For 67 years, from 1942 to 2009, Saint Catherine’s School (which later became Our Lady of Peace school*) educated our children, preparing them to live lives of faith.
* The name change occurred when the school was consolidate with these parishes: St. Catherine of Siena, Coronation of Our Lady in Grandview and St. Matthew the Apostle Parish and St. Sabina Parish in Belton joined in this consolidation effort.
Thank you to Maureen Jungden for sorting through the archives and to Kim Johnson for scanning the following.
The Early Years
The first faculty teachers at St. Catherine’s School were the nuns shown here wearing their habits.Old picture of a large group of the St. Catherine’s students.
Fundraising has always been an important part of support for the school. The Carnival/Bazaar was one of the ways to help bring extra financial support into the school.Sister Delores Marie was the principal at St. Catherine’s for many years and could be found participating in allsorts of activities. She is seen here batting at a softball game on the back athletic field.A class picture of the seventh grade in 1974.
Our Lady of Peace Student Council representatives for each of the grades.As the winner of an auction item “Principal for the Day”, pictured are Barb McCormick, principal of Our Lady of Peace School with Lisa Lamble, winner of the honor of being principal for the day.
If you have photos and other historical documents, use the Contact Us page to contact Bob Sandford.
7 thoughts on “Our Lady of Peace School”
Roberta Patrin Allan
I graduated from St. Catherine’s in 1961. I will always remember Sister Mary St. Amelia. I feel so blessed by my Catholic education. I was a student at St. Catherine’s in the fifth grade when our home was destroyed by the 1957 Ruskin Heights tornado. I will always remember the kindness of the sisters when we returned to school after our home was rebuilt.
I always wondeted anout Sister Mary Theodotus. She was tough but fair and someone I remember with fondness. May God nlesd these wonderful, incredible, self sacrificing, loving, stern, good, good, good women of God. They made me the person I am today at age 66. I cannot begin to repay them (many deceased by now). I can never forget how they changed my life with their genuine charity.
Graduated from St. Catherine’s in 1972 and have wanted to contact two of my teachers in particular, Mr. Zurlo and Sr. Elizabeth, as I would love to thank them both. Would love to hear from anyone who might know how I could connect with either of them. Thanks.
My brother and I both attended OLOP. I graduated in 1984, my brother Bryant in 1985. We both went on to O’Hara. I still drive by OLOP when I’m in KC. Very fond memories!!!!!
I am so grateful for my opportunity and the blessing of my parents being able to afford to send me to a school not only was a great place to learn with less students, meant the teachers we’re able to help and teach on an individual basis especially with me I no I was a handful I’m sure. I I remember I was in music class 2003 maybe 2002 I had the bright idea to stick a paperclip made it into a shape of a horseshoe and stuck it in to the plug-in right below the emergency light that was right by the music room. Ironically right at that moment in time of course we all know how electricity works I underestimated it had no idea what blessing I had received by not being electrocuted but Sparks flew everywhere it blew up my friend Nicholas White who I was kind of doing this for because his mother was a candy representative and got new releases of candy before they were put on into the stores denting fire gum that is to be exact that was not really known about to the teacher and the principles mainly probably because my safety they were concerned about but yes he thought I had died and I was standing there dumbfounded in shock not shocked literally but in shock heart rates beating through the roof and here comes music teacher and I forget what her name was she was after Mr clock regardless she sees the big black suet around the outlet and I tried playing dumb that didn’t work of course and there was sent to the office suspended and the dreadful called my father was made thankfully my mother came to pick me up which brought me some time until my dad came home from work punished me and then sat me down and explained how electricity worked and how I was really lucky and I must have been as grounded as I was for the next few weeks and as a parent now I can only imagine what this might have been like for my father and my mother so I accepted that punishment later on in life and probably maybe needed a few extra. And for the rest of my years there at our Lady of Peace my name was nicely wrote down on all the outlets throughout the school people thought that that was just hilarious it became kind of obnoxious but a great lesson in life and a tad bit of a cool story for my childhood I love that school I loved the staff the church Father Bob father Coleman what I got to see of him mrs. McCormick. Also one thing I want to know about Miss McCormick the principal how she had never showed any kind of favoritism towards her son who was in my class and in my grade and stood right behind me and lunch or maybe it was ahead of me but either way if anything she was harder on him than the rest of the students you just goes to show how she got to know each and every one of us greeted us every morning as we’re coming in I have nothing but fond of memories and gratefulness to be blessed to have been raised in school such as our Lady of Peace if anybody sees this any of the old staff or anybody or Mrs.Jundeen from up the street from where I grew up thank you for creating this page and thank you for putting up with me as a child hello and I miss all of you old peers of mine teachers the janitor Mr Hamilton as some very good sound advice during lunch time we always strike up a conversation at our table and I remember we couldn’t wait for his son to be transferred to come over from Blue springs to our Lady of Peace.
