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Saints in the Seminary Table of Contents Holy Land Pilgrimage ................................. 3 Alumnus Answers God’s Call ...................... 4 Celebrating 25 Years ................................... 6 Hall of Fame ............................................... 7 Giving Corner ............................................ 8 Teacher Profile ........................................... 9 Seminarians Evan Tinker, ’03, John Trecker, ’04, and Saints Marrying Saints ...............................11 Jamie Zarse, ’05, visited Saint Thomas Aquinas in May to Where are They Going? .............................12 speak with sophomores during seminar. Pictured here are John and Jamie with Theology teacher April Bailey, who Student Highlights .....................................14 arranged the visits. Class Notes ................................................17 Front Cover In Memoriam ............................................19 Archbishop Joseph Naumann, ordaining Winter & Spring Sports ........................... 20 Bishop and Principal Celebrant at the Holy Trivia Challenge ....................................... 22 Mass of Ordination on June 18, 2011 performs Reunions .................................................. 23 the ancient and apostolic tradition of the Laying On of Hands. Later in the liturgy, Father Vince The Saints Spirit magazine is a publication of the Saint Huber, Class of 2000, Thomas Aquinas Advancement Office. We welcome your comments or questions. Call or write: blesses the Archbishop as an ordained priest. Bryan Thrasher Photos courtesy of The Leaven. Director of Communications [email protected] Saint Thomas Aquinas High School 11411 Pflumm Road Overland Park, Kansas 66215-4816 913.319.2425 William Ford, Ed.D. President Teresa Ahrens Director of Special Events Renewing your magazine subscriptions is now easier than ever and also a great way to support the students at Saint Mary Bridget Kratofil Thomas Aquinas High School! Anytime you see a magazine Director of Media Relations you would like to receive at your home or when your Michon Quick subscription is about to lapse, simply go to www.qsp.com, Director of Alumni & Constituent Relations and use school account #425007423. All profits from the Cindy Winkler sale support student extra-curricular activities, which are Advancement Office Manager an integral part of each student’s development while here at Saint Thomas Aquinas. Order or renew your favorite Special thanks to Michelle Gress, photographer magazines and help support the Saints! 2 COMMUNITY EVENTS Holy Land Community Calendar August Pilgrimage 4 �������������POSTPONED: Class of 2011 Yearbook Signing 12 ������������Freshman-Parent Gift Gathering for Extravaganza 25th Year Celebration 13............Sophomore-Parent Gift Gathering for Extravaganza Kickoff 18 ������������First Day of School 19 ������������Junior-Parent Gift Gathering for Extravaganza June 9-20, 2012 20 �����������Senior-Parent Gift Gathering for Extravaganza with Mike Scherschligt, Catholic Theologian 21 ������������Class of 2015 Freshman Mass & Picnic and School of Faith Director 24 ������������Holy Land Pilgrimage Presentation 31 ������������Parent Back-to-School Night Trip Highlights: Daily Mass, Scripture Teachings and Guided Spiritual Reflections: September six (6) nights in Jerusalem, three (3) nights at 1 �������������All-School Mass of the Holy Spirit* Sea of Galilee. Current 2011 pricing (subject to 2 �������������Blue & Gold Kickoff Event change for 2012): $3995 per person – includes 11 ������������Saints Mass & Supper at KU: St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center airfare from Kansas City; daily breakfast, light 22 �����������Homecoming All-School Mass* lunch, and dinner; airport transfers, tours, 23 �����������Homecoming Tailgate and Football Game vs. Blue Valley Northwest entrance fees as noted on itinerary, tips, 23 �����������All-Years Alumni Mixer after the Homecoming Game – gratuities and all taxes. Saints Pub & Patio, 97th & Quivira (new location) 23 �����������Class of 1996 15-Year Class Reunion Join us for an Informational Presentation: 23 �����������Class of 1956 55-Year Class Reunion Wednesday, August 24, 2011 October 7:00-9:30 PM 1 �������������Class of 1961 50-Year Reunion Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at 2 �������������Saints Mass & Lunch at K-State: St. Isadore’s Catholic Campus Center Saint Thomas Aquinas High School 20 �����������Grandparents Day Mass* 22 �����������Class of 2001 10-Year Reunion (northwest corner of the building) 30 �����������Open House If you cannot attend the informational November meeting or have questions, please contact 1 �������������All Saints Day All-School Mass* Michon Quick, Director of Alumni & 12 ������������Extravaganza Constituent Relations, at [email protected] 22 �����������Thanksgiving All-School Mass* or 913-319-2437. 