A New St. Mary's?

November 27, 1964

June 20, 1967

January 20, 1969

A few weeks ago, I alluded to plans that were first brought up in the mid 1960s to develop a new Catholic high school to replace St. Mary's.  This new "Catholic Central" would be built on land nearby or bordering Calder Stadium.  I don't know if construction of a new school was partially designed in the first place to get all five parishes involved in running the high school, but the last article in 1969, when the project is shelved, seems to be a compromise, of sorts, where all five parishes will have some share in the administration of the school.  That's how it was when I attended from 1971-75.  As it turned out, it wasn't until the fall of 1997 that a new Catholic high school, the new St. Mary's, finally opened, west of US 41 in Neenah.