Bishop O'Hara High School - Class of 2011

Class of 2011

On the third of June, 2011, Holy Cross High School held its fourth annual graduation ceremony at the Mellow Center in Marywood University. Although not the first general class from Holy Cross High School to graduate, it was unique in the fact that none of the students ever attended one of the two predecessor schools, and were always Crusaders. At the ceremony, the Most Reverend Joseph C. Bambera, the tenth Bishop of Scranton, handed diplomas to one-hundred and seven graduates. The Class of 2011 has forty-one boys and sixty-six girls. There are two semi-finalists and one commended student from the SAT standardized tests. Ninety-eight percent of graduates are attending post-secondary education in thirty-five different colleges, universities, or technical schools. For the second year in a row, one student is pursuing a vocation in the Roman Catholic priesthood and will attend Immaculate Conception Seminary in New York City. The Class of 2011 merited slightly over nine million dollars in post-secondary grants and scholarships. The Class of 2011 has raised over twenty-thousand dollars in donations and goods for various charities, mostly in aid to Holy Cross High School’s sister school in Rivier Froid, Haiti. Additionally, the Class of 2011 has worked over five-thousand hours of community service. The upcoming Class of 2012 currently has one-hundred and thirty-eight students, a twenty-nine percent increase from the Class of 2011. On 14 June 2011, a letter was mailed home to all families that Mr. James Marcks, the first principal of Holy Cross High School who was successfully at the helm of the effort which seamlessly combined the rival Bishop O'Hara and Bishop Hannan High Schools into a unified school community, retired in August 2011.