History
In 1908, Rev. Michael P. Dowling, SJ Rockhurst made it known that he had selected a site at 52nd and Troost St. for a Jesuit school that was to be built in Kansas City. The name "Rockhurst" was inspired by Stonyhurst, a Jesuit-owned plot of land in Lancashire, England, it was the resembliance of the large rocks found on the school grounds to Stonyhurst . Rockhurst was established by the Society of Jesus and chartered by the State of Missouri as part of Rockhurst College in August 1910. Classes began in the fall of 1914. In 1917 Luke J Bryne Jr became the first graduate of the school. It changed its name to "Rockhurst High School" in 1923. The high school shared a campus and corporate umbrella with the college until it moved to the Greenlease Campus—named for its principal benefactor, Robert C. Greenlease—in 1962
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