1987: ST. ANTHONY HIGH SCHOOL

Today it's called the Trenton Catholic Academy, McCorristin Campus. The younger generation who took over the school when the change was made chose to use the above name rather than the name most of us who were parishioners at St. Anthony Church preferred, namely McCorristin Catholic High School, Trenton Catholic Campus. Old timers in the parish were very aware of the back-breaking labor Monsignor McCorristin and his volunteer workers expended in order to build that school which was to be called St. Anthony High School. I was at the dedication of the field on which the new high school was to be constructed. At the time, there were still corn stalks sticking up from the ground.

1987: MCCORRISTIN CELEBRATES 25 YEARS

THERE IS AN EARLIER POST RELATING TO MCCORRISTIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL POSTED ON THIS SITE A FEW DAYS AGO. IT DETAILS THE FOUNDING OF THE SCHOOL AND IS FROM MY "THE WAY WE WERE" COLUMN IN THE MERCER MESSENGER. TO FIND IT, GO TO THE UPPER LEFT OF THIS PAGE, TYPE MCCORRISTIN IN THE
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1987: MCCORRISTIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL - IN THE BEGINNING

Today it's known as Trenton Catholic Academy, McCorristin Campus. Perhaps many of the folks who re-named it probably weren't around in 1961 when the "Iron Mike," Monsignor Michael P. McCorristin and a small but valiant crew of St. Anthony parish volunteers exerted back-breaking labor in the nearly impossible effort to build a high school to replace Trenton Catholic High School in Chambersburg. My choice for a name for the new school would have been, "McCorristin Catholic High School."

Ray Kuser, Pilot

Did you know that the property now occupied by "Trenton Catholic Academy," or as it should be called, "Monsignor McCorristin High School, Trenton Catholic Campus" was once the landing field for Ray Kuser's Waco biplane? In fact, that whole parcel of land from Kuser Road to the McCorristin Square housing unit was part of the field. It was later converted into a corn field, and a sizeable area for tomatoes. They were sold by the farmer to the Stokeley plant in Trenton, and the Campbell Soup Co. in Camden.
One of the largest folders in the Library collection is the "KUSER FAMILY" folder. There will be many future posts relating to Kuser Farm and the Kuser Family.