Saved! Xavier Prep to remain open

The news April 22 to parents was clear: Xavier University Preparatory School will reopen for female students in the seventh through 12th grades for the 2013-14 school year, only it will have a new name and be run by a new corporation.    

Six Xavier Prep alumnae and alumni recently formed the nonprofit 5116 Magazine Street Preparatory High School Corporation (MSPHS) to keep alive the dream of the school’s foundress, St. Katharine Drexel. Members of the new corporation are Dale Atkins, Keith Doley, Piper Griffin, Edwin Lombard, Shantell Payton and Karen Wells Roby.
  
The new school will be named St. Katharine Drexel Preparatory High School and will be an independent, Catholic school, although with no affiliation to the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (SBS) that St. Katharine founded.