Time Capsule

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A history of BEHS found in a time capsule, 1921

The Contents

In the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, during the Pontificate of his Holiness, Benedict XV, this corner stone is laid. The patron saint of the school is St. Paul, Apostle of the Gentiles. The name of this school is the Bishop England High School. The school was organized and opened with the approval of Rt. Rev. Henry P. Northrop, Bishop of Charleston, by Rev. Joseph L. O’Brien, assisted by Rev. J.J. May, Sept. 22, 1915.  For one year classes were conducted in the Cathedral School on Queen Street.  The second session was opened Sept. 18, 1916, in a building on the grounds on which this building stands.  This property, 203 Calhoun St. was given by its owner, Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan of New York City to the Diocese of Charleston Feb. 26, 1916, to be used as a home for the High School.  The teachers in the school are Sisters chosen from the Sisters of Our lady of Mercy, founded by Bishop England.

The corner stone of this building was laid by Rt. Rev. William Russell, Bishop of Charleston, Oct. 12, 1921.  William G. Harding being President of the United States, Robert A. Cooper, Governor of South Carolina and John P. Grace, Mayor of the city of Charleston.

The funds for the building were all collected from the Catholic people of Charleston, through the following committees.

A.J. Riley, Chairman                            A.W. Litschgi Jr., Secretary           
C.P. Aimar, M.D.                                   John Heitz
James F. Condon                               Albert Sottile
W.J. Leonard

James R. Cantwell                              E.L. Erickson
John F. Hallis                                        E. Tracey Becker
François H. Soubeyroux                     Henry Oliver
James B. Lannan                                E.C. Bouvette
Joseph L. Datern                                J.P. Magrath
J.W. Burmester                                    Leon J. Cosgrove
Julian V. Brandt                                   George F. Musladin
John I. Cosgrove                                 L.W. Bicaise
William OD. Langley                           W.A. O’Hagan
W.F. Livingston                                     M.J. Hamley
Laurence A. Michel                              W.J. Bunnam
D.C. Barbot 

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