I graduated from St. Catherine’s in 1961. I will always remember Sister Mary St. Amelia. I feel so blessed by my Catholic education. I was a student at St. Catherine’s in the fifth grade when our home was destroyed by the 1957 Ruskin Heights tornado. I will always remember the kindness of the sisters when we returned to school after our home was rebuilt.
I was a class of 1970 Graduate. I heard there was some sort of reunion on 09/13/14. Please advise.
Thanks,
JHHII
see https://saintcatherine.com/events/coming-events/st-catherinesolop-reunion-2014/
I always wondeted anout Sister Mary Theodotus. She was tough but fair and someone I remember with fondness. May God nlesd these wonderful, incredible, self sacrificing, loving, stern, good, good, good women of God. They made me the person I am today at age 66. I cannot begin to repay them (many deceased by now). I can never forget how they changed my life with their genuine charity.
Graduated from St. Catherine’s in 1972 and have wanted to contact two of my teachers in particular, Mr. Zurlo and Sr. Elizabeth, as I would love to thank them both. Would love to hear from anyone who might know how I could connect with either of them. Thanks.
My brother and I both attended OLOP. I graduated in 1984, my brother Bryant in 1985. We both went on to O’Hara. I still drive by OLOP when I’m in KC. Very fond memories!!!!!
Sean J Hamilton
I am so grateful for my opportunity and the blessing of my parents being able to afford to send me to a school not only was a great place to learn with less students, meant the teachers we’re able to help and teach on an individual basis especially with me I no I was a handful I’m sure. I I remember I was in music class 2003 maybe 2002 I had the bright idea to stick a paperclip made it into a shape of a horseshoe and stuck it in to the plug-in right below the emergency light that was right by the music room. Ironically right at that moment in time of course we all know how electricity works I underestimated it had no idea what blessing I had received by not being electrocuted but Sparks flew everywhere it blew up my friend Nicholas White who I was kind of doing this for because his mother was a candy representative and got new releases of candy before they were put on into the stores denting fire gum that is to be exact that was not really known about to the teacher and the principles mainly probably because my safety they were concerned about but yes he thought I had died and I was standing there dumbfounded in shock not shocked literally but in shock heart rates beating through the roof and here comes music teacher and I forget what her name was she was after Mr clock regardless she sees the big black suet around the outlet and I tried playing dumb that didn’t work of course and there was sent to the office suspended and the dreadful called my father was made thankfully my mother came to pick me up which brought me some time until my dad came home from work punished me and then sat me down and explained how electricity worked and how I was really lucky and I must have been as grounded as I was for the next few weeks and as a parent now I can only imagine what this might have been like for my father and my mother so I accepted that punishment later on in life and probably maybe needed a few extra. And for the rest of my years there at our Lady of Peace my name was nicely wrote down on all the outlets throughout the school people thought that that was just hilarious it became kind of obnoxious but a great lesson in life and a tad bit of a cool story for my childhood I love that school I loved the staff the church Father Bob father Coleman what I got to see of him mrs. McCormick. Also one thing I want to know about Miss McCormick the principal how she had never showed any kind of favoritism towards her son who was in my class and in my grade and stood right behind me and lunch or maybe it was ahead of me but either way if anything she was harder on him than the rest of the students you just goes to show how she got to know each and every one of us greeted us every morning as we’re coming in I have nothing but fond of memories and gratefulness to be blessed to have been raised in school such as our Lady of Peace if anybody sees this any of the old staff or anybody or Mrs.Jundeen from up the street from where I grew up thank you for creating this page and thank you for putting up with me as a child hello and I miss all of you old peers of mine teachers the janitor Mr Hamilton as some very good sound advice during lunch time we always strike up a conversation at our table and I remember we couldn’t wait for his son to be transferred to come over from Blue springs to our Lady of Peace.