IN THIS ISSUE President’s Notebook................................4 Principal’s Corne r.....................................6 The Spiritual Sid e .....................................8 Alumni Board Chai r ................................10 News From Yo u .......................................12 ISSUE In Memoria m ..........................................16 WINTER 2016 Rocks In The Medi a ................................18 ON THE COVER: Alumni News...........................................20 Trinity sets new record for Dare to Care. Cover photo by Scott Scinta ’77, Smashgraphix The Legac y ..............................................22 Campus News..........................................25 TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT Shamrock Sport s ....................................36 DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS Mr. James Torra H’12 Upcoming Event s .......................Back Page ADMISSIONS Mr. Bret Saxton ’05 ADMISSIONS ADMINISTRATIVE 12 18 ASSISTANT Mrs. Melanie Hughes DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS Mr. Chris Toth ’06 37 ALUMNI RELATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Mrs. Carrie Joy SOCIAL MEDIA LIASON Mr. Joe Porter ’78 TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION PRESIDENT Dr. Robert J. Mullen ’77 VICE PRESIDENT FOR 20 31 DEVELOPMENT Mr. Jim Beckham ’86 DIRECTOR OF THE TRINITY ANNUAL FUND Mr. Brian Monell ’86 ON THE COVER - TRINITY SETS NEW RECORD FOR DARE TO CARE Once again the Trinity Family has rallied around Dare to Care with a very ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF successful Dare to Care drive. On Friday, Nov. 18, Dare to Care represen - THE ANNUAL FUND Mrs. Michelle Walters tatives arrived at Trinity with a truck loaded with five pallets of potatoes, representing about 10,000 pounds of produce. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Mrs. Sandra Camerucci “We want to let you and the students take pictures showing that for The Leader is published four times a year for every $4,000 we get, we can purchase 40,000 pounds of produce, which Trinity High School alumni, students, parents and friends by is what we are in need of every day,” remarked Dare to Care Food Bank Trinity High School, Office for School Advancement, Warehouse Manager Martin Kraft. “With the more than $14,000 that you 4011 Shelbyville Road, Louisville, KY 40207. collected we will be able to get more than 100,000 pounds of produce. Postage paid at Madison, WI. This is fantastic!” POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to: The money contributed makes a greater positive difference than do - nated canned food items, which are often high in sodium and some - Trinity High School, Office for School Advancement, times out of date. Phone: 502-893-7625. Fax: 502-899-2052 For the first time, every Advising group reached their 100 percent goal. “This has never happened in all the years that I have been involved with this collection,” added drive director Mr. Bernie Schum. “Incredible job, Trinity! You KNOCKED OUT hunger.” A huge THANK YOU to all the faculty & staff, parents, alumni, and espe - cially our generous student body, for making a dent in hunger in our community and beyond! NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION POLICY Trinity High School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally The Path To Grea ness available to students. Trinity does not discriminate on the basis of T race, color, national or ethnic origin, or disability (if with reasonable accomodations the student can meet the requirements of Trinity’s course Trinity is a Catholic, college-preparatory of study) in the administration of its educational policies, scholarships or high school, forming men of faith loan programs, athletic or other school-administered programs . THE LEADER IS DESIGNED BY LONNIE WALKER / WWW.PRIMOGRAPHICS.NET and men of character. 3 ESPN and Trinity k ESPN was at Trinity once. And it really paid off. I am o not referring to our game against Ensworth a few o years ago. I am talking about the time when we had b that 50-game win streak led by Dennis Lampley in the e late 80s/early 90s. Some die-hard fans will remember t an ESPN feature about the football program during o that time on a show called Scholastic Sports America. n It was a very proud moment. s ’ What few know is that the TV program, which aired t nationally, introduced Trinity to a California priest n who happened to be flipping channels one day while e waiting to say Mass. Thus began a 25-year connection d that culminated in an extremely significant bequest i from this priest to establish an endowed financial s aid fund upon his passing last December. It is a re - e markable story of the school and a donor building a r relationship that will ultimately benefit generations p of future students. The story is repeated many times each day: someone By Dr. Robert (Rob) J. Mullen ’77, President with an affection for the school