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Class of 1910 |
Text by Fr Tom Kilbride from the College History section of the College website
This image is dated in our archive as coming from 1910, although most of the students only arrived in 1912. It shows the class with their classic Spanish birettas and “becas” (the scarf-like silk worn by university graduates in Spain and made part of the student attire in 1860). In 1910, for the first time, students began to attend the local seminary in Valladolid for Theology, which granted pontifical degrees. It is possible that the students in the picture were among the first to graduate from the Valladolid seminary. In any event, these were all ordained and left Valladolid in 1919. They all went on to have long ministries in their respective dioceses, in some cases well into the 1970s. The original photograph lists them as follows: (l to r) Back: William McGoldrick (Glas), — [unnamed: possibly Patrick Clarke (Glas; later Motherwell)], James Matthews (Dunk) , Front: Joseph Costeur (Glas; later Paisley), Hugh O’Brien (Glas; later Motherwell).