This is an interesting illustration on the CHS home page.

“. . . new Cathedral High School on Surrey Road.” That seems to imply a rebuilding of the school building, heavily damaged in the 2011 tornado and closed since. But wait. The Springfield Republican, in an article Jan. 26, says the future of CHS is “on hold.”

The spokesman for the Diocese of Springfield says decisions about the school depend on final resolution of efforts to secure funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the success of a drive to fund the “Cathedral Endowment Fund for Tuition Assistance.” When you click on the above illustration on the CHS website, you go to a page describing that fund.

In a letter to the editor Feb. 2, Ralph Hess ’78, secretary of the CHS board of trustees, provides more information and lays out the case for the endowment fund.

What do you think is going to happen? Do you want a new Cathedral High School on Surrey Road?