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THE Education In Goodness, Discipline & Knowledge... Amat VOLUME 27 ISSUE 1 Bishop AmAt memoriAl high school Tradition Susan O’Connor Byrne ‘73 Daylon McCutcheon ‘95 Annu2012-2013Al report edition Bishop Amat Administration Monsignor Aidan M. Carroll, President Mr. Richard Beck, Principal Mrs. Maria Gover ‘66, Assistant Principal, Teacher Supervision Mrs. Ivette Salcedo, Assistant Principal, Student Services Fr. Michael J. Sezzi, Assistant Principal, Studies Office Ms. Deborah R. Oswald, Director of Finance Bishop Amat consultative council Mrs. Carly M. Allevato ’95 Certified Public Accountant Cohen Pivo & Company Mr. Joseph P. Busch, III ‘66 Attorney at Law, Ret. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Mrs. Carol Cunningham ‘92 Nurse Practitioner St. Mary Medical Center Mr. Steven E. Escovar Certified Public Accountant Turner, Laub & Escovar Mr. Larry Hartmann ‘61 Consultant Mr. Philip Iriarte City Manager, Ret. Ms. Stephanie Lesko ‘74 Group 22, Inc. Mr. Alan G. Ludwig ‘64 President Pascal & Ludwig Constructors Sylvia Salem, D.D.S. Mr. John Sciarra ‘72 President & CEO National Retirement Services, Inc. Mr. Christopher Spohn, ‘78 CEO, WebWise Tutors Mr. Chris Trujillo ‘74 Vice President, Construction Watson Land Company Mr. Matthew Vermeeren, Esq. ‘95 Attorney at Law Koch Legal Mr. Mauricio Zavala ‘88 President Orbit Printing ex-officio Monsignor Aidan M. Carroll President Bishop Amat High School contact us Phone: 626-962-2495 Ext. 7456 Mr. Richard Beck FAX: 626-960-0994 Principal Email: [email protected] Bishop Amat High School 14301 Fairgrove Avenue La Puente, CA 91746 development office staff www.bishopamat.org Ms. Deborah R. Oswald, Director of Marketing and Development http://alumni.bishopamat.org Mr. Stephen Hagerty ‘80, Alumni Relations Coordinator Mrs. Lucy Rios, Special Events Coordinator Mrs. Darleen Adamek, Secretary publication and production: Mrs. Susan Hidalgo, Secretary Orbit Printing a message from leadership Dear Alumni and Friends: Dear Friends: I begin this Annual Report on a The 2012-2013 edition of the Annual personal note by thanking all those Report provides a perfect opportunity who participated with me in celebrating to highlight a few of our academic the Golden Jubilee of my ordination to and extracurricular developments that the Priesthood. I deeply appreciate contribute to the tradition of excellence the many prayerful good wishes you, as alumni, have established and Monsignor Aidan M. Carroll you extended to me in connection fostered through the years. Richard Beck President with the celebratory events in May. I Principal am especially grateful to those who As a comprehensive school, our academic program is always generously presented me with wonderful gifts. It is a matter of expanding to meet the educational needs and interests of our great personal satisfaction to me that the Lord has enabled me student body. With seventeen Advanced Placement courses to spend twenty-one of my fifty years in the priesthood in service offered including AP Physics and our newest addition, AP to the Bishop Amat High School Family. Human Geography taught at the freshman level, our advanced curricular program continues to thrive. Moreover, as we begin I am pleased to inform our stakeholders that notwithstanding our ninth year as an authorized school, we celebrate our most the challenging economic conditions which continued to plague recent graduates who earned the prestigious International our families we ended the fiscal year with the financial affairs Baccalaureate Diploma this past summer. Additionally, electives of the school in excellent shape. We achieved a budget surplus offered in college writing, digital graphic design, fitness, and of $419,000.00, grew the Endowment Fund by 23% and the photography complement our educational program. Named Scholarship Funds by 19%. We also grew our Capital Improvement Fund by 102% to $872,020.00 and throughout the In keeping current with educational technology, many of our year maintained an operational surplus of slightly in excess of teachers now incorporate the use of iPads and similar devices $1,000,000.00. in their daily instruction. Students are encouraged to bring their own laptops and tablets for note-taking, research, and as These achievements are noteworthy in light of the fact that a single source for textbooks available in electronic format. Our we still have one of the lowest tuition and fees schedule in the (air conditioned!) classrooms are equipped to allow for teachers Archdiocesan school system and that we upped our financial and students to utilize our recently acquired class-set of iPads aid allotment by 25.8% to $390,000.00. Moreover, we took a with applications that enhance instruction and learning across all