Resurrection Catholic School history

He began his theological training in the fall of 1892 at St Vincent Seminary, Latrobe, and was ordained in the St Vincent Archabbey church five years later.

In 1907, the Freehold Real Estate Company, responsible for the sale of lots throughout the developing community, announced in the Brookline Herald that it had reserved several prime lots between Creedmoor and Chelsea (Chelton) Avenues for the establishment of a Roman Catholic church.

May 3, 1909, the diocese bought 12 lots from the West Liberty Development Company.

Easter Sunday, May 27, 1910, the first in Resurrection's history, Father Quinn celebrated the first Mass in the new building with an overflow congregation standing on the sidewalk outside, unable to squeeze in.

A Parish fundraiser on July 4, 1911.

1115 Creedmoor was the rectory and home of Father Quinn until 1912.

Another new parish, St Bernard, was established August 11, 1919 in Dormont.

Then, July 24, 1922, Father Quinn purchased a second lot on Chelton Avenue.

Enrollment jumped above the 400 mark in 1923 and the parish hired a contractor to construct another wing on the school, making it U-shaped.

In 1926 the parish acquired two more lots across from the school.

Following study at Mount St Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, he was ordained to the priesthood June 12, 1928, and he spent the next 19 years as an assistant at Holy Innocents Church, Sheraden and at St Paul's Cathedral in Oakland.

Resurrection Church, photographed in January 1939 prior to the official dedication ceremony the following month.

In 1943, the first graduating class entered high school.

Our second pastor, Father Oliver D. Keefer gained his pastoral experience the hard way: founding Our Lady of Grace Parish on Bower Hill Road, Scott Township in 1947.

In 1952, the girls team posted a 7-2-2 record and won the Catholic Girl's League Championship with a 16-4 victory over St Mary's of the Mount.

Many years later, as the parish expanded, the same space became a gymnasium, then was divided into four classrooms (1953), and finally became the site of the grade school learning center, the pre-first grade and a first grade classroom.

The property for the Parish of the Resurrection, located in Sunnyvale, CA, was purchased in 1954, by the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The middle school building, located next to the old building, was completed in time for the beginning of the school year in September, 1957, providing six additional classrooms which were occupied by the 7th and 8th grades.

Many of those kids still have their adoption certificate, like Bob Daley, who adopted "Michael" on February 24, 1959.

A milestone in his career was the appointment by Bishop John J. Wright of Father McMahon as the first Pastor of North American Martyrs Church in Monroeville June 1, 1960.

Father Nicholas Farana was appointed the founding pastor in 1963.

The school opened in September, 1965, with 157 students.

Also in the 1970’s the school opened its Kindergarten classes.

A year later, in 1972, Father McMahon established the Parish Campaign, an annual fund-raising effort designed as a low-keyed approach to making people aware of their parish and their responsibility to support it.

Three members of the parish became "Ministers of the Eucharist" and, later, in 1974, Richard Very was ordained to the diaconate conferring on him certain privileges and duties in administering the sacraments of Baptism, preaching at Mass and officiating at weddings and funerals.

For the next eight years he served at Marian Manor as chaplain, and beginning in 1978 he was the infirmary chaplain at the Felician Sisters Provincial House in Moon Township.

It wasn't until 1980 that Father John H. McMahon decided the 2,581-pipe organ was pumping its final notes.

Resurrection Catholic School was founded in 1981 as a co-operative preschool by parents of Church of the Resurrection parish.

The Seton Center, which began operation in 1985, sponsors both an Adult Day Care Center and a Child Care Center.

By 1990 the program had grown substantially.

Father Ed led the congregation until 1991, followed by the five-year pastorship of Father John Kozar.

The year 1996 was a sad year for the parish, the Sisters of Charity, and all of the lay teachers who had worked for so long educating the children of Brookline.

A new preschool and play area opened in 1997.

The first graduating class was in 1999.

The 30th annual Fun Flair was held in July 2000.

In 2002, Father Grosko was reassigned to St Agnes Parish and Father Frank A. Mitolo was appointed our seventh pastor.

Groundbreaking, or "wall smashing," dedications for the new "Creedmoor Court" apartments were held October 29, 2003.

In 2004, Resurrection Ascension school was once again reaccredited by the Middle States Association and our school started a Nursery Program for three-year-olds.

In addition, sister Jessica (2005) has earned the Gold Award in Girl Scouts, the equivalent of the Eagle rank.

On May 25, 2009, after ten decades of service to the Brookline community, Resurrection Church celebrated it's 100th Anniversary.

In 2014, the media center was converted to a TEAL Lab and each classroom created a large lending library within for easy accessibility to reading materials.

Father Frank at the Fun Flair in 2015.

While the parishioners said goodbye with a farewell Mass on July 10, 2016, the Diocese of Pittsburgh did not have to look far for his replacement.

The girls of Troop#9006 after their first Court of Honor on May 30, 2019.