Saint Charles Preparatory School
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Saint Charles Preparatory School is a four-year college preparatory school
University-preparatory school
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 (a type of high school
High school
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) in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
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. It was founded in 1923 by the fourth Bishop of Columbus, James J. Hartley
James Joseph Hartley
James Joseph Hartley was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the fourth Bishop of Columbus from 1904 until his death over 39 years later...

, as a Roman Catholic college seminary. Today, it is an all-male high school serving the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus
Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus is a Roman Catholic diocese in the Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati covering 23 counties in Ohio. The episcopal see of the diocese is situated at Columbus, Ohio. The diocese was erected on March 3, 1868 by Pope Pius IX out of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati...

.

The school's patron is Saint Charles Borromeo
Charles Borromeo
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, and its motto, inscribed above the front door, is Euntes Ergo Docete Omnes Gentes, a quote from the Gospel of Matthew
Gospel of Matthew
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 in the Latin Vulgate
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: "Going out, therefore, teach all nations." The school has been described as "The Distinctive Leader in Catholic Education." The original nickname of Saint Charles students is "Carolians." (It is derived from the Latin
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 word "Carolus," which means "Charles.") In 1947, the students also began to refer to themselves as "Cardinals." The Saint Charles sports mascot is Charlie the Cardinal.

Founding and construction

The school was founded in 1923 by Bishop James J. Summers. The first classes were held at Sacred Heart School, an all girls Catholic school, while the main school building was being built. In 1925, construction of the main school building was completed and classes were held there.

1931 saw the completion of St. Charles’ gymnasium and the Our Lady Lourdes Grotto. Major renovations were made to the gym in 1951 to more than double the capacity.

A Gaelic
Gaels
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-style chapel (called the "Lower Chapel") was added on to the east side of the school in 1937. Bishop Hartley dedicated the chapel to Mother of Mercy. A Milwaukee art company beautified the chapel with artwork in 1952.

A natatorium was built next to the multipurpose room in 1990. In 1999, the Jack Ryan Training and Fitness Facility was built adjoining to the gym.

By the 1990s, since St. Charles was no longer a seminary and it did not house students, the dorm rooms were not necessary. The former art room on the fourth floor was used for housing purposes. In 1993, the campus library, which had previously been dorm rooms were converted into a physics lab. The library was moved to what was formerly the "upper chapel." In 1995, residence rooms for priests were also converted into classrooms because no priests lived in them. The office and living quarters for Monsignor Thomas M. Bennett, a Social Studies teacher, however, were maintained on the main floor of the school until his death on September 7, 2008.

Construction on the $5.5 million Robert C. Walter Student Commons and the Student Services and Fine Arts Center, the largest addition to Saint Charles in its history, began in June 2005. The approximately 27000 square feet (2,508.4 m²) addition, which replaced the courtyard behind the school, was ready for graduation at the end of the following school year; however, it was not available for full use until the 2006-2007 school year. The addition houses the 15000 square feet (1,393.5 m²) Robert C. Walter Student Commons Area, which serves as a new cafeteria and provides ample seating space for school and community functions. The Walter Student Commons is named in memory of Robert C. Walter, father of 1963 graduate Robert D. “Bob” Walter, honorary chairman and lead contributor to the current capital campaign being conducted to finance the new addition. Bob Walter and his ’63 classmate, architect Robert Corna of Cleveland, initiated the concept for the Commons nearly two years ago. Corna was the architect on the project, and based his designs off of a similar plan for Saint Ignatius High School
Saint Ignatius High School (Cleveland, Ohio)
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 in Cleveland, also an all-male school. On the columns supporting the roof are glass panes, which bear the names of all of the alumni of the school, written with laser. Behind the Robert C. Walter Student Commons Area is the 12000 square feet (1,114.8 m²) Student Services & Fine Arts Center. The ground floor anchors the north end of the atrium, and houses a new kitchen, sponsored by Donatos Pizza
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, and restrooms. The second floor houses offices for the guidance and counseling programs, campus ministry, and the school nurse. On the third floor is an extensive art room and gallery, with a kiln and mud rooms; and a music and choir room, with instrument storage and practice rooms; as well as offices for the respective instructors. The second and third floor connect to the original building at its rear stairwell, and to the Robert C. Walter Student Commons Area by a staircase.

