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Neumann-Goretti’s New Era Vol. II No. 35 (Issue 47)
“Reporting South Philadelphia the way it deserves”
READY FOR Class of 2012 to arrive on these steps, Neumann-Goretti’s Admissions Director Veronica Tremoglie and President Ron Jakows believe they have a model for community-centered secondary education in the 21st century.
Labor Day Parade Keeps Growing Neighborhood residents who belong to organized labor will enjoy a very special party this weekend, right in their own backyard. This year’s 2008 Labor Day Parade will draw a record 35,000 union members and their families as they march along Christopher Columbus Boulevard to mark the 21st annual Tri-State Labor Day Parade and Family Festival which follows at Penn’s Landing. It is now the largest local celebration
by Tony West SS. Neumann-Goretti HS accomplished its first big mission this past June. That’s when it graduated the first class of seniors who had known no other high school. Neumann-Goretti resulted from a merger of St. Maria Goretti HS for Girls with St. John Neumann HS for Boys in September 2004. For four years the school worked to blend two physical plants, two faculties, two student bodies and two traditions into one: a coeducational Catholic high school with a focus on contemporary South Philadelphia. After 50 years of single-sex education, says Father Ron Jakows, the school’s president since last year, “the merger went smoothly. We have a great faculty and staff, and a welcoming atmosphere. Now, Neumann-Goretti is the place to be.” It’s a place with two campuses. Classes are held in the old Goretti building at 10th & Moore. The building is in
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sparkling condition, as is the gymnasium. The athletic fields are at McNichol Field, the former Neumann site at 26th & Moore. There is ample room. Enrollment is steady at 1,000, (Cont Page 2)
Very Much In Business
Here’s good news for people who hope South Philadelphia will be keeping its familiar neighborhood institutions. Falcone’s Carpet & Furniture is not out of business and isn’t planning to go out of business, but was just thinking of relocating to another building a block or two from where it’s now located, on the 1700 block of Washington Avenue. Harry Falcone, who has spent four decades in business servicing South Philadelphia families, says, “I made a (Cont Page 13)
Packing Them Off To School
of Labor Day staged in the country. Co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO and the Tri-State Labor Day Parade Committee, this year’s parade and festival will include political candidates from both parties as well as top labor leaders from throughout Pennsylvania and the United States. The parade route will run from the spacious grounds of the Sheet Metal Workers Union at Columbus & Reed. (Cont. Page 2)
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CITIZENS BANK volunteer gives Pt. Breeze girl a spiffy new backpack stuffed with school supplies at Pt. Breeze Performing Arts Center, whose VP Al Brown, Sr. got together with Citizen’s Bank VP Pamela Browner Crawley to outfit 100 kids.
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