Walsh Jesuit High School (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio)

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The school is run by the Jesuits, an order of the Roman Catholic Church. Its educational traditions can be traced to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. Its motto is "Men and Women for Others", taken from a 1973 address by the Rev. Pedro Arrupe, former Superior General of the Society of Jesus. The school's colors are gold and maroon. Its sports teams are known as the Warriors.

Walsh Jesuit High School is one of 47 Jesuit high schools in the United States, organized in the Jesuit Secondary Education Association. Although originally an all male high school, Walsh Jesuit began admitting young women in 1993. The class of 1994 was the last single-gender graduating class.

Attached to the high school is a chapel dedicated to the lives and memory of the North American Jesuit Martyrs (also known as the Canadian Martyrs), eight Jesuit missionaries that worked among the native people of what is now Quebec and upper New York State in the 17th century. A special mass honoring these martyrs is held for the students on or around every October 19. The exterior of the chapel features a distinguishing pinnacled roof built to resemble an American Indian teepee with a cross emerging from the center, the likeness of which serves as Walsh Jesuit's school logo. Originally an all-male school, but integrated in the 1990s.

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