Carmelite Educational Institutions - Mount Carmel High School, Carmel High School (Mundelein, Illinois), Christ University (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mount Carmel High School, Carmel High School (Mundelein, Illinois), Christ University, Crespi Carmelite High School, St. Agnes Pu College, Mangalore, Carmel School. Excerpt: For schools of the same name, see Carmel High School . Carmel Catholic High School Carmel Catholic High School is a co-educational, college preparatory, Catholic high school run jointly by the priests and brothers of the Order of Carmelites and the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary . Located in Mundelein, Illinois, Carmel serves all of Lake County, as well as some of the surrounding counties, and southern Wisconsin. An institution of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Carmel Catholic is one of three Carmelite-run high schools in the Chicago area, the others being Joliet Catholic High School and Mount Carmel High School . History In the early 1960s, the Carmelites and the Sisters of Charity were asked to build separate but similar Catholic high schools for the northern part of the Archdiocese of Chicago; an area corresponding roughly to Lake County . The boys school opened in 1962, with the girls school opening the next year. In the summer of 1988, the decision was made to combine the two schools, which was done for the 1989 90 school year. School crest In 2007, the school adopted a new crest as a symbol of the school. While the design was arrived upon by a committee from within the school community, an alum was responsible for the final physical depiction. Beneath the school's name is a shield per cross . The cross itself is used to symbolize Christ and faith . The shield is outlined in gold, while the cross is depicted in brown; the school colors. At dexter chief (upper left quadrant) is a lamp of knowledge, which represents the life and spirituality of the school community, and t...