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CELEBRATING 10 YEARS! “What Is GRIT? Passion and Perseverance for Long-Term Goals.” - Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania 2014 Annual Report CELEBRATING 10 YEARS! “What is GRIT? Passion and perseverance for long-term goals.” - Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania JIM DIPPOLD, DIRECTOR OF CAMPUS MINISTRY When I interviewed for a teaching position at St. Martin de Porres in 2005, Principal Fr. Paul Sims cautioned me that the school was a startup, more a dream than reality. I took the leap! I believed in the dream – a Catholic, college prep experience for hard-working, talented young people who would otherwise be limited by the A MESSAGE FROM educational opportunities around them. Over the years, we’ve held all-school Masses in basement OUR PRESIDENT storage rooms, PE classes in neighborhood parks, and shuttled teachers between classrooms, always seeking to “do more with less.” Dear Friends of Cristo Rey St. Martin: In 2007, we graduated our first 14 seniors. This year we sent 60 “Grit” is our rallying cry at CRSM. graduates to college and welcomed five back as teachers and staff. Students bring up grit in conversations Today we have alumni working in the Teach for America program in with visitors; our seniors reference grit in their college application essays; even at Milwaukee, conducting graduate-level research in Mexico and Peru, pep rallies and during spirit week, you’ll working full-time at CWSP partners, and blazing new trails for the hear and see, “grit.” It’s ubiquitous. Justice & Peace Studies program at Georgetown University. The dream is a reality! A gritty community pushes its members to pursue excellence. Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is My “yes” 10 years ago has given me the opportunity to work with so not an act, but a habit.” Like excellence, grit is a habit. It embraces many good people to create this academically rigorous and faith-filled failures as an opportunity to learn and improve. It doesn’t give up. school. It is a joy and a privilege to be a part of this community and It dismisses the impossible as simply an illusion to justify lowered to accompany young people filled with hope for their lives and for expectations. I think that describes the culture we are building at our world. CRSM. A recent Forbes article summed it up this way: people with grit believe “everything will be alright in the end, and if it is not alright, it is not the end.” For me, grit is anchored in hope. We believe in our students’ God-given talents and their abilities to overcome obstacles like economic challenges, unhealthy societal pressures, even their own self-doubt, to do something really meaningful with their lives – to be persons who will transform our community and our world for the better. Hope believes that God is an active force in our daily lives; it allows us to bring God’s love out into the world through our own acts of love and care. CRSM celebrates 10 years of grittiness this year, and we have only just begun! Thank you for being part of our quest for excellence. Thank you for being the hope we need to be gritty and determined. Your partnership fuels our pursuit of excellence. Sincerely, Preston Kendall President “What is GRIT? Passion and perseverance for long-term goals.” - Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania JAHI BROWN, CLASS OF 2012 A broadcast journalism major at Marquette University, Jahi Brown has a voice that rivals radio on-air personalities and a musical talent that already has his professors pointing him in the direction of talent agents. Switching his major from engineering to communications and media studies, he credits his teachers at CRSM and his supervisor in the human resources department at Abbott Laboratories for inspiring him to go after his dreams. “They believed that I could be “The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state successful and taught me strong time management skills so I could pursue those dreams.” These are where he no longer needs our gift.” C.S. Lewis skills he says have helped him juggle his university studies and the band he has formed “to have some fun time,” with his peers. But it was the service TAYLER MORRIS, CLASS OF 2012 projects he worked on in high school that had the most profound impact Tayler Morris, a political science major at the small, private women’s on him, he says. “I learned that it all college, Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, is spending this year means nothing unless you studying abroad in Barcelona Spain. She plans to attend law school after share your gifts.” graduation. “In junior high I was bullied pretty badly,” says Tayler, who is the second oldest of five children and first in her family to attend college. “Cristo Rey took me out of that world and taught me I could make it. “One of the most important lessons I learned at CRSM is the importance of giving back.” I really learned a lot from our experiences working at the food banks and seeing how even doing small things, we can Human progress is neither make