The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 13

July 5, 1970 T-Hr Section A Pa3 13 F. Sunday Examiner Chronicle Catholics Deny Drop in Parochial School Rolls cause overcrowding. A spokesman for Msgr. James G.ffey, superintendent of schools for the Santa Rosa diocese, covering So-inoma, Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Del N'orte and Humboldt counties, said the prin-. Philadelphia -Sile of 'Expo 76 PHILADELPHIA President Nixon has definitely decided on Philadelphia as the site nl an international exposition tocelebrate the nation's 200th brithday in Sen Huge Scott fit Pa said vesterdav.

By Alinena Loniax If there is a revolt by Bay Area parents against increasing tuition in Catholic high schools, and a trek of their children back to public schools' previously disdained, as "too permissive." Catholic high school officials in 10 Bay counties know nothing about it. One published report recently noted a 'significant" transfer of students from Catholic to private schools because of a "sharp increase in Catholic school tuitions lor 1970-71." "Someone is taking five or six schools and the movements of a few people and trying to make a trend." a spokesman for Sister Paula Butier, high school coordinator of the San Francisco Archdiocese, told The Examiner. Settlement In Airline Strike iXear The 7' 2-week dispute between the Oakland-based World A i a and th Teamsters I'nion. represent-in" pilots, flight engineers and stewardesses, settled yesterday Provisions of a proposed new contract will be submitted for ratification to union members as soonai posMblo, according to Lev eret! Kiln iirds. member of the National Mediation Board.

Terms of the contract were not disclosed pending the union vote. supporting," a spokesman in Sister Paula's office said. It was estimated that the state J-'llM. 8300. and $1200 per year per elementary, junior and senior high school student, respectively.

"Here in San Francisco, we charge $18 per year per family in our elementary schools, even when there are as many as six children in a family in school at the same time. i "It's just a question of how long the church can continue to subsidize the schools." i Bill A bill, introduced in the legislature by Sen. George Moscone of San Francisco and being debated currently by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, would give a subsidy to parents of chil- dren in private and parochial schools. It, or similar legislation, is being counted on heavily by Catholic school administrators. For the eleven high schools of the Oakland diocese which covers Alameda and Contra Costa counties, the story was the same as in the San Francisco archdiocese.

While predicting tuition increases over the next two years to $500 to $600 from today's average of $400. Gerald O'Donnell. associate superin-: tendant, agreed witli the Archdiocese authorities that increased tuition is causing exodus of students. Parents of the 6362 high school students "seem to be able to afford it." he said. And enrollment is expected to increase to 6500 in September, he added.

He pointed out, however, that even $400 "is only half the pupil cost to the 3 New Schools Rather than close schools, the Oakland diocese has built three new high schools since 1065. O'Donnell said. Enrollment at one. Moreau in Ilaywar jumped this past term from 500 to 900 when the school went co-ed; Carondelet Girls' High and De LaSalle for boys, both in Concord, "generated senior classes." The only school in the diocese to lose students was St. Joseph's in Alameda.

O'Donnell said. He attributed this to changes in the character of the neighborhood and predicted that the students would n' when they found they could get into no other Catholic facility be cipals of its six high schools had noted no decrease in en-1 rollment. In four counties of be Monterey diocese, however, four out of seven Catholic high schools were closed this month: Mission Central in San Luis Obispo. Junipero Memorial in Monterey, Holy Cross in Santa Cruz, and Mora Central. Watsonville.

Remaining open are Notre Dame for Palma for boys, and Santa Catalan, a private girls school, all in Monterey. Mrs. Bonnie Gartshore of the diocese newspaper. The observer, said the decision followed a study made lat January of diocesan schools. A cost hreakdou as done, and "there was a substantial deficit in every case.

"It was not 'felt that the tuitions could be raix'd to the actual cost and the sludeiiis held." Mrs. Gartshore said schools for the San Francisco Archdiocese, speaking recently before alumni of the University of San Francisco, said that Roman Catholic schools will ultimately fall by the wayside without financial help from the state. "Our schools have never come near being self- The Archdiocese includes San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Peninsula Rise There have been tuition increases in Peninsula schools to $550 a year at Burlingame's Mercy High and Belmont's Notre Dame, $325 to $475 at a i View's Holy Cross, $375 to $500 at St. Francis for boys, also in Mountain View, to $380 at San Mateo's -Serra, and $1100 to $1250 at Menlo Park's Sacred Heart.

But she said the increases are called "not typical" of the archdiocese's 31 high schools. "We have schools that are still charging $150 and $200 pei- year." the official said. "The increase to $1250 for 3M a I so ts 7 A i 4T i 4 i Sears! t. it. I IpXm nil 1 1 1 iiRri It- A kl if 1 4 4 Si ii I 4 1 i A day students at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Menlo Park is only $150.

But the cost of tuition at a school like that is typical. "That is a private finishing school. You would probably find the same situation at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco. That is where the very rich send their daughters. They have always had high tuitions.

The sisters themselves also fund many scholarships for needy students. Average The average Catholic school, however, "takes in the children of low and middle income, and of the noble rich. "We have 14.685 high school students in this arch-1 diocese and we are still turn-: ing them away because of overcrowding. Even at San Francisco's Mercy High School, which raised its tuition last year from $300 to $600, there has been no drop in enrollment, the statistician said. State Help As for the closing last month of 46-year-old Notre Dames des Victoires in San Francisco, this was a "decision based on the very small enrollment in the high die 'W- aa 4w Traditional 8-Ft.

or 9-Ft. Sofa Styling school, 150. It costs propor- tionally as much to operate a small school as a large." The Rev. Bernard Cum- I superintendent of A A 80 Guests Flee Fire in Vegas Hotel i Lt LAS VEGAS (UPI) More than 80 persons cele-' a i Independence Day were evacuated early yester- dav when fire broke out in -w Ofr-v5w ws-v1 8 1 I IvLAJ one of the several wings of Wtf 4 I i 1 1 I the Sands Hotel on the "Strip," owned by Howard Hughes. Morris and Ruth Litman, both 68, of Youngstown, Ohio, were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.

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