Just days after penciling in final exam answers this past June, a group of CJ students were off collecting passport stamps in the countries comprising the British Isles. Their time spent in Eastern Europe June 11-21 was equal parts leisure and learning.
Traveler Courteney Muhl, ‘13, detailed the group’s daily experiences – and the lessons each presented – during the Eagles’ 10-day stay on the other side of the Atlantic.
A couple of CJ students reunited with their correspondants from Spain this July 4 and celebrated America’s birthday with the friends they first encountered overseas during the second semester of the 2011-12 school year.
Since rendezvousing with pen pals on their nine-day trip to Madrid in March 2012, soon-to-be seniors Maria Chabali and Maria Wade have brushed up on their Spanish and are now returning the hospitality this summer to three students from Colegio Santa Ana y San Rafael, a Marianist sister school located in the country’s capital city.
Several CJ faculty and staff members were recognized for their career service and achievements Tuesday, May 1 at the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's Miami Valley Catholic Schools Teacher Recognition Banquet.
The annual banquet recognizes educators for their dedication to Catholic schools, the Catholic Church, and those students and families who choose Catholic education. Dr. Jim Rigg, superintendent of schools, welcomed honorees while Rev. Joseph R. Binzer, auxiliary bishop of Cincinnati, read the invocation.
Ten CJ visual art and writing students were acknowledged for their award-winning entries in the Max May Memorial Holocaust Art and Writing Contest at the Dayton Area Yom Hashoah Observance Thursday, April 19 at the Beth Abraham Synagogue.
CJ students were among winners selected from various Miami Valley high schools and middle schools who entered the contest across two divisions for grades 5-8 (Div. I) and 9-12 (Div. II). Those recognized for their work at the annual observance included:
Art
CJ English and performing arts students were audibly transported back to the Post Civil War Era Wednesday morning as they experienced the work of 19th century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar through music, song and the spoken word.
A special presentation of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”: A Celebration of Paul Laurence Dunbar, featuring poet Dr. Herbert W. Martin, soprano Dr. Minnita Daniel-Cox, and collaborative pianist John Benjamin, was performed for select classes April 18 in the auditorium.
Dayton Mayor Gary Leitzell welcomed German exchange students to the Gem City April 16 during a morning reception at Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School as part of an annual youth exchange program sponsored by the Dayton Sister Cities Committee.
Nineteen high school students hailing from Germany’s Jakob-Fugger Gymansium gathered with their hosts from CJ in the library to share breakfast and exchange gifts before spending the day shadowing their American counterparts in the classroom.
Chaminade Julienne students toured the Spanish countryside and visited with friends at a Marianist sister school in Madrid during a nine day springtime excursion through Spain.
Senior Catherine Meixner has been selected to receive a national Silver Medal for her poetry submissions in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition presented by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers.
Meixner is the school’s second consecutive national medalist and one of only 95 national winners from Ohio in 2012. The contest, open to students in grades 7-12, recognizes the top 1,400 students across the country in 28 categories of art and writing.
On February 23, the CJ English department conducted the fifth annual Poetry Out Loud school-wide competition. Sophomore Rachel Strahorn was declared the winner when it was all over, based on her recitation of “Flies Buzzing” by Mark Turcotte and “What Work Is” by Philip Levine.
In all, 22 classroom champions participated in the event that night, and approximately 420 students participated in the classroom competitions that preceded it. In four previous appearances, CJ school champions won the state competition twice and finished second and third on other occasions.
For 26 years, children in central Africa have been subjected to senseless violence, murder, rape and slavery—and the injustice has gone on almost entirely unnoticed. On Tuesday, CJ students’ eyes, ears and hearts were opened to the atrocities in a lesson on social justice.
The lesson was presented partly in the flesh by Richard, a 29-year-old survivor of the terror and violence that has wreaked havoc on his village in northern Uganda for almost as long as he has been alive.
