Progress: Spring 2023

Spring 2023

A Publication for Alumni and Parents

Future is

Now

The future is here at Saint Francis.

Contents Spring 2023

Publisher Jason D. Curtis Executive Editor Jamie Ceccato Perkins ’97 Editorial Staff Michele Tjin Kalix Marketing/Sarah Achenbach Design Kalix Marketing/Jason Quick Alumni Copy Editor Michele Quinn ’83 Support Staff Bernard Nemis Diane Wilson Contributing Photographers Rishabh Anand ’26 Radha Govil ’25 Greg Jungferman Lulu Jane Photography Jim Malone Abhijit Nambiar ’24 Now and Forever Photography Aran Subramaniam ’26 Michele Tjin Kylie Tran ’25

Karaoke at the Homecoming Week Play Day rally by Radha Govil ’25

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#Lancerlife

Dean of Students Ray Hisatake and Michelle Chen ’25 do origami as part of Multicultural Week by Kylie Tran ’25

Sharing a girls soccer win

by Abhijit Nambiar ’24

3 NEWS Student highlights and profiles 13 FUTURE IS NOW Saint Francis students, educators and alumni meet the future head-on Backstage makeup for the fall play “The Sparrow” by Rishabh Anand ’26

Performing with Shakespeare’s Dropouts, the improv club by Aran Subramaniam ’26

23 STUDENT LIFE Student art and service 30 HOLY CROSS EDUCATOR Librarian Mei Yang

President Jason Curtis talks about the exciting future at Saint Francis. Check it out at sfhs.com/buildingcommunity

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LANCERS IN THE NEWS Olivia Vinckier’s TEDx Goes Global

More than 1,200,000 people already have viewed Olivia Vinckier’s TEDxSaintFrancisHS talk in spring 2022 on how she approaches the issue of race as a multiracial individual. As a recent selection on the official TED platform, Olivia’s talk joins those of the world’s leading thinkers.

Now a junior and serving as the school’s TEDx director-in-training, Olivia is grateful to those who helped her craft her story and use her voice, something she insists anyone can do. She says how she framed her story helped her stand out.

“Anyone can learn how to do anything like telling a good story,” she explains. “Everyone might not think their story is important, but it can touch people, who do appreciate when you’re vulnerable. It’s a great experience to feel that sense of relatability.”

Since 2018, the Saint Francis student-run TEDx program has given students a space to talk about what’s important in a setting wholly different from the classroom. Through these talks, students demonstrate that teens don’t have to reach adulthood to share reflections and impart wisdom. For the spring 2023 TEDxSaintFrancisHS event, Olivia is shadowing the current directors to assume co-leadership next year.

Find Olivia’s talk at ted.com.

Girls Wrestling Finds Community The Lancer girls wrestling team left its mark on the mat with its own dedicated coaching staff and new head coach Joey Bareng, who pepper foundational skills with wrestling-inspired life habits. “Seeing the girls’ growth each week motivates me,” says Coach Bareng, who spent nine years as the Menlo College women’s wrestling coach and earned two national championships. “One of the main things I’m instilling is setting expectations so they understand what it means to be a wrestling athlete at a high level.”

RIght: April Gao ’26 demonstrates a pinning position called a half nelson on an opponent.

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April Gao ’26 joined the team to try something new and mentally demanding. “Unlike other sports, wrestling is individual,” she says.

“When you make a mistake on the mat, there’s no one to blame except yourself. How you react to your opponent is on you and nobody else.” Co-captain senior Graycie Duncan-Horning appreciates that the team developed its own sense of camaraderie “There’s more opportunity to build relationships with each other. I’ve gotten to know more people than I would have if we were a mixed team,” she says.

Lancer Rugby 101 As Saint Francis celebrates its newest athletic programs, girls and boys rugby, here’s a primer on what happens on the pitch.

Scrum - a process to resume play after a penalty Ruck - the name for the competition over the ball after someone is tackled.

Two players try to drive each other off the ball.

Gate - players, when rucking, must enter through the gate, which is created by the ball carrier’s body when they are tackled.

Lineout - when a ball goes out of bounds, a lineout is formed. The teams have to leave about a meter between them, and the ball must be thrown directly through the middle. This is where you see people being lifted.

Maul - like a scrum, except anyone can get in and drive it. This usually happens with a lineout, and is used to pull in the forwards on the defense to counter the drive.

Pods - the name for the predetermined grouping of forwards in a tactical formation, which is typically a trio in an arrowhead formation.

The 22 - refers to the 22-meter line, which is used when kicking.

Forwards - these positions do most of the tackling and rucking in a game.

Recent Championships

Backs - they are the quick ones and make a back line.

Congratulations to the Lancer girls volleyball and soccer teams for their fantastic seasons. The soccer team defeated Carondelet High School to win the Northern California Division I regional title. It also captured its first Central Coast Section Open Division title, reversing heartbreaking losses the previous season when the Lancers lost the CCS Open Division final and regional championship game.

The volleyball team prevailed over Archbishop Mitty High School for the sixth time during their season in the fall to win the Northern California Open championship and earned a berth at the state tournament. Though the team eventually lost to No. 1 nationally ranked Cathedral Catholic-San Diego–the Lancers’ sole loss during an otherwise perfect season–it did not take anything away from their magical season. Go Lancers!

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Innovation@SF

with Shraddha Chaplot, Head of Innovation Encouraging Exploration Through Glassrooms

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hen I joined Saint Francis in summer 2020, I envisioned a school campus that was constantly transforming into different exploratory spaces beyond the classroom. Whether we’d be walking to class, getting lunch or going home, there would be opportunities to stumble upon something that not only sparked our curiosity but led down a new path of wonder. New experiences open our minds and hearts to unknown possibilities that we never knew existed.

WHAT IS A GLASSROOM? We decided to convert the three collaboration rooms inside the Eggers Innovation Center into those themed exploratory spaces I had imagined early on. We named them “glassrooms,” as they are spaces made of glass but are forever changing.

You could look inside and be invited in, create something and leave it changed for the next glassroom guest. Glassrooms become exploratory transporters: immersive, interactive, living laboratories that transport the guest into a completely different time and space. Essentially, they are spaces observed and experienced from both outside and within.