a huge impact. I hope that after I become a lawyer I can be a public servant. I’ve gone into “automatic nor inevitable... Every every experience blindly from high school to step toward the goal of justice college and now this, but I’ve learned that with support of a community, I can do it.” requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. - Martin Luther King, Jr. ” ” - Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania “What is GRIT? Passion and perseverance for long-term goals. PAOLA CAZARES, CLASS OF 2010 Paola Cazares, a Schuler Scholar, headed C.S. Lewis to college five years ago, arriving in small “The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state town Hanover, New Hampshire, far from where he no longer needs our gift.” the working class Mexican household in Waukegan, where her parents worked 10-hour days to support their four children. Today, the Dartmouth College grad has been hired back by the Ivy League school to serve in the alumni relations program as Resident Advisor for La Casa- Dartmouth Department of Spanish and ULISES ACOSTA, Portuguese.“When I was first applying to colleges, I had CRSM CLASS OF 2013 the mindset that education was ‘a way out’ (of poverty, discrimination) that if somehow I could make it to Ulises Acosta is a sophomore at Loyola and through college I would be an exception to the University well on his way to making a statistics and my family would be immediately better difference in the world. A theater major and off. But, I’ve learned that it is all about collective success, orientation leader for prospective students, he a community like CRSM that works together to reach is a member of Loyola’s Student Alliance for back into the community and change it for the better. Immigration Reform, determined to continue the fight for immigration reform and social, moral, and political justice he started as a student at CRSM. He helped found the uKNIGHTed Students for Immigration Reform Club after witnessing Honduran family members and neighbors driven away on buses to be deported to Central America. “If my dad hadn’t heard a radio report about Cristo Rey on NPR and pushed me, I wonder where I would be today.” Ulises has inspired his parents as well. His dad is enrolled at the College of Lake County taking CAD design classes to transform his factory experience into a larger role and his mom is taking theology classes. “What is GRIT? Passion and perseverance for long-term goals.” - Angela Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania JACK SCHULER, Businesses That Help Our FOUNDER, SCHULER SCHOLAR PROGRAM Students See Their Future 2013-2014 Corporate Work Study Partners “I am continually impressed by the maturity and thoughtfulness of Cristo Rey St. Martin students. The A Safe Place Lake County State’s Attorney lessons these young people learn in the classroom and Abbott Laboratories Lake Forest Bank & Trust Company, AbbVie on the job are the foundation of an invaluable lifelong A Wintrust Community Bank Acco Brands USA, LLC education. Through our partnership with CRSM, Lake Forest Graduate School of Advanced Group Management the Schuler Scholar Program provides additional Allstate Insurance Company Lake Forest Open Lands Association opportunities for students to experience the world and American Hotel Register Company Lambs Farm AmerisourceBergen Technology Group matriculate to top colleges like Dartmouth, Emory, Libertyville Bank & Trust Company, Anixter International Holy Cross, and Bucknell. Schuler Scholars from A Wintrust Community Bank Aon Hewitt MacLean-Fogg Company CRSM have volunteered in Thailand, visited colleges Baxter International, Inc. Mariani Landscape around the country, taken college-level summer Bennu Legal Services Most Blessed Trinity Academy Boys and Girls Club of Lake County courses, and participated in many hours of academic Northern Illinois Food Bank (funded by Discover Foundation) and cultural enrichment programs. They graduate Northern Trust Company Buehler, a division of Illinois Tool Works Inc. Omni Youth Services from CRSM and the Schuler Scholar Program ready Cardinal Health, Inc. Omnicell, Inc. to succeed at highly selective colleges and to become Catholic Charities of Lake County Our Lady of Humility Parish School Chicago Bears Football Club leaders in the workforce.” PADS Lake County Chicago Botanic Garden PotashCorp (funded by ITW Foundation) PPC Industries City of Waukegan Prairie Crossing Charter School College of Lake County Pro/Data Payroll Services STEVE GILLMANN, Discover Financial Services Reynolds Group Holdings Vice-President Associate Emco Chemical Distributers, Inc. Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine Fabrication Technologies and Sciences Engagement at Rust-Oleum Fenix Clinic Rust-Oleum Corporation in Vernon Hills FGMK, LLC Society of the Divine Word First Insurance Funding, A Wintrust State Bank of the Lakes, A Wintrust Company Community Bank “We have been very fortunate as a company to have First Midwest Bank Stepan Company developed our partnership with Cristo Rey St.
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