Plan To Reopen Episcopal School in N.Y. Approved

By Millicent Lawton

A New York State judge has approved a plan by the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island to retain control of and reopen a school it closed last year, rejecting an attempt by a group of parents, alumni, and teachers to take it over.

In an oral opinion last week, New York State Supreme Court Judge John S. Lockman found "viable and appropriate'' the plan to make the once-exclusive school, the Cathedral School of St. Mary and St. Paul in Garden City, financially feasible, said Donald MacLeod, a member of the board of directors of the Cathedral Corporation, which oversees the school and its property.

"They basically lost a hostile takeover,'' John H. Works, chief legal adviser to the diocese, said of the parent-alumni group. "They tried to basically take the school away from the diocese, and...