Glassrooms are spaces that are created by any member of our community. What I hope is that you will enter curious and leave informed, inspired, encouraged, and eager for more.

OUR FIRST THREE GLASSROOMS ​​Although we started with some of our student leaders in affinity groups, word has spread and Lancers across campus have been connecting with me to create their own. Check out our first three glassrooms.

Asian Student Association’s Lunar New Year

TEDx SaintFrancisHS

Asian Student Association’s Lunar New Year glassroom was filled with red envelopes and candy, an origami table and a map depicting the different regions that celebrate this festival.

TEDxSaintFrancisHS’s glassroom displayed this year’s 13 speakers and their topics, with questions posed across the space to invite anyone to participate in the conversation.

MultiHeritage Student Union’s Julie Lythcott-Haims

MultiHeritage Student Union welcomed author Julie LythcottHaims for an evening of conversation. This glassroom featured a mural-size hand-drawn illustration, information on her three books and a trivia challenge.

INTERESTED IN DESIGNING YOUR OWN GLASSROOM? Have an idea? Want to create a musical masterpiece installation, a life-size chess game, set up your startup’s product for student beta testing or create a dramatic visualization of a page right out of a novel? I’d love to connect and co-create a glassroom space with you.

Email me at shraddhachaplot@sfhs.com to share your dream and we will bring it to life!

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Scan to go directly to our Innovation@Saint Francis page

www.sfhs.com/innovation

profile LANCER

Ruhi Yusuf ’24 President and Hackathon Head LancerHacks President Programming Club Manager Lancer Tech League Board Member Robotics Team Participant Innovation@SaintFrancis Projects Santa Clara University BioInnovation and Design Lab: Infectious Disease Forecasting (Machine Learning), summer 2021 Santa Clara University BioInnovation and Design Lab: Biofeedback in Immersive Environments (Virtual Reality), spring 2022, fall 2022, spring 2023

Top: Ruhi (in red) works on a Robotics project.

Right: Ruhi with participants of the LancerHacks hackathon.

“The classes, curriculum and activities expose you to leadership. Clubs and projects force you to take initiative.”

What inspired your love of technology?

During middle school we had a course in computer science and computer programming, and I really liked the intersection of logic and art, which was the program we were using. I liked how I could create things and see them come to life before my eyes. During COVID I wasn’t exposed to a lot of clubs. With in-person learning, I started off with small clubs like LancerHacks and more learning opportunities developed. The hands-on projects with Innovation@SaintFrancis really got me there and exposed me to what I want to do in the future: a career in STEM and engineering. I like to convey my knowledge to others. With Robotics, for example, you’re always teaching the next person what you’re doing so that when you graduate, there’s always someone holding onto that project.

mentor, Dr. Julia Scott [director of Santa Clara’s Brain and Memory Care Lab], works with us at Saint Francis. I am on my third cohort for this project. For Robotics and LancerHacks, it is a bit of an unseen mentorship. We really focus on the continuity of the clubs.

Talk about your learning opportunities.

I am Hackathon leader and president for LancerHacks, which hosts an annual, coed hackathon for middle and high schools in the Bay Area.

I manage logistics for the five student tech clubs that form the Lancer Tech League. As a Robotics board member, I focus mostly on coding and electronics. I’ve participated in two projects with Innovation@ SaintFrancis and Santa Clara University. My favorite is the biofeedback project using virtual reality [VR]. We are building a pulse sensor and designing a biofeedback VR app to record the signals our body makes when the user responds to what we are showing them. We then transform that biofeedback into sights and sounds we can interact with.

What’s your favorite thing about technology?

The constant unknown of it fascinates me. If you look at a certain piece of technology, you know what it does, but you don’t know its hidden potential or hidden dangers. How far can you test it? How far have you tested it? [As students] we don’t exactly have that on a dayto-day basis, but we are getting exposure to new technologies and to thinking for ourselves.

Seeing that I can code something to create a heart rate sensor and see the effect of that in the virtual world is pretty cool. Our Santa Clara

How has Saint Francis helped you become a leader?

It’s the ease of access to opportunities to learn and grow. The classes, curriculum and activities expose you to leadership. Clubs and projects force you to take initiative. If you take the initiative, you become a leader. My teachers and friends are also super supportive. The first thing that brought me to Saint Francis was the warmth and hospitality that I got from my shadow host and their friends. I have seen that carry to my classes and outside clubs.

One problem that people are trying to solve is artificial intelligence [AI] and its potential impact on student writing. How will teachers know if a student or technology wrote an essay? I’d like to be part of the process that automates AI, to see how it works and to see how we use technology to explore areas we cannot physically be in.

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Eggers Innovation Center Opening

EGGERS INNOVATION CENTER OPENING The new Eggers Innovation Center ushers in a new chapter for Saint Francis. In the days and weeks following the formal opening on Jan. 20, its inspiring, future-focused spaces already have sparked many opportunities of collaboration and creativity.

We are deeply thankful for the generous support of Barry and Meredith Eggers, longtime champions of helping Saint Francis find innovative ways to meet the changing needs of students. Their gift and the teaching, learning, discovering and collaborating inspired by the center embrace the Holy Cross tradition of providing students the tools they need to solve complex problems in the future.

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1: Lancer students and educators experiment during a welcome event.

2: Lancelot checks out renderings of what the future of the Quad will look like through virtual reality.

3: Jason Curtis gives remarks in the Innovation Theater, a flexible black box space.

4: Parent volunteers Cara Fernandez and Christy Tum organized an interactive day for Lancer families to experience the Eggers Innovation Center.

5: Bishop Patrick Joseph McGrath, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of San Jose, blesses the Eggers Innovation Center.

6: The Eggers Innovation Center fosters a spirit of creativity and collaboration.

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Barry and Meredith Eggers are committed to supporting innovative ways of meeting students’ needs. The Eggers’ Light the Way campaign gift provides tuition assistance, enhanced educator support and new spaces for learning and community interaction through the Eggers Innovation Center.

Excited by the eagerness of Saint Francis to take Catholic high school education where it has never gone before, the Eggers hope their gift encourages others. “Just as the Innovation Center was designed to be a place where collaboration thrives, we encourage members of the community to support the campaign and be part of this exciting journey,” Barry says.

