re: Private school reps met to discuss leaving LHSAA

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many privates were created in the immediate aftermath of integration....

Episcopal, Rummel, Shaw, Notre Dame... and many others.

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I don't know about Episcopal and Notre Dame, but I do know my history.

Archbishop Shaw, Archbishop Rummel, Immaculata, Archbishop Blenk, and Archbishop Chapelle were founded by Archbishop Rummel in his last years, and he was responding to the population shifts AND the Baby Boom. The Boomer children were beginning to reach maturity and the suburbs of the Archdiocese were growing, that's why there are so many parishes on the West Bank and East Bank of Jefferson Parish. It's where Catholics were going. The Church follows or tries to follow her members and brings herself to them as they move to new areas.


On the West Bank, Immaculata opened, as a parish high school in 1956, Shaw and Blenk in 1962. Before then, the only Catholic High School on the West Bank was Class B Holy Name of Mary, which, incidentally, won a LHSAA State Football Championship in 1955.

H.N.M. was located in Algiers Point, and not centrally located for Catholic students, and had rather smallish facilities. Thus, the others were opened, and H.N.M. closed its high school, but remained as a grammar school until just a couple years ago.

Up to 1962, H.N.M. which had been around a while, and Immaculata which was still new, were both co-educational. Once Shaw opened, all the boys were sent to Shaw, whilst Blenk and Immaculata (now combined as Academy of Our Lady, in Marrero) were girls-only schools.