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The school was created in 1969 with the merger of two schools, Providence High School and St. Mel High School.In 1978 the Archdiocese of Chicago decided to close it. The principal, Paul J. Adams III, and administrators of the school chose instead to operate it as an independent school, after the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, owners of the school building, agreed to sell it ...
The Providence Effect is a 2009 documentary film directed by Rollin Binzer about the transformation of the Chicago K-12 public school Providence St. Mel from a typical "inner city" school to a top tier institution. It had its world premier at the Dawn Breakers International Film Festival in Zurich.
The following is a list of Illinois High School Association member conferences.Schools that belong to these conferences compete with each other on a local level in athletics and non-athletic activities.
More schools joined the circuit before the decade was up, St. Patrick in 1913, and St. Mel in 1918. Because the Catholic school population relative to the mainstream public secondary schools and the private school was more an immigrant and working class population, the sports that the league initially sponsored reflected this demographic makeup.
Born Mary Slattery in Galesburg, Illinois, she entered the congregation on September 4, 1882, and was professed as a full Sister of Providence on August 15, 1885. She spent time ministering in Valparaiso, Indiana , and at Saint Agnes Academy in Indianapolis .
Hamilton was a dominant high school basketball player at Chicago's Providence St. Mel, where he led the Knights to four consecutive IHSA boys' sectional championships from 1982 to 1985, three consecutive "Elite-Eight" appearances from 1983 to 1985 as well as appearances in the "Final-Four" in 1984 and a state championship in 1985.
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He attended Providence St. Mel School in the East Garfield Park area of Chicago, where he played on the school's basketball team, which won Chicago Catholic League and city championships in 1954. After high school, Pingatore went to Loyola University of Los Angeles—now known as Loyola Marymount University —where he played college basketball ...