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THE EGGERS INNOVATION CENTER BY-THE-NUMBERS

1,450 30+

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EVENTS HELD IN THE INNOVATION THEATER IN ITS FIRST SIX WEEKS, INCLUDING 4 WELCOME EVENTS FOR INCOMING FAMILIES

ROBOT BEING CONSTRUCTED IN THE LAB

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PEOPLE VISITED THE EGGERS INNOVATION CENTER IN ITS FIRST SIX WEEKS

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STUDENT COUNCIL SPEECHES GIVEN IN INNOVATION THEATER

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CLASSROOMS AND LABS

1 CNC MILLING MACHINE

60,000

SQUARE FEET

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Dungeons & Dragons Dice

“This is my favorite set of dice for Dungeons & Dragons, one of my favorite games. I run the weekly D&D Club on campus. It’s one of the ways I like to connect with people. I used to be the Dungeon Master, but now my friend Niko does it, and he’s 10 times better.

Playing is a fun way to let your creativity just go.”

WHAT’S IN MY

Backpack?

Wooden Rosary from Ignite

“During sophomore year, I was invited to join Core, which leads Ignite. We plan fun Ignite events like our gigantic inflatable kickball match. Each event has a story of grace where a student talks about how someone helped them. My favorite part is prayer chair at the end of our events. We congregate around one person in a chair while they share a prayer request, and we say a few prayers out loud. Bringing us together to pray is the most reflective thing. I just love it.”

Book from Biomedical Ethics

“I’ve never really had a class like Biomedical Ethics with Mr. Cannon where you can just speak freely about a subject. His first rule is that everything that’s said in class stays in class. I am so excited to be able to speak with my classmates and understand where they’re coming from and talk about why I might see this differently.”

Gummy Bears

George Jelley ’24 in the Lancer video production studio.

As one of three Lancer Live producers, George Jelley ’24 captures campus life through video. He’s helped the student videography club shift from only streaming sports events to hosting a weekly news program, filming different events and creating the Game of the Year series — often collaborating with his brother Jacob ’26. His role as Saint Francis storyteller gives him more confidence and deeper compassion and connections in class, Campus Ministry and as a leader of the new Lancer Rugby Club.

“Campus Ministry is my favorite place on campus. They’re all religious teachers, and if you need to ask a question about a class, you just go to them. There are sofas where you can go and chill for a bit. And there’s always snacks, thanks to Mrs. Franco, so if you need a quick pick-me-up in the form of a gummy bear, there’s always something there for you.”

Medical Tape

“Rugby has been a big part of my life.

I was born in the U.K., and my dad and mum are British. My dad would take Jacob and me to watch rugby at the local rugby club, which he helped coach. I play for three different teams right now: The Lancer club team; the San Mateo Wolverines/Silicon Valley men’s team; and the NorCal Grizzlies All-Star team. I play prop, out in front catching the ball and hitting someone hard. I usually have a little roll of medical tape on me in case I’ve done something to my finger.”

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Behind-the-Scenes for

‘Little Shop of Horrors’

Student-run musical performed Feb. 2-4, 2023 We asked the cast and crew of this year’s production of “Little Shop of Horrors” to share their love of this modern love story with a man-eating plant for the villain.

Gabriella Federighi ’23, Student Director: “There were times when I wanted what can be a campy show to be more emotional and balance the drama. When Audrey [female lead], played by Ava Suakjian ’25, sings the reprise of ‘Somewhere That’s Green,’ I wanted her to face the audience even though the circumstances are silly.

During the whole song, she’s hugging Seymour [male lead] and looking out. Ava’s little sister was crying in the audience because she thought it was real.”

Alex Eiger ’23, Pit Conductor: “The spring musical has always had a pit orchestra, but the student-run show never has. I saw being the first-ever student pit conductor as an opportunity for a completely new type of student involvement. I had responsibilities I had never had before. There’s not another ensemble on campus conducted by a student. It was more than just waving my hands in the air, it was about carving my mark at Saint Francis.”

Mihika Gupta ’23, Tech Director: “Prior, I thought being a leader was merely getting things done efficiently and telling others what to do. This taught me that leadership means getting things done and making sure that everyone involved feels respected. There isn’t a point in leading a team that at the heart doesn’t feel valued.”

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“This taught me that leadership means getting things done and making sure that everyone involved feels respected.”

“It was more than just waving my hands in the air, it was about carving my mark at Saint Francis.”

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Future is

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The future is here at Saint Francis.

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ctually, it’s been that way since the Brothers of Holy Cross first opened the doors to Saint Francis High School in 1955. Inspired by the teachings and philosophy of the Blessed Basil Moreau, a Saint Francis education was forward-focused from the start.

Implicit in “preparing useful citizens for society” is inculcating the skills and values needed to address the world’s current and future challenges. Blessed Basil Moreau or our founding Brothers may not have written our school’s 21st-century vision statement to shape the future to create leaders of impact, but they certainly would have embraced it.

A Holy Cross education has its eye on innovation to create a just, hope-filled and humanity-focused society. At Saint Francis, our educators, students and alumni know that technology is not the end goal. It is a tool to lead to change.

The people and programs featured in this issue of Progress understand that technology is a means to get at what it means to be a human. To understand each other’s stories. To connect more deeply offline.

To create together the kind of future we want and need.

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE FIND CREATIVITY Brandon J. Rolle ’05

Composer, conductor, teacher and mentor to early-career musicians. Creates music informed by psychoacoustics and computer programming.

How does technology fuel musical creativity?

Technology has always fueled musical creativity, from the development of the modern piano, to the electric guitar, to digital effects like autotune. With modern computers, though, we can now see, hear and manipulate the details of a sound in unprecedented ways. My music is interested in using that technology to explore sound worlds hidden to the naked ear. In a piece like für Klarenz, this meant creating software to help transform the subtle sounds and inflections of his name into notes for the piano. Technology plays another role during the performance of the piece, too, emphasizing hidden details of the piano’s sound by making them appear to move, swirl and ultimately envelop the audience.

How are musicians changing how we experience music today?