Academics

St. Charles graduation requirements include: 4 years of religion class, English, foreign language, mathematics, and science; 3 years of social studies; and 1 year of fine arts, health, physical education. Some of the AP classes that are offered to juniors and seniors are AP Latin, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, English, Calculus and American History.

Saint Charles is one of the last schools to require students to take at least two years of Latin, a practice retained from the school's past as a seminary where four years of Latin and two years of Greek used to be mandatory.

Many students graduating from Saint Charles attend some of the premier college institutions in the country, including the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
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, Harvard, Boston College
Boston College
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, Cornell University
Cornell University
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, Yale University
Yale University
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, The University of Pennsylvania, Kenyon College
Kenyon College
Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...

, and Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
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. There is also a notably large number of students each year who are admitted to and attend the United States service academies.

In 2005, Saint Charles Preparatory was one of three schools in Central Ohio to have every sophomore pass every section of the new Ohio Graduation Test. (The state-wide public school pass rate was 64%.) In addition, the graduating class of 2009, with 117 students, had 10 National Merit Semifinalists and 20 Commended Scholars, one of the highest percentages in Central Ohio. Considering the requirements for National Merit designation, this fact implies that over 25% of this graduating class was in the top 2% of national college-bound students, a rate typical of Saint Charles students.

Theatre

Since St. Charles is an all-male school, the theatre department has had to use different methods to incorporate the female roles of plays and musicals. Both prep school and seminary students performed the first plays at St. Charles in 1929 under the direction of Monsignor Joseph A. Cousins. Female roles were played by male students dressing up as women until 1971. It was then that Mrs. Teresa McLean (the school’s biology teacher) became the first woman to perform in a St. Charles play. The next year, female students from St. Joseph Academy and Bishop Watterson High School
Bishop Watterson High School (Columbus, Ohio)
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 played female parts in a production. Ever since then, female roles for plays have been filled by open auditions from women at other Central Ohio schools. The current theater director is Mr. R.Douglas Montgomery.

Clubs and activities

The school's Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior Classical League (OJCL) and National Junior Classical League
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 (NJCL).

Notable people

  • Bishop James J. Hartley
    James Joseph Hartley
    James Joseph Hartley was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the fourth Bishop of Columbus from 1904 until his death over 39 years later...

    , D.D.
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    (June 26, 1853 – January 12, 1944): A native of Davenport, Iowa
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    , Bishop Hartley was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Columbus on July 10, 1882, by Bishop John A. Watterson
    John Ambrose Watterson
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    . On December 10, 1903, Pope Pius X
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     appointed him as the fourth Bishop of Columbus to succeed Bishop Henry K. Moeller
    Henry K. Moeller
    Henry K. Moeller was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Columbus and Archbishop of Cincinnati .-Early life and education:...

    , who had been appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Cincinnati
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    . He was consecrated on February 25, 1904, by Archbishop Moeller and was installed in St. Joseph Cathedral five days later. Bishop Hartley founded Saint Charles in 1923. During his episcopate of over 39 years, the longest in the diocese’s history, the number of parishes with schools in Columbus went from 37 to 74. Bishop Hartley also started what is now known as The Catholic Times
    The Catholic Times
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    , which had an office at Saint Charles for a short period of time.

  • Monsignor F. Thomas Gallen, P.A.
    Protonotary apostolic
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    (October 5, 1922 – July 31, 2004): A native of Columbus, Ohio
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    , Msgr. Gallen graduated from Immaculate Conception School in 1936; Saint Charles Preparatory School in 1940; and the College of Saint Charles Borromeo in 1944. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Columbus on June 7, 1947 at Saint Joseph Cathedral by the Most Reverend Michael J. Ready
    Michael Joseph Ready
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    , the fifth Bishop of Columbus. He also held a Masters Degree from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. In 1960, Father Gallen helped launch the broadcasts of area Masses that are still televised in Central Ohio each Sunday morning. In 1989, he was named a Monsignor by His Holiness Pope John Paul II
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     as an Apostolic Protonotary supernumerary
    Protonotary apostolic
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    . Affectionately known as “Monz," he had a 48-year tenure at Saint Charles, from 1950 until his retirement in 1998.

  • Monsignor Thomas M. Bennett (November 18, 1931 – September 7, 2008): A native of Detroit, Michigan
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    , Msgr. Bennett graduated from the College of Saint Charles Borromeo in 1953. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Columbus on May 25, 1957, at Saint Joseph Cathedral by Bishop Edward G. Hettinger, Auxiliary Bishop of Columbus. In 1992, he was named a Monsignor as an Honorary Prelate
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     of His Holiness Pope John Paul II
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    . Monsignor Bennett devoted his life to the priesthood and the students of Saint Charles, where he had a 46-year tenure, from 1963 until his death in 2008. At the time of his death, Father Bennett was the last teaching priest in the Diocese of Columbus.

List of principals and rectors

Years Principal / Rector
1925 – 1942 Msgr. Joseph A. Weigand
1942 – 1945 Msgr. Edward J. Leinheuser
1945 – 1957 Msgr. Paul J. Glenn
1957 – 1969 Msgr. Paul J. O'Dea
1958 – 1969 Msgr. George T. Woltz
1969 – 1971 Msgr. Ralph J. Huntzinger
1971 – 1976 Rev. Charles A. Jackson
1976 – 1985 Rev. Daniel W. Pallay
1985 – Present Dominic J. Cavello

Alma mater

Hail, Alma Mater dear.

Loyal Carolians here.

Thy fame spread far and near

O'er hill and dale;

Our voices raise to thee,

Singing their praise to thee

And happy days with thee,

Saint Charles, hail!

As to the fray we go

For thee we meet the foe.

For thee our colors show,

Thy flag unveil;

Blood red and gleaming white,

'Round thee our hearts unite,

For thee our battle fight

Saint Charles, hail!

When student days are o'er

And classes meet no more,

When life has called the score:

Prosper or fail;

Still in the twilight gray,

As ages pass away,

Lift we our hearts to say;

Brennan McGill, hail!

Patronal Hymn

O Saint Charles, our holy Father,

Mighty patron of us all!

In thine honor, lo! we gather,

Let thy kindly blessing fall.

Pray for us who name thee patron,

Hear thy sons who on thee call.

O Saint Charles, true guide to heaven,

Unto death our patron be.

When the clouds grow dark at even'

And God's way we fail to see,

Lift the weak, inspire the weary,

Bring us home to Christ with thee.

Athletic achievements

Saint Charles is a member of the Ohio High School Athletic Association
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.
This is an incomplete list.
Year(s) Sport Achievement
1938-1942 Basketball Coached by Jack Ryan, the team had a record of 77-5
1948 Swimming Central District Runners Up
1975-1979 Basketball Won 25 straight Central Catholic League games (still a CCL record)
1983 Soccer Won Ohio Class A-AA championship (the school’s first state title)
1985 Soccer Won second state title
1989 Soccer Division II State Runners Up
1992 Basketball Division II State Runners Up
1991 Soccer Division II State Runners Up
1994-1995 Swimming 2 consecutive Central District Runners Up
1997-2009 Swimming 12 consecutive CCL championships, the only team to win the crown in its history.
1999-2005 Cross Country 7 years consecutive CCL titles
2002-2005 Swimming Central District Runners Up 4 consecutive years (Coach 2002 Brian Thelan;2003-2005 Kyle Goodrich)
2003 Swimming Individual State Champion 200 Freestyle Adam Ritter
2006 Swimming Won 1st Central District Championship; 1st Division I State Runners Up (Coach Kyle Goodrich) 1st Relay State Champion 200 Freestyle Relay
2007 Swimming Division I State Runners Up (Coach Kyle Goodrich)
2006-2009 Swimming Won 4 consecutive Central District Championships, only team other than Upper Arlington and Worthingtion to win the Crown.
2008 Swimming Won 1st Division I State Championship (Coach Kyle Goodrich); 2 Relay State Champions (200 Free, 400 Free)
2009 Swimming Division I State Runners up (coach Kyle Goodrich); 200 Medley Relay State Champions; Individual State Champion 100 Butterfly and Backstroke Sandy Whitaker
2009 Volleyball Won the division II Ohio state championship over defending champions, Akron Hoban.
2009 Golf Won the division I Ohio state championship over defending champions, St. Xavier.
2010 Volleyball Division II State Runners up
2010 Water Polo Division I State Champions over Toledo St. Francis
2010 Golf Division I State Champions

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