26 �����������Class of 2006 5-Year Reunion December Mike Scherschligt, founder and Director of School 8 �������������Feast of the Immaculate Conception All-School Mass* of Faith, has a Licentiate in Sacred Theology 21 ������������First Day of Christmas Break (STL) from the Marianum in Rome and previously taught at the Saint Lawrence Catholic Center at January 2012 the University of Kansas for ten years. School of 4 �������������Second Semester Begins Faith offers doctrinal and spiritual formation for 7 �������������Placement Test, Class of 2016 Catholics through catechetical programs that stress the call to prayer, virtue, and holiness of life, with February 2012 a particular emphasis on mentoring those who have 2 �������������Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas Mass* the responsibility to teach the faith to others. The 4 �������������Saints Trivia Challenge in the Commons School of Faith program currently teaches over 1200 8 �������������Mass of Remembrance Mass, 7 p.m. in the Chapel individuals including students at the University of *All are welcome to attend All-School Masses at Saint Thomas Aquinas! Please Kansas, parishioners and Catholic school teachers check the school website to confirm the date and time. Most liturgies begin at throughout the Archdiocese of Kansas City 9:30 a.m. in the Gym. in Kansas. www.stasaints.net 3 FEATURE SAINT Huber Takes Priestly Vows in students on campus. His relationship Solemn Ceremony with God strengthened through his ever-growing commitment to prayer, something he learned from his mentor, Monsignor Vince Krische – long-time director of the St. Lawrence Center. “Msgr. Krische taught us how to go deeper with our prayer and ask God for His intercession in our lives,” says Fr. Vince. “One semester he met several of us every morning at 6 a.m. for the Liturgy of the Hours. Sometimes only the two of us showed up. My passion for prayer strengthened even more.” Father Vince celebrated with his sisters at Saint Thomas Aquinas after his Ordination. From left to right: Jessie Huber, ’02, Lindsey Huber, ’05, and Tricia Huber, ’03. Around this time, Msgr. Krische met the Sisters of the Apostles of When Vince Huber was seven or emerging order founded in Rome in Interior Life at a conference in eight years old, Monsignor Tom Tank 2007 by Father Salvatore Scorza. Champagne, Illinois, and invited was having dinner with the Huber Debbie Huber, the young priest’s them to Lawrence, Kansas. With family at their home in Leawood, mom, says that Vince was like every Kansas. He asked Vince if he might little boy growing up. “He really did like to be a priest. Vince replied, “I think he would play major league “As parents we taught would consider it, but only after I’m baseball – especially when he learned our kids about their done with my professional baseball that Bo Jackson’s real name was also career.” ‘Vincent Edward!’” Vince played faith growing up. Ordained into the Holy Order baseball through high school as a of Priests on June 18, 2011, Father left-handed pitcher and first baseman Now, Father Vince Vincent Edward Huber, class of 2000, for the Saints. “He wanted to play constantly leads me became the first graduate of Saint in college but because of his size, he Thomas Aquinas High School (est. decided to follow in his dad’s footsteps to grow deeper in 1988) to become a priest. “I may be and study Civil Engineering at the the first,” he said at a celebration with University of Kansas.” my relationship family and friends in the school’s Vince began discerning his vocation with God.” Commons, “but I am surely not the while at KU but not formally until last.” his junior year. Debbie remembers Debbie Huber, alumni parent and mother Through the ancient and apostolic that Vince became active at the Saint of Father Vince Huber, ’00. tradition of the Laying On of Hands, Lawrence Catholic Campus Center Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann during his freshman year when he ordained five men – Father Vince and his roommate/fellow Saint, Brett the blessing of Archbishop James Huber from Kansas, Father Edward Gaughan, ‘00, signed up for a School Keleher, three sisters from the Rome- Ahn and Father Scott Kallal from of Faith class – then part of KU’s based community took up residence Illinois, and Father Mirco Sosio and nationally recognized Catechetical at the Center and began to actively Deacon Alessandro Borraccia from Institute. participate in the formation of Italy. Four of these men made history Over the next couple of years Catholic students on campus. A trail by becoming the first priests of the Vince continued his involvement in was blazed. Apostles of the Interior Life, an the community created for Catholic 4 FEATURE SAINT The female