South side high school potential considered

Sam Lucero reported in the Catholic Herald of October 20, 2005 on talk of opening another Catholic high school on the south side (or sout' side as we natives call it) of Milwaukee.

Capuchin Br. Bob Smith, director of the archdiocesan Department for Educational and Formational Services, told the Catholic Herald that he sees the merits of a new Milwaukee Catholic high school.

"My personal view is that the south side is large enough for more than one Catholic high school," said Br. Smith, whose department oversees Catholic schools. "Not more than 15 years ago, we had three."

And more before that. Besides the high schools that were closed, on old diagrams of the grounds of my parish there was a site for a possible southwest side Catholic high school. The land was later sold, the proceeds used for the auditorium-style "new church" built in the mid-1980s, and apartments were built on the high school site.