Month: May 2011
Organizations
Memorial Day Remembrances at St. James Cathedral
ABOVE: Photo of Captain Tom Buning with General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, December 1990. Tom Buning graduated from West Point in 1981 and completed a combat tour in Desert Storm. Tom grew up in the last family home on Lake Eola at the corner...
People
Sister Mary Katherine Palisin, Sisters of Notre Dame nun.
ABOVE: March 18th, 2011 photo of Sister Mary Katherine Palisin in front of the Tabernacle at Saint James Catholic Cathedral in downtown Orlando.
Sister Mary Katherine Palisin, Sisters of Notre Dame nun, remembers how her parents had a "living love for...
Organizations
Knights of the Altar at St. James Cathedral
ABOVE: November 28th, 1980 photo of the altar servers in procession at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando.
In this March 26, 2011 oral history interview at St. James Cathedral parishioner Tom Wilkes traces the history of the development of the...
People
Community Life at Saint James Cathedral - Jean Wilkes
ABOVE: Photo of the Wilkes family from the St. James Centennial 1885-1985 directory celebrating 100 years of St. James Catholic Cathedral in downtown Orlando. Pictured are Tom and Jean Wilkes with son Kevin and daughter Kelly.
Her first memory of Orlando wa...
Events
Investiture of Female Altar Servers at St. James Cathedral
Article from Jubilee, the St. James Cathedral parish newsletter, February 1996, documenting the historic transition to include female altar servers at the cathedral. On October 27th, 1995 the first female altar servers at Saint James Cathedral were invested....
Organizations
St. James Cathedral 1885-1985 Centennial Directory
ABOVE: Cover - Saint James Cathedral 1885-1985 Centennial Directory publication with pictorial directory of families.
"The Good News of St. James Cathedral: A Short History of the First 100 Years of a Catholic Parish" by Edward Hayes, who attended St. James...
People
Marie Adams, Saint James Cathedral
ABOVE: March 30, 2011 photo of Marie Adams in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Saint James Catholic Cathedral in downtown Orlando. Marie Adams joined staff at St. James Cathedral beginning in 1985 and retired after 20 years. She was the business manager...
Events
Sister Mary Katherine Palisin - Easter Memories
ABOVE: 1953 photo of Mary Katherine Palisin with her family in front of their brick home in Lakewood, Ohio built by her parents in 1951. Pictured are parents, Anna and Michael Palisin, and the children from left to right Michael, Annie, Georgine,...
People
Interview with Holocaust Survivor Helen Greenspun
Click on this link to hear the Oral History Interview with Helen Garfinkel Greenspan and view photographs.
