St. Vivian 75th Celebration

09/12/2021

Would you like to see what has been happening at St. Vivian? Check this out....
Reserve your spot NOW! $15 for delicious all you can eat pizza and coneys and entrance to this awesome party! ($20 at the door)
Tickets can be purchased in the rectory, after mass or online. Click on the image below!

Also, look and like the page 'St. Vivian Fall Bash'

See you there!

03/09/2020

03/07/2019

Save the date - April 12th
One night only - Fish fry and Spaghetti dinner

09/16/2018

Hope to see you tomorrow at the 75th Celebration. We are ready to welcome everyone!

09/14/2018

75th Anniversary Celebration is this Sunday, September 16th!

Here is an Event Schedule:
9:30am Mass with Archbishop Schnurr
After Mass - 12:30pm Brunch in gym
11:00am - 3:30pm History walk in gym

12:00pm - 2:30pm Teen Center in Ursuline Hall opens for ping pong, foosball, airhockey pool, electronic games and board games for 6th - 12th graders
Scavenger Hunt
Putt-putt and corn hold in front of school
Face painting tent in front of school

12:30pm - 2:00PM Guided school tours - meet tour guides in breezeway
12:30pm - 2:00pm Church tours - meet docents in the Church
2:30pm - 3:30pm Ice cream social in the gym
3:30pm Closing prayer service in the gym

09/03/2018

Thank you to all those who have donated items to make this 75th Celebration happen....
Thank you Graeter's, The Goody Shop, Diocesan Publications and the many parishioners who have donated items.

There are still some items needed, check the posters in the breezeway and back of the church for more information.

08/31/2018

Memories: When This Parish Was Young (Part 3)

On Sunday, Sept. 16, St. Vivian Parish will celebrate its 75th birthday! Please join us, beginning with 9:30 am mass with the Archbishop, followed by brunch, tours of the church and school, games for the kids, a history display, videos and more! (For more details, check out: https://stvivian.org/75th-anniversary/ )
Invite your family, alumni, old neighbors, etc. to renew memories and friendships.
The memories below come from a former St. Vivian student:

My name is Terence Carey, and I was a student and parishioner at St. Vivian's from 1951 to 1956 in grade school and a parish member until 1965.

During my 7th grade year we went up to the motherhouse in Brown County for a picnic. I met a boarding school student that I dated in college and married upon graduation. Our wedding was somewhat unusual in that it was a double, Catholic, part military wedding on the hottest day in August, the 14th, in 1965. 53 years later we are still happily married. Back then the Ursulines were strictly cloistered, but since my wife was a Brown County graduate, and I was schooled at St. V’s, a temporary dispensation was granted, and about 5 nuns got to attend our wedding. They would not sit in the main body of the church, but can be seen in our wedding pictures peeking thru the grating on the cry room in an upstairs hallway over the sanctuary. As a double wedding we had 2 brides, 2 grooms, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, and numerous attendants. With 17 folk in the sanctuary it looked like a mob scene in Times Square."

In 2006 our class had a 50th reunion. After we had gathered, some 34 or so out of a class of 42, Sr. Ursula walked in. Every one of us spontaneously stood up, and we chorused, “Good Afternoon, Sister,” as we did so often 50 years ago. It was a testament to the values taught at St. V’s that of the 42 classmates, most were with the people they dated in high school and later married. I know of only one divorce out of the 42.

I have many fond memories of St. Vivian's, and congratulate the parish, staff and parishioners on achieving 75 years of service. We have come a long way from the basement of John Zanitsch’s grocery store in Parkview Heights."

75th Anniversary St. Vivian’s Church Celebrates its’ Diamond Jubilee St. Vivian Parish is proud to commemorate 75 years of growth and change. Please mark your calendar for Sunday, September 16, when Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr will celebrate the 9:30 mass there. This will kick off a day of fun ...

08/29/2018

Memories: When This Parish Was Young (Part 2)
On Sunday, Sept. 16, St. Vivian Parish will celebrate its 75th birthday! Please join us, beginning with 9:30 am mass with the Archbishop, followed by brunch, tours of the church and school, games for the kids, a history display, videos and more! (For more details check out: https://stvivian.org/75th-anniversary/ )
Invite your family, alumni, old neighbors, etc. to renew memories and friendships.

The memories below come from a former St. Vivian student:

My name is Terence Carey, and I was a student and parishioner at St. Vivian's from 1951 to 1956 in grade school and a parish member until 1965.

I remember being in Mass when the fire siren would go off, and 10 or so volunteer firemen would run out of the church, jump into their cars, and race up Winton Road to the fire station at Galbraith and Winton with the sirens and red lights on. I was always proud of the men who would literally drop everything to rush to help people in need. Some of the parishioners names I remember were Mike Marois and Joe Ploeger, Sr. and Jr. I was an altar boy and served many Stations services on the paths thru the pine trees, and I served the cornerstone ceremony with Archbishop Alter (in 1957).