I think there is an instinct to use current technological developments to explore new frontiers, to replace the physical with the virtual — virtual instruments, performers, reality — which certainly can be exciting. But as artists, we also need to be conscious of what technology can teach us about what it means to be human. Sound and music connect us to our bodies and to our environment in a fundamental way: the shape of our ears, the size of the room, the air-pressure level are all inextricably linked to how and what we hear. So for me, the most interesting music today is using technology to explore how sound can connect us as humans, or how it can make each of our experiences completely unique. In other words, technology can help us understand this reality, or it can help us to create an imaginary, virtual one. I think in the best art, today as in the past, these two impulses are inseparable.

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We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.

- Blessed Basil Moreau, Circular Letter, 36

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The curriculum and programs at Saint Francis are created with an eye on the future. By infusing the latest in pedagogical best practices and technology, we offer boundless opportunity for students to focus on solving future challenges while remaining grounded and inspired by centuries of Holy Cross traditions.

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE MATCH PASSION WITH RESEARCH

Independent Inquiry

Through Independent Inquiry, students pursue a creative project of their own design and present their results at the end of the year. By placing the ownership of the learning on students and combining ideas and skills from many disciplines, Independent Inquiry increases engagement and depth of understanding.

“Laughter is a huge part of my life. With Shakespeare’s Dropouts, laughter is integral to our mission of on-the-spot comedy. To connect my passions for improv and laughter and turn them into an academic research project is something I could have only hoped to do through Independent Inquiry. This spring, I gave a TEDx talk on my research findings, and I plan on presenting a research paper and a case study on the effects of laughter therapy on the senior population. Independent Inquiry has given me the ability to question things and to stay curious. I hope to carry these values through the rest of my life!”

Niva Shirsekar ’24 Topic: Laughter and How and Why Humans Do It TEDxSaintFrancisHS presenter, March 2023 Member, Shakespeare’s Dropouts, Saint Francis Improv Comedy Team

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER

Social Emotional Learning and Saint Francis Family Club As a Holy Cross school, we are committed to the physical, social and emotional safety of all students, and we support the needs of students beyond the classroom. The Social Emotional Learning (SEL) program at Saint Francis uses data-driven, research-based practices to inform the intentional inclusion of SEL skills in all of our classes and programs. During advisory periods, juniors and seniors who are in the Saint Francis Family Club serve as mentors to assigned freshmen. Guided by educator advisors, they lead SEL-centered activities and offer support in small-group settings, covering essential topics like communicating honestly, developing empathy and cultivating humility.

Ava Malae ’24 checks in with a freshman during advisory.

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“I’ve grown in my communication and organization skills, and the way that I lead is by example and how I conduct myself in and out of the classroom. Family Club is different from other leadership groups because of your role as a mentor. It’s your job to be an example to freshmen. I think about the values we talk about, like humility and kindness, and I make sure that I’m not just teaching those, but I’m also implementing them myself.”

Ava Malae ’24 , Family Club mentor

A recent Ethnic Studies project asked students to illustrate their identities.

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE ARE AGENTS OF CHANGE

Ethnic Studies Requirement and Department Inspired by the core beliefs of the Brothers of Holy Cross and Catholic social teaching, we are called to take action to disrupt systems that perpetuate the marginalization of individuals and groups. The 2020 implementation of the Ethnic Studies requirement and the formation of the Ethnic Studies Department creates opportunities to deepen our students’ understanding of themselves and their community.

Beginning with the Class of 2025, all students will take two semesters of coursework in Ethnic Studies: a foundational, onesemester course and an interdisciplinary semester selective in English, Religious Studies or Visual & Performing Arts.

“By looking at the role played by identity, race and justice in American society, Ethnic Studies provides our students with a critical lens to examine and contextualize what is happening right now and why it is happening. In an increasingly diverse and global community, these skills are critical. The coursework enables our students to engage in these discussions and become active agents of change for a more just community. Additionally, this class exposes students to the stories, perspective and lived experiences of different communities and provides our students opportunities to become more culturally literate, empathetic community members on our campus and beyond.”

Heather Washington, Ethnic Studies teacher

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE ADVANCE IN MEDICINE Meghan Flanagan ’99

Surgical oncologist and breast cancer specialist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Assistant professor of surgery, University of Washington What role does innovation play in cancer care?

Innovation is taking a problem and approaching it from a different angle. For breast cancer treatment, we are thinking about ways where we can change the order of what we do, like doing radiation before surgery. In this new area of precision medicine, there’s a ton of innovation by taking what we know on the macro level and applying it to each patient. Each tumor is fundamentally different and specific to that person. So we can consider what is very specific about your tumor and treat you differently.

What is the future of cancer research?

In the last five or 10 years we’ve had the capability to do whole genome sequencing.

We’re at an exciting future and crossroads where our technology is to the point where we can do individualized medicine. There’s a lot of work going on currently to address unknown problems. For example, statistics show certain demographics have worse outcomes. There are lots of studies looking at why. It doesn’t appear to be only socioeconomic, demographic or cultural. Even if patients access care at the same time, something about the tumors might be different. There’s so much room in medicine for understanding where the patient is psychologically, socioeconomically or culturally and figuring out how to combine that with a tailored treatment so patients get the best possible outcome.

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OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE LEARN ANYWHERE

Innovation Program Experiential Learning Just as we seek to establish partnerships with outside organizations to provide educational opportunities for students, we also are committed to collaborating with students and placing them in internship positions within the school to offer meaningful pathways to learn outside the classroom. An internship program was created this year within the President’s Office to give students a direct look at how an organization is run, and it will expand to allow students to learn about work in additional departments, such as Marketing and Communications. We also created a hospitality internship program; read about it on page 20.

Adarsh Gupta ’23 takes guests on a tour of the Eggers Innovation Center during a donor reception to celebrate the building’s opening.

“What I’ve always wanted was real-world experience with a business. This opportunity in the President’s Office gave me a baseline of experience. Now I can start building on that baseline. This is a free-flowing learning environment that I can model to what I’m interested in. I’ve had conversations with people about what they do, how they’re doing it and why they’re passionate about it. I’ve learned how their backgrounds have brought them to where they are today. It’s helping me understand what I want to do, why I want to do it and how I can do it.”

Adarsh Gupta ’23, intern in the President’s Office

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE CREATE A MORE JUST SOCIETY Justin Lai ’10

Transformation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor Leads a design and research team to advise state agencies on updating their systems to improve the user experience for customers from vulnerable communities.

