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Principal leaving St. John the Baptist

Pictured from left to right: Bishop William Murphy,

Photo credit: Nan Doherty

The running joke around the halls of St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School is that if someone chips a cinder block, Principal Walter Lace will feel it.

Lace, who has worked at the school in almost every capacity since it first opened in 1967, takes everything involving the school very personally, said Nan Doherty, an assistant principal.

“He treats it like his home,”...

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