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sr.VIER COMMERCIAL HIGHWILLSHUTDOWNINmSt. Xavier’s CommercialHigh School in downtownbeJesuit Fatherscharge of the school announced this week.. According to the Very Kev. John J. Benson, S.J., rector of the Jesuit community at St. Xavier’s Church, the schoolbuildingbe taken over in 1960as the elementary school of St.Xavier’s Parish. It replaced an earlier parochial school building that had occupied the site since 1877.The commercial high school was begun in* a modest way in 1902 as a two-year secondaryschool for graduates of the parish grade school. The first stu-Proctorwhose new office building at thecorner of Sixth and Sycamore Streets stands next to the school.dents were boys' but in 1904 girls were enrolled also.Then the school began admitting students from other parishes. Expansion of the mercial high school wascommitted by a decline inper-thegrade school enrollment, broughton by the exodus of many of St. Xavier’s families to thesuburbs.The founder of the commercial high school and its directoruntil his death in 1928 was Fa-School Busther Francis J. Finn, S.J.,widely known author of popularjuvenile books.College ClossesThe Xavier University Evening Colley which has heldclasses in the school buildingsince 1935, will be transferredto St. Xavier’s High School atSeventh and Sycamore Streetsin 1960, Father Benson said.Legality IsNotre Dame NumSisters of Notre Dame deQuestionedNamur, who occupied a convent on Sixth Street near the schooluntil recent years, have beenCleveland.(tfC)Theteaching the girls from the beginning. Several laywomen alsohave been on the commercialBy that time the students of St. Xavier’s High willmoved to the new St. Xavier’shaveStrongsville School board, which received an opinion from Cuya-1 school’s faculty, hoga County prosecutor thattransporting parochial schoolpupils on public school buses I pansion of interparochial highBrothers of Mary taught the boys until 1935 when the ex-is legal, now has asked the Ohio schools led to the closing of theHigh School now being built on Attorney General for an opin-J boys’ department.North Bend Road. The, newbuilding is scheduled to beion.ready for occupancy this fall.St. Xavier’s parochial elemen-Lewis A. Lenkaitis, Strongs-1 tary school, once one of theOpened in 1901ville School Superintendent, | largest in Cincinnati, was closedsaid the board is seeking the mThe school building at 520 attorney general’s« opinion be-j Almost 5,000 GraduatesSycamore was opened in 1901cause he is the highest legal adviser to the state and is thelegal counsel for the state boardThe commercial high school, which has ’‘graduated nearlyof education.The question arose after a request from parents of St. Joseph parish school pupils who live and pay taxes in the Strongsville School district. A similar petition was turned5,000 students, has 240 students this year—112 in the first grade and 128 inf the second. Firstyear students will be permittedtocomplete course but theretwo-year will benofreshman students next year, according ,to Sister Imelda, prin-down nine years ago.cipal.
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Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph Register
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 23, 1959
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