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Archbishop to dedicate Catholic Central's $2.3 million addition
By Brent Killackey
Catholic Central High School will get a visit today from Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan.
Dolan will stop by this afternoon to dedicate the Burlington school's new $2.3 million addition. The school invited the project's 150 donors, students, faculty, pastors and principals from the 17 feeder schools and parishes in the area. Nearly 300 people are expected to attend.
The addition houses classrooms, a library that includes a distance learning center, additional computer lab space, an art studio with access to a patio for outdoor sketching and painting, and expanded athletic facilities that include an auxiliary gym, a multipurpose room, weight and strength training rooms, lockers, storage and coaches offices.
The expansion/addition almost doubles the size of the original school.
Construction on the project began in 2003 and few final tasks - like installing the gym bleachers, moving the art supplies to the new space and finishing the distance learning lab - remain in progress.
But many of the spaces are already in use. For example, the wrestling team is practicing in the multipurpose gym and making use of the new weight room, which Lynch called "the best small-school weight room in the state of Wisconsin. It's like a health club."
"It's an honor to have the Archbishop come and compete the process," he said.
Eighteen donors contributing 80 percent of the funds for the addition.
The new facilities will also be available for use by students of St. Mary Grade School and also will be open to alumni.
Catholic Central High School, which from 1920 to 1989 was known as St. Mary's High School, enrolls 180 students and attracts students from Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties.
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