CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE B.V.M. CHURCH 1954
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We moved from New
York to Levittown, PA on December 8, 1954. At that time
our parish church, Immaculate Conception, was still under
construction. Masses were being said at the Edgley Fire
Hall at Edgely & Beaver Dam Roads. Coincidentally, the first Mass said at the new Church at Emilie-Oxford Valley Road was on December 8, 1955, one year later. |
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The pastor of our new parish was Father Arthur P. Elliott. His assistant was Father John Gillespie. |
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A classroom scene from Immaculate Conception School in 1955. The classrooms were crowded, but somehow we managed to learn the three R's, as well as our religion, music, and art, too! |
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The Immaculate Conception School Safety Patrol. What a thrill it was to be awarded the Safety Badge! The girls received arm badges, and the boys wore bright yellow breast badges, and the ever popular yellow hooded rain slickers. Safety First! |
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| An annual Catholic School event - the May Procession. In honor of the Blessed Virgin, the students would process through the parking lot, singing hymns, into the crowded church for prayers and Benediction. | The celebration ended with a floral Crowning of the Blessed Virgin by a selected 8th grade female student, attended by a group of 2nd graders in their First Holy Communion attire. |
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The first permanent structure of the new
parish was the Grotto of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
dedicated on the feast of the Assumption, August 15,
1954. The shrine still stands behind the Immaculate
Conception Convent, facing Oxford Valley Road. Other firsts of the new parish included the first boy to be baptized, Michael Patrick McGeever, on May 30, 1954, the first girl to be baptized, Ann Rosemary Burgoon, and the first altar boy at Immaculate Conception Church, Jackie Gallagher. |
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