March 8, 2013 in Sherman Oaks, California at the age of 97.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Telles
Brother Amedy Long, a Christian Brother, is seated in center of photograph between two Franciscans.. He is with a Cathedral High School senior class in this 1960's photograph at Holy Cross Retreat House at Mesilla Park, New Mexico.
Br. Cecilian Amedy (Joseph Long) was honored in 2017 as one of the giants in the First Steps: Building Border Faith exhibit of the Museum of History in El Paso Texas..He was known as a life-long learner, and an outstanding English teacher, scholar, disciplinarian, and counselor.
Born in New Orleans, he entered the Junior novitiate of De La Salle in Lafayette, Louisiana, in 1927. He received the brother's garb in the novitiate there on August 14, 1931, and went for studies at Sacred Heart Training College in Las Vegas, New Mexico 1932-1933. After teaching at St. Michael's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He had his first time at Cathedral High in El Paso, Texas from 1941-1943. He then was assigned back to St. Michael's in Santa Fe followed by other schools administered by the order.
In 1959 he was sent back to Cathedral High El Paso,Texas. He spent the remaining 25 years of his life there except for the year 1963-64. He was teaching full time when he died suddenly of a massive heart attack while visiting one of his former students.. Brother Amedy Long died 26 April 1984 in Pasadena Texas,at age 69.
FRYER, WILLIAM HENRY (1880–1963). William Henry Fryer, criminal lawyer, son of Brooklyn natives Catherine L. (Flannagan) and William Henry Fryer, Sr., was born on July 8, 1880, in Brooklyn, New York. He was educated by the French Christian Brothers in St. James School and after graduation was employed as secretary to the president of the American Railway Express Company in New York. On a western vacation he contracted typhoid fever from water drunk in New Orleans and was taken from the train on a stretcher at El Paso, on July 8, 1904. He stayed a year, recuperating, returned east, then decided to make El Paso his home. After working a year in the engineering department of the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, he entered the University of Texas law school at Austin, where he worked as a secretary to John W. Townes, dean of the law school. In Austin he met and married Mary Alice Kelleher. Both were devoted Catholics. They had four daughters and two sons; one of the sons was killed in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
Fryer returned to El Paso to practice law. Beginning in 1908 he also served as a court reporter, so that he could watch the top local lawyers in practice. He was appointed assistant county attorney and in 1916 was elected to that office. His crusade against speakeasies, as they came to be called in the prohibition era, was an early instance of the extensive use of the injunction. He closed more than 100 illegally operated private liquor clubs. Though he made so many political enemies that he was not reelected, he was appointed assistant United States district attorney. In this office he was notable for his opposition to food profiteers during World War I. In 1920 he returned to private practice. Fryer and a one-time partner, R. E. Cunningham, successfully led the fight against the Ku Klux Klan's dominance of the El Paso school board in the 1920s. As a defense attorney Fryer participated in several notorious cases. In 1949 he managed, for instance, to get a two-year sentence for murder without malice for Edna Mead, who had killed her mother with a hammer and scissors. The courtroom was always packed for his trials and jury summations, to which some spectators brought lunch so as not to lose their seats.
Through Fryer's long association with the Christian Brothers (see BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS), maintained since his schooldays in Brooklyn, he induced the order to send members to El Paso when Cathedral High School was being built by the Catholic Diocese of El Paso. The brothers provided the first faculty for the school. Fryer organized the Catholic Youth Organization in El Paso in 1925. He also served as president of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association in 1933 and of the El Paso Bar Association in 1948. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and started the Catholic Men's Organization in El Paso. He died in El Paso on November 13, 1963.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffr42
Cathedral High Alumni - Dan Haggerty & M. John Ross- 2002
Cathedral High Alumni - Dan Haggerty - with M. John Ross grad - 2002.
Haggerty Bio
EDUCATION/MILITARY
- Graduate of Cathedral High School and attended U.T.E.P.
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Marine Corps
- U.S. Naval Reserve
- Texas Army National Guard
- Vietnam War Veteran 1968-1972
CIVIC/WORK INVOLVEMENT
- Named Outstanding Northeast El Pasoan for the year 2008
- Appointed by Governor Rick Perry as trustee to the Texas County and District Retirement System since 2004.
- Governance Team Member to Border Children's Mental Health Collaborative since 2007.
- Real Estate - Since 1972.
- President of Century 21 Haggerty Co., Realtors
- Director of El Paso Board of Realtors 1980-1982
- Commissioner of El Paso Charter Revision Committee 1983
- Trustee of El Paso Community College Board from May1990 – December 1994
- President of Cathedral High School Alumni 1988-1989
- President of El Paso Veteran's Memorial 1988-1996
- Member of Transmountain Optimist
- Member of American Legion
- Member of Veteran's of Foreign Wars
- State Comptroller's Appointment - TexPool Advisory Board - 2000 to 2006
- El Paso County Commissioner 1995-Present
- Former board member: Radford School
- See more at: http://www.kvia.com/news/el-paso-county-commissioner-dan-haggerty-has-died/55650429#sthash.VXlGxY5O.dpuf
Stephen J. Ross serving as a lector for Mass at Lourdes Catholic Shrine in June 1966. He is a Cathedral High Alumni class of 1963. He served as an Usher at Saint Patrick's Cathedral for more than twenty years.
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