The Magazine for Bishop Kelly High School ROUNDTABLE November 2011 Growing Forward Together Achieving excellence in learning, service, and life. In This Issue: • BK Then and Now: Construction of the Student Commons • Alumni Updates In this Issue: • Table of Contents • President’s Message ............................................................................ 3 Table of Principal’s Message............................................................................. 4 Contents BK Then and Now ...........................................................................5-6 Profile of a BK Graduate ................................................................... 7 Father Justin Brady ............................................................................ 8 Ellie Boldman Hill.............................................................................. 9 page Nick Symmonds ............................................................................... 10 Engineering Design ......................................................................... 11 Service Learning ............................................................................... 12 Who is the Class of 2015? ............................................................... 13 Student Features ..........................................................................14-17 2 Athletics and Activities ..........................................................14-15 Rom 12:5 Arts ...........................................................................................16-17 “ ... so in The Student Commons Project .................................................18-19 Christ we who Stewardship ....................................................................................... 20 are many form Dr. Fran Wickham Memorial Scholarship ................................... 21 Alumknight and Booster Features ............................................22-27 one body, and Winner’s Choice ............................................................................... 28 each member Calling all St. Teresa’s Academy Graduates .................................. 29 belongs to all BK Spiritwear .................................................................................... 30 Growing Forward Together ............................................................ 31 the others.” From the Editor: Working for your high school can be a about the institution that shaped so many surreal experience. Just ask any of the of us. BK is smarter. BK is stronger. BK is nine alumni on the faculty and staff here a lot more technologically savvy. At the at Bishop Kelly. Some days I am in awe of same time, the strong Catholic values and just how much has changed at BK since I nurturing family atmosphere that so many was here in the early ’90s. Other days I’m of us hold dear are still the glue that holds transported back to my sophomore year Bishop Kelly together. and all the teenaged angst that went with it. I hope in the following pages you find Like most alumni, I loved my time at BK. examples of both the positive changes But growing older has been good for me. at Bishop Kelly, and the tradition and I’m a little wiser. A little more savvy. And constancy that make this place home for so a lot more sure of who I am and where I’m many. We have so much to celebrate! going. I think the same can be said Katie Kerby, Alumni Director Dear Friends of Bishop Kelly, As our team here at Bishop Kelly of faculty, staff, and years under the leadership administration begins our 48th year as a school, we have much of our first President, Dr. for which to be thankful. We welcomed 675 students to start the David Lachiondo. 2011/2012 school year, the highest enrollment since 2002. We We gathered and analyzed just finished an $8.7 million capital campaign, which allowed us an incredible amount of data to completely renovate the inside of our school and ensure access as to where we are today to all who wish to come. And, we began construction in June on and then aligned around the capstone piece of our renovation, our new Student Commons, a shared vision for 2015 which we will dedicate at our grand opening on March 14, 2012. of “a Catholic community Letter None of this would have been possible without the incredible achieving excellence in from the support and efforts of our families, our alumni, and our entire learning, service, and life.” We set eight goals we believe are President Bishop Kelly community! We thank each of you for your critical to achieving this vision around learning environment, commitment and dedication to our mission of “educating and spiritual environment, curriculum and instruction, activities, developing the whole student in the Catholic tradition – spirit, professional development, managing our resources, partnerships, mind and body”. The time, prayers, talents, and financial support brand, and value. We have community-wide teams working hard page I have witnessed and felt in my first year as President of Bishop on strategies and actions to move us forward in each of these goal Kelly have been truly awe-inspiring! areas. A copy of our plan is on the bk.org website if you wish to Equally impressive as the support we have experienced are the learn more. accomplishments of our students here at Bishop Kelly. Please As we approach our 50th anniversary celebration, please continue allow me to brag a bit about the 156 graduates of the Class of to stay connected and involved with Bishop Kelly. After working 3 2011. Here are a few of their statistics: nearly 30 years at Hewlett-Packard and retiring in 2008, I can tell • They contributed over 15,000 hours of service to their you there is no more important “business” than the mission we community. have here at Bishop Kelly. Preparing our students for “a lifetime • 98% of them went on to college, with 80% receiving merit- quest to reach excellence in spirit, mind, and body” is our vision based college scholarships that totaled over $14.5M for each graduate. Your ongoing support in whatever ways possible will ensure we continue to improve in our service to each • And, in sports, they won 15 out of 18 possible district of them and their families. championships, eight state titles, and five academic state championships. In conclusion, I wish to thank you once again for your interest in and commitment to Bishop Kelly! GO KNIGHTS! To ensure we continue to serve our community and help develop more future leaders such as our Class of 2011, we spent much Kind regards, of the past year as a community completing and beginning the Rich Raimondi implementation of our 2010 – 2015 BK Strategic Plan. This is President our second strategic plan, the first one in 2005 having provided Bishop Kelly High School direction for the renovations and accomplishments of the past five Warmest Greetings to all Alumni and Friends, Bishop Kelly High School Bishop Kelly Knights were just as busy in the area of athletics and continues to reach for activities this past year. We won IHSAA State Championships in excellence in learning, Girls Cross Country, Cheerleading, Girls Lacrosse, Girls Soccer, service, and life. This Football, a Boys Individual Golf title, three Individual Girls Track past year was another titles, and Water Polo; also at the District level our students won special tribute to the 15 of 18 championships for the year. We are very proud of the collective efforts of our achievements of our entire school, coaches, players, and parents. Letter students, faculty, staff, The talented students in our theater department gave successful from the and administration. Our school participated in the “Focus on performances of the “The Martian Chronicles” and “The Principal Learning” with the Western Catholic Education Accreditation Importance of Being Earnest.” We were treated to two outstanding process and received their highest recommendation, which means concerts showcasing the talents of our student musicians from the that BK will not need to go through this process again for six Choir and Band programs. years. Bishop Kelly’s test scores on the PSAT, Explore and Plan In March, BK students, alumni, faculty, and staff participated in page continue to improve, placing Bishop Kelly among the top schools Service Learning Day. Our school community contributed to 19 nationwide. service projects around the Treasure Valley. Among those was Our outstanding students continue to shine with 67 members in the Community Garden, which turned more than half an acre National Honor Society, three National Merit Scholar finalists, of land on the Bishop Kelly campus into 26 garden plots that are and eight seniors being honored as class Valedictorians. The Class being farmed by refugee families. Additionally, BK Seniors tend 4 of 2011 was awarded more than $14.5 million in scholarships the Legacy Garden here on campus. Last fall the garden generated BK Trivia: to 143 colleges and universities in 34 different states. Over significant produce for the local parish food banks. 70 students competed at the State Science Olympiad on six In 1967, which We have continued to follow the Bishop Kelly Prayer “Help me to different teams, earning first place for the tenth straight year. On see Jesus in others and to have others see Jesus in me.” The future “talented, to nationals! Bishop Kelly qualified two student teams for the looks very promising in fulfilling our mission at Bishop Kelly. I dedicated National Engineering Design Challenge semi-finals; from there am so grateful to our entire school