Aquinas High School (La Crosse, Wisconsin)

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Aquinas High School is a Roman Catholic high school located in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

The high school was dedicated on September 2, 1928 in honor of Thomas Aquinas by Bishop Alexander Joseph McGavick of the Diocese of La Crosse. The first graduating class of 1929 consisted of four girls. The high school was originally staffed by diocesan clergy and the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.

Diocesan Bishop John Joseph Paul, an Aquinas alumnus of the class of 1935, set aside some rooms at Aquinas High School for the Aquinas Middle School in 1992. In 1997, the Bishop Burke Hall addition to Aquinas High School was dedicated in honor of Bishop Raymond Leo Burke, now the Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri and a former religion teacher at Aquinas High School.

Aquinas High School is part of the La Crosse Coulee Catholic Schools.

Contents 1 Sports 2 Notable people 3 Principals 4 Sources 5 External links

[edit] Sports

The school's most notable recent sports accomplishment is a Division II State Title in boy's basketball in 2003. The girl's soccer team has been Division II state runner-up twice in the past three years, and the boy's soccer team has been quite successful as well with winning many regional and sectional games. The girls tennis team was runner up in 2000 and the boys runner up in 2002.

[edit] Notable people

• Ann Walsh Bradley, Wisconsin Supreme Court, was a religion teacher at Aquinas High School prior to going to law school.
• Charles Dierkop, actor, attended Aquinas High School.
• George Albert Hammes, was a teacher at Aquinas High School prior to becoming bishop.
• Robert E. Kreutz, composer, 1940.

[edit] Principals

• Father Hilary Leuther, 1928-1936
• Father Joseph Kundinger, 1936-1940, 1946-1951
• Father John Prizl, 1940-1946
• Father Alfred Hebert, 1951-1952
• Father Robert Hansen, 1952-1960
• Father Richard Rossiter, 1960-1964
• Father James O'Connell, 1964-1972
• Father Robert Altmann, 1972-1990
• James Vail, 1990-1997
• Jeffrey Brengman, 1997-2001
• Father John McHugh, 2001-2002
• Joan Leonard, 2002-2004
• Philip Hahn, 2004-2006
• Patrick Burkhart, 2006-present

[edit] Sources

• Aquinas High School 2003 Alumni Directory
• 75th Anniversary 1928-2003
• Richard F. Dungar-class of 1969-Aquinas High School-volunteer:archives/alumni Aquinas High School

[edit] External links

• Aquinas High School La Crosse
• Diocese of La Crosse
• Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration La Crosse
• The Archivist:Aquinas alum collects 80 years of school's history in one office, La Crosse Tribune, Dan Simmons, September 21, 2006