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High School Dist. 214 must look into the possibility of pur chasing Sacred Heart of Mary High School if it is available. Su perintendent Edward H. Gilbert told the Dist. 214 Citizen’s Com mittee last night. Gilbert said the school board would not be meeting its respon sibility to taxpayers if it did not look into the possibility of saving money by using the 1,000-pupil parochial girls’ school in devel oping a 3,000-student public high school in Rolling Meadows. He warned that a study might show “it may cost more money” to buy Sacred Heart and develop a high school complex that would use at least part of the 40 acres Dist. 214 owns across Central Road. Gilbert made these statements after the committee queried three Sacred Heart representa tives, among them business manager Ronald Stoegbauer, on the feelers being put out regard ing possible purchase of the pa rochial school. Stoegbauer said if Dist. 214 is interested, it probably can get a firm answer regarding the Archdiocese interest in letting the Sacred Heart building go before Jan. 13. “There will always be a Sacred Heart of Mary,” Stoegbauer said. Stoegbauer said Sacred Heart’s interest in selling the Rolling Meadows building is triggered by some “very serious capital cost problems. “Very little has been paid off,” he said. He said the total pa rochial school plant, including convent, cost $3.5 million. Built on 14 acres, it has a capacity now of 1,000 students and could be expanded to 1,400 by means of a second-story addition. Seventy-five per cent of the students come from the Dist. 214 area. Gilbert told Paddock Publica tions after the meeting last night he will ask the school board to press the Archdiocese for an early decision on whether it thinks Sacred Heart should be sold. That request will come be fore the Dist. 214 school board nzews committee presents facil next Monday night ,when the du ty, financing and other recom mendations wrapped up at last night’s meeting. The Archdiocesan spokesmen have said their decision on whether to sell Sacred Heart probably will hinge on popula tion growth studies to determine whether the Catholic school sys tem will need the building later. Presumably, if the Archdiocese wants to keep Sacred Heart open on its present site, it will have to assume the building debt from the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. Although most of their discus sion centered on the surprise proposal by Sacred Heart, the Citizens Committee last night al so approved: Recommendations that Dist. 214 call for tax rate referendum to raise the educational tax rate ceiling 21 cents per $100 assessed valuation and the building main tenance tax ceiling 12% cents. A study of the benefits and disadvantages of operating the schools for a longer school day and/or 12 months a year. Improve efforts “to com municate”’ with its various pub lics. The committee said stu dents should have greater op portunity to participate in ac tivities that promote improved school-community relations, purchase of Series “EE” savings bonds. Mrs. Donna Horstmann, chairman of the Gregory stamp program, will be at the school each Wednesday. Getting a head start on the sav ings program are John Horstman, 7, and Ka thy Horstman, 6. U.S. TREASURY Savings Stamps will be of fered to students of Mount Prospect’s Grego ry School today as part of a systematic sav ings program sponsored by the school’s PTA. Children will be offered the opportunity to buy savings stamps in denominations of 10 cents or 25 cents which can be used toward (Staff Photo)
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Mount Prospect Herald
Mount Prospect, Illinois, US
Wed, Dec 04, 1968
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