C-BUSINESS RIDE WITH ME 24-hour Pass: $6 Unlimited 30-minute trips* SUSTAINABILITY: Annual Membership: $75 Unlimited 30-minute trips* CoGo Membership Key 15% off helmets at Paradise Garage or B1 Bicycles * first 30 minutes of each trip are at no charge, each additional 30 minutes will result in a $3 charge. Lost bicycle fee is $1,200 and the density of station placement their bike. alternative forms of transportation A CITY-WIDE TREND was ideal for normal citizen use. The Bike ‘n Bus program, along are increasingly encouraged in The resulting Columbus system with the creation of 12.7 more miles Columbus. is comprised of 30 bike racks and of bike paths and the institution Following a new sponsorship 300 bikes that cover a 5 square mile and expansion of the CoGo Bike from Medical Mutual, CoGo plans radius around downtown. Share system make it apparent that to install 8 or 9 more racks and Next to CoGo, another begin expanding North towards The sustainable development Short North, South towards German in Columbus involved the Village, and West towards installation of solar panels Franklinton. CoGo believes on top of the City Fleet these areas will respond Maintenance Building. As well to the Bike Share one of the most notable system and has plans to Community- Sustainability: projects in 2013, this allows continue expanding out TheBig Bang Theory: the City Fleet Maintenance in all directions from The city of Columbus is always at the cutting edge of everything, from culinary arts to the art of business. With the successful Building to run 60% off the city. Memberships implementation of Car2Go, Test City, USA also unveiled a different system of transformation sharing: CoGo Bikes. solar energy. The fleet for CoGo are $75/ year contained in this building for unlimited use or The Reasons for the Success includes several hundred $6 for unlimited 24- vehicles that are either hour use. However, the story chris wiser || art laura peshek hybrid, E-85, biodiesel or purpose of CoGo is to compressed natural gas. allow more flexibility Based Learning in A City Wide TrendAs a part of the movement in downtown travel, away from crude oil and facilitate tourism, and to alternative fuel, several promote physical activity, of the Ready Classes of ’68 magine waking up late for class in sustainable practices city-wide. Prior to instituting this system, COTA buses have transferred so users may enjoy writtenand, upon stepping out of your byIn 2013, the cityChris of Columbus Columbus Wiser wanted to ensure the idea ’14to compressed natural gas, unlimited 30-minute rides Idorm or house, there was a rack improved, amongst other things, was feasible, would solve a legitimate with plans to switch the rest in free of charge. The integration of bikes waiting as your saving transportation and energy efficiency. problem, and that the bikes and the future. Additionally, all Central and rapid expansion of the grace. With the development and One significant contribution has payment systems were constructed Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) CoGo bike share system prove that an International rapid expansion of the CoGo Bike been the institution of the CoGo Bike durably. In order to do this, CoGo buses now have bike racks mounted sustainability in Columbus is a and ’69 Reunion Share System, this may soon be Share System. staff members traveled to cities with to the front of them as a part of the priority, just as it is on the Ohio a possibility. Just as Ohio State The CoGo Bike Share is a system established Bike Share systems, project Bike ‘n Bus. This makes State campus. Such a positive foris continually Fisher making strides to that allowsInk citizens to rent bicycles such as Boston (Hubway Bike share) overall transportation more efficient response in just one year begs advance sustainability projects from any station around the city, ride and D.C. (Capital Bike share), and by allowing citizens to effectively the question, could CoGo bike and awareness, Columbus, Ohio is it to various destinations, and return determined that the key to success ride long distances using the bus, stations begin popping up on initiating significant improvements it to another station. was ensuring that the area covered then travel short distances using Ohio State campus next? Community 10 FISHER INK MAGAZINE || Fall 2014 contact us at [email protected] 11 pages 6-7 pages 12-13 pages 3-4 VOLUME 22, NUMBER 2 Spring 2015 The Ready Report The Semi-Annual Newsletter for Alumni, Family, and Friends of Bishop Ready High School Dean Tower, teacher and coach... pages 18-21 “Dean personifies the reaDy spirit anD culture—loyal, DeDicateD, harD working, anD spiritual.” The Ready Report | SPRING 2015 | www.brhs.org | 1 | A MESSAGE FROM THE Principal... Dear Friends, Rivers shared her adventures as a member of the People to People Ambassador