SYCAMORE TWP. - An Archbishop Moeller High School graduate is coming back to the school - this time as dean of academics.

Michael Rakel of Reading will replace Brother John Habjan, who is leaving Moeller to become the assistant director of education for the Marianist Province of the United States.

Rakel, a 1970 Moeller graduate, has spent 28 years in Catholic education, including the past 20 at Dayton's Carroll High, where he's serving as the school's director of student services and social studies department chairman. He is also a part-time instructor at the University of Dayton.

Catholic schools enroll for fall

The eight schools that make up the Catholic Inner-City Education Fund are enrolling students for the coming school year in grades K-8. Parents should go to the school they want their child to attend to register.

Tuition assistance is available. Call 421-3131.

The participating schools are: St. Boniface, Northside; Corryville Catholic; St. Francis de Sales, Walnut Hills; St. Francis Seraph, Over-the-Rhine; Holy Family, Price Hill; St. Joseph, West End; Resurrection, Price Hill; and Our Mother of Sorrows, Roselawn.

History teacher wins vets' award

WESTWOOD - An American history teacher at Mother of Mercy High School has been selected to receive the National Citizenship Education Teacher Post Recognition award.

VFW Post 10380 presented the award to Dick Horton in honor of his efforts to bring veterans into the classroom to speak about their wartime experiences.

Sue Kiesewetter

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