title fights

Sometimes I get involved in fights, the good fight type stuff. Most often, the fight gets fought and the number to the right in my win / loss record increases. My managers tend to get us into fights we cannot win. We put on a good show, a damn good show, so if the fight isn't won at least respect is not lost.

Today is different. Today the number on the left increased by one.

So uthie reinvents St. Pe ter: New site, same fortitude
By Brian Ball ou - Bos ton He rald
Tuesday, September 14, 2004

St. Pe ter School in South Bos ton closed last year due to a cost-cutting consolidation by the Arch diocese of Bos ton, but a school with almost the same name opened yesterday five blocks away and the similarities are striking.

The books are the same, and the staff and students are the same. Even the tuition is the same at $3,250.

The likeness of the closed school to the new St. Pe ter Academy is no coincidence but rather a measure of the struggle by the staff and parents to keep the 50-year school alive outside the umbrella of the Cath olic Church.

``I can't find the right words to express how it feels to pull this whole thing off,'' said Jil Sulli van, 43, whose three kids attended the school and now attend the academy.

Shortly after the announcement was made earlier this year by the archdio cese to close the school, the administration and the parents of students worked to build their own private school, said Janice Car thas, the academy's principal.

Without much of a budget, they made it happen. Just three weeks ago, a school board member who is a parent of a student offered up an office building that has more space than the old school, with the only stipulation that the academy pay insurance and utilities. Then, the families went to work whipping the space into a school.

The academy wants to carry one more thing from the old school - $100,000 accumulated through tuition payments and fund-raisers last year. The academy's lawyers will meet with the archdio cese Thursday.