My sister Sheila was one of the last weddings in the old church in 1956, and my sister Kathy was one of the first to be married in the new church in February, 1957. One day I rode with an assistant pastor out to a monument company on Neeb road way out in Western Hills, almost to Miamitown, in a pickup truck to load a ton or so pieces of granite and marble, which remain installed along the base of the walls in the new church. I also remember seeing the theater organ WLW-TV donated to the parish being stored in the boiler room. I remember Fr. Bramledge and his 22-minute 6:30 a.m. mass I would serve, and then climb up into the uncompleted bell tower to eat my breakfast of cinnamon toast before school.

75th Anniversary St. Vivian’s Church Celebrates its’ Diamond Jubilee St. Vivian Parish is proud to commemorate 75 years of growth and change. Please mark your calendar for Sunday, September 16, when Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr will celebrate the 9:30 mass there. This will kick off a day of fun ...

08/27/2018

On Sunday, Sept. 16, St. Vivian Parish will celebrate its 75th birthday! Please join us, beginning with 9:30 am mass with the Archbishop, followed by brunch, tours of the church and school, games for the kids, a history display, videos and more! (For more details see: https://stvivian.org/75th-anniversary/ )
Invite your family, alumni, old neighbors, etc. to renew memories and friendships.
The memories below come from a former St. Vivian student:

"My name is Terence Carey, and I was a student and parishioner at St. Vivian's from 1951-1956 in grade school and a parish member until 1965. I had two sisters--Nora, who graduated in 1954, and Betsy, who graduated in about 1963. My brother Dennis graduated in about 1962, all from St. V’s.

I remember the old St. Vivian’s of the Pines, with the beautiful trees separating the front parking lot from those on the south edge of the property. Those were the lots for the boys' playgrounds. I remember the May crownings at the outside altar at the end of the lot and the Guadalupe altar behind the Quonset Hut. I had Sr. Regina in 4th grade, a lay teacher in the 5th, Sr. Martha in 6th, and Sr. Ursula in 7th and 8th. My 4th--6th grade years were spent in the old one story building with the church and classrooms. 7th grade was spent in the Quonset Hut with 76 seventh and eighth graders in one huge room. Sister Ursula would teach one grade for an hour, then give them an assignment and teach the other grade. My 8th grade was spent in Behler's basement down the street on Denier Place (due to space limitations). Despite the unusual academic circumstances, most of my class graduated high school and college without problems."

While the new church was being built, the old roof used to leak badly in rainstorms. Many a day a group calling ourselves “the Junior Janitors Corps” would man the mops and squeegees to remove copious puddles throughout the church and hallways. We even came up with a crest of crossed mop and squeegee with a sponge rampant on a blue background. I remember several days when the boiler quit, and school would be cancelled for the day. Since it was too cold to go to school, I remember one day when we had a spontaneously organized bike ride out to Winton Woods. While passing the church we saw a visiting Msgr. walking north up Winton Road. We approached from behind him, and after about 20 “good morning Msgr.” he finally stopped and turned around to see the rest of the 30 or so riders going past him.

I think the favorite teacher of our whole class was Sr. Ursula. We loved her so much that we would stay after school voluntarily to help her. In the 8th grade, when we were on half day sessions, we would walk back up to school in the afternoon to hang out with her till the Oak Street bus came to take the nuns home.

75th Anniversary St. Vivian’s Church Celebrates its’ Diamond Jubilee St. Vivian Parish is proud to commemorate 75 years of growth and change. Please mark your calendar for Sunday, September 16, when Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr will celebrate the 9:30 mass there. This will kick off a day of fun ...

08/20/2018

Remember when we all learned to be good sports at the Fr. Jack Filippine Center? And remember Fr. Jack, the best sport of all, our rock, our spiritual guide? Come celebrate 75 years of community at St. Vivian on Sunday, September 16.

At 9::30, Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr will celebrate mass. More celebrating, reminiscing, and fun to follow!

https://stvivian.org/75th-anniversary/

08/02/2018

The 75th Celebration would also like to showcase all the graduating 8th grade classes. We are scanning photos to include in the Celebration, but are missing some. Can you help?

These are the missing 8th Grade Graduation Photos:
1969 1997
1970 2001
1974 2002
1976 2003
1977 2004
1978 2005
1979 2009
1980 2010
1981 2012
1982 2014
2015
2016
2017

*The pictures just need to be scanned into a file and will be returned asap for safe keeping.
*Please comment if you can help. Thank you!!!

08/01/2018

We'd like to have Yearbooks from all graduating classes at St. Vivian (when they were available) but are still missing some. Can you help?

We are missing these years:
1969-70
1973-74
1974-75
1978-79
1979-80
1980-81
1985-86
1986-87
2002-03
2004-05
2005-06
2009-10

**Please note that the yearbooks will be on display for people to look through at the 75th Celebration. We will do our best to monitor and protect the books, but there is a possibility that they could get damaged or even misplaced.
**Leave a comment if you can help. Thank you!!!