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Catholic school committee to probe reasons for Rex Mundi closing A special meeting to review the closing of Rex Mundi High School has been called for tonight by the Evansville Diocese Education Commission executive committee. Mrs. Mary Ann Wittgen, vice-chairman of the education commission, said the 16- member committee will review the reasons for closing the high school and the procedures used in reaching that decision. Any major educational policy change is subject to the approval of the executive committee. It has the authority to review the decision of the school board to determine whether the board considered all the facts before making a decision, Mrs. Wittgen said. The committee can then approve the decision or send it back to the school board for further consideration, Mrs. Wittgen said. But the committee cannot override the decision of the school board and order it to keep the school open, according to the Fuhrer files chairman of the committee, Fred Hormuth. The public meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Catholic Office of Education at 208 N.W. Third Street, is expected to be attended by Millions spent yearly on flying boat United Press International LOS ANGELES Howard Hughes has gone on spending millions of dollars a year on the "Spruce Goose" - the strange, giant flying boat he built of wood and put into storage - a quarter century ago and deducts the expense from his corporate income for tax purposes, according to a former top aide. Hughes may have more than $50 million invested in the Spruce Goose" by now, said Noah Dietrich, who was a key figure in the Hughes empire until he left in 1957. At that time, Dietrich said in an interview yesterday, Hughes "was spending $3 to $4 million a year regluing the members of the Rex Mundi Booster Club and the school's steering committee. These groups plan to present a proposal that a survey be taken by a professional firm to determine whether the board was correct in closing Rex Mundi instead of Mater Dei or Memorial. Thomas Shetler, a member of the Rex Mundi steering committee, said opponents of the school's closing feel it was "a complete and total human impossibility for them (the school board) to look at it (the closing) objectively. We're not faulting the school board itself, but there were just too many human elements." Al Folz, president of the Rex Mundi Booster Club and chairman of the school's steering committee, said the committee learned Saturday that a survey of the Catholic school buildings in Evansville disclosed that maintenance costs at Mater Dei would be higher than at Rex Mundi, "If we just learned of the building survey Saturday, I don't see how the school board could have known about it," Folz said.
Article from 06 Mar 1972Evansville Press(Evansville, IN)
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