St. Genevieve of the Pines

ST. GENEVIEVE
Founded 1908
Location:	Victoria Road, Asheville
The Catholic school was established by nuns from a French order known as "The Religious of Christian Education." In 1912 a college was added which offered both a two-year program and a four year program. In 1930 the school pared back its programs and offered the equivalent of a junior college education. At this time it was called St. Genevieve's Junior College and it operated until 1955. In that same year the school restructured again and became a School for Secretaries. In order to provide additional needed educational programs, the school also opened one of the buildings for young boys (K-8) in 1949 and called it Gibbons School for Boys or Gibbons Hall. Later, when declining enrollments and support became an issue for St. Genevieve and for Gibbons Hall which ran under separate administration, the administrations began to explore a merger of Gibbons Hall School with St. Genevieve. In 1987 the two schools merged but the merger failed to save the two educational facilities on Victoria Road. The St. Genevieve campus was then sold to Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College (AB TECH) and energies began to focus on other developing school plans, particularly the Hendersonville Road campus of Carolina Day School which began a year later in 1988 and which represents the merger of St. Genevieve and Gibbons Hall with what was then known as Asheville Country Day School and which later became Carolina Day School. . St. Genevieve's students still recall with fondness the rich educational atmosphere of the school. Remarkably, at one time a majority of the students were Protestant and Jewish, testimony to the student-centered environment created by the school.
Related:	St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines Genevieve's Junior College Gibbons Hall School Gibbon's Boys School Carolina Day School Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College