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Winter/Spring SportsWinter/Spring 10Graduates Top Tomorrow Palma ReportAnnual Edition PRESIDENT’S REPORT A publication for the alumni, family & friends of Palma School Fall 2013 Contributors: Br. Patrick Dunne, C.F.C. President School Extension x222 Executive Messages . 4 [email protected] Mr. David Sullivan Principal Life in the Blessed Edmund Rice Chapel . 8 School Extension x247 [email protected] Mrs. Tracy Jones 30+ Clubs, including . 10 Director of Institutional Advancement & Alumni Relations School Extension x218 [email protected] St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon . 12 Ms. Kathleen Marsh | Photo Credits Theology School Extension x108 [email protected] Who Is Blessed Edmund Rice? . 13 Jamie Panziera | Photo Credits Panziera Preservations Photography [email protected] Palma Brotherhood . 14 PanzieraPreservations.com Gary Dangerfield/Photo Credits Top 10 Graduates . 16 Mr. Jim Micheletti Campus Minister English School Extension x300 College Bound & Awards . 18 [email protected] Wald Ruhnke & Dost Architects 2340 Garden Road, Suite 100 Monterey, CA 93940 Coach Soper Retires . 19 Anne Bass, Contributor Chair St. Patrick’s Day 2013 Teacher Highlight . 20 Mr. Steve Clayton Assistant Principal, Athletics Athletic Director Palma Tomorrow . 22 Mathematics School Extension x229 [email protected] Palma in the Arts . 24 Shannon Hugo Creative Director School Extension x248 [email protected] Alumni in the Arts . 25 Scott White CEO | Devlin Media Company Marketing, Palma School Winter & Spring Sports . 26 www.devlinmediacompany.com [email protected] Celeste White Highlights . 31 CEO | white page communications Marketing, Palma School www.whitepagecommunications.com [email protected] Annual Report . 32 ©All Rights Reserved 2013 PALMA ONLINE 2012/2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Stay connected to Palma - anytime, anywhere. Multiple methods of contact mean that you can keep Palma at Mr. Michael Boggiatto Mr. Mark Faylor Mr. Joseph Pezzini ‘77 your fingertips even when you’re on the go. Mr. Louis Calcagno Mrs. Dianne Irwin Mr. Joseph Piedimonte ‘77 PalmaSchool.org Mr. Donald Chapin Jr., Chair Mrs. Kelly Lattimer Mrs. Martha Vasquez Mr. Henry E. Dill ‘75 Mrs. Shirley Lavorato Brother Peter Zawot, C.F.C. @PalmaSchool Mr. Dennis Donohue ‘72 Mr. John Mazzei ‘01 /PalmaSchool Mr. Thomas Fanoe ‘64 Dr. Christopher Mulé ‘92 President Brother Dunne Dear People of Palma, Tuition-driven schools - and Palma is certainly that - depend upon the generosity of the local community, the parents, relatives, alumni, and We are beginning Palma’s 63rd year of existence in meeting the friends to help make things happen in bettering the institution, year educational needs of the community in preparing young people for after year, that are well beyond the limitations of tuition and other college and beyond. Palma has always been at the forefront of getting educational fees. There is something special in receiving a gift that students engaged in activities as they have been prepared for the next empowers one to take something to the next level. Palma has been stage of their lives. Those first thirteen years, starting in 1951, saw blessed over the many years with countless gifts that have made a real Palma function as a co-institutional school with two distinct operations, difference in promoting and bettering the Palma cause on an almost one for boys and another for girls. There were two principals, a daily basis. And not a penny of tuition money has been used in moving Christian Brother for the boys’ side and a Sister of Notre Dame for the our program forward. The founding families of more than sixty years girls’ side. There actually were gender sides of the facility with the gym ago would certainly be proud, I think, of what they started and what so and cafeteria right in the middle to function as true dividing line, the many others have contributed to and helped continue over the many girls to the left of that grand divide and the boys to the right; my source years. I like to think of this process as “Palma Family” in action. It tells me there rarely were official violations of that line of demarcation. would be fair to say that, in addition to being tuition-driven, Palma has Palma continued to function as a co-institutional school until 1964, been and continues to be a project-oriented goal-intended fund/ when an all-girls facility, Notre Dame High School, was opened just two campaign-driven institution for all the extras some take for granted. It blocks away. At that time, the Christian Brothers, with the blessings of is our duty, as gift recipients, to cherish those gifts that have become so the Diocese