St. Louis University High School history

The college was chartered as a university in 1832, the first university established west of the Mississippi River.

The high school retained the identity of St Louis Academy on the university campus until 1924 when it moved to its own facilities and incorporated separately under the name of St Louis University High School.

The School of Education debuts as a stand-alone unit, returning to the name it started with in 1925.

Garry Wills, (born May 22, 1934, Atlanta, Georgia.

In February 1944, Heithaus delivered an impassioned sermon at St Francis Xavier (College) Church, denouncing racism and urging the integration of the university.

Carter eventually left SLUH before graduating, but Thomas graduated in 1950, becoming the first African American alumnus.

Wills studied philosophy at St Louis University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1957.

His first book, Chesterton: Man and Mask, a biography of English social critic and author G.K. Chesterton, was published in 1961.

In his first book on a United States president, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970), Wills proposed that Richard Nixon was a liberal—contrary to the Republican president’s public image—and analyzed the troubled relationship between the president and the country.

Marguerite Hall opens as Saint Louis University's first residence hall for women. It becomes the University's first co-ed residence hall in 1971.

In 1980 Wills left Johns Hopkins to join the faculty of Northwestern University, where he would remain for more than three decades.

In October, 1991, SLUH’s Board of Trustees adopted a Minority Action Plan that specifically affirmed the school’s commitment to the African American community of St Louis.

The hospital, home to accomplishments such as the state's first heart transplant, was sold by the University in 1998.

In 2000 Wills published his most-biting critique of the Catholic church to that point, Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit, an indictment of what he saw as the tyranny and deceit of the papacy.

Wills’s unorthodox views on Catholicism were once again displayed in Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition (2013), in which he argued that the priesthood is superfluous and without precedent in the early church.