Archive for June, 2007
 
School’s Out Forever at Bishop Gorman High School
Monday, June 4th, 2007

For the last time, students at Bishop Gorman High School walked the halls of their campus. Las Vegas' only Catholic high school will be at a new location next year.

Fifty years of tradition will now follow Bishop Gorman students to a new high school that's being built in Summerlin.

State championship banners that have filled the walls of in the school gymnasium are the last to come down before the big move. Outside on campus it looked like your normal last day of class.

The halls slowly started empty, as students signed yearbooks before the end of another school year. But this school year is different. Bishop Gorman students are not coming back to campus.

The growth of this religious campus is one of the reasons the relocation became a necessity. Students have out grown their campus over the last few years. For example, the Alumni Chapel had to be used as a classroom.

Junior Alicia Hoepfner attended Gorman since her freshman year. She'll be in the first graduating class at the new high school.

“It's a very bitter sweet watching all the banners go down. It's sad. My teacher's classrooms are almost empty. It's sad,” Alice said. “We all want to continue the tradition of the house system. Bringing our teachers now to the new campus to teach us this. A tradition a that's lasted for 50 years.”

Some key items like religious artifacts such as sculptures of saints will be removed from this campus and taken to the new campus off the I-215 and Russell. In a small way, students say they are bringing some of this campus with them.

Some graduates of this campus include former Nevada Governor Bob Miller, his son, current Secretary of State Ross Miller, and current president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Rossi Rolenkotter.

The Clark County School District bought the Bishop Gorman High School. The district intends to use it as a ninth grade campus for Eldorado High School

Email your comments to Reporter Chris Saldana.