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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the
3 State of Illinois are pleased to recognize milestone events for
4 institutions in the State; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School's parish in
6 Collinsville was founded in 1856; the first school was started
7 by Father S. Wegener, and the first students graduated in 1869;
8 in 1884, Ursuline nuns arrived to run the school; the first
9 principal was Mother Clara Spang; in 1894, a brick school was
10 built at a cost of $5,500, and the current school building was
11 completed in 1958; and
 
12     WHEREAS, In 1993, the school had its first lay principal,
13 Mrs. Cathy McGarrahan, and the current principal, Mr. Mike
14 Palmer, began in 2003; the highest enrollment at Saints Peter
15 and Paul Catholic School was in the 1960s, when over 600
16 students were enrolled; and
 
17     WHEREAS, The Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School family
18 will celebrate a liturgy on Wednesday, February 2, 2005, to
19 close the school's 135th anniversary; therefore, be it
 
20     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
21 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
22 we congratulate the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School
23 family on the occasion of the school's 135th anniversary; and
24 be it further
 
25     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
26 presented to Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School in
27 Collinsville as an expression of our esteem and with best
28 wishes for the school's future success.