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Sacred Heart High closesBy Jean Willeper student, and the financial difficulty becomes a burden for parents who already pay hundreds of dollars in real-estateMOKENA Sacred Heart High School taxes for the support of public schools.has graduated its last senior class.“ThehadPiperfront% *the school farewellnewspaper, in its finalThe Catholic school for girls is clos-a iront page edition from the senior class members toing its doors, from the time of its first their “little sisters.graduating class of one senior student inThe farewell reads, “It is true that we1856, to the 70-member senior class of will be the last graduating class from1971, the school has provided a college-preparatory program for girls from Chicago Heights. Chicago, Worth, Frankfort, Tinlev Park, New Lenox. OrlandSacred Heart, and we understand with sympathy the upheaval which the closing of our school has brought upon our fellow students. It seems of little valuePark. Mokena. Oak Forest, Midlothian. to utter those two little words whichPalos Park and Joliet_____ %The school is being closed because offinancial difficulties. State officials estimate that to keep a student in high schooi costs approximately $520 annually. Sacred Heart has a tuition of $300often cause frustration to turn to satisfaction and tears to smiles: ‘We're sorry.' This time it isn't enough. But it is with sorrow that we watch classes scatter and plans for a rewarding four full vears at Sacred Heart become obliterated.“No amount of sympathy or tears canhardlv enough by state standards. Add to erase the hurt of being cast aside. We the tuition an annual bus fee of $180 can only remind our underclassmen ofMokenathe extreme happiness that being a part of this school has brought to us, and hope that they will experience this same feeling somewhere else in the future. However difficult it is for us to travel on. we can face tomorrow knowing we’ll never walk alone .... for a piece of Sacred Heart will always be embedded in our memories to remind us of the good times.The ground breaking for the present high school building took place Aug. 1.1, 1963; it was dedicated May 2, 1965. For 10 years prior to the construction of the present building, students attended classes in the novitiate building on the same grounds. The school is located on the edge of wooded property one mile north of the junctions of U.S. 30 and 45, north of Frankfort, Will County. The school has been conducted by the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart, whose Mother House dominates the acreage of the property in St. Francis Woods. The property is owned by the order.Approximately 80 per cent of the senior class will be going on to higher forms of education. Valedictorian Mary Sportiello, Country Club Hills, plans to attend Lewis-St. Francis College in Joliet as a math major.Salutatorian Victoria Ploplis, TinleyPark, plans to major in pre-med at Rosary College, River Forest. Both girlshave maintained a 4.0 grade-point average.Sister Cecilia Minich. principal, will be leaving for Springfield shortly where she will serve in the same capacity atSacred Heart, Springfield.The other lav faculty and teaching—sisters will be scattered throughout the area next September. Providence High School, New Lenox, will claim some of the teachers and will probably receive the bulk of the students not graduating. However, many of the students will no doubt be attending the public high schools in their own communities. The future of the modern building, which has not been in existence long enough to have memory-filled halls or ivy covered walls, has not yet been decided.Mrs. Charles Granger, Tinley Park, who was elected “Mother of The Year by members of the Sacred Heart* Mothers Club said, about the closing of the school. “Its a very sad thing, but we have had to accept it.”Mr. and Mrs. Granger have had three daughters, Marcia. Claudia, and Leslie Ann graduate from Sacred Heart. Their fourth daughter. Cheryl would have been in the class of '72. However. Chervl. along with many of her classmates, willbe attending Providence High School forher senior year.•r
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Mokena Herald
Mokena, Illinois, US
Wed, Jun 09, 1971
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