Attention all alumni! Tomorrow (FRIDAY, JULY 19) is the last day for the sale of religious items/statues.”
Throughout the summer of 2024, an alumni page for Notre Dame College in South Euclid, Ohio, advertised the sale of countless pieces from the college archives: crosses and crucifixes, statues of the Virgin Mary in a dozen styles, and issues of the college’s literary journal going back as far back as 1952.
It all had to go. Notre Dame College would not be matriculating students for the 2024–2025 school year. The Board of Trustees and their “heroic efforts were not enough to close the financial gap in time to satisfy debt obligations.” The fire sale of what hadn’t been transferred to Notre Dame College’s institution of record, Lake Erie College, or what wasn’t taken by the Sisters of Notre Dame, would, according to the college’s alumni page, “pay our many bills/vendors so we can close with dignity.”
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