Alumni Association News

Once an Ace. Always an Ace.

After the tough year COVID presented for our newly formed Alumni Association, we are excited to pick right back up where we left off and we look forward to seeing you soon at our events. More information coming soon!

The OCHS Alumni Association exists to celebrate the Aces spirit while serving and connecting alumni, friends, and students of all ages. We are proud to welcome all alumni as members and keep Aces everywhere informed, connected, and engaged. Our goal is to foster a sense of community while providing a variety of engaging events and communication platforms for our alumni.

We are still seeking officers and board members to assist in building unity, purpose, and structure for our newly formed Alumni Association and would love to hear from you! Interested? Contact Jenny Glenn (jenny.glenn@owensborocatholic. org or 270-686-8896) for more details on becoming a founding member or forming our board positions today.

Together, we can continue to advance our campus and make the Aces pride stronger than ever!

We never gave up.

Early in my career as an educator, I had the opportunity to teach 4th graders. I remember listening to students share stories from time to time about challenges they faced. Stories typically included concerns about academic performance, getting along with their siblings, and feeling sad when a friendship ended.

I spent time talking with them about encountering tough times throughout life and stressed the importance of never giving up. In fact, we made little pocket reminders that had NGU hand printed on them. I still have mine.

I thought about those fourth graders when our Catholic school system was in the midst of figuring out how students would be educated when the pandemic hit. Looking back over the past 16 months, I am grateful for so many people who subscribe to the attitude of never giving up—teachers, students, parents, and you, our faithful donors.

Each of us has a key role to play in passing our Catholic faith on to future generations. During the pandemic, we faced unprecedented challenges. Together, with God’s grace, we persevered.

We never gave up.

The experience reminds me of Romans 12:4-12:

For just as, within one body, we have many parts, though all the parts do not have the same role, so also we, being many, are one body in Christ, and each one is a part, the one of the other. And we each have different gifts, according to the grace that has been given to us: whether prophecy, in agreement with the reasonableness of faith; or ministry, in ministering; or he who teaches, in doctrine; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, in simplicity; he who governs, in solicitude; he who shows mercy, in cheerfulness. Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good, loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor: in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord; in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing.

It is an honor and privilege to work as one body in Christ with you, brothers and sisters, as we serve the Lord.

NGU, Keith Osborne Chief Administrative Officer Class of ‘81