Talk:Creighton Preparatory School

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[edit] Rivalry

I'm going to need some sort of varification for this, as it seems untrue. In the mean time, removed.

[edit] Jesuit Education

i see no need for this section. if someone wants to find out about it, they can go to the section of the article of Jesuits

[edit] Talk

I was surprised to see Gutzon Borglum listed as an alum. What support is there for this assertion? --TheJeffMiller 10:41, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

"In 1884, when Gutzon was sixteen, the family moved to Los Angeles. His father, unhappy in California, soon returned to Nebraska, but Gutzon stayed behind." - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rushmore/peopleevents/p_gborglum.html Although he may have attended the school, he certainly couldn't have graduated by age 16, and isn't an alumnist. --jakealator 11:52, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

As your own source says, though, Borglum "liked to tinker with his own legend, subtracting a few years from his age, changing the story of his parentage." PBS's study is based on one archival document. According to the state of Nebraska (http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/notables/borglum.html), Borglum "moved in 1874 from Idaho to Fremont at the age of seven. Educated in Fremont and Omaha, Borglum showed an early aptitude for sketching." This account completely contradicts the PBS report. Again, according to the Encyclopaedia Brittanica (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9080743), Borglum "was raised from age seven in Nebraska." The state of Nebraska's website offers further insight: He stayed in Nebraska at least until he was 23, when J.L. Brandeis purchased his painting "Staging in California" at an Omaha art show; it was later donated to the Joslyn Museum. Sometime after this, he studied in San Francisco, where George W. Lininger sent him to Europe. This time frame, keeping him in Omaha until 1890, then gives him over 10 years to study in San Francisco and Paris, which is all anyone ever claims he did before 1901, when he moved to New York. No other story can explain how that painting could have gotten into the Joslyn; indeed, PBS claims he was in Europe at the time! It is certainly possible that he attended and graduated from Creighton College in all of these sources. Jeannie Brayman, a member of the Creighton Prep Hall of Fame and educator at Prep for nearly 25 years, was my first connection to the possibility that Borglum is an alumnus; I don't know her source, though. If this isn't enough for you, then take him back off, but there is no basis to end the claim entirely. --aekarn 16:57, 28 January 2006 (UTC)