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16 January 2006 Coleen Perilloux Landry

Moreau Hall

This building which housed the library, cafeteria and some high school classrooms is named for the founder of St. Isidore and Holy Cross in New Orleans, Fr. Basil Moreau.


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melanie fallo smith 29-Apr-2013 06:54
Joseph Browne...Any chance that you knew my father, Blake Fallo. I believe he graduated in 1957. Melanie Fallo-Smith
Jacques Couret HC 1991 21-Feb-2007 18:59
Right, indeed Joe.

This building was blessed by Archbishop Rummel in 1957, according to a big plaque inside the building by the cafeteria. I had chemistry in the classroom at the top right, World Hisotry in the classroom just behind the gold statue of St. Joseph and English with beloved Mr. Leach in the classroom above the statue. When I started HC in fall 1983, the building was simply called "The High School Building." They later dubbed it Moreau Hall I think around fall 1988.

Of greater interest to me is that small hole in the ground at the bottom left between the roots of the oak tree and the bench in the background. I dug that hole on Christmas Eve 2006, when I came home for the holidays and got to see HC for the first time after Katrina. I brought a small spade for the job, but it wasn't enough, due to the layers of silt and rotten leaves deposited by the storm.

I was trying to get to a "time capsule" my friends and I buried there during our junior year in spring 1990. We all wrote some messages on a piece of paper, stuffed it into a a bic biro-point pen, sealed it and buried it. I dug the hole during a lunch break with the point of my wingtip shoes while sitting on a bench that used to be right under the tree on the left. We then hammered the time capsule into the ground with someone's loafer, then filled in the hole.

I am sorry to say that since the bench was gone, I lost the frame of reference and had to dig around the roots to find the time capsule. And sadly, I could not find the time capsule. I gave up digging, quickly and roughly filled in the damage I created, then moved onto a long depressing walk in the administartion building.
Joseph Browne 10-Jul-2006 18:13
My class of 1954 was the last one to graduate from the "old" building.
The new building was named after the founder of the congregation of Holy Cross...
Fr. Basil Anthony Mary Moreau...not the first headmaster....although he probably would have been an excellent one.
Joe Browne ('54)