Saint Willebrord Parish 209 South Adams Street, Green Bay WI. 54301.

Home Page A SCHOOL IS BUILT The people of the parish were enthusiastic when Pastor Norbert Kersten suggested the people needed a Catholic parochial school.  They built a school in 1879 directly behind the present church.  At that time, members of the parish remarked that it was built so close to the church that a thin boy could pass between the church and the school, but that a fat boy had to walk around. Henry Vanden Avond, 92, recalled attending school in that building.  There were two floors - one schoolroom on each floor.  Sister Ann was upstairs, and Sister Gertrude was downstairs.  There were about 50 children in the two rooms.  The school building was condemned and torn down in 1908.