Father William A. Hughes was appointed as the first principal of Cardinal Mooney High School in 1956. He immediately set about the task of creating a school that would be known for academic excellence and, at the same time, a school with a rich athletic tradition. He staffed the school with teachers who quickly established the academic reputation of Cardinal Mooney and the athletic department with coaches who were not only experts in their fields but were also utstanding examples of the values found in the school motto of “Sanctity, Scholarship, and Discipline”. Through his deliberate efforts the traditions valued by every Mooney athletic were established in the famous words--”Remember, we are FOR Mooney and against no one!”were indelibly etched into the minds of each student that attended the school. It was because of the foundation that he created that today the name of Cardinal Mooney High School and the achievements of its athletics have become legendary. He is the undisputed creator of the intangible but devasting “Mooney Spirit”! Father Hughes was appointed superintendent of the Youngstown Diocesan Schools in 1965 and was consecrated as an Auxiliary Bishop in 1974. In 1979, he was named the Bishop of Covington, Kentucky where he resides today.