The 288 children or St. John the Baptist School, Pittston AND St. Mary's Avoca
The students of St. John the Baptist Elementary in Pittston and Saint Mary's Grade School in Avoca, PA.
Smiling, full of trust and hope - April 2004.
On June 4, 2004, their schools were closed for good- despite every effort, (including a lawsuit against the Diocese of Scranton and Bishop Martino) by supporters, parents, teachers and children to keep the schools opened or allow a merger.

LINK to old FRONT PAGE: see many old documents and PHOTOS: OLD FRONT PAGE.
PLEASE copy to your files any old photos you can find links to that you want to preserve.
This site will be shut down at some point in the coming months and the photos may be lost forever.
Seton Catholic Pittston ...many, but not all, of the old photos.

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June 2010

William Street in Pittston - So Empty...
SETON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL & CHURCH

  • GOOD-BYE. OUR JOB IS DONE.
    For six years we have maintained this web site.
    The expense and work would have been worth it if we'd been successful in saving Seton Catholic and the elementary schools we supported.
    However, our work is now done.
    We will be moving some of the photos to our Myspace.com site (see below).
    Thank you to those who kept in touch and supported our efforts.
    The site will shut down in the next few weeks or months.
  • SCHOOL DELAYS - WNEP.com

Reunion Photos anyone? Please send them here...

Seton Catholic & St. John Evangelist & Pittston Central Catholic
OFFICIAL REUNION WEB SITE

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Supporting, but not authorized by, the Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Scranton
Nor are we authorized by Bishop Joseph F. Martino, his successor or the Scranton Diocese
Our goals:
To Strengthen and Preserve our Catholic Schools
To Preserve the Memory of the Closed Catholic Schools
Pittston Area School District and Surrounding Areas
Luzerne County & Lackawanna County of Pennsylvania PA

Photo of Seton Catholic High School in Pittston PA taken 2007 shortly before final day of school.
St. John's Academy - St. John the Evangelist School - Seton Catholic High School
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1864 - 2007

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"Never rise from the table without having given thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony."

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Jesus Comforts the children "And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.
When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them,

Let the children come to me, do not prevent them,
for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these...' - Mark 10:14"

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Technicality in seniority description an accident?
"Seniority is defined as the number of years of continuous service for the diocese in a geographic school system, within the elementary and secondary systems and in a specific field. Teachers must also have earned a religion certification by taking six theology courses from the diocese, completed a state certification with three years of teaching and obtained a pastor’s letter confirming the teacher is an appropriate representative of his/her faith."

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Alumni Directory
By Request - Please Pass the WORD!

Over the past few months we've received suggestions that we form an Alumni Directory for the closed schools in the former Region 7. We will be happy to create pages by school and class if we receive enough responses.

Please pass the word because we have outdated e-mail lists. Thank you.
Alumni of all closed Scranton of Diocese Schools:
Please feel free to send us your current contact information to share with classmates!
SUBJECT LINE: Please type NAME OF SCHOOL and CLASS YEAR on SUBJECT LINE of E-Mail!
MESSAGE OF E-MAIL:

YOUR NAME (maiden, married, both?)
YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS
NOTE: All information posted in our new ALUMNI DIRECTORY is online & public knowledge.
However, NO information is ever sold, and no money is ever taken for this site!

Catholic Schools - Elementary and High Schools
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Formerly: Region 7 Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Scranton

REMAINING    CLOSED

  • St. John the Baptist School - Pittston PA (closed June 2004)
  • St. Mary's School - Avoca PA (closed June 2004)
  • Sacred Heart of Jesus School - Dupont PA (closed June 2007)
  • Seton Catholic High School - Pittston PA (closed June 2007)*
    (formerly) St. John the Evangelist School
* At the time of it's closing by Bishop Joseph F. Martino of the Diocese of Scranton, Seton was the only Catholic high school in the Pittston Area School District.

Several other Catholic High Schools (Bishop Hafey in Hazleton; Bishop O'Reilly in Kingston, Bishop Hannon in Scranton and others) closed and there are now only two from Hazleton to Dunmore, PA

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We are not authorized by any of the listed Catholic Schools, nor the Diocese of Scranton, nor Bishop Joseph F. Martino nor any other person or institution associated with the Diocese of Scranton to represent them in ANY way.*






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