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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022
SPORTS
A Catholic Tradition
BACK TO SCHOOL
John Carroll High School Celebrates 75 Years of Graduates
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Journal photo by Maury Wald
By Anne Ruisi
Hollywood
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nly one high school in the greater Birmingham area can boast a Heisman Trophy winner, a Nobel Prize recipient and a veteran Vatican diplomat among its graduates. That school, John Carroll Catholic High, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. John Carroll, which also is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its move to Lakeshore Parkway from its original site on Birmingham’s Southside, is well-known for the high caliber of its graduates, including its most famous: Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan, ’68, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner Eric Wieschaus, ’65, and the head of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome, where priests are trained for the Vatican’s diplomatic corps, Archbishop Joseph Marino, ’71. Those three are among the more than 12,000 graduates to earn diplomas since the school GROUNDBREAKING opened its doors in 1947, according Work began in to John Carroll’s website. Homecoming, when the Cavaliers November 1946 to build the John Carroll play Hayden High School on Sept. Catholic High on 9, will be the official kickoff to the Highland Avenue year-long celebration and a major between 23rd Street capital campaign, said Alyssa and Milner Crescent. Weisberg, the school’s marketing communications director. See JOHN CARROLL, page 28
GOLDEN PLUS ONE: Indian Springs teacher set to begin his 51st year at the school. PAGE 29
