School has ended for summer break, but those classroom memories live on.
Today, Joe Delikat has submitted a picture of the eighth-grade graduating class of 1961 from St. Stanislaus Grade School in Lansdale.
We’ll let him tell the story:
“This year the class is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Back then the class was 103 strong (two people were sick and are not in the picture).
“Msgr. Joseph Schade is seated front and center. He was the founder of Lansdale Catholic High School, which opened in 1960.
“As a comparison to today’s class sizes, the 103 students were in 1.5 rooms since seventh and eighth grades were split and one classroom contained both seventh- and eighth-graders. That is an average of 69 students per class.
“FYI. I am the last boy in the second row to the right.”
Delikat noted that this class has a very active alumni group and he planned to forward this photo to all for whom he had e-mail addresses.
We hope they enjoy!
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