How does technology impact today’s challenges in public health?

Reducing barriers to access is a big issue. My focus in graduate school was how technology could increase access to mental health services. For the federal government, I advise all U.S. states and territories in modernizing their unemployment insurance systems. So many people applied for benefits during the pandemic and didn’t receive them in time. My team thinks about how we can use technology to increase access to previously inaccessible services, especially during moments of crisis.

What is the potential of how we interact with computers and how we think about how we live?

The big question is how do we better understand how we communicate with each other, and how might technology magnify those capabilities and meaningful ways? What kind of tools can we develop that enrich the human experience? For example, if we focus on people with disabilities and build tools that work well for them, there’s a trickle-down effect where the mainstream society can benefit as well. Text messaging was invented for those who are deaf. It was first seen as a niche technology but is now one of our main sources of communication.

What has allowed you to be successful in seeing the possibilities of innovation?

What has guided my approach to my work is a sense of humility. The heart of innovation is first focusing on understanding the problems as opposed to jumping to solutions. In Silicon Valley, there’s a technocratic philosophy that technology can solve problems, but it’s so much more than that. You have to understand the lived experience of the people whose problems you’re trying to solve.

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The story of Saint Francis and of Holy Cross has always been one of innovation. Adapting to meet the needs of our students, and ‘shrinking from no sacrifice’ to ensure they have access to the education, facilities and resources they need was part of Father Moreau’s vision for Holy Cross education.

Principal Katie Teekell ’00

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE INNOVATE IN EDUCATION

Partnership with Santa Clara University

Our partnership with Santa Clara provides opportunities for students to engage in meaningful ways outside a classroom or club activity. While courses like computer science and clubs like Machine Learning help develop technical skills, the partnership with the university opens new avenues in applying knowledge to real-world challenges. Projects with the Healthcare Innovation and Design Program at Saint Clara have included creating a prototype to alleviate the suffering of dementia and using virtual reality to create an immersive environment.

“This is experiential learning. Our students are being taken seriously and going through the steps of creating something as if they were in a company. Even if they never do anything in medicine, this experience of being on a team and working toward a goal of creating something is a skill they’ll need in any profession.

This is where education is going. Gone are the days where the teacher is the one in the room who knows the most. I’m excited to see what’s next because we’re just getting started.”

Kerrie Gibson, science teacher and advisor to one of Innovations in Dementia Care project teams

Jennifer Tolland ’23 and Johanna Perez ’24 present their findings at the Innovations in Dementia Care pitchfest.

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Holy Cross intern Sean Smith ’17 signs to a student in an American Sign Language class.

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE SUPPORT YOUNG EDUCATORS

Holy Cross Intern and Teaching Fellow Program This program, which was created in 2017, brings back recent alumni college graduates who wish to explore careers in education to Saint Francis. Interns work as mentors, shadow teachers and counselors and explore additional departments on campus as career interests arise. Interns may continue as fellows, teaching classes and working with a co-teacher and a mentor teacher. Interns and fellows receive a stipend and fellows receive aid from Saint Francis to cover a portion of the cost of pursuing a credential.

“I’m in the American Sign Language [ASL] classroom each day and help interpret when discussing more complex topics. I would like to teach ASL next year. This program has helped me become a teacher because I have the opportunity to be in the classroom each day to observe, teach my own lessons and create tests and projects.”

Sean Smith ’17, teaching assistant to the ASL teacher

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE CONSIDER ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY Olivia Gambelin ’13

Artificial Intelligence ethicist specializing in the practical application of ethics to technological innovation Founder, Ethical Intelligence What are the consequences when ethics are not built into AI and technology?

There are issues around data privacy, so there’s a violation of personal information and the feeling of lost agency over your own ability to make decisions on your life. But the perspective I take as the main risk is you’re cutting yourself short if you’re not using ethics in your development and design processes. If you do ethics by design, it naturally leads to a better business and stronger technology.

What considerations do programmers need to take into account when implementing ethics into technology?

My biggest advice is to question yourself. When you’re making decisions, do not assume that everyone thinks the same as you. It sounds simple, but it’s the easiest way to catch a lot of ethical problems. Programming is a very set way of problem solving, but you can’t solve ethical problems with an engineering patch. It’s something that involves conversation, deliberation and a lot of critical thinking.

How do you view the interaction of ethics and technology?

There are two sides of ethics. One is the risk mitigation side where you’re making sure nothing goes wrong, where regulation and compliance play a hand. The other half lies in what I find to be an exciting space of innovation and hope because you can design for specific values. We can pretty much problem solve in any direction that we want. We can help shape problem solving and innovation in a way that benefits us as people. We all have an active role to play in how we interact with technology and develop it. There’s a lot of potential and opportunity that comes along with this space.

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Be Part of Our Future

Join our future-forward focus and get involved with helping to shape our students’ experiences, which, in turn, will shape the world.

Toni Oliva ’23 pitches her group’s strategies to rebrand an on-campus food kiosk from the Urban Bloc to the BRIC.

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE CARRY ON THE BROTHERS’ LEGACY

Hospitality Internship Program

The paid hospitality internship program was created to give students work experience in a professional learning environment. Under the direction of our hospitality team that prepares and serves food for lunch and school and community events, interns learn all aspects of hospitality management, including food preparation, certification for food handling safety, customer service, cash reconciliation and menu planning. For additional real-world experience, interns took part in a branding workshop led by Allison+Partners, a marketing and communications agency working with us, to rebrand an on-campus food kiosk.

“I work with customers every day, even if those customers are my peers.

I’ve also worked at events like the basketball tournament and the alumni reunion, so this internship gave me the experience of dealing with people of all ages, and I’ve become more extroverted because of it. Our job is to be constant and make sure that students are well fed, and if they’re having a bad day, we’ll always be there. You see hospitality workers daily because everyone gets lunch every day, but you might not see your teacher every day. It’s cool because you have regulars who always go to the same concession, and I think ‘I know what you’re going to get.’”

Toni Oliva ’23, hospitality intern

OUR FUTURE IS HOW WE WORK AND LEARN

Virtual and Flex Days

We value innovation in how we work and study. One component of remote learning that continues at Saint Francis are virtual days before Thanksgiving break. To provide families with more flexibility during the week, two school days during the Thanksgiving week are conducted over Zoom, which received overwhelmingly positive feedback from families when first implemented in 2021.

