Alum of former St. Basil’s Academy gather to say goodbye before demolition

JENKINTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) — Alumni of an all-girls Ukrainian-Catholic school are remembering their alma mater before the building is demolished.

St. Basil’s Academy in Jenkintown will be knocked down next week. The private school was open for 90 years and helped educate thousands of Philadelphia-area girls.

“My daughter went here so I was an alum, a teacher, and a parent so this is triply hard for me because I lived and breathed this school,” said Terry Dillinger, who joined a group from the school community who gathered in front of the building Saturday…

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