The Cardinal Newsletter - Winter 2014

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VOL. 2 • WINTER 2014

CARDINAL St. John’s Art Gallery

by Dr. Michael Pratt, Head of School

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have been heartened throughout the year by your commitment to the arts at St. John’s. I share that commitment and look forward through STEAM to build on our existing program.

Already our students are flourishing in the arts. So many of you were able to hear our choral students perform beautifully in their Christmas concert. Now students in our Elementary and Middle Divisions are preparing for the production of Peter Pan, which will play March 6-9. I am also excited to share with you some recent successes that our students have enjoyed in visual arts competitions. In the Children’s Art Competition at the Rancho Santa Margarita “Family and Friends” New Year’s Eve Celebration, Danica Haydt (K) won second prize and Ava Scharf (1) third prize in the K-2nd grade category, and Riley Gather (4) took second prize in the 3-5th grade category. Mackenzie Busch (1), Jessica Simrell (2), Emma Scharf (4), and Matthew Trueman (6) all received certificates from The Orange County Department of Education as well as from the Festival of Arts for Artistic Achievement.

I have been so impressed with the quality of art that I decided that one wall of my office would be a student art gallery. On display now are wonderful works by Ava Scharf (1), Nava Bozorgmehri (5), and Lexi Cook (5). I look forward to showing more student art throughout the year. Please drop by and see our student’s creativity on display. n

“ASHES TO GO” AT ST. JOHN’S by Fr. John, Vicar

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met these students on January 23 at St. Jean-Baptiste Episcopal School (that’s St. John’s to you and me) in Léogâne, Haiti, a town near the epicenter of the January 2010 earthquake. I was visiting as a member of the National Association of Episcopal Schools governing board. Children are beautiful everywhere. But seeing these precious, vulnerable ones in a place where nature had behaved so devastatingly made me want to reach out and make the sign of the cross on their foreheads. Which brings me to our plans for Ash Wednesday on March 5. All are welcome at our services at 7 a.m. and 9:15 a.m., noon, and 7 p.m. But if you would like your “ashes to go,” Mrs. Patti and I will be waiting for you at the ECC and back lot drop-offs. Just stop and roll your window down, and we’ll impose ashes and say a few words. It will take less than ten seconds. Then get ready for people to tell you all day that you’ve got something on your forehead. n


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