TRINITY CATHOLIC Fall/Winter 2006 HIGH SCHOOL TRINITY
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TRINITY CATHOLIC fall/winter 2006 HIGH SCHOOL TRINITY U n i t a s Ex Trinitate established 2003 Trinity Catholic High School TraditionContinuing the Legacy...Mercy (1948) • St. Thomas Aquinas (1954) • Rosary (1961) • St. Thomas Aquinas-Mercy (1985) ADMINISTRATION From the desk of the President President Sr. Karl Mary Winkelmann,SSND Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends of Trinity, Principal We, at Trinity, are beginning our FOURTH YEAR Mrs. Mary Hey in the proud tradition of Mercy, St. Thomas Trinity dedicates Aquinas, Rosary and St. Thomas Aquinas-Mercy and will continue to provide quality Catholic NEW TRACK education here in North County for a long time to & ADVISORY BOARD come. YOU are a large part of the reason we can ATHLETIC FIELD say that. Thanks to your generosity last year our IMPROVEMENTS President Annual Fund reached over $70,000. Knowing that On Friday night September 8, Trinity Catholic High Don Merz Jesus Christ is the reason for our school and aware of your generosity there is no doubt we can School unveiled its new all-weather track and other football and soccer field improvements prior to the Board Members double our Annual Fund again this year! Titans’ first home football game of the season. Milton Bischof, Jr. This summer Trinity installed the Tom and Lana The Track Committee, led by Mr. Bill Rupp, Mr. Brenda Bobo-Fisher Gallagher All- Weather Track thanks to a number of generous individuals. Special thanks go to Mr. Bob Strub and Mr. Milt Bischof, help spearhead the Sr. Carol Ann Callahan, RSM and Mrs. Charles Gallagher, Rosary parents, whose raising of close to $200,000 to complete the project. Whitney Compas donation provided more than half the cost of the In addition to the new all-weather track that was Rev. John Dempsey track and to Mr. Don Davis, RHS ’78, who laid, a french drain was installed around the field for donated a red GTO ’68 convertible to Trinity to JoAnn Donovan Took better drainage from the track, new fencing was raffle. Raffle sales totaled $48,000. God has erected along the visitors’ side of the field, Dora R. Gianoulakis indeed blessed Trinity by sending these VERY additional bleachers were added to the visiting Pam Gilbert SPECIAL ANGELS to help us. We also held all-class reunions for the Rosary and St. Thomas team’s side of the field and new football and soccer Elveeta Macon Aquinas-Mercy graduating classes of 1986-2003 goalposts were purchased. A special word of thanks Ron Schmidt continued page 3 goes out to all the generous alums who made this Tom Freesmeier project possible, especially major donors Mr. and Rance Thomas, PHD Mrs. Charles Gallagher who donated over $63,000 to Ronald Markel help complete the process. The Gallaghers decided August was reunion month to name the field after their nephew, Tom, who Registrar played soccer at Rosary before suffering an untimely at Trinity again this year death, and Lana Gallagher, Tom’s wife who taught Tim Quinn For the second year in a row, the first three at both St. Thomas Aquinas and Rosary before dying of cancer at a very young age as well. The Gallagher Athletic Director Saturdays in August were reunion Saturdays at Trinity. After honoring Trinity’s predecessor family was well-represented at the dedication Vince Drake schools St. Thomas Aquinas, Mercy and Rosary ceremony during which a plaque and signage were unveiled. The special evening ended well as Trinity Campus Minister with all-class reunions for graduating classes up to the year 1985 during August of 2005, reunions defeated Bishop DuBourg in the Titans’ Rev. James Beighlie were held this August for the St. Thomas home-opener. Aquinas-Mercy and Rosary graduating classes Director of Advancement from 1986-2003 on August 5 and 12 respectively. Dan Grumich Then on August 19, the Rosary graduating classes Students’ Progress...On-line page 2 Alumni & Faculty Art Exhibit page 4 from 1965-1969 held a 60s Party at Trinity. About Industrial Technology Education page 2 Alumni Updates page 5 100 graduates attended each of the first two events 150 Years of Service page 2 Reunions page 6 and the 60s Party drew over 400 attendees. 