Archbishop Hannan High School is a Catholic

Catholic school

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, co-ed

Coeducation

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, high school

High school

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 located in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

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. Its mascot

Mascot

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 is called Harry The Hawk. The school's motto is Caritas Viniculum Perfectionis, which translates to "charity is the way to perfection." It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans

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.

The Old Campus (St. Bernard Parish Campus)

The old Hannan campus, located at 2501 Archbishop Philip M. Hannan Boulevard Meraux, LA, was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

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 in 2005. The campus was situated on Archbishop Philip M. Hannan Boulevard, between East Judge Perez Drive

Judge Perez Drive

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and St. Bernard Highway. The school was completely air-conditioned and included Our Lady of Peace Chapel, separate boys’ and girls’ athletic facilities (including a baseball stadium, softball field, and lighted football stadium), a large library and media center, a science wing, networked computer laboratories, a state-of-the-art foreign language lab, and a Fine Arts Complex that included a 200-seat auditorium, band room, art studio, and journalism lab.

Before its destruction the old campus was in its seventeenth year in operation as the only Catholic high school in St. Bernard Parish.

Sports

Hannan has had several sports teams:

• Football
• Volleyball
• Boys Basketball
• Girls Basketball
• Track
• Cross Country
• Baseball
• Softball
• Bowling-Undefeated State Champions in 2005. It was the first year of bowling being considered a state sport.
• Golf
• Girls Soccer

External links

• Arch. Hannan High Home Page