Closing of the school
title:
Closing of the school
publisher:
Women and Leadership Archives
creator:
Chicago Sun-Times
date:
1981
description:
The Immacualta community reacts to the annoucement of the school's closing on February 20, 1981.
format:
8.5 x 11"
subject:
women's education; high schools; articles;
relation:
Immaculata High School
description:
Closing of the School, 1978-1981
type:
articles;
rights:
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coverage:
Chicago, Illinois; Immaculata High School
description:
OVERCOME WITH EMOTION, a mother cries after speaking at a meeting of parents, students and alumnae of Immaculata High School, angry over the announced closing of the school, 640 W. Irving Park. (Sun-Times Photo by Jack Lenahan) Parents plot to save Immaculata By Rick MacArthur More than 400 parents, students and alumnae of Immaculate High School met Thursday night to vent their anger at the announced closing of the Catholic girls' school and to plot ways to save it. In a noisy, and frequently argumentative, session In the . auditorium of the school at 640 W. Irving Park, some parents vowed to fight to keep the 60-year-old school open, even if it required raising tuition $550 over the rest of this academic year and the next. The Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, based In Dubuque, has announced the school will close In June because of declining enrollment Parents' spokesman Charles Werner asked parents to write anonymously on note paper, passed around the auditorium, whether they would be willing to pay the extra $550 In tuition over the next year-and-a-half. "I don't expect to get any back that say they won't" Werner said. That money, he said, would cover an estimated $115,000 operating deficit for the current fiscal year. A letter read at the meeting from Sister Diane O'Donnell, the school's principal, said that school officials would accept written questions from the parents about the closing and meet with them at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Not all the parents at the meeting were as enthusiastic as Werner, and some blamed parents for not working harder at fund-raising. ' Mark Moran, president of the parents club, complained that club meetings rarely drew more than 20 people and that a Halloween dance fund-raiser lost $475 last fall because of poor attendance by parents.
identifier:
39.jp2