J ubilee C hristian S chool
Celebrates
30th Anniversary
Its first principal, Mary Wolling, credited with starting something grand.
BY W.B. FRESA
S
ince its formation in 1987, Jubilee Christian School has
fostered lifelong learners in children from kindergarten
to sixth grade using an integrated curriculum from a
Christian worldview. Now, 30 years later, it is celebrating
successes and continuing its course of action to teach young
minds through an integrated approach.
“Mrs. Mary Wolling was Jubilee’s first principal,” says
Michelle Strauna, Director of Education and Curriculum. “In
1986, she, along with several parents, discussed the idea of an
integrated teaching style. In September 1987, Natalie Thomas
and five kindergarteners became the first classroom at our
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school and met at Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church in Mt.
Lebanon. It didn’t take long for the children’s families to start
talking to others about the success of the integrated curriculum
academically and spiritually, and its ability to instill a love of
learning. The rest, as they say, is history.”
Beginning in 1988 through 1993, one grade level was added
each year as needed, reaching its current status of a kindergarten
through sixth grade school.
“Mrs. Wolling served as both principal and teacher of first
and second grades during those beginning years,” explains Anna
Booher, a fifth and sixth grade teacher at Jubilee for the past