City Council President John Roskovics was overcome with memories Friday of school days at Mount Carmel School. The school, built in 1954, and closed in 2012, is being demolished this week by Capp Steele. Roskovics is just one of many students who went on to live a heritage of Catholic faith and scholarship. 

“I learned to read and write there wearing my little blue tie. I’ll always remember fondly my time spent there,” he said. “My brothers and sister would work off our tuition cleaning the hallway tiles in the summer.” After college, Roskovics, today a retired educator, taught school at Mount Carmel School for eight years. “I went there in the 60’s, taught there in the 80’s and my son went there in the 00’s,” he said. “So many wonderful people there.”