Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Edition #21
Dear Cathedral Parents,
I wish to welcome your children back to our school days for second semester and you to the more “regular schedule” of the school year. As you know, second semester began on Tuesday, January 4th – a new beginning for each of our students.
On Saturday, January 8th, I am looking for volunteers (students and adults) to help with taking down our Advent/Christmas decorations from the school. We will meet from 9:00 a.m. to noon, but I would like to have people RSVP to me so I have an idea of how many to expect. You may reach me at or at 317/968-7337. Thank you for your intent and consideration.
I wish to welcome you to join us for morning Mass from 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. any day that is convenient for you. What a nice way to being the day – at liturgy and with your child! We do have a Communion Service on Monday and a liturgy on Tuesday – Friday at that time. (See mass listings in this and every Parent Email.) If we happen to have an all-school Mass, it is from 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. for Holy Days and Feast Days. You are always welcome to attend these liturgies with us.
Use these hyperlinks to find information quickly:
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Advancement
Announcements
Athletics
Band News
Bookstore and Spirit Shop
Cafeteria Menu
Choir News
College Information
Congratulations
Dates to Remember
Magazine Sale
Prayers
Service
Smart Quote
Theatre News
Tutoring
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Dates to Remember:
January:
Sat, Jan 8 Taking down Christmas decorations from outside of school – 8:00 a.m. until noon
Sun, Jan 9 8th Grade Interviews
Tues, Jan 11 Caritas Assembly with Steve Agrisano in afternoon; special schedule
Math League – café – 6:55 a.m.
Thurs, Jan 13 Faculty: Update PowerSchool grades
Fri, Jan 14 Dr. Martin Luther Jr. Assembly from 2:46 – 3:10 p.m.
Sat, Jan 15 Speech team competition at New Castle Chrysler High School (bus transportation provided)
Sun, Jan 16 8th Grade Interviews
Sr. Retreat Planning Meeting – Commons – 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Mon, Jan 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day – no school
Tues, Jan 18 “41” – AM Assembly Schedule
Tues-Fri, Jan 18 – 21 Senior Retreat
Thurs, Jan 20 Faculty Meeting – Commons – 3:20 – 4:20 p.m.
Fri, Jan 21 Amy’s Day Breakfast – Cafeteria – 6:00 – 7:15 a.m.
Sat, Jan 22 SAT Test
Sun, Jan 23 Rookie Showcase at 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. in O’Malia Performing Arts Center
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Mass Information:
From the Desk of the Chaplain ~ Daily Mass is offered in the Chapel at 7:00 a.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Fr. Munshower encourages members of the Cathedral Family to contact him to have a mass said in memory of a loved one. If you are not able to pay the $10 Mass stipend, you may still submit an intention for our daily Mass. Please contact Fr. Munshower at 968-7362 for details and arrangements. Father also requests that, if you contract a Mass, that someone from your family tries to be in attendance on that day.
Communion Services and Masses begin at 7:00 a.m. in the Cathedral Chapel.
At Mass on Wednesday morning, Father Munshower asked all of us to pray for the Coptic Christians in Egypt and Ethiopia. This is a branch of Christianity that will celebrate their Christmas this coming Friday. In Egypt this week one of t heir churches was bombed during a service, killing 21 people. Last year, on Coptic Christmas Eve, January 6, gunmen killed six Copts as they were leaving services in Egypt. When checking on the Internet for more information, it seems that there are also concerns in many European nations, such as Germany. May we keep our fellow Christians in prayer at this time!
Day / Date / Holy Day / Mass Offered for:Thurs / 1/6 / Epiphany of the Lord / RIP for Holy Souls in Purgatory from Gabriel Gonzalez
Fri / 1/7 / St. Raymond of Penafort, priest / RIP Father Adrian from Rachael Ventresca
Mon / 1/10 / Communion Service / Private Petitions
Tues / 1/11 / Weekday Mass / RIP Father Patrick Kelly from the Kelly family
Wed / 1/12 / Weekday Mass / RIP Kathleen Hahn from Cathedral family
Thurs / 1/13 / Weekday Mass / RIP Nadine Hofreiter, grandmother of Greg Bamrick, from Bonny Hannigan
Fri / 1/14 / Weekday Mass / RIP Jim McNulty ( '41), from the CHS family
Congratulations:
Congratulations to Nicholas Hanahan (’14), who is a competitive fencer and will be participating in a competition in Dallas on January 15th, 16th and 17th. Nick, good luck!
