The gym was his favorite spot on campus, representing Paul VI’s athletic success and “bringing together kids for pep rallies and some of our fundraisers, he said.Īlumni might remember Friday night dances of the 1960s and 1970s in the gymnasium, which was restored in 2005 with metal bleachers and a fresh Paul VI emblem at center court. “When I went to school, we were known as an athletic powerhouse with a concentration in the arts,” said Dominic Vesper, a 1988 graduate and current president of Paul VI’s Alumni Association. In 13 years, it's invested $8 million in renovations. A homecoming honoring alumni on Friday will kick off the march toward the high school’s November 2016 anniversary of its 1966 dedication.īetween 19, the school has expanded from an institution of discipline and academics to a high school rich in the arts with winning sports teams. The private Catholic high school launched its yearlong celebration of five decades in Haddon Township in September with its first Mass of the school year. “It’s amazing how it never stops changing,” McCann told the Courier-Post as she strolled the Haddon Township school’s halls past a mural about the Dewey Decimal System painted in the 1980s by a former student. And thousands of paper library books were replaced with digital versions for iPads and laptops in this summer’s media center renovation. A first-floor science lab is a TV studio. Now Room 104 is a dance studio with mirrored walls and a wood floor. McCann - a teacher since 1974 and principal since 2001 - remembers when the cafeteria served only vending machine sandwiches in the 1970s, and when Room 104 was reserved for detention. HADDON TWP. - Sister Marianne McCann walks Paul VI High School’s halls, greeting her students by name, poking her head into classrooms and reminding the girls their plaid skirts should be knee-length. View Gallery: Ever-evolving Paul VI High School

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