A group dedicated to preserving the legacy of Detroit's long-gone Catholic schools has found a home for its memorabilia, Patricia Montemurri reports in the Free Press.
The Detroit Catholic Schools Heritage Project plans to eventually showcase the group's collection of yearbooks, letter sweaters, school mascots and photos at a building near Ladywood High School in Livonia.
Michael Butler, a Livonia attorney and Detroit Catholic Central High School graduate, told Montemurri the group plans to create a replica classroom with artifacts from many Detroit-area Catholic schools, those that are closed as well as those that remain open. Students from Ladywood High and Madonna University, both located on the campus operated by the Felician nuns, could help in cataloging and building the collection, Butler said.
A Detroit Free Press story earlier this year stoked a surge of interest and donations of items to the Detroit Catholic Schools Heritage Project, which is also known as the Bishop Michael J. Gallagher Society. The society is named after a Detroit Catholic bishop, in photo, who presided over a growth spurt of schools in the 1920s