Congratulation to Ellis Thompson (’14) who has been accepted as a Student Ambassador and who will be travelling to Italy, Sicily, and Greece this coming summer. Ellis was nominated anonymously, was one of 200 students considered for this honor, went through four interviews, and is one of the 66 students chosen to participate. Ellis, we are very proud of your achievement and are a bit jealous of the upcoming travel!
Congratulations to Dillon Paul (’14), who has been speed-skating for a year and participated in his first meet at the 43rd Annual Gateway Speed-skating Championships in St. Louis, MO on 1/2/2011. He placed 2nd in 444m 1:07.769 speed time, 3rd in 500 m 1:40.87 speed time, 3rd in 333m :51.203 speed time and 3rd 611m.Third place Super star over all. He represented CHS and is a member of Elite Speed Program in Columbus, IN.
Thank you for your participation in the Marion/Hamilton County Lilly Community Scholarship nomination process. The Scholarship Committee had a difficult task of selecting two Marion nominees and one Hamilton nominee from an extremely talented pool of students. The nominees have been selected and are: (Marion County): Emily Pollom and Aly Ricker and (Hamilton County): Allison Loew.
Four Columbia Theater students, including Thomas Graham (‘10), performed with Sabin Elementary students for many VIP's during December. Columbia University’s President Crater hosted a party honoring Center for Community Arts Partners (CCAP) for the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program (NAHYP) Award they just received from Michelle Obama at the White House. Audience members included Columbia's Provost, Steve Kapelke, major Chicago funders and top representatives of the Illinois Arts Council. Two representatives from the White House flew in just for this performance. This past week, Thomas and his three Theater friends, along with my CCAP students, were invited guests performing at the White House!
Announcements:
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Last September, Counselor Ms. Taria Tate married Tyreece Butler. She has waiting until now to ask that we begin addressing her at Mrs. Butler, not Ms. Tate, feeling that her students already had enough confusion when school began. However, her email address and phone number will not change for this year. Mrs. Butler works with freshman and sophomore students with last names beginning with letters O - Z.
An assembly will be held honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King on Friday, January 14th. This day will follow the spirit assembly schedule, but we will move to the Robert V. Welch Student Activity Center after leaving 8th period. The assembly will run from 2:46 – 3:10 p.m. Please feel free to join us if you can at this time.
Parents, register your Freshmen for the PLAN test!
The PLAN is the “pre” ACT test that is designed to help students and their families plan and prepare for future academic and career success. The test will be given on Saturday, February 12 at 8am here at Cathedral in the SLC.
The cost to register for this test is $11. Registration deadline is January 24.
Please contact Mrs. Butler (formerly Ms. Tate) to register or for additional questions.
Reminder: It states in the Blue Book that students need to be called in by 9:30 am. Parents/Guardians should be aware that if they are calling after 9:30a.m., they must speak to an actual person to insure that their students attendance record is accurately updated and they should especiallyspeak to a live person if they are calling after 9:30am to request an early dismissal. Many freshman students are telling their parents to just come in to the front office and we will call them out of class. This is disruptive to the classroom and it is not the way we do this at Cathedral.
Class Rings and Cathedral School Jackets:
Bell’s School Services is willing to do a second order for these jackets. Mrs. Orlando, Bell’s representative, will be in the cafeteria this Thursday, January 6th for ring resizes and jacket reorders during all lunches. If you are interested in a school jacket, be sure to check in with Mrs. Orlando on Thursday, January 6th!
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The International Food Club is offering open enrollment from now until January 13. Students in the club eat at various ethnic restaurants in the Indianapolis area once a month. Please email Mrs. Rose Egan () if you have questions or need a permission slip/t-shirt order form.
Amy’s Day will be held on Friday, January 21st. “Amy’s Day” is for parents and daughters (school-age) who choose to spend quality time together.
o When: The 3rd Friday of each month (except for School breaks in January/April)
o From: 6:00 a.m. - 7:15 a.m.
o Where: Cathedral High School Cafeteria…breakfast
o is served by Sahm’s for $7.00 per person (Not for profit).
o Who: Daughters & any parent! (Fathers and daughters as well as mom/guardian(s)!
o Why: Quality time with the ones you love. We have wonderful speakers that address topics such as: self-respect, dating, drinking and drugs, health & wellness, value of a close family, etc. We take requests as well.