Attend

Design Showcase May 15, 6:30 p.m. Eggers Innovation Center Be inspired by presentations from Design Department classes and tour our student project trade show, featuring exhibits from our Computer Science, Design Thinking, Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Independent Inquiry classes and more.

Joanna Vollucci, Design Department chair and computer science teacher, joannavollucci@sfhs.com

Participate with Students

Offer to be an advisor for an Innovation@Saint Francis project (duration and time varies; no specific expertise required). This role involves meeting with students and leading discussions. New projects are slated for the 2023-24 school year.

Shraddha Chaplot, Head of Innovation, shraddhachaplot@sfhs.com

Share your Gifts

Propose a project of any topic or duration for students in the Innovation@Saint Francis program.

Be available as students are selected and the project is implemented to its conclusion. We’re looking for new projects to start next school year.

Shraddha Chaplot, Head of Innovation, shraddhachaplot@sfhs.com

Additionally on Flex Days held at certain times during the school year, students work from home to finish and submit work or meet with teachers for online collaboration sessions. This flexibility allows students to receive additional help and educators to collaborate with colleagues and attend workshops led by fellow educators.

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Light the Way Update

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he Eggers Innovation Center is fully open now, but our Light the Way campaign continues.

Our vision for the future of our school includes constructing a Welcome Center, which will be an exciting multi-functional space.

The Welcome Center will serve as the new school entrance on Miramonte Avenue, a gathering space where we extend our hospitality to families, alumni and all guests in the Holy Cross tradition. It will house administrative offices and include spaces for performances, meetings and community gatherings. In fact, the doors of the Dining Commons will be the last to be locked each day because we anticipate it will accommodate many evening activities.

To make room for the Welcome Center, we demolished the 100 Building in March 2023. Crews also removed a diseased Deodar Cedar from in front of the building that will later be milled and repurposed into other areas on campus.

Visit sfhs.com/buildingcommunity to learn about the Welcome Center, read construction updates, view the live feed and take a virtual 360-degree tour of the Quad.

The 100 Building as seen from Miramonte Avenue

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An architectural rendering of the Welcome Center seen from Miramonte Avenue

From left: Before the demolition, Vice Principal for Campus Life Michael Pilawski, retired educator Steve Filios, Director of Academics Maggi Knochenhauer and Facilities Director Robert Copple ’02 speak at a prayer service to give thanks for the experiences, memories and formation that took place in the 100 Building.

Crews in the early stages of demolition

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IS THAT ALL? HOW DISAPPOINTING BY CHRIS NGUYEN “I wanted to express a stark disconnection between the reflection and the physical body that comes from hitting your breaking point. The distress comes from a place of self-loathing. I suppose my ‘unarmed truth’ is that I’m not quite sure what my truth is — it’s buried under too many layers of turmoil and disgust.”

Lancer Artists The work of four seniors in AP Studio Art — Matthew Brigido, Alexa Johnson, Tiffany Maguire and Chris Nguyen — was selected for ArtNow, an annual juried Santa Clara County high school art exhibition presented by New Museum Los Gatos. Responding to the theme “Unarmed Truth,” their artwork was among 800 submissions from artists at 37 high schools across Santa Clara County. The exhibition runs until June 25.

LIFE’S LOTERÍA

BY MATTHEW BRIGIDO

SILENCED BY TIFFANY MAGUIRE “My piece is about how women’s selfexpression is hindered by patriarchal society. The woman’s hands are covering her breasts because of the orthodox notion that a woman’s body is something judged and therefore ashamed of. The hand imprint that overlays her face conveys the silencing that occurs when liberties that inherently accompany femininity are taken out of her own right and are rather dictated by male determination.

The woman portrays the vulnerability, insecurity and oppression that young girls feel when influential society negatively affects them into believing they should be ashamed for not fitting into the unattainable ‘ideal’ mold.”

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“I made this piece wanting to accurately portray the aspects of my identity and the several roles I fill by depicting them all in the form of a Lotería [Spanish bingo] game.

Growing up close to my culture, family was always put first. Through my unique situation, this meant I had to juggle my responsibilities from the ripe old age of 5. I have selected objects that relate to my daily life and chose a game like Lotería to capture the fast-paced accumulation of different game tiles like how I had to quickly take up roles in life.”

AMALGAM BY ALEXA JOHNSON “My unarmed truth is a personal one, in that I wanted to exhibit that many parts of who I am are a mix of influences from the world around me. I am a culmination of many mediums: the people I’ve met, the things I’ve experienced, the media I consume. Things have been added on and taken off, and yet, in the center, my unfiltered essence remains. The title of my piece derives from the word amalgamation, meaning ‘the action, process or result of combining or uniting.’”

Sean O’Neill’s sophomore Religious Studies class sorted and packed food at Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. Students in other grades had similar service learning experiences throughout the year.

Service at Saint Francis Service continues to be at the heart of a Saint Francis education and experience. Students contribute thousands of collective service hours annually to nonprofits and communities across the Bay Area. Athletics teams, Religious Studies classes and clubs volunteer in numerous capacities. Here are just a few of the ways Lancers gave back this year.

The girls varsity basketball team held a clinic for youth teams at the YMCA in January.

Members of Girls Who Code, along with club moderator Joanna Vollucci, computer science teacher, invited sixth- to 12th-grade female students to an all-day hackathon, AdaHacks IV, hosted at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno in March.

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FROM THE ALUMNI DIRECTOR

Dear Alumni, One building goes up … the next comes down. It was incredibly exciting to open our Eggers Innovation Center, and we’re just as thrilled to see crews move forward on the new Welcome Center that will take the place of the 100 Building. The 100 Building held many memories, but we’re looking forward to the new experiences we’ll have in the Welcome Center. As parents, we always want better for our children, and similarly as alumni we should want better for the current and future generations of our students.

SAVE THE DATE

Lancer Car Show April 30 Saint Francis Day of Giving May 2 Grand Reunion Weekend Aug. 25-27

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In that same vein of progress we are looking to make some changes in our Alumni Council. We’re seeking to add more alumni to strategic groups and leverage their work as volunteers for professional networking, social engagement, school/student engagement and advancement activities. Just like the construction crews that are currently outside my office working so hard on the foundation of the new building, we are working on laying the groundwork for an exciting future for the alumni department and our Saint Francis community. Please let us know if you would like to help.

