BISHOP ENGLAND HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1975 50th REUNION
Bishop England High School is a diocesan Roman Catholic four-year high school in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It was located on Calhoun Street in downtown Charleston until it moved to a newly constructed 40-acre campus located on Daniel Island in 1998. With an enrollment of 730, Bishop England is the largest private high school in the state of South Carolina. The school was founded in 1915 and was named after John England, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston.
EVENT DETAILS:
When: Friday, July 26, from 6 to 10
Where: Hobcaw Yacht Club, 180 Hobcaw Drive, Mt Pleasant SC 29111
Cost: Approx $100 per person– stand by for details later
Dress: Smart summer casual
Dinner: Details to be provided later
RSVP: Fill in the Classmate Info form below, and indicate whether you think you’ll attend. Your response is not binding– it’ll give us an idea for headcount
INPUTS:
We want to know what you’ve been doing in the last 50 years! Friday, July 26, from 6 to 10
| Please fill in the questionnaire at the link below. Before the actual event, we’ll pass this information around so everyone will be up-to-speed. The bottom of the questionnaire asks whether you think you’ll be coming to the event–no obligation yet. |
CONTACTS
For more info, stay tuned to this site, or contact the following. If you provide your e-mail in the Classmate Info Form, we’ll keep you up-to-date via e-mail.
PLEASE HELP US FIND CLASSMATES!
As near as we can tell, about 165 graduated, and about 7 are no longer with us, leaving 158 living classmates. We have an address for about 90 of us, although some of them are really old and not valid. (The addresses, not the classmates.) We have e-mails for about 45.
PLEASE HELP US FIND EVERYBODY! The matrix below shows our list of graduates, and the information we have available. Green means we have info. A blank white box means we don’t. If you know addresses or e-mails or cell phones for those white boxes, please e-mail Rob Wray at robert.wray.jr@gmail.com with the updates!!
HELP WANTED: If you have detective skills and are willing to help us hunt down lost classmates (via Facebook, Linked-in, police reports, federal penitentiary lists, etc), please e-mail Rob and we’ll assign you some folks to find…
SEND IN PHOTOS IF YOU CAN!
Fortunately, or unfortunately, we didn’t have smart phones in 1975, so we don’t have the 100,000 high school photos that most kids do nowadays. (Perhaps a blessing.) But if you have any high school photos you want to share, send a jpeg file to robert.wray.jr@gmail.com, and we’ll try to get them up on this site.
SCHOOL HISTORY
Below is the school’s history, courtesy of wikipedia.
Bishop England High School (BEHS), a Catholic high school, was founded in 1915 by Reverend Joseph O’Brien and Reverend J.J. May with the approval of Henry N. Northrop, Bishop of Charleston. Classes were conducted in the Cathedral school on Queen Street for one year until Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan of New York, New York, donated property to the diocese. The high school was transferred to a temporary building at 203 Calhoun Street, while funds donated by Catholics of Charleston were raised to construct a new high school building. On October 12, 1921, the cornerstone of the new BEHS building was laid by William T. Russell, fifth Bishop of Charleston.