1966 Your Retirement Plan page 2 Alumni Soccer page 6 Rosary grad David Rauscher chaired a large AQUINAS ALUM Dinner Auction page 3 Newsletter on the Web page 7 committee that coordinated the 60s Party that Alum in the NFL page 3 Annual Fund is Underway page 7 ROSARY ALUM featured the band SH-BOOM and the honoring of Joseph Hits the Stage page 3 ’07 Calendar Entry Form page 7 MERCY ALUM band leader Bob Kuban with a Lifetime Music Pontiac GTO Raffled Off page 4 ’06 Trinity Alumni Golf Challenge page 8 continued page 5 Archbishop Burke page 4 Tradition Academics Character Service In the area of ever-progressing What can you find at Trinity Catholic High On December 12 at St. Francis Xavier technology, students and parents at School that you can’t find at any of the other College Church the Sisters of Mercy Trinity Catholic High School can now Archdiocesan and many of the other private celebrated 150 Years of Service in St. monitor progress in the classroom on an Catholic high schools in the St. Louis area? The Louis. The celebration had special answer is an Industrial Technology Education almost daily basis this year with the meaning for the graduates of Mercy and curriculum. Trinity offers four courses that introduction of the Family Access grading prepare students for careers in Computer St. Thomas Aquinas-Mercy because of the system. This new system allows Trinity Assisted Drafting (CAD), Engineering and Sisters of Mercy dedication to those families the ability to follow a students’ Architecture. The department is headed by schools throughout their rich histories. progress on-line via the Trinity website – Gene Schnell, a veteran educator who has won On November 16, 1946 His Excellency www.trinitycatholichighschool.org As the numerous awards for his efforts in the the Most Reverend Joseph E. Ritter, grades are posted for an assignment classroom. Mechanical Drawing I is offered to Archbishop of St. Louis, signified to electronically by the teachers, students sophomore-senior students as an elective Mother Mary Fidelis, RSM, Mother and parents can log into the system using course as is Mechanical Drawing II that is Provincial of the Sisters of Mercy, St. offered to juniors and seniors. In addition, their family password and check the Louis Province, Webster Groves, Missouri, Schnell also teaches Architectural Drafting and results. Family Access not only gives Design I (sophomores-seniors) and that the Sisters of Mercy would take information on academics, there are also Architectural Drafting and Design II (juniors charge of the new Mercy High School updates on conduct grades and and seniors). All of the courses are executed on that was under construction. When Mercy attendance as well as a student’s schedule computers in AutoCAD Light. Throughout the High School opened in 1948 with and much more. Another feature of years, Schnell’s students have won numerous freshmen and sophomore students, Sister Family Access is that teachers’ e-mail awards for excellence when they have Mary Barbara, RSM was the principal. addresses are immediately accessible so presented their work at the former American Mercy was the first co-educational parents and/or students may e-mail Institute of Architecture local contest, the Archdiocesan high school when it NAWIC local and regional competitions and teachers with questions that may arise opened its doors. Mercy continued to the state of Missouri competition held each about a particular grade. Family Access year. Trinity is normally the only Catholic build on its wonderful legacy until the has eliminated the need for mid-quarter school to compete at the state level. Schnell’s closing of the school in the spring of 1985 progress reports to be sent home as now students average 11-15 first-place blue ribbons and the merge with St. Thomas Aquinas. families have access to such information at the state competition and he has had The Sisters of Mercy continued their as each quarter progresses. Some hundreds of winners in the NAWIC service at Aquinas-Mercy joining the teachers have also been using the Family competition over the years. In 2003 Schnell was Sisters of St. Joseph who had served at St. Access system to post assignments, quiz named Teacher of the Year by the Technology Thomas Aquinas. Sr. Carol Ann Callahan, dates, test dates, etc. in advance so Education Association of America and he also RSM, M-’58, continues her service to has a Certificate of Merit from the American students know exactly what work is Catholic education to this day as an Institute of Architecture. Many students have coming up. Family Access has been gone on to very successful careers in Advisory Board member at Trinity welcomed at Trinity and accepted as a engineering and architecture thanks in a large Catholic High School. The alums of new and innovative way to keep students, part to Schnell’s influence. One former student Mercy and St. Thomas Aquinas-Mercy parents and teachers up-to-date on-line. has honored Schnell by anonymously thank the Sisters of Mercy for their Family Access is another way Trinity establishing the Gene Schnell Scholarship that dedicated involvement. Catholic High School is moving forward is given annually to a Trinity graduating senior in the world of technology. who has plans to study engineering or architecture in college. The anonymous donor who established the scholarship would like to Sisters of Mercy the ability to follow challenge all other former students of Schnell’s who appreciate the foundation he gave them in high school to consider a gift to grow the Gene celebrated 150 Years a students’ progress Schnell Scholarship.