A few events for you to put on your calendar: All alumni are invited to the Lancer Car Show on campus on Sunday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. It’ll be a day of fun and connections, and I hope to see many alumni on campus that day! Additionally, during our Saint Francis Day of Giving on May 2, you will have an opportunity to give to our Saint Francis Fund, which supports academics, student activities, spiritual enrichment, technology and innovation, tuition assistance, arts and athletics, student leadership as well as new programs and activities. The Saint Francis Fund makes a difference in the daily lives of our entire Saint Francis community. Join in and pay tribute to your favorite Lancer educators with stories of how they impacted you. Like with all families, it’s fun to reminisce, and it’s also meaningful to look forward to continued camaraderie and collaboration. Most importantly, it’s vital to periodically stop and take time to say how grateful we are for each other.

With appreciation for our wonderful alumni, we are happy to host the 2023 Grand Reunion on Saturday, Aug. 26, for all Saint Francis and Holy Cross alumni classes ending in “3” and “8” beginning with the 10year reunion for the Class of 2013.

As Lancer family members, we share traditions, Holy Cross values and genuine care and concern for each other. Just as importantly, we share fun times and laughter. I look forward to welcoming you back to campus for some of our activities. To ensure you receive alumni information and invitations, and to stay connected to our community, visit the alumni dashboard at sfhs.com/alumni.

Our tradition continues … Go Lancers!

Greg Calcagno ’83 Alumni Director gregcalcagno@sfhs.com Twitter: @SFHSalumni Facebook: Saint Francis High School (Mountain View) Alumni Instagram: @sfhs_lancers_alumni LinkedIn: Saint Francis High School Alumni SFHS.com/alumni/giving

Class Notes

Stay Connected, Lancers!

Visit sfhs.com/alumniconnect to: • Update your contact info to learn about SFHS alumni activities and opportunities • Submit Class Notes and share your latest news

Tim Fitzmaurice ’67 has taught at the University of California Santa Cruz since 1980 and creative writing at Salinas Valley State Prison for the last seven years. In 2022, he published a book of poems called The Things We Take With Us. Jennifer Friedenbach ’84 is executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco.

She has worked for the coalition for 27 years. Prior to coming to San Francisco, Jennifer was director of the Hunger and Homeless Action Coalition of San Mateo County. She has a long history of community organizing and has worked on a range of poverty-related issues including welfare rights, housing, homeless prevention, health care, disability and human and civil rights.

Jason Jackson ’98 pictured with his wife Gina Schuessler Jackson ’98

Jennie Fordyce ’09 and Justin Artim ’10

Jason Jackson ’98 recently completed his initial training to become a JAG corps officer and is the Army National Guard’s newest Judge Advocate. He also received the COE Founding Administrator Award at this year’s State of Nebraska Center of Operational Excellence Summit.

Jennie Fordyce ’09 and Justin Artim ’10 were married on Oct. 1, 2022, in Leiper’s Fork, Tenn. Members of the wedding party included fellow Lancers Daisy Fordyce ’14, Hope Fordyce ’22, Valentina Berry Portal ’09, Megan MacDonell Luba ’09, Shane Artim ’13, Nick Aliotti ’10, Robbie Vaughan ’10, Dominic Steil ’10 and Jack Foster ’10. The couple honeymooned in St. Barts.

Julia N. Quesada ’11 graduated from the University of the Pacific in 2015 with a BA in psychology and a JD from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles in 2019. She is licensed to practice law in California and is a practicing civil rights attorney.

Carrie Walters ’12 married Jonny Shapiro in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago in November 2022. Her wedding party included Alexa Quinn ’12 and Olivia Hoedt ’12. Carrie and Jonny live in Chicago, where Carrie is a financial planner and candidate for CFP certification and Jonny is a consultant with Deloitte.

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Carrie Walters ’12 and Jonny Shapiro

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Class Notes Randolph Abaya ’13 is a captain with the U.S. Air Force. He completed his MA in astronautical engineering with the Air Force Institute of Technology and currently works at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), Wright Patterson AFB. More than 30 Lancers joined in celebrating the marriage of Lauren DeCarlo ’14 and Matthew Rodriguez in La Selva, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2022, including Rufi Alday ’83, Ann Scharrenberg Calcagno ’84, Greg Calcagno ’83, Katherine Calcagno ’13, Patrick Calcagno ’17, Miranda Contreras ’14, Maddie Damore ’13, Mary Elliott Dean ’87, Anna DeCarlo ’18, David DeCarlo ’85, Jason DeCarlo ’15, Jessica DeCarlo ’12, Justin DeCarlo ’18, Larissa O’Shea DeCarlo ’87, Lauren Continued on page 28

Lauren DeCarlo ’14

In Memory Former English teacher Robin Barteletti ’67, who possessed a lifelong love of the written word and music, passed away on Sept. 17, 2022, in New Mexico where he retired. He devoted 31 years to teaching high school students, 12 of those at Saint Francis.

As a student at Saint Francis, Rob had diverse interests but gravitated toward the arts, expressing himself through fiction, nonfiction and poetry. He played accordion since he was 6, but the British Invasion persuaded him to switch to the guitar, which became his instrument of choice for the rest of his life.

Rob taught at Saint Francis from 1974 to 1987, and he shared his love for literature and writing with his students. He chose discussion over lecture and arranged his class in a semicircle so that everyone could be recognized and participate. A student-centered teacher, he was at the forefront of promoting cultural and gender diversity in the curriculum, and he frequently strummed on his guitar to relieve the stress of a big exam. In addition to teaching, Rob was the moderator and creator of Mindframes, the school’s first literary magazine that is still published today. He also moderated the school newspaper and developed the forensics department.

Rob lived with Parkinson’s for more than 20 years and became a champion and fundraiser for the community. As a result of his advocacy with the New Mexico state legislature, a movement disorder center on the University of New Mexico’s Health Science Campus opened last year.

