The Sisters of Mercy, the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart (D’Youville) and Marist Scholastics on the faculty of Marist School work together with men and woman of the parish under the direction of Father C. Joseph Biggers, S.M., in the School of Religion of Our Lady of the Assumption.

Additional personnel, new books, and new approaches have resulted in increased enrollment in all divisions. Approximately 100 children attend the pre-school classes, 552 attend the grade school, and 102 attend the high school classes.

Father Biggers, director of the School of Religion, has been active in Georgia, Louisiana and West Virginia, prior to his being transferred to Our Lady of the Assumption in August. Mrs. W.J. Kelly is assistant director for the pre-school division; Robert Bless, assistant director for the grade school; and F. J. Geiser, assistant director for the high school division. Sister Mary Valentina, R.S.M., principal of Our Lady of the Assumption School, is educational director.

Each grade school class has a lay teacher who is assisted by a nun coordinator. Sister Martin Marie, R.S.M., helps the first through third grade teachers. She is also in charge of the first communion class. Sister Dorothy Anne, G.N.S.H., works with the teachers in grades four through six. Sister Marie Carolyn, R.S.M., works with the seventh and eighth grade teachers. Each sister is spending some time in the classrooms and will teach each class in her group at least once during the year.

Marist scholastics, Andrew Balash, John Ceckley, Joseph McLaughlin, and Howard Smith, who are teaching this year at Marist High School, are assisting the high school teachers. Field trips and outside speakers are adding interest to the high school program.

A staff group works in the office each Sunday to keep the records and check absentees. They also register and place new students. Father Biggers, Sister Mary Valentian, Mrs. Kelly, Bless, and Geiser are also available each Sunday to meet with parents of new students and parents of students with any particular problems.

The pre-school classes are held each Sunday during the 8:30 Mass. The high school and part of the grade school have class immediately following the 8:30 Mass. Another grade school session is held at 10:30 and ends prior to the 11:30 Mass. Parents of grade school children (first through eighth) may choose which session their children will attend but the children must attend the same sessions each week.