| History |
IMPORTANT DATES IN ST. DOMINIC'S HISTORY1964 - Bishop Marion B. Forst announces division of St. Mary Parish. Division lines are drawn. January 26, 1965 - Land is purchased. October 15, 1965 - First pastor, Father Lisle Pottorff, arrives. November 5, 1965 - Parishioners choose St. Dominic as patron saint. November 7, 1965 Altar Society organized. September 6, 1966 - Ground broken for school, auditorium and convent. January 6, 1967 - Open house held at rectory. September 7, 1967 - School opens in new building. May 5, 1968 - Parish plant is dedicated. June, 1970 - Father Pottorff leaves; Msgr. Husmann arrives. September 4, 1971 - Rectory moves to convent; sisters to rectory. September, 1972 - Open classroom system started at school. September 2, 1974 - Parish sponsors Vietnamese refugee family. July 1, 1976 - Msgr. Husmann leaves; Father Ron Renner arrives. October, 1979 - Faith in the Future drive begins for church. December 14, 1979 - Drive a success; church assured. February, 1980 - Plans begun for church. May 16, 1981 - Ground broken for church. August 20, 1981 Sisters of Mary Reparatrix come to Garden City. November 20, 1982 - First Mass celebrated in church. December 12, 1982 - Church dedicated. July 1, 1984 - Father Renner leaves; Msgr. Norbert Temaat arrives. November 22, 1985 - Sacrificial Offertory Program begins. June, 1986 - St. Dominic School Endowment Fund established. 1990 - Under Msgr. Temaat’s guidance, the parish debt is retired. October 14, 1990 - St. Dominic Parish celebrates its 25th Anniversary with Bishop Stanley G. Schlarman presiding over the celebration. The mortgage is burned in the presence of 750 parishioners and many visiting priests. July 6, 1993 - Msgr. Temaat leaves; Father Dennis Reed becomes the fifth pastor. Mary 28, 1994 - Father Gregory S. LeBlanc, son of Dan and Faye LeBlanc, is ordained at St. Dominic. July 12, 1994 - Father Reed celebrates his Silver Jubilee. June 18, 1994 - Newly ordained Father Shane Wasinger, son of Joan Wasinger, celebrates his first Mass at St. Dominic. 1995 - Rectory becomes offices for the parish staff and the rectory moves back to 908 Center. October 1996 - Perpetual Adoration begins at St. Catherine Hospital Chapel. July 16, 1998 - St. Dominic Parish hosts the Ordination and Installation of Most Reverend Ronald Gilmore as the fifth Bishop of the Dodge City Diocese. July 1, 1999 - Father Reed leaves; Father Joseph Bahr becomes the sixth pastor. May 21, 2000 - The 40th anniversary of Father Joseph Bahr’s ordination. May 19, 2001 - Father Ted Stoecklein is ordained at St. Dominic. July 27, 2002 - Groundbreaking for Parish Center October 10, 2004– 40th Celebration and Dedication December 19, 2007-Death date of Fr. Bahr December 24, 2007-Funeral Mass for Fr. Bahr at St. Dominic December 26, 2007-Funeral Mass and Burial of Fr. Bahr in Olmitz. |