decides to make a donation for the benefit of Trinity students. Whether financial need for three decades. We distribute this it is a gift to the Trinity Annual Fund, support of our tuition aid based upon demonstrated need and not annual dinner auction (which we call celebraTion), based upon the student’s involvement in activities or a donation to create or grow one of our endowed or athletics. Let me repeat that. The amount of aid financial aid scholarships, these gestures of generos - we distribute is not based upon the student’s involve - ity are needed, humbling and impactful. ment in extracurricular activities or sports. PSAS does not know anything about the student’s grades or his We tell families that we can extracurricular activi - make Trinity accessible ties. In other words, in terms of the cost. This “We have more than 90 endowed their calculation is is accomplished through “activity-blind.” Simi - the awarding of tuition as - scholarship funds. Investment earnings larly, our enrollment sistance, or as it is known, from these funds make up the financial policy is “need-blind.” financial aid. A little more aid we gave to more than 125 students We accept students than four out of ten Trinity before we know if students receive financial this year. Each had a demonstrated they need tuition aid. Without such aid they need. Each is able to attend Trinity assistance. would not be able to attend our school. (This doesn’t because of this assistance.” If you have ever ap - include all those who can plied for financial aid earn a tuition discount for for college tuition, doing work-study.) then you are familiar with the FAFSA (Free Applica - tion for Federal Student Aid). The FAFSA is the one Think about this for a moment: without this financial financial aid form every college student completes if aid, four out of every ten students would be told they seek tuition assistance in the forms of grants, tomorrow “You have to leave.” scholarships or loans. In a similar fashion, all Trinity families needing tuition assistance fill out a lengthy Financial aid is distributed solely on a family’s need form that seeks financial information also found on for assistance, what is technically called “demon - the FAFSA. The application asks for tax return-veri - strated need,” i.e., the amount of tuition assistance fied information of the family’s assets and liabilities, a family needs to meet the full tuition price. We and income and expenses. After examining the family’s the other local Catholic schools use Private School Aid application and based upon our tuition rate for the Service (PSAS) to process the applications. This Ohio upcoming year, Private School Aid Service (PSAS) company has been helping private schools calculate determines the applicant’s “demonstrated need” of 4 tuition assistance. We then take the pool of money we Mueller. Power. Shamrock Moms. Smith-Hudson. have been able to accumulate for tuition assistance Speech program. Thompson. Trustees Scholarship. and divide it on an equal percentage basis to families Wells. Wilson. who qualify. A large number of graduating classes have established Fortunately, through the generosity of those who endowed scholarship funds that produce financial aid believe in our mission, we are able to award signifi - as well each year. At any given time, we have another cant financial aid. The total for this school year was 10 -12 endowed funds growing the amount of money $2,800,000 . This amount is more than any other needed to begin distributing earnings in the form of local private school and is among the very top of all financial aid. schools in the country. Many contribute to the Trinity Annual Fund. All of Via surveys, alumni tell us the number one reason these gifts are used for financial aid. The envelope in they give to the school is to provide a way for students this magazine is an easy way to make a gift. You can to attend THS. They want for others what they visit www.trinityrocks.com to make a gift via our received from their Trinity experience. website. I encounter donors every day who have a story that Our celebraTion dinner auction is on March 11. It underlies why they support the school. A donor I returns to Trinity this year and includes the gala know gives because right before he graduated, Father performance of the spring musical, The King and I. Duerr called him to the office. He was told that he All proceeds from this volunteer-driven event support owed a few hundred dollars of tuition. Father Duerr financial aid efforts and student activities. To support knew his parents were getting divorced. He told the celebraTion 2017, contact Michelle Walters at 736- student he would be allowed to graduate but to try to 2139. make good on the tuition still owed as the years went by. Make good is an understatement. This alumnus Almost weekly you will see obituaries in the newspa - has been extremely generous and has made up for per with memorial gifts designated for Trinity.