Catholic Central High School - Crusader Yearbook (Steubenville, OH)

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lA5l0I'g of 6afAoALc alllfa! ln l889 when Father Iames I. Hartley, pastor cf Holy Name Church, Steubenville. and later Bishop of Columbus, opened a high school in :is parish, he was fulfilling a need which was felt then, for educating perhaps an hundred students. Little did he realize that in scarcely more than fifty years the enroll ment would have grown to 785 students and that the school would be removed to the ideal site which it now occupies. lt took more than sixty years ior that reality to shape itself. Both Monsignor Weigand and Monsignor Gilbert in untiring effort guided this Catholic high school, the only one in the vicinity, through the ensu- ing years, enlarging its structure and ex- tending its benefits to outlying parishes. More sisters were added to the faculty and, in time, diocesan priests, also. lt remained Holy Name High School until l945 when the newly appointed Bishop, lohn King Muzzio, designated it a central high school. lt was his dream that a new high school, representative of a true Catholic spirit should be established in a spot distinct from any parish. The high school was to be open to students of outlying areas as well as to residents of Steubenville, on a tuition- free lcasis, upkeep to depend upon assess- ments trozn the various parishes proportions ate to the number of students from each. Accordingly, in l946, positive plan.: were made and through the following two years, until actual construction began, many :tours were spent with the architects. ln the spring of l949 ground was broken and actual building began, ln September, l95O, although some equipment had still to be installed, the doors of the new million dollar high school were opened to some 780 students. Cardinal Mooney came from Detroit on September lO, to dedicate the building . . . and FI arearn was realized. ln l98l the entire student body num- oered 134. Tie school has grown until in i958 :here were 171 in the graduating class alone. lt is the first structure which this genera- tion gias been called upon to build. lt will stand . . . a f1t:1ng memorial . . . for many generations to come. Front Hall showing auditorium entrance at right Q Main Oifice ec. ..... so Library X, Biology Laboratory