Cascia Hall High School - Towers (Tulsa, OK)

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STIUVTUE, FOR EXCELLENCE Cascia Hall l,96Ll-65 is particularly memorable for the searching self-examination to which the teaching staff has addressed itself. Early in the year, the Very Rev. James J. Sinnott, O.S.A., headmaster, Was instructed by the commissioner of the Augustinian Educational Association for the mid-Western province to conduct a thorough evaluation of every aspect of the school. ln l963, this Association initiated a policy of requiring all Augustinian schools to conduct such a study tri- ermially. lfsing as guide lines the Evaluative Criteria of the National Study of Secondary School Evalua- tion, the staff began its Work by revising a philosophy of education designed specifically for Cascia Hall. With unflagging dedication, the teachers attended hours-long bi-weekly meetings in which they hammered out what must be ranked as a veritable charter for their students. This document charges the Cascia man to strive for excellence both as a person and as a student. It commits each teacher to present the very best that is current in his field of specialization. It pledges the administration to reconstruct and to revitalize every aspect of school life in terms of the present needs of the American, college-bound youth. The students' various religious heritages are to be recognized and positively encouraged. A mod- ern, ecumenically oriented program of religious instruction and practice is carefully laid out for the Catholic students, and the academic and physi- cal needs of all are to be continuously re-evaluat- ed and re-formed. This document, then, sets forth the standards for producing a religiously devout, morally Wholesome, consistently studious, patriotic Amer- ican young man who is well prepared for a happy and successful life and for admission into an American institution of higher learning. Once there, we tr'ust, he will continue this program of s1f1'i1fing for excellence as Cascia Hall has defined and outlined it for him. Wfith this broad constitution in mind, each of the seventeen staff members was assigned to at least three of the eighteen over-lapping commit- tees which were required to establish new standards and programs in such areas as religion, English, speech, foreign languages, mathematics, physical sciences, social studies, guidance and physical education. Programs for extra-curricular activities were re-written and the students' inter- ests and home backgrounds were carefully sur'- veyed. This project has required much more than hard Work on the part of the faculty. It has in- volved the subordination of many differences of opinion to the gracious give-and-take of a demo- cratically constructed instrunrent. It has, there- fore, been a source of much inner satisfaction to all members of the faculty. All who have contributed in various Ways and degrees to the Evaluative Criteria Study deserve the abiding gratitude of us who have an interest, corporate or otherwise, in Cascia Hall. This challenging study and re-evaluation of our school has inspired the teachers to press on to the goal of making our school one of the finest college preparatory school in the nation. lt remains for the students to measure up to the re-defined philosophy, to the reformulated aims and objectives and to the newly oriented academic standards of Cascia Hall. Believing in the relative perfectibility of our Well-disciplined and Well-disposed young men, we are confident that most of them will do so. They are committed to strive for excellence.

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