onetime special charge of $380,000.00 against our Capital subject areas. Improvement Fund to pay for the installation of air conditioning throughout the campus. With well over two-thirds of students participating in our athletic and extracurricular programs, the rich tradition of student It should be noted that none of these budgetary successes were 1 involvement beyond the classroom continues as a cornerstone achieved by compromising the quality of our traditional religious of a Bishop Amat education. If you have not recently attended a and educational programs. We have a highly qualified and Bishop Amat athletic contest, choral performance, band concert, dedicated faculty whose members, under the leadership of first dance or theater production, we would be delighted if you could year principal, Mr. Richard Beck, worked tirelessly to meet the join us on campus this year. Additionally, our biannual Career Days educational needs of our students. Advanced Placement and provide alumni with the opportunity to speak about their chosen International Baccalaureate results were excellent and members professions to our junior students. If interested in participating in of the graduating class gained admission to some of the most the December and/or February presentations, please contact our elite colleges and universities throughout the nation. Career Counselor, Mrs. Teri George ‘80 (tgeorge@bishopamat. org) for more details. Looking to the future I am optimistic that the general economic conditions will continue to improve, led by the housing and As always, our school website (bishopamat.org) with its alumni automobile industries. I am also looking for economic growth portal and Facebook page (facebook.com/bishopamat) serve development in California, buoyed by expansion in the high as sources for news and updates related to all things Amat. I tech fields. This should alleviate many of the problems in the Annual Report 2013-2014 Amat High School Bishop encourage you to refer to these sites often. State budgetary situation and trigger an uptick in public sector employment. Realistically, however, the need to make attendance We look forward to your continued support of your alma mater! at the school affordable for our traditional client families will remain a daunting challenge for some time to come. Alumni have an indispensable role to play in helping us to meet that challenge. We have abundant evidence that the vast majority of you love and respect Bishop Amat High School. We have no doubt that you want to see it continue to thrive and attain new heights of excellence in its educational mission. Many of you have been generously assisting us with your time, talent and treasure as we strive to attain that goal. I earnestly appeal to those of you who have not already done so to become part of this great crusade to ensure that Amat will shine not only “tonight” but into the distant future as well. class of 2013 academics Among the top graduating Seniors of the Class of 2013 are Valedictorian Daniel Ramos (Stanford), Salutatorian Olivia Egger (Fordham), graduation speakers Anthony Sidhom (Claremont McKenna College) and Olivia Hummer (Stanford) and Bishop Amat’s first Gates Millenium Scholar, Thomas Rivera (pictured with Msgr. Aidan M. Carroll). The Gates Millenium Scholar Program, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, provides 1,000 talented students each year a good-through-graduation scholarship to use at any college or university of their choice. The scholarship covers tuition, fees, books and living expenses. The scholars are also provided with personal and professional development through the Gates leadership programs along with academic support throughout their college careers which prepares them to assume important roles in their professions and in their communities. In addition to becoming a Gates Millenium Scholar, Thomas was also among twenty-four high school seniors who were awarded a Milken Family Foundation Scholarship in the amount of $10,000.00. Candidates for the Milken Scholarship were chosen based on their academic performance, community service, leadership and ability to persevere in the face of challenges. Thomas will be attending Pomona College. Members of the Bishop Amat High School Class of 2013 were accepted at the following 4-year Colleges and Universities: The University of California Boston University Oregon State University Washington University in St. Louis Berkeley Bryant University Pace University Wesleyan University Davis Case Western Reserve University Pratt Institute Willamette University Irvine Central Arizona College Purdue University Los Angeles Champlain College Regis University* Private & Independent College & Merced Charleston Southern University Saint John’s University (MN)* Universities in the State