Talk:Oratory Preparatory School

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Oratory Preparatory School Talk Page

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[edit] Sources

This article is becoming too cluttered by these unnecessary links to the fast fact page on the school website. Unless something looks unordinary or possibly incorrect please don't ask for a link for every sentence.

Oratory Prep has an unencyclopedia page in the works

[edit] National Registar of Historic Places

I should mention for the record, that it is a common misbelief that Oratory is a member of the National Registar of Historic places, and that many renovations made to Newman Hall last year.

[edit] About the First Wave Removal

First Wave is, in fact, a club at Oratory, though its relationship with the administration could best be characterized as iffy. It has a club President and daily meetings, culminating in a series of erratically scheduled First Waves.

  • First Wave is NOT a club. It consists of a mob of students running into a classroom while holding back the underclassmen on the other side. Please keep First Wave off of this site!

[edit] National Register of Historic Places

Newman Hall is, in fact, registered as a historic place; there is a plaque in main admissions office to prove it. Even though there have been renovations made, that does not mean that it is off the register of historic places.

  • According to Steve Fava, who among other things is the school archivist and formerly the principal, Newman Hall is actually not on the Register -- the plaque is for something else. It was discussed back when he and Fr. Manning were running the school, however, they decided not to put it on the register because of the planned rennovations Liamdaly620 03:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Student Life

I think its necessary to add a Student Life section where Oratory phenomenas exclusive to the school should be added. Things to be included but limited too.

  • The New Dean
  • Backpack flipping
  • First-Waving
  • Lunch Time
  • The FAVA effects
  • What administration member is in charge of this wikipedia article anyways?
No one is in charge of any Wikipedia article. And honestly, is any of this really notable? Steve Fava is a friend of mine, but is he encyclopedic? Not really. Liamdaly620 23:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ram Day

" A school-wide volunteer clean-up day is scheduled for the spring of each year in which anyone related to the Oratory Community may come to the school to help clean the school buildings and grounds. Leaf removal, mulching, pruning, raking, painting, and planting are what makes the day run smoothly. " Really? Leaf removal et al. make the day run smoothly? Don't we mean that a lot of leaf removal get done because the day runs smoothly? I'm going to take this out. As a side note, I remember the first Ram Day... for manual labor, they are surprisingly enjoyable Liamdaly620 23:38, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Open Houses

In years past the open houses have been relaxed and sometimes fun, but not anymore. It is now required to first apply for membership in the Peer Ambassadors, and then you have to take training sessions at night. The administration has already asked kids to leave the group because of their conduct, so not everyone can just show up.

Right, but that isn't notable. Schools, realors, etc. hold open houses as a standard operating procedure. That not just anyone is allowed to run one doesn't make Oratory's open houses notable. Even if they were notable, I think the section in question is too long and goes into too much detail. I'm not going to remove it, however, until we can reach some sort of consensus. Liamdaly620 19:45, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Alumni

I think this section is getting way too long, many of these people are only professors, or CEOs of small companies not really "Notable"68.37.229.165 19:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

  • I agree. I think the alumni could be trimmed down to Danny Devito, Richard Codey and Chris Carlin. Basically anyone who has their own wikipedia page. The rest are really a stretch.

Tbaker75 02:52, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Oratory.jpg

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Fixed Liamdaly620 02:11, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Headmaster or Headmistress

Would Mrs. Kostka be an interim headmaster or headmistress. because I think it should be mistress.65.86.196.211 16:57, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually, she's officially called principal, but the official title of the head of the school is headmaster (there's only been males, Lynch was only the 3rd layperson to hold the position - after Schultz and Boland). So technically, the headmaster is vacant, but the acting head of the school is the principal. Not sure how we want to phrase that in the article. Liamdaly620 03:06, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Since the school is insisting that Mr. Lynch is simply on leave, and still headmaster, I put this into the article, I don't think that Mrs. Kostka's temporary control over the school is really worth mentioning.71.187.226.244 16:16, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Lynch officially resigned as of Nov. 16. Marlene will be acting headmistress until June. Liamdaly620 (talk) 02:48, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, a correction - they updated the website (http://www.oratoryprep.org/about/facts.cfm?hid=16&section=about) and list Marlene as the "head of school" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Liamdaly620 (talk • contribs) 03:23, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Thats not all they did, they removed Lynch from every picture, and press release on the website. The Archdiocese also sent a letter home to all students.69.249.83.205 19:51, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sale of the school

The school was indeed sold to the Archdiocese for $1 in 1967. That's why Br. Ralph, the deputy superintendant for secondary education for the Archdiocese has a say in who becomes the next headmaster, etc. The school was sold because Fr. Bain ran out of money - he actually owned the school, buying it in 1946. I've verified this with the archivist at the school, so I'm reinserting the line. 03:00, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meatroll Club?

meatroll.com wtf? 71.250.10.221 —Preceding comment was added at 00:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)