of Monterey, assumed control and operations of Palma dear to our hearts over these many years. High School, for boys in grades 7-12, as the school was incorporated as the Christian Brothers Institute of California. All of us have a lot for which to be thankful as much has been done over the history of this grand place to bring us to where we certainly are I mention this bit of Palma’s history in a reflective moment as the today. It is our obligation, here in 2013, as we start a new school year, progress this school has made over the years is truly remarkable, from to continue the good work begun much earlier and be ready and able a small parish school to the uniqueness of an all-boys private Catholic to take this grand place to the next level and beyond when called upon. school that does a remarkable job in preparing young men for college I thank you for your considerations and commitments in getting us to and beyond. I have an appreciation for what the founding families of where we are as well as to where our future, with God’s blessings, will Palma must have been about in the late 1940’s in pushing interest and be in the months and years to come as we, you and I, prize and cherish support for the concept of a Catholic high school in Salinas, opening in these special gifts we know collectively as Palma. Thank you. 1951 in Sacred Heart Parish, to where it is, then out on the edge of Salinas, with plenty of land (at the time) and the sky as the limit in Sincerely, taking off to be what is has evolved into since those humble beginnings. Everything we have here at Palma is a gift from someone, from a family, from a foundation, from a company, from a kind soul, who want very Brother Patrick D. Dunne, C.F.C. much for Palma to continue getting better with each passing year. President 4 Chairman of the Board of Directors Don Chapin Greetings, Palma Family. I am honored to be the Chairman of the We are still busy with the Palma Tomorrow group led by new Board Palma School Board of Directors as we enter the new school year. We Member Al Friedrich. This year we intend on continuing our work to have a LOT of great things happening at Palma as we begin this new secure Palma’s growth and advancement for the future. You will for year, and a LOT to be proud of and thankful for in our past. sure be hearing more about this as we continue. As we begin this new year, I welcome all of you back and wish to thank Our Board of Directors is working very hard and diligently to continue the many Graduates and Alumni that keep the Palma staff and students the good work here at Palma. I hope if any of you see one of the in their thoughts and prayers as we embark on yet another year of members, you will thank them for the time, dedication, and leadership challenges and rewarding outcomes. they are providing this fine school. Until next time, thank you for all you do in this community and for Palma. Many of you may know that this year, Palma has a new home field for football and sporting events. The Rabobank Stadium at the Salinas Sports Complex, has become the new home field for Palma. Nearly eight million dollars of locally generated donations and contributions have made this possible. Palma will get to boast about one of the finest home field venues for our football games in the Central Coast of Donald Chapin California. I hope you will all try to make a game and share your Chairman of the Board Salinas and Palma pride for this new Stadium. Our great leader and President, Brother Dunne, has celebrated his more than 25 years here at Palma with a September 14 event. For his solid leadership and dedication, and for his lifelong work in education, an endowed scholarship fund has been established here at Palma in his name. This scholarship fund will be used by Brother Dunne to further financially assist students here at Palma that need such assistance. Should you like further information, or wish to help in this fund, call Tracy in the Advancement Office. 5 Principal David Sullivan There is an essence of achievement that has taken root here at Palma There is pride in being a Palma graduate. Palma’s young men have for over six decades. Our students are challenged to take risks for the been blessed abundantly with the talent and the intellect and a solid right reasons – about extending themselves to become young men who education to move on from here well prepared. They are prepared to are LEADERS – by what they say and, more importantly, by what they influence their communities, prepared to give where necessity requires, do – who they are in and out of the classrooms, on and off these prepared to be highly successful, smart, and very generous leaders in hallowed grounds we proudly call Palma.