Holy Name Central Catholic High School

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established = September 14, 1942
type = Roman Catholic, Private
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president = Mary E. Riordan
headmaster = Edward M. Reynolds
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city = Worcester
state = Massachusetts
country = U.S.
campus = Urban
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colors = Columbia Blue and White
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website = http://www.holyname.net/

Holy Name Central Catholic Junior Senior High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester.

Holy Name High School opened on September 14, 1942. The new high school offered a bilingual program in French and English. By 1946, the student enrollment had grown to 122 students, and in 1957, Holy Name’s status was changed to a Central Catholic High School. On September 24, 1967, the old high school moved from Illinois Street to the present site on Granite Streetwhen Bishop Bernard Flanagan dedicated the new building. In September 1997, Holy Name Central Catholic High School added Grades 7 and 8. Today, the school has a full full advanced placement program and a challenging academic level system.cite web|url=http://www.holyname.net/handbook/hdbk2006.pdf|title=Holy Name Central Catholic Handbook|accessdate=2007-05-11]

Notable

Holy Name is to be the first high school in the state of Massachusetts to be powered by a wind turbine.cite web|url=http://www.telegram.com/article/20080625/WORCESTERLIVING/806250391|title=Margaret LeRoux, "Her Answer Was Blowing in the Wind", Worcester Living, June 25, 2008|accessdate=2008-09-08] The 242-foot, 600-kilowatt wind turbine is expected to generate enough electricity for the entire school.cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/07/10/catholic_school_erecting_wind_turbine/|title="Catholic School Erecting Wind Turbine", Boston Globe, July 10, 2008|accessdate=2008-09-08]

The project, four years in the making, began when Mrs. Riordan, who was facing steep energy bills at the school, asked Worcester Polytechnic Institute students to study whether they could take advantage of the school's windy campus.

Later, the Sisters of St. Anne, who founded the school, gave the school $50,000 to pay a consultant to research the details. That was the first funding for a project that will cost between $1.4 million and $1.5 million total. The price includes that first $50,000, $12,000 for the building permit and the cost of burying power lines that serve the school and run near the turbine site.cite web|url=http://www.mtpc.org/renewableenergy/news/clip_07_10_08.html|title=Jacqueline Reis, "Holy Name to Harness Wind Power", Worcester Telegram and Gazette]

References

External links

* [http://www.holyname.net Holy Name Central Catholic Jr. Sr. High School official site]