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| St. Bonaventure Alumni Website In Category: General / Misc. | Rate This Forum! Body Text: (Put "phrases in quotes") Important Message Welcome to the St. Bonaventure Website. Be sure to review the FAQ's on right hand side bar. (Frequently Asked Questions) Additionally, check out Jack Espelage's great send off to a great church. Click on "Grad's Info Pages" icon in the right side bar. Download your St. Bonaventure Toolbar. Click the icon on the right hand sidebar and the download will begin. Now, at the click of a mouse you can be at any part of the site. Read the South Fairmount history accounting by Edna Woelfel Hyland and Stan Grothaus. If you have any other facts please email them. Notice our Webring below! If you have your own personal website, sign up for the webring and display your site with parishoners. You might even consider putting something on your site that is "Bonnies" oriented. Be sure to sign our guestbook. By the way! You will see some photos, cartoons and songs from the movie "Grease" throughout the site. A lot of us grew up during the "Grease Age" and can relate to the film. Just a little memorabilia to keep the site entertaining as well as informational and nostalgic. Advertise your Bonnie's function here Thursday,Nov 18, 7:00 PM 1952/53 "Fun Bunch", Delaney's on Rte 50, Hosted by Nancy Schenkel Balsley Click Here for Directions Start Your Own "Fun Bunch" gathering. For more info click the "FAQ" button on the right hand side bar Important Message For Whom Our Bells Toll! From: Carvel Steinke Email: carvels@hotmail.com Location: Mainevile, Ohio Just wanted to let you know that I (with a lot of good help) have removed the bells and taken them to a new order of Nuns - Sisters of Reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Steubenville, Ohio. They will be installed in their Church when it is built. They are not lost, but will be put to good use. Click here for photos of the bells Disposition of Property Hi Bill, I have some news about the St. Bonaventure property. It has been sold ( schools, rectory, church & land) to the National Heritage Academies who plan to open Orien Academy in the new school building in the fall. I assume this will be a charter school. I heard an ad on WLW radio this Saturday AM advertising the school. They are setting up meetings for prospective students/parents at Emmanuel Church on Queen City. I was told by someone who was in the church last week that the rose windows are gone, the altar is gone. The organ & pipes are still in the church along with pews & the other stained glass windows. The organ is going to someone in Kentucky & the pipes are going to someone else. The baptismal font has been placed in St. William's Church on West 8th Street in Price Hill. Members of the parish received a letter in May from Father Ed about the possible sale of the property to the National Heritage Academies group. In this letter he says "The proceeds from the sale will be used to pay off the rest of the bills for the upkeep of St. Bonnies, pay off the debt of both parishes, do capital improvement necessary to bring San Antonio up to handicap access, & rebuild our reserved for emergencies." Mel Fariello Some more Bonnie's news. King Wrecking Co is demolishing the property. The newest school will be rehabbed for the Orion School. The Orion School will open this Fall - K through 5th grade. Each school year for the next 3 years one more grade level will be added until the school becomes K-8. Well I got photos of the church and school and you can click below to see them. It is obvious that the Sentinel, of the gateway to the west, that you see as you cross the Western Hills Viaduct, will be no more. All that will remain is the ghost of over a million voices singing "Holy God", and of thousands of children attending mass and playing in the school yard. Of hundreds of Franciscan priest, saying mass and praising God, of hundreds of nuns teaching and guiding the children who attended school here. If you have a weak heart don't look at the photos because they will rip your heart out! Bill Thomas Click here for photos 7-16-04 Well the church is down. They are starting on the school today!!!! Bill, Here is an email I sent to the gentleman who posted the message about the bells. Just an FYI......I have apx 125 picture of the final demolition of the church on 7/10 and some from the Old School which went down this past week (almost gone.) I can share them with you, put them on CD and mail them...have some pretty awesome (sad) pictures of the event. Me (and my cousin Nancy, mentioned in the email below, both have a video tape (VHS) of the event as well. Her dad, Jerome (Brownie) Braun and my mom Loraine Braun (Whitton, and then Roebel) were very active at the Church, School and Bowling Alleys, so we have been very interested in everything, although very sad, that has happened. ______________________________ I sent to Mr Steinke_______________________ Mr. Steinke, Ref the bells from St Bonnies....do you have any pictures of them?......I had close ties to St. Bonnies (server, my mom worked at the Rectory etc.) and as a teenager worked around the Church and School (painting and cleaning classrooms) during the tenure of Fr. Jerome and Fr. Ben (who ended up being my stepfather after coming out of the Priesthood.) Anyway, back in 1975 1976 me and some buddies wrote our names (maybe in chalk) on one of a couple of the bells. I am wondering if it is (was) still there when they were taken out of the steeple. My name is Barry, other names were Jed or Bob (as in Montgomery...his dad owned the store at Quebec and Westwood.) I live in Bridgetown now....and have a lot of pics from the demolition on 7/10. In fact, me and my cousin went down that following week and retrieved an intact clock face. It is 9 feet in diameter and was in two pieces but for the 100+ feet fall that it took off the Merton Street side, it is in pretty good shape. CLICK HERE for flood picture. You really have to see this one Courtesy of Barry Whitton, Click Here for 234 pictures of the demolition of the church and school. I left them full size so you would get all the detail. You will probably have to use your vertical and horizontal scroll bars. Looking at these pictures in sequence is like watching a movie. And of course The Good Times! I can be contacted at: William B. Thomas 1 Highland Meadows Dr. #3 Highland Heights, Ky 41076 (859) 442-8929 email: billthomas@fuse.net Page1 Page2 Page3 Page4 Woman's Point of View "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." 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