What Does St. Thomas Aquinas/St. Martin de Porres Look Like Today?

The following photos were taken on July 12, 2010 -- 50 years and one month after we all said good-bye!

The Church still stands tall and looks stately on Washington Boulevard

The Church Rectory has flowers, a neatly groomed lawn and an invitation to participate in the Food Pantry and Resale Shop

 The School looks smaller than remembered

The "gymnasium" conveniently located off the alley!

And, the playlot where we all enjoyed daily recess at Leclaire and West End.  The asphalt is gone, but remnants of a parking lot remain.

Photos courtesy: Elaine McIntyre Beaudoin

Mary Lynn McGuff Dietsch shares a story about a visit to our alma mater in 2009

"I went on a tour of St. Thomas Aquinas School in January, 2009.  The Jesuits were using the building temporarily while their new school was being built at Jackson and Leamington.  They had a mass in the church followed by the school tour. 

The church is pretty much the way I remembered it.  It had been restored about ten years ago when St. Martin de Porres parish was formed from St. Thomas, Resurrection, and St. Mel.  It is beautiful.  The portraits of Msgr. Long were painted over.

The school is also the way I remembered it, but much smaller.  I cannot imagine how forty (or more) desks fit into each room.  We must have really been jammed in there.  The corridors are huge.  The students of Christ the King (the Jesuit school) were amused by the cloak rooms.  When I told the student leading the tour that I had been in one of the third floor rooms for eighth grade, she looked at me in disbelief.  

The Jesuits have moved into their new school and the building is empty again."

Mary Lynn