The School

Although the appearance of the two-story, rose-brick school building with its white framed windows and white cupola atop it is Colonial from the exterior, there exists in the interior a contemporary, up-to-date "seat of learning."

The corridor walls of the school are faced with a Nile green ceramic tile on the lower half and painted on the upper half, making it easy to maintain as well as cheerful and bright.  The first level of the school contains the first, second and third grade classrooms, faculty room, music room, administration offices and nurses station, while the second floor holds the fourth through eighth grades and the library.

The rooms are finished in a variety of pastel shades of paint, and recessed florescent lighting add to the beauty as well as being functional.  Each classroom, with a capacity of forty-to-fifty pupils, has an entire wall of window space, overlooking either the front or rear of the school, as well as two walls of blackboard area and ample storage closets to the rear.  A modern inter-communications system has been installed, in addition to a unique blower system, which adjusts automatically to temperature changes and makes it possible for each room to re-circulate the air whenever necessary.

The focal point of the school building, however, is the recessed alcove on the first floor, directly ahead of the main entrance.  Framed in marble, with a wood-grained background, stand life-sized, hand carved wooden figures of Our Lord blessing the figures of a boy and a girl who are attired in the uniform of Holy Spirit School.

Truly the Lord has blessed our children, for Holy Spirit is the first Catholic school to be built in the town of Union in thirty-four years and is second to none in its appointments, curriculum and teaching staff.