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Lebanon Catholic High School was to be Assumption Hill; land on Chestnut Street purchased in 1949. On April 9, 1956, the Most Reverend George L. Leech, Bishop of Harrisburg, created a diocesan institution out of what had been a parochial high school. This meant that five other parishes would lend their support to the proposed new building, and thus a Board of Pastors was also created. On October 11, 1959, the new Lebanon Catholic High School on Assumption Hill was dedicated by the Most Reverend Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States. The first principal of the present school was Rev. Joseph C. Hilbert. Enrollment was 113, with a faculty of nine Sisters of St. Joseph and eight lay teachers.
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Catholic High School. The new building on Willow Street was dedicated on June 3, 1929, with Msgr. Adam Christ as pastor. The second floor of the building contained high school classrooms, science laboratories, and facilities for a commercial course. The first graduating class numbered 18, while Msgr. John F. Lawley was pastor.
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Lebanon Catholic High School began with the parish school of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Rev. Antonius M. Grundner, O.S.B.V.M., established the school in 1859.
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