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Patti Aguiar, wife of Angelo (RIP), mother of Lauren Aguiar Kuehn ’79, Matt ’81 (Lisa Houweling ’81), Tim ’83 (Donna Botta ’83), Jerry ’84, Pat ’88 and Paul ’92. Grandmother to Corrinne Kuehn ’08, Nathan, Andy, Aaron, Michael, Daniel, Victoria, Elizabeth, Sarah, Emily, Joe ’10, Samantha, James, Suzy, Lucas Aguiar and Michelle Chen, greatgrandmother to Abbi and Violet Charlene Torley Allen ’63 HC, mother of Katherine Allen Primas ’92 Matt Bacolini ’04, brother of Michelle Bacolini Scaduto ’99 and Lindsey ’02 Janette Barsanti, wife of Steve ’82 Tasio Baserga ’04, brother of Brandon Burns ’04 Theresa Krajieck Haider ’64 HC

John Juleson ’68, brother of Bob ’63, Cynthia Juleson Walker ’66 HC Jon Lazarus, former Men’s Club president, husband of Lorie, father of Chase ’01 Carolyn Lutticken ’67 HC, sister of Jim ’65 Ashlee Rhodes ’06, daughter of Mitch and Patty Tim Rodden ’79, brother of John ’78 and James ’88 Tyler Scheetz ’21, son of Christine C. Augulis and Kevin B. Scheetz Frederick Schwede, husband of Judy Suellentrop ’79, brother-in-law to Connie Suellentrop Mitchell ’78, Thomas Suellentrop ’84 and John Suellentrop ’88

DeCarlo ’14, Mike DeCarlo ’83, Amanda Delfino ’13, Alex Eulate ’23, Carlos Eulate ’87, Lily Eulate ’24, Lyndsey O’Shea Eulate ’89, Adriana Frazier ’17, Jackie Hinojosa ’13, Jessie Hinojosa ’12, Jodi Hinojosa ’14, Pepe Hinojosa ’74, Cecelia Montalvo ’15, Kathryn Brunello Montalvo ’87, Ray Montalvo ’87, Sophia Montalvo ’17, Brian O’Shea ’94, Carter O’Shea ’24, Liam Sharek ’18 and Dave Trollope ’89.

Sophie Ware ’16 is earning her MA in art history at the University of Chicago after graduating summa cum laude from Columbia University. She was chosen to present her art history research at a University of Chicago sponsored conference.

Delaney Washington ’18 and four other members from the Dance Theatre of Harlem were chosen to dance in honor of the Cuban American composer Tania León at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., in December that was televised on CBS. The other honorees were U2, Amy Grant, George Clooney and Gladys Knight.

For Delaney, it was an opportunity of a lifetime to dance for the president, the vice president and various dignitaries.

Delaney Washington ’18 and Tania León

Little Lancers

Alumni, if you are the proud parent of a Little Lancer, please email LittleLancer@sfhs.com to receive a Lancer gift for your baby. Please include your address and the names of all family members.

Charlotte and Olivia, daughters of Christopher and Christina Simpson Eklem ’09

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from the archives

The very first issue of Progress in 1973.

Above: Winter 2016 Below: Summer 2017

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MAGAZINE St. André’s Legacy of Hospitality Alumni follow his example of opening doors and warming hearts

This year marks 50 years since Progress, the magazine of Saint Francis High School, hit the presses. This issue, we turn back the pages to our first issue in 1973 when we covered Saint Francis going coed, as well as a few favorite covers over the past five decades.

Summer 2019

Spring 2022

A Publication for Alumni and Parents

Innovation

Formation

Summer 1973

A Publication for Alumni and Parents

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s: Partnership

Woven into the Fabric of Saint Francis High School

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HOLY CROSS EDUCATOR Librarian Mei Yang shares a passion for lifelong learning with students

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT WORKING WITH STUDENTS? Being in the library means I see a different side of students that doesn’t necessarily come out in the classroom. It’s always fun to talk about books with students. The way TikTok influences what students read is fascinating because they keep uncovering titles that surprise me. I also like doing things like fun polls or contests and seeing how the students respond. For students who want help with their research needs, we’re available in person or by email. Working with a student to figure out where and how to find appropriate resources and helping them problem solve their research needs is really rewarding!

WHAT IS YOUR APPROACH IN TEACHING INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS? Teaching information literacy skills means teaching young people to function in the real world as self-directed questioners, problem solvers, creative thinkers and effective communicators. It’s integral to our graduation outcomes and essential to a Holy Cross education.

It has to be addressed in collaboration with other educators as well as parents. We’ve started to incorporate some information literacy skills into the ninth grade Health & Fitness classes. Ms. Birdsong, our instructional librarian, and I are in the process of developing a scope and sequence for research skills. I also try to use the library’s Instagram @sfhs_library to share quick tips.

WHAT DO YOU WANT THE LIBRARY TO BE FOR STUDENTS? We have so many fantastic resources here: college-level electronic resources; a well-rounded book collection that supports academics,

college prep, wellness and recreational reading; plus, a dedicated staff that’s always looking for ways to better support the community.

I’d like more students and educators to take advantage of everything we have to offer, to use the library as part of their development as lifelong learners.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION? That’s a big question! The development of ChatGPT [and other chatbots] is showing that technology advancements can quickly cause paradigm shifts for educators. It’s exciting but also poses a lot of questions. The ways we traditionally find, evaluate, organize, use, communicate and produce information will continue to change as technology changes. It challenges us to focus on the skills that are truly needed to become responsible, thoughtful individuals in the real world.

WHAT HAVE YOU READ RECENTLY THAT HAS MADE AN IMPACT? How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by economist Russ Roberts. He takes one of Adam Smith’s lesser-known works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and shows how Smith’s ideas about human nature still provide a lot of insight into how to be a good person and find happiness today. I also really liked Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri, which won the 2022 Printz Award. I was hesitant to read it because it was aimed at middle school, but I’m glad I gave it a chance because it was a really beautifully told story with a big emotional impact.

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Mark Your Calendar for May 2!

Let’s come together to witness what the power of our Lancer community can do on the Saint Francis Day of Giving on May 2.

Your participation and support will directly benefit our students. We are thankful for all gifts in any amount. Each donation has a tremendous impact on our community and strengthens our Holy Cross tradition to educate the whole person.

Please consider making an early gift at lancersgive.sfhs.com.

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