Tomorrow, Friday, a special school day is on the program at the Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering. It’s celebrated, with a little delay, but with a lot of joy.
Actually, the 125th anniversary of the Stiftsgymnasium should have been duly celebrated in the previous school year – but Corona made that impossible. However, the organizational team around Director Christine Simbrunner did not let this discourage them. Planning was resumed a few months ago after the corona-related interruption.
“This year we are organizing the biggest class reunion in our history. After all, our graduates are an essential resource of our school,” says Peter Glatz. The exchange between old and young, former and current students, should be the focus, as the Latin and religion teacher explains.
No more boys’ school
In addition to school tours (there are more than 200 registrations for these), a panel discussion with three prominent “Altwilheringen” is planned. The topic: “The future of education. Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering, quo vadis?”. The initiators: Maria Katharina Moser, Director of Diakonie Austria, Stefanie Huber, Chairwoman of the Board of Sparkasse OÖ, and Christoph Keplinger, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. In addition, there will be joint workshops with some of the graduates and the students, as well as a joint prayer of thanksgiving in the collegiate church with Abbot Reinhold Dessl.
Tomorrow’s celebrations are also an opportunity to showcase the school’s developments, particularly over the past ten years. A lot has happened: from the new gym to digitization (keyword Smartboards). “The graduates who graduated a few years ago almost see a new school,” says Glatz and laughs.
Founded in 1895, only boys went to school at the Stiftsgymnasium. The boarding school belonging to the school was closed in 1990. Around 540 students are currently attending the Stiftsgymnasium Wilhering.
But tomorrow, not least with the panel discussion, we shall be looking ahead, also in the direction of the 150th anniversary.
Source: Nachrichten
