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Updates as of 6/25/08 Bishop Carroll Building Project Continues Upward The new gym and classroom space at Bishop Carroll Catholic High School shows progress every day. Pictured are both parts of the Building The Tradition Capital Campaign projects:
* Viewing from the southeast section of the campus, the two-story shell for thirteen classrooms (5 science labs and 8 regular classrooms) is being added on to the south of the existing academic hallways.
Updates as of 6/12/08
The pouring of the hall floors.
Updates as of 5/27/08 Bishop Carroll Construction on Schedule! Phase I of our Building The Tradition building project began last November, and construction is right on schedule. The huge hole excavated is being filled with concrete walls, pillars, and concrete block separating the locker room, office, and shower spaces. Backfilling proceeds as we go to press, using the dirt pile on the front lawn! Chris Baalmann 01, the project engineer for Simpson & Associates, projects that the activities center will be completed next spring, barring unforeseen bad weather. The shell for 13 additional classrooms is visible atop the concrete floor which projects south from the existing academic halls. Five science labs and 8 regular classrooms will be finished in Phase I. The entire project is funded by the Building The Tradition Capital Campaign which continues in its “silent phase” of donor cultivation. The campaign has raised $10.3 million in pledges, with $17.5 million needed for the entire building and renovation project that includes expanded commons and new auditorium. The development department continues to work towards that goal.
The north wall of BCCHS's new gym is built higher. Bleachers to seat up to 2000 will be installed around the "sunken" court.
Updates as of 05/9/08
The west wall of Bishop
Carroll's new gym shows where the bleachers will be built upon the
concrete columns.
Updates as of 04/29/08
More Updates!!! Construction continues on the activities center and classroom addition at Bishop Carroll High School. Pictured (first picture) is the area where the east bleachers will go in the gymnasium and (second picture) where the walls will go up on the classroom shell! The general contracting company is Simpson & Associates, and BC alum Chris Baalman '01 is the project engineer. With favorable weather, the gym will be complete next spring!
Updates as of 04/02/08 Bishop Carroll's Building Project Progresses!! Construction continues on the new activities complex at Bishop Carroll with the gym walls erected and waterproofed. In addition, the footprint for the thirteen more classrooms is complete with the footings and preliminary plumbing visible. The "big dirt pile" in the front yard eventually will be used for fill-in and additional landscaping. To date, $10.12 million has been raised for the entire Building The Tradition Capital Campaign from within the BC community, but another $7 million is needed to enlarge the chapel, expand the commons and kitchen, and build a new auditorium.
Updates as of 03/07/08 Foundation is being laid for the new gym.
Updates as of 01/11/08 What's with the big dirt pile in front of Bishop Carroll?
Construction has begun on the new gym at Carroll, and the dirt is from the hole which was dug for it. Workers are preparing the area with required drainage and other necessary steps prior to main construction. Work also is happening to prepare where the classroom addition at the south end of the existing academic halls is planned. The foyer and gym will be entered at ground level, and spectators will walk down to their seats. The original "concrete cave" will remain as our secondary gym, since the little "girl's gym" will be remodeled as classroom, storage and practice space for the band. To date $9.3 million in pledges have been raised within the Bishop Carroll community to make this happen! The Building The Tradition capital campaign continues in its "silent phase" with personal visits by BC volunteers.
Updates as of 11/30/07 Complex Groundbreaking November 28
Groundbreaking ceremonies
for the Bishop Carroll Catholic High School Activities Complex were held
at 1:30 pm on Wednesday, November 28.
Bishop Michael Jackels, President Leticia Nielsen, contractor Bob
Simpson of Simpson and Associates, athletic/activities director Larry
Dostert, architects Joe Johnson, Kenton Cox, Shannon Bohm and Kathy
Spencer of Schaefer Johnson Cox Frey, Campaign Chairs Jim McAnarney and
Pat Burns, Honorary Campaign Chairs Chris and Becky Dugan, Larry and Dana
Fugate, Alvin and Karla Neville; School Council Chair Gretchen Sharp,
Chaplain C. Jarrod Lies, faculty and staff, BCCHS students, and other
distinguished guests attended. The complex will seat 2000 with room to expand to 2500 and include new locker facilities for boys and girls physical education classes, athletic teams and activities. The $8 million project is funded by gifts from the BCCHS community and is expected to be constructed in 460 working days, to be completed during the 2009-2010 school year.
Update as of 7/10/07! Work continues on the renovation of the soccer and parking facilities at Bishop Carroll Catholic High School. South of the school building, the soccer field has been realigned to the north and south, and earth work continues in the parking lot and construction staging areas. The grassy space is cleared for work to
begin.
Drainage lines are laid in the trench.
Update as of 3/14/07! Demolition of the Convent
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Viewing from the southwest corner of the construction zone, another view
of the classroom extension as well as the gym area is visible.
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Viewing from the west, masons continue building the gym walls upward.
"As the dirt pile in our front yard goes down (due to fill- in around
the project), the walls go higher!"
Up
- Up - and Away! Walls of concrete block continue skyward on both the new
gym and classroom additions. Concrete is poured into the extended 100 and
200 academic hallways "over" the built walls!
The
west bleachers area of BCCHS's new gym are constructed.
Trench
is dug for drainage to go under the parking lot.
In
1966 a convent was built at Madonna Catholic High School. It housed the
sisters of St. Joseph and the Precious Blood sisters. In the summer of 1971
Madonna Catholic High School was sold, and they joined Bishop Carroll Catholic
High School. The convent that was at Madonna was built at Bishop Carroll with the
same kind of design. The sisters of St. Joseph and the Precious Blood sisters
stayed with the 
convent as it was moved to its new location. In 1976 the Sisters
of St. Joseph moved out of the convent and the Immaculate Heart Of Mary sisters
moved in on June 22, 1976. There were 5 sisters with Mother Joanna leading them.
During the 1980’s the sister started looking to build a new convent, since
they were out growing the one they were in. Land was generously donated to the
sisters in Schulte, Kansas so they could build a new convent for their order.
While the IHM sisters wait for funds for the new convent to be collected, they
patiently wait at St. Joseph, where they currently reside. When the sisters
started to move out in late September of 2006 they left the convent empty with
no hopes of any religious life to move in after them. The convent was torn down
to allow more room for parking and to store construction equipment that will be
used for the new additions to Bishop Carroll that are to be completed in the
next couple of years. Although these things will be used to a great extent, they
will never replace the convent. Senior Emily Stansfield stated, “It’s sad
that the convent is gone, because having the convent on campus set us apart from
other high schools. “ Sr. Joseph Mary O’Brien IHM, who has lived in the
convent since 1990, said that she had a lot of memories in the convent. She also
said she remembers Sr. Mary Eileen, one of the original 5 sisters that moved in,
dying in the convent. This event however, should not be looked at as a bad
thing, if the sisters can no longer live there and have to move out that means
their order is growing which means more women are following their vocation.