Program and the news ach new school year brings new challenges, of individual accomplishments—from Eagle Scouts Efresh(man) faces, and a renewed commitment to to National Merit Scholarship and Scholastic Art & have Bishop Ready remain synonymous with a top Writing awardees, to mention a few—is something quality educational experience. we want to share with you. If you are interested in This year, we began the school year with a learning more about our students and their various dedication of the Homeless Jesus sculpture in our accomplishments, please check our website home Wehinger Peace Courtyard. While the full-size version page under Quick Clicks, Student News (Knightline). was delayed in transport, we were able to showcase a Published three times a year, Knightline will give you a model-version, with Bishop Campbell presiding over sense of what Ready students are accomplishing. the dedication as part of Catholic Schools’ Week and In sports, our teams continue to do us proud, with the sculptor, Timothy Schmalz, in attendance. always humble when winning and gracious when Placement of the full-size statue will take place this not. New coaches in football (Brian Cross), wrestling spring. (Trent Brooks), boys’ basketball (Dan DeCrane), boys’ Also in the fall, one of our seniors, Josephine soccer (Ryan Thomas), girls’ soccer (Benjamin Au), Halko, was invited to be the keynote speaker at the and tennis (Dan Skuce) are continuing the 2014 Celebrating Catholic School Virtues Gala. If you Ready way of good sportsmanship and success. ever wonder what good your donation to Ready does, Our scholar-athletes continue to win accolades both please be sure to read the excerpts from her speech as individuals and as teams. Coming soon: a new that we have included in this issue. scoreboard for our gym! Also included in these pages is an excerpt from an This year is the fourth annual Knight at the entertaining description by alum Patti Wynn Brown Races, our benefit for our students. We encourage ’69 of the combined Reunion for the Classes of ’68 you to attend—it’s a fun evening—and, along with and ’69. The full re-telling can be found on our our Annual Fund, is a way that we can insure that website’s home page under Alumnae/i. no student is turned away from Ready because of In keeping with our plans to offer our students the financial considerations. best opportunities for learning, we are redesigning Finally, as our cover story this issue, we celebrate two important areas of instruction: The Media Dean Tower, a fixture at Ready since 1974, who Center/Library will be the Student Learning Center is retiring from coaching. As an educator in the and the business classroom/area will be the Innovation classroom and an educator on the field, Dean has Center. Design layouts and information on the exemplified all that is good about Ready. We will miss changes taking place are in this issue. him but have hopes that he will still be found in the We love to hear from our alums (Thanks, Patti!) halls of Ready in coming years! and we have another great article from a more recent Enjoy this issue, keep in touch via e-mail, snail alum who spent time through her college program mail, or phone, and remember us in your prayers, as working in Guatemala. Colleen Colvin ’11 and her we do you! classmates wrote a fascinating article about their time there. Plus, Chris Wiser ’14 (can’t get more recent than that!), had an article published in Fisher Ink, Sincerely, the news magazine of Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business, which we have reprinted here. What a great start to a college career! Celene A. Seamen And while our focus in The Ready Report is on our Principal alums, our students are also worthy of note…and, after all, they are our future alums! Senior Meredith | 2 | The Ready Report | SPRING 2015 | www.brhs.org Community-Based Learning, in an International Community Guatemala • country in Central America roughly the size of Ohio Colleen’s small service group members with employees of the Guatemalan governmental facility. • population of slightly over 14 million (most populous country in (Ready Alumna Colleen Colvin ’11 profession, while providing sustainable service Central America) majored in Occupational Therapy at in Guatemala. • official language is Spanish (60%) with Amerindian languages Xavier University. She also earned minors Our small group worked in a governmental (40%), which total 23 officially in psychology, gender and diversity facility that housed approximately 75 children recognized Amerindian languages studies, and peace studies, when she and adults with severe neurological disorders, • the capital is Guatemala City with completed her undergraduate degree in such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, spina a population of 1.2 million bifida, cerebral palsy, and hydrocephalus.