The parish’s building program of the late ‘50s and its continuation into the mid-60’s, coincided with the Renaissance of Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle, a coincidence symbolic of Resurrection’s close ties with the civic affairs of the city. Prominent and active members of the parish over its long history have included former Pittsburgh mayor Thomas Gallagher, former County Commissioner John J. Kane, former City Councilman Patrick Fagan, Register of Wills, Rita Wilson Kane and the former head of the United Steelworkers Union, Phillip Murray.

Despite the best efforts of the parish to keep up with the rising school enrollment (about 2000 by 1959), unusual measures were necessary to provide the children of Resurrection a Catholic education. In order to get more out of the limited space, seventh graders were divided into two groups, and during the ’50 – ’60 school year the first group attended classes from 8:00 am to 12:30 pm five days a week.
The second group attended afternoon sessions in the same classrooms from 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm.

The following year sixth and seventh graders participated in the same half-day arrangement and fifth and sixth graders during the ’61 – ’62 school year.