The mission of Saint Xavier Catholic School is to educate the whole person— body, mind, and spirit—in Christian values, in accordance to our Catholic faith tradition.
APRIL 2012
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St. Xavier auction St. Xavier’s Annual Auction, which took place on April 14, was a big hit as always. Every year, each class provides a basket for the St. Xavier Annual Auction. The baskets that were provided are listed below, along with the proceeds they brought.
12th grade: Mexican Fiesta- $450
11th grade: Lottery Ticket Tree- $350
10th grade: Children’s Fun Basket- $200
9th grade: Candy & Chocolate Basket-sold for- $300
8th grade: Boys Camping Basket & Girls Beauty Basket- $325
7th grade: Adult Beverage Basket- $750
6th grade: Mystery “Box”/Trunk- $250
5th grade: Movie Night Basket- $175
4th grade: Coffee Basket- $475
3rd grade: “Off to college” Basket- $150
2nd grade: Ice cream Sundae Shoppe Basket- $225
1st grade: Summer/Beach Fun Basket- $175
Kindergarten: Kindergarten Basket- $300
Pre-school: Laundry Baskets (included a Kindle Fire & $50 Amazon gift card) (2)- $425
Office: St. X Rams Basket-$150
The auction was a raging success. Altogether, the baskets made $4,700. Hopefully next year will be as successful as this year. Thank you to all who helped in any way. Good job rams!
2012 CYO Convention March 31-April 1 eight St. Xavier students attended the Catholic Youth Organization convention or CYO. Leaving the school parking lot at 8:30 a.m., the teens traveled to Salina to join 500+ students in a retreat themed “Searching for Christ.” This retreat lasted for two days and included multiple youth speakers, religion based skits, a big, three hour long dance and publicly acclaimed Christian youth speaker Mike Paton. The students learned how to live their faith outside of retreats like CYO, how to become closer to Christ and in-
clude Him in their lives, and what it truly means to be a child of God. When asked about their experience, one of the youth responded, “I’d
never felt so secure in my faith than when surrounded by hundreds of teens just like me. I learned that being a Catholic is not something to be ashamed of, but some-
thing to be proud of and profess every chance I get. I also learned how to be comfortable just being me, and not trying to live up to the standards of those around me. I had a blast and can’t wait to attend again next year.” If you are interested in participating in CYO next year, be on the look out for information next March or talk to one of the previous participants. Or get in touch with Kurt and/or Sandy Liesener through the office.
Book of the Month Our school librarian, Mrs. Mohler helped us pick out a great book for our May book of the month. Check it out when you can!
Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix Twelve-year-old Luke Garner lives on a farm with his mother, father, and two brothers, Matthew and Mark. But in Luke’s world, families are only allowed to have two children, and Luke must stay hidden or risk being found by the government and being put to death. But when Luke meets another illegal third child, he begins to wonder: Why does he have to hide? Written by Margaret Peterson Haddix, this book is filled with plenty of surprises and twists that will keep even older readers guessing until the very end.
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PROM NEWS This year’s prom is coming up soon so its time to start buying tickets! This year’s prom theme is “Neon Nights” and it will be hosted in the Saint Xavier Gym on May 5, 2012 from 7-11p.m. This year’s tickets are 20 dollars for a couple and 15 dollars for a single ticket. The tickets can be
Tickets Are On Sale NOW!!! This is a formal event so please dress a p p ro p r i at e ly.
purchased with Ms. Humlicek in room 206 or with Cayley Reeves, Victoria Fuller, Brennan Booth, or Yvonne Engelhardt. If you have not purchased a ticket by May 1st then you will not be eligible to attend prom. Tickets are currently on sale but prices will dou-
ble after April 27th. Out of school dates have to be signed up in the office and approved by administration. This years prom is sure to be a hit, so come and join us for an awesome “Neon Night”!
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FORENSICS NEWS Saint Xavier has a superb forensics team. The members of the forensics team always give their best in an attempt to make it to finals. There are many bright and knowledgeable students that the forensics team is comprised of. The last forensics meet was held at Washington County on April 12th. Yvonne Engelhardt was the only one to make it to finals in extemporaneous. On Saturday, April 20th six members of the forensics team will be going to regionals. The following participants are: Benedic Flores, Seth Carpenter, Keonya Jackson, Kendra Hutchison, Kim and Lené Keating. Keonya and Kendra will be reciting beautiful and meaningful poems in the poetry section of regionals, Benedic is going to tackle the extemporaneous portion of the competition, Seth is going to read his heart out in prose, while Kim and Lené will be using their creative minds in the IDA section. Good luck to those lucky six going to regionals ☺ . Forensics Tournament Dates 2/04/2012
Abilene Invitational Tournament
2/11/2012
SE Saline Invitational (Salina)
3/03/2012
Silver Lake Invitational
3/10/2012
Topeka West Tournament
3/31/2012
Junction City Invitational
4/12/2012
Washington Co Invitational
4/21/2012
Regionals
The Activity and Awards Banquet will be Wednesday May 2nd @ 6. ☺
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TRACK This year’s track season has finally arrived, and we have an amazing turnout for both junior high and high school track teams. With so many eager participants, we hope to be able to bring home many medals this year. Even if you haven’t gone out for track, come out and support your team to the finish line!
Participating Members Junior High
6th Grade: Teresa Balderrama, Ben Hanlen, Savannah Quire, Ricky Rodriguez, Natalie Santa, Asa Engelhardt
The junior high track coach for this year is Mr. Kent Griffin. The team has been practicing 7th Grade: Amanda Alderson, Kadi with determination for their meets, which are Lorentzson, Kaleo Dickson on April 9th at Wakefield, April 17th at Council Grove, and April 24th at Southern 8th Grade: Adam Carpenter, Simon Engelhardt, Will Hanlen, Tyler Tanguay, Cloud/Beloit. Good luck Junior Rams! Brody Whitaker, Jemika Pearce
High School
The high school track season kicked off on Participating Members April 12th with nearly three times the Freshmen: Luis Burgos, Krystina amount of members as last year, including a Sunley, Joshua Lorentzson, Leslie new coach, Josh Mitchell. We have an Reese, Chelsie Flores, assortment of sprinters, distance runners, and Sophomores: Joseph Balderrama, Seth field event participants. With one meet Carpenter, Alex Daniels, Kendra already under their belt, our high school Hutchison, Keon Jackson, Kim track team is ready for other meets, which Keating, Kellie Terstegen, Alexis Wahl will be