P.S. The sacrifice is worth it! Can’t wait to see you at the next one on Friday, January 21, 2011 at 6:00 a.m.
· Featured Speaker: Cathedral’s own – Mr. Tom O’Brien.
· Questions? Please contact:
Kathleen Miller@ 317.257.3051
Barbara Hasbrook@ 317.848.9590
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Mark your calendars: Football 4A Championship Free Day – Easter Monday, April 25th.
Don’t forget that you and your student can sign up to receive mobile alerts from Cathedral. To sign up, go to www.gocathedral.mobi and select Irish Parent. Your student should select the group that corresponds with his/her class year. If you have any questions, please email Lisa Renze-Rhodes at
Cathedral will offer two SAT prep classes 2nd semester. The first will begin January 24th and meet on consecutive Monday nights through March 7th, leading up to the March 12 testing date. The second class will start March 14th and meet on consecutive Monday nights through May 2, leading up to the May 7th testing date. (There is also a test in June) The class will not meet during Spring Break. Both sessions will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Room 2302/2301. The cost is $150.00 for 14 hours of instruction, and we will provide all practice materials. Registration will begin January 10th. Please email if you have any questions.
The Invisible Children club is hosting a babysitting night to benefit the cause of children in northern Uganda in the SLC for Friday, February 11, 2011. So, take your favorite partner out for a fun Valentine’s evening and support these children at the same time. The link to this flyer of this program is http://www.cathedral-irish.org/uploaded/Files/InvincibleChildren/ICBabysitting2-11-11.pdf
Valentine's Babysitting Night
Friday, February 11, 2011
5 pm – 10 pm
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Tuition Assistance for 2011-2012
Information about applying for tuition assistance (financial aid) for next school year (2011-2012) is included in the December issue of the Insight, and a letter was mailed on December 6 to the families of students who received tuition assistance during this school year. Families must apply for tuition assistance each year if they wish to receive such assistance, and more details about this process can be found at http://www.cathedral-irish.org/page.cfm?p=167. If you have questions about tuition assistance at Cathedral High School, please contact Duane Emery, Vice President for Enrollment Management, at (317) 968-7360 or .
R. Duane Emery. Vice President for Enrollment Management
Cathedral High School, 5225 E. 56th St., Indianapolis, IN 46226
W (317) 968-7360
C (317) 331-7371
www.gocathedral.com
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Tutoring available: 4 ways!
1. Theology Tutoring for freshmen:
Before School: Mr. Schmidt in room 4131 Monday - Friday
Dr. Caspersen in room 4242 - Tuesday and Thursday mornings
Mr. Freije in room Monday – Friday
After School: Ms. Dye in room 4243
2. Tutoring available mornings and afternoons every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the library provided by National Honor Society members. If you are interesting in being tutored, just show up at the library. The NHS tutors are scheduled for a week at a time and they sit at a table marked with a sign that says “Tutoring here”.
There will be no NHS tutoring before or after school the week of December 13 - 17 because of final exams.
3. After School Tutoring
AFTER SCHOOL T*TO*ING
What’s missing? U---R!
join Ms. Gallo in Rm. 2314 . . . 3:15-4:00. . .Tuesdays and Thursdays free of charge! Test prep. . . study skills. . .reading comprehension. . .writing skills. . .etc.
No appointment necessary . . . everyone welcome!
If your child needs help in math, please see Mrs. Hartman after school on Mondays and Wednesdays in room 4341.
4. Indianapolis Marion County Public Library (IMCPL) - Get an online tutor 2pm - 10pm seven days a week. Find a resource 24/7. IMCPL offers free online academic and career resources and tutoring from Tutor.com for all students & adults, and in Spanish too! All your students need is an IMCPL library card. Get a Library Card
· K-12 and college students can get help with homework, studying, projects, essay writing and test prep in every subject, including algebra, statistics, chemistry, physics, social studies and English.
· Adults can get help with resume writing, GED prep, and academic support. All sessions are online and one-to-one with a live tutor.
· Getting help is easy. Just go to www.imcpl.org and click on "Homework Help".