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St. Rita of Cascia High School Tolle Lege the Magazine for St ST. RITA OF CASCIA HIGH SCHOOL TOLLE LEGE THE MAGAZINE FOR ST. RITA OF CASCIA HIGH SCHOOL TRUTH UNITY LOVE Veritas Unitas Caritas COVID-19: EDUCATING STUDENTS IN THESE JOE ‘87 & SUE ALLEN UNCERTAIN TIMES Caritas Valentine Dinner Dance COUPLE OF THE YEAR ADMINISTRATION President TRUTH UNITY LOVE James Quaid, Ph.D. Chairman of the Board VeritasUnitas Caritas Ernest J. Mrozek, ‘71 Vice President of Academics Wes Benak, ‘81 Vice President of Student Life CONTENT Josh Blaszak ‘02 Vice President of Finance Eileen Spulak SCHOOL NEWS OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT Director of Institutional Advancement page 1 | A Message from Jim Quaid Jim Juchcinski ‘97 Director of Annual Appeal and Major Gifts page 2 | Covid-19: Educating Students in these John Schmitt ‘84 uncertain times Director of Marketing Laura Fleck page 6 | Winter Sports Wrap-up Database Manager & Director of Special Events Mary Gal Carroll page 8 | School News Director of Alumni & Donor Relations Rob Gallik ‘10 page 14 | Faculty Spotlight: 25 things with Kieran Kellam ‘98 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ernest Mrozek ‘71 (Chairman) Victoria Barrios ALUMNI NEWS James Brasher ‘71 Bernard DelGiorno HON page 16 | St. Rita Says Goodbye to Hall of Lawrence Doyle ‘68 Famer Ed Farmer James Gagnard ‘64 Thomas Healy ‘83 Catharine Hennessy page 18 | Alumni Spotlight: Marcus Belin ‘05 Nicholas LoMaglio ‘04 Donald Mrozek ‘65 page 20 | Alumni Spotlight: Mike Kafka ‘05 Clare Napleton Charles Nash ‘71 page 22 | St. Rita Featured Family: The Tracys John O’Neill ‘79 Fr. Anthony Pizzo, O.S.A. Timothy Ray ‘87 ADVANCEMENT NEWS Br. Joe Ruiz, O.S.A. Stephen Schaller ‘83 Fr. Bernard Scianna, O.S.A. ‘83 page 24 | A Message from Jim Juchcinski ‘97 Dina Scianna Ronald Skwarek ‘70 page 25 | 1905 Guild Renee Sykes Charles Volpentesta ‘92 page 26 | Caritas Valentine Dinner Dance 2020 Andrew Youpel EMERITI BOARD OF DIRECTORS page 28 | In Memoriam Ronald Abramowicz ‘60 Anthony Colosimo ‘63 Dr. John Donahue Michael J. McArdle ‘54 Fr. Thomas McCarthy, O.S.A. ‘83 Donald A. Petkus ‘58 Arthur Velasquez ‘56 A Message from the President Dr. James Quaid, Ph.D. Dear Alumni and Friends, My first four months as the president of St. Rita High A third objective is to reach out to the Latino School haveas been interesting. December 2, 2019 was Community. Although the Catholic Hispanic my first official day of work. On December 7, 2019, 139 population continues to thrive in the City of Chicago, eighth grade students sat for the high school entrance the percentage of Latino test takers at St. Rita has exam at St. Rita, far fewer students than would typically declined in recent years. Our Vice President of yield our ideal freshman class size. We responded to Academic Studies, Wes Benak, and I will be attending this challenge by working together to enroll as many The Latino Institute at the University of Notre Dame to of these students as possible. I am pleased to say gain some insight as to how we can better serve this that, currently, we have 114 registered freshmen for community. the 2020-21 academic year. This is an amazing yield percentage. Members of our staff in Admissions did a Although we have been faced with some challenges, great job, along with the help of faculty, staff, coaches, I have also witnessed the amazing generosity of time, the Fathers Club, and the Mothers Club. talent and treasure of the St. Rita family. Two events I was introduced to since I arrived were Winterfest Of course, we had to ask ourselves why we had (January 27, 2020) and the Caritas Valentine Dinner such a low turnout for the entrance exam. After Dance (February 8, 2020). Both were very impressive on some research, we concluded that there are several so many levels. St. Rita High School can throw a party! contributing factors. First, we need to bring back our academic support program. Since the 1960’s, St. This community can certainly come together to do Rita was an educational leader in offering a complete some great things. We will need to because recently, college preparatory program that included a course of we were faced with another challenge. The Coronavirus studies for students who needed additional support in has forced us to shut down the school building and the classroom. This program allowed for anyone who utilize remote e-learning. We will face this by doing all desired a St. Rita education to succeed and be college- we can to continue to provide our students with an ready upon graduation. Next year, we will begin to outstanding education, to serve our community and to bring it back, and the 2021 incoming freshmen will stay stable financially. With your support we will make have the option of enrolling in this program. this work. Second, we need to welcome more people into our Thank you for helping us carry on an incredible building. The more people who experience St. Rita, the tradition. more will learn what makes us unique. We will share our great campus with elementary schools, alumni and St. Rita, Pray for Us! friends interested in using our facilities for their own events and projects. In addition, our faculty and staff welcome opportunities to work with the faculty and students of elementary schools. James Quaid, Ph.D. President of St.Rita High School 1 school news Covid-19: Teaching Students in these Uncertain Times Recently, Vice President of Academics, Wes Benak answered our questions on how St. Rita is dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and how St. Rita had prepared for educating students remotely. When did you begin developing the plans for learning experience and not a substitute for electronic learning? teaching. Our teachers have also been very good We started electronic learning, or e-learning, with about working with each other - sharing best the students about 5 years ago, shortly after we practices and teaching each other the ins and outs went 1:1 with of the latest the iPads. technological During the tools and Apps 2014-2015 available to school year them for their we began classrooms. transitioning to e-textbooks Two years and, at this ago, during time, more the 2018-2019 than 90% of school year our textbooks we began are electronic encouraging texts. It was some of also at that Student Government holds their weekly meeting online via Zoom. the juniors same time that our students began submitting their and seniors to take an approved online class in assignments electronically. Over the course of the exchange for a free period during the day. We past 5 or 6 years we have done a significant amount have almost 30 students taking online classes in of Professional Development with our teachers so Principles of Business, Psychology, Media Literacy, that they feel comfortable and are adept at using Concepts of Engineering, Forensic Science, Marine different forms of technology in their classrooms. Science, Space Exploration, and Information We see technology as a tool that enhances the Technology. Almost all of the classes that the 2 students take online cannot be taken at St. Rita because of their specialized nature. For example, we may have one or two kids that are interested in Marine Biology but we can’t offer that at St. Rita because of the low number of students interested in that specific area. They now have the opportunity to study something that they really enjoy and a good number of the students have taken to this learning style. The number of students taking online classes from the 18-19 school year to the 19-20 school year almost tripled. Online learning is not for everyone but some students really enjoy it. Math Teacher Katie Palmer teaches Algebra on YouTube. We have used e-learning in place of having a snow day when there has been a need for it since the 2014-2015 school year. Our teachers are expected to have online lessons at the ready in the event a snow day is called. Using e learning on snow days saves us from having to tack on days at the end of the school year to make up for lost time. No need to do that when you can call an e learning day. What really helped us in our transition to e-learning were the snow days that we had over the last couple of years - especially during last year’s winter vortex - whoever thought something good would have come out of that! How/when did you share the plans with the faculty? The STEM Club virtually built and programmed electronic We began thinking about the possibility of circuits. They did this using an introductory design software called Tinkercad. The circuits they built are having to transition to (full-time) e-learning based off of a microprocessor architecture called Arduino. a few weeks before it actually happened. When we heard that there was the possibility of a stay-at-home order coming we began organizing for this transition. Teachers were already accustomed to planning electronic lessons and most of the students are still better at navigating technology than we are, so the biggest hurdle that we had to face was trying to maintain a sense of normalcy in a time of stress and uncertainty. E-learning has his own set of challenges for both teachers and students. Teachers are also accustomed to interacting with their students face to face and so many of them are finding cont. Conlon Angus ‘20 works from his home classroom setup. 3 school news creative ways to continue their teaching which working hard, working with the teacher, working includes large and small group electronic meetings with each other, working out the kinks, working with with their students.
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