Cardinal Dougherty High School

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Cardinal Dougherty High School
Address
Cardinal Dougherty High School
6301 North 2nd Street

Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
19120

United States
Coordinates 40°2′49″N75°7′19″W / 40.04694°N 75.12194°W / 40.04694; -75.12194
Information
Type Private, co-educational
MottoCrucis In Signo Vinces
(Conquer in the Sign of the Cross)
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
Established1956
StatusClosed
Closed2010
PresidentCarl F. Janicki (closing president)
PrincipalThomas F. Rooney Jr. (closing principal)
Faculty41
Grades 9-12
Enrollment784 [1]  (2008)
 •  Grade 9 177
 •  Grade 10 206
 •  Grade 11 196
 •  Grade 12 205
Color(s) Garnet and gold   
MascotCardinals
Accreditation Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools [2]
NewspaperPrelate
YearbookEminence
CDHS marching band at the World Music Championship 1966 Muziekconcours te Kerkrade, tijdens de marswedstrijden, Bestanddeelnr 919-3609.jpg
CDHS marching band at the World Music Championship 1966

Cardinal Dougherty High School (CDHS) was a private, Roman Catholic high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia and established in the East Oak Lane section of Philadelphia at 6301 North Second Street. Although Cardinal Dougherty was founded as a co-institutional school, it became co-educational in 1983, with boys and girls being educated together in the same classrooms.

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Marching band

The CDHS marching band performed for Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, the 1962 NFL Championship Game, Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential inauguration in 1965, and won the World Music Championship in the Netherlands in 1966. [3]

Notable people

Alumni

Staff

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Cardinal Dougherty High School - School Profile I". Archived from the original on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
  2. ↑ MSA-CSS. "MSA-Commission on Secondary Schools". Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
  3. ↑ Matheson, Kathy (June 12, 2010). "One-time flagship Philly Catholic school closing". The San Diego Union-Tribune .
  4. ↑ "Temple University Athletics". owlsports.com. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "... Also in the spotlight". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. January 30, 1977. p. 54. Retrieved February 11, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Drumsta, Peter (1 October 1976). "Phil's Shot In the Majors A Good Start". The Buffalo News . p. 36. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "National Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum". Archived from the original on 2009-04-05. Retrieved 2009-02-02.

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