a letter from our president

Springing ahead at BNI, today and always!

As we recently sprung into Daylight Saving Time, experienced the vernal equinox and anticipated the blooming of spring flowers, it made me realize that we have been in a spring-like mode at Bishop Noll Institute for a while now.

Rebounding from a pandemic that tried but failed to halt our centennial celebration in 2021, we are seeing fruits from the seeds that have been planted at BNI in recent history. We are serving our largest enrollment in 21 years (and largest freshman class in 23 years), growing our STEM curriculum and use of our 3-year-old state-ofthe-art STREAM Lab, producing graduates who earn millions in college scholarship offers, and doing so much more to ensure the growth and achievement of our students.

And we’re far from done.

In the coming weeks and months, you will notice if driving past our outdoor athletic facilities that our long-awaited renovation is starting. We have done numerous projects over the past decade to improve and update our internal facilities, and now it is time to upgrade the outdoor spaces that are a significant part of the BNI experience and the lifelong memories that come with it.

Upon completion of the project, our students will benefit from the new amenities that will replace the tired and generations-old facilities many of us knew from our long-ago days at BNI. Funds have been secured for the first and primary phase of the project— an upgraded football/soccer field and regulation outdoor track, with new lighting and seating. In addition to providing for our students and athletes, we hope it will send a signal to the community at large that Bishop Noll is invested for a long and successful second century to continue serving the youth of the Region and the Diocese of Gary.

The next phase of the project will provide new concessions and locker room structures, plus a new softball field. You will be hearing about BNI’s “Fielding Our Future” capital campaign to complete the renovated facilities. I ask that you please consider investing in Bishop Noll when contacted to help us provide the type of coveted facilities we all agree our students deserve, just as we have provided such amenities in recent years inside our building. You also can spring into action, invest in BNI and take a lead role in our efforts by contacting me, or Director of Advancement Ryan Julian.

We are so grateful to our alumni and other stakeholders who have helped make BNI what it is today—a bedrock of Catholic secondary education and a beacon for families of northwest Indiana and south Chicagoland. We intend to continue “springing ahead” with no turning back when it comes to making the BNI product and the BNI experience available to future leaders of our region, our world and our Church.

This Easter season, we ask for your continued prayers for our BNI students, faculty and staff, and for prayers that our various initiatives rooted in mission continue to bloom for the benefit of our budding young BNI Warriors.

God bless you, and God bless Bishop Noll Institute. Mind, Body, Soul! Let’s Go Noll!

Paul B. Mullaney ’77 President

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