Since then, the campus has since been repurposed into St. Bernard Preparatory School by the religious community of Benedictine monks.
Between 1948 and 1953, the board of trustees worked on expanding the institution to four-year-college status.
Many students arriving from the Delaware Valley; New Jersey; Michigan; Georgia; New York; and Knoxville, Tennessee.
The school's golf team was ranked nationally in the NAIA Men's Championship in 1971.
[1] The soccer teams of the 1960s were highly-competitive and gained national ranking in NAIA especially after recruiting Neil O'Donoghue in 1972, who later played football for Auburn University and in the NFL.