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HOLY GHOST PREPARATORY SCHOOL A Newsletter for Alumni, Parents, & Friends of Holy Ghost Prep VOL. 15 • FALL 2011 Message from the W H AT ’ S I NSIDE President’s Letter......................1 Principal’s Message....................2 Admissions................................3 Dear HGP Community, President As we prepare for a new academic year at Holy development. For those of the community who Chapel Rededication ................4 Ghost Prep, I hope you have all had a relaxing and have generously supported this important effort, Chapel Campaign Donors........5 enjoyable summer. The past year has been filled I thank you on behalf of the entire school with milestones and celebrations for the Chapel, community. For those of you who might still like School News..............................7 the school, and the entire community, culminating to contribute your support, there is still time. Athletic News ........................10 in the graduation of the class of 2011 and the There will be more specific information forthcom- re-dedication of the Chapel on the Feast of ing later this fall about how you can participate in Alumni Class Notes................12 Pentecost. The spring also brought the first- ever the Schreyer Campaign and help to make a state championship for our tennis team. They had difference. I thank you in advance for your Advancement..........................15 an amazing run in their first invitation to the state thoughtful consideration for support. Fathers’ Association & tournament! Yet, the work hasn't stopped there. We continue to look for improved approaches Mothers’ Guild ....................16 This year, we will look to build upon those accom- to keep our alumni engaged as a vital, active part plishments as new cornerstones for the next 50 of the HGP community. In June, a new Alumni Honor Roll of Donors............17 years of the institution in the classroom as well as Board was established to help our efforts for Save the Date..........................20 on the fields of competition. personal outreach and improved communications Throughout this summer break, we have been with our alumni. This new Alumni Board will busy continuing to enhance our facili ties with the assist our Advancement Office with increasing our complete renovation of the student locker room fund raising efforts through improved alumni par- and first floor hall in Cornwells. Coupled with the ticipation, further developing events for our work of the last eighteen months to the dining hall alumni here on campus and throughout the region and Chapel, these projects will essentially complete and the country. The goal is to build a better the renovation of the first two floors of Cornwells overall alumni network that will ultimately help Hall. The renovations to the locker room are the alumni stay in contact with another, both socially first-ever major work to that part of the facility. and professionally. I truly believe that as a graduate The work of the first floor hall has transformed the of Holy Ghost Prep, you are part of the school space into a more appropriate entry way as well as community forever. I know I can count on your adding a more “prep school” feel to the interior of support for this vital alumni endeavor. the building. Students will benefit from these I look forward to another successful and exciting changes immediately. Throughout the year, we will year at Holy Ghost Prep and to seeing you at our look to generate support to help offset these proj- upcoming events for our alumni, parents, and ect costs that our Board of Trustees had approved. supporters throughout the year. This fall, we are also looking to successfully fin- With One Heart and One Mind, ish the Schreyer Campaign for the endowment. This significantly improved endowment fund will enable us to expand and grow the scholarship op- Rev. Jeffrey Duaime, C.S.Sp. portunities for deserving students as well as faculty President PrinciPal’s Message Everyday Values and Uncommon People Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, school: the cafeteria (now Dining Hall) the guy who brought “sunshine” on cloudy and the locker-room (still the locker- days and who was always ready to help out, This school year, things look different at room). These are two areas in which with advice, compliments, historical Holy Ghost Prep as we complete the next students spend a lot of time, so it’s impor- costumes, volunteer class substitutions or phase of renovations to Cornwells Hall. tant that they reflect the gentlemanly val- extra duties. Jim’s values were on sharp Things will also feel different due to some ues we promote. The new Dining Hall display during his very last class. I was important departures. Jim McCullough (2010), with collegiate-style meeting privileged to be invited to witness his very retired from the classroom this past June rooms and flat screen monitors scrolling personal discussions with the seniors in his and Peg Norton concluded an HGP career digital student features and announce- elective course as he reminded them to in both the cafeteria and the main office. ments, has already served us well for func- make a difference in the world simply by All of these events remind us of the im- tions ranging from underclass retreats to helping out at least one person. Jim will be portant everyday values of our community. Mothers Guild gatherings, as well as dearly missed. Cornwells Hall is the heart of the HGP breakfast, break, and lunch for our community, from the oddly configured Peg Norton never taught in a classroom students. Nearby, we have expanded classrooms which formerly housed priests at HGP. Yet for seventeen years, she taught locker-room space this summer by more and seminarians to the shining jewel that all of us how to work at our jobs the right than 30%, adding to this popular area of is the Chapel of the Seven Gifts of the way. For eleven years in the cafeteria and student life larger lockers (for those back- Holy Spirit. Construction this summer has then the past six in the main office, Peg packs) and benches for casual seating. New given a meaningful facelift to the admin- (aka the mother of Tim ’06) handled more lighting and windows—some of them un- istrative corridor, linking the style of our minutiae in five minutes than most of us earthed behind the old lockers which lined entry halls which greet visitors to that of can handle in a day. Whether re-assuring the trunk room of the old seminary–com- the Chapel itself. Come! See it yourselves! late-arriving students (or their mothers), pliment a more attractive area for those checking out changes in sports schedules, The upgrade, however, is not merely important networking discussions and reminding students–and faculty–of cosmetic. Visually linking the Cornwells homework help tips that we all know are appointments, or calming an ill student, corridor to the Chapel calls special atten- at the center of an HGP education. Peg maintained her Irish charm and some- tion to our heritage. The corridor will If newer and classier areas for student times devilish sense of humor, keeping us highlight the school’s history within the life signal our commitment to enhanced all on a steady path. larger international context of the Spiritan student life at HGP, even more important history of service. During his Baccalaure- Beyond all of the current construction, are those adults who have made an impor- ate Mass homily in June, Fr. Chris our mornings in the Cornwells main office tant difference in our community. For McDermott gave a snapshot of the will not be the same. We renovate our old- twenty-eight years, Jim McCullough was Congregational history portrayed in the est building to demonstrate the everyday just the kind of teacher that students come seminar rooms in the Chapel. That same values of decency, respect and service in to know and to love—another piece of the history, enlivened by tales from the city, the our student life environments. The ongo- heart of the school. seas and the deserts, along with portraits ing commitments of folks like Jim Mc- of the headmasters and Presidents of the Jim moderated student government and Cullough and Peg Norton fill those school, will now enhance the daily views initiated discussions of diversity and environments with dedication and care. of the 500 young men who pass through respect through CAFÉ, but most hallways to classes, meetings, and all of importantly served students and faculty of With One Heart and One Mind, their student life activities. A concern for HGP by always being available to them in the quality of student life has also spurred a uniquely personal way. As an administra- Michael A. O’Toole renovations of more mundane areas of the tor, I knew that I could rely on Jim to be Principal 2 a d M i s s i o n s Admissions James Mccullough He taught history, and he lived history leaving his mark on Holy Ghost Prep through his unique teaching methods in n 2009, the admissionsNews office began the the classroom and his powerful presence I “Admissions Action Team.” Made up of in the hallways. After 28 years of prob- a dozen members representing current par- ing and prodding Holy Ghost students ents, community group leaders, friends of the to prepare for the future by learning school and faculty members, this group helps the admissions office work to identify new from the past, Jim McCullough is Peggy norton spreading his wings and will be spending avenues for us to introduce the school to more time tormenting his family and Whether it was in the lunch line or as prospective families.

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