Stories from the First Cathedral 44

One of my treasures was found at a large antique show at the Minnesota State Fair grounds. It is a little white card and is very valuable to me because it is a season pass for the 1934 St. Paul Saints baseball season. It was the pass used by the Rev. Frank Zoubek. The Very Rev. Zoubek was dean of the First Cathedral from 1915 to 1925. He left the Cathedral to be rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in St. Paul. The Saints at that time played in Lexington Park on the corner of University and Lexington and had played there for decades. If you are in the area, there is a monument one can read that gives the history of the baseball park. The rector of St. Mary's could walk or take a street car in the 1930s to get to a game. That season ticket pass must have passed through many hands before I found it after 60 or 70 years. It floated around until it was found by me, Dean of the First Cathedral, with a "Z" for a last name. Frank was a little further down the alphabet; me being a ZOT and he being a ZOU! 

I admired Dean Zoubek for, during his ten years at the First Cathedral, there was a rapid growth in youth. I admire him most for the way he promoted activities for girls and young women.

"Dean Zoubek must have been a strong supporter of its work, for he told the 1922 annual meeting of the Parish that the appropriation for girl's activities should be equal to the amount allowed for the boys." (The First Cathedral by The Venerable Ben Scott and Mr Roobert Neslund)

Another quote from the same book was very descriptive of Dean Zoubek. "Life around the Cathedral must have been very different when Frank Zoubek took over. He was a hearty man, who sang exuberantly and had a house full of mischievous red haired children."

Go Saints!