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Growing up Catholic in Indianapolis in the late 1950's through the 1960's meant going to parochial schools. I attended a public kindergarten and one semester of First Grade as I
was one of those half year students due to being born in January. When I became 6 years old and after my parents had purchased our home on Indianapolis' North Side I transferred to St. Thomas Aquinas Grade
School. In attempting to secure a photograph of St. Thomas Aquinas, I found that the current pastor was an assistant pastor of this parish when I was in grade school. Small world. St. Thomas Aquinas
was a school who's faculty was primarily Sisters of Providence.After squeaking by grade school, I went to yet another Catholic school, but this one was a private Jesuit school. It's curriculum was college preparatory
and had some of the  highest academic standards in the State of Indiana. Brebeuf Preparatory School
was an all male academy when I went there, but became coeducational in 1976 when Ladywood Girls School closed its doors and merged with Brebuef. I attended Brebeuf through my 2nd year and
transferred to Indianapolis Shortridge High School in 1966. Shortridge had its own 50,000 watt radio station (WIAN-FM) and I wanted to be a broadcaster. Thus the change
of schools. Shortridge was my father's high school and has some fairly prominent alumni. Senator Richard Lugar and Kurt Vonnegut just to mention two. While at
Shortridge, I worked on the radio station and also was involved in the only high school daily newspaper in the nation. The Daily Echo was renowned for being printed on a daily basis. |
