| Irrelevant And Irreverent Facts About DeSales High School... |
The four bells in the tower in front of Mater Christi Chapel came from Paccard foundry in Annecy, France, a short distance from the birthplace of St.
Francis DeSales. |
| DeSales opened in September of 1963. It closed in 1977. |
| Rev. Earl Dionne was perhaps the longest resident of DeSales. He was part of the original
staff and only vacated his residence at DeSales in 2007. |
Mater Christi Chapel and Holy Family Dining Hall each had a seating capacity of 800.
| The Gymnasium had a seating capacity of 500, and was evetually used as training facility for the Milwaukee Bucks until about 2017 when they moved into a dedicated facility downtown. |
| Bellarmine Hall could seat 750. |
| The library had a reported 300,000 books. I guess that is possible. |
| The Study Hall had 520 desks in it, and the pool was 60 feet by 30 feet. |
| All of the statues on the grounds were carved from White Carrara in Bolzano, Italy. |
| Terry Brown really did sell a joke to Joan Rivers. It had something to do with Cleveland, which back then, was a joke. |
| Office Manager Wallace Maxam was shot to death in his car in the mid-70s in a sordid incident in Milwaukee's central city. |
|