RUMSON WOMEN PREP FOR A GIRLS’ ACADEMY
Mairead Clifford, left, and Victoria Gmelich, hope to give their daughters and other young women the same kind of high school experience they had. (Click to enlarge)
By MOLLY MULSHINE
Two Rumson women on a quest to develop an all-girls Catholic high school were heartened recently to find that thousands of area parents are just as interested in the idea as they are.
Victoria Gmelich and Mairead (pronounced ‘mah-RAID’) Clifford conducted an online survey last month to gauge interest in bringing such an institution to Monmouth County. They anticipated about 800 families would participate, but ended up with 2,000 responses.
Now, it’s time to “analyze the data and actually prove to ourselves what we think we already know that there is a big need in this area for an all-girls school,” Gmelich tells redbankgreen.