All smiles in Sister Miriam Jude's 7th- and 8th-grade class of 1950.

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Cameron Healy, sporting his St. Francis School uniform, stands in front of the old convent on Franklin Avenue, near Lava Road.

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Celebrating St. Patrick's Day at St. Francis School, around 1950.

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Bishop Leipzig blesses two new classrooms of St. Francis School, 1953.

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The recently completed classrooms at St. Francis School are blessed by Bishop Leipzig, 1953.

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Teachers, students, parents, clergy and the Bishop congregate in January 1953 to bless the school's addition of two classrooms.

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Interesting lighting and angles are featured in this 1953 photo of the playground on the north side of St. Francis School.

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The school playground in the 1950s sported swings, teeter-totter, a less-than-regulation-height basketball hoop and lots of dirt. The back wall belongs to the Cascade Bowl, a popular family spot for bowling.

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Lava Road looking north to the old St. Charles Hospital (now the site of a hotel). The houses at left were preserved as part of McMenamins Old St. Francis School. The boy with the big bike is one of Rollie Anderson's sons. The Andersons lived in one of the Lava Road houses.

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The St. Francis Saints of the gridiron. Coach Vince Ginna stands with his team on Troy Field, just south of the school.

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The new convent is open for the inspection of parishioners, 1959. This building still stands just beyond the northeast corner of McMenamins' Old St. Francis School grounds.

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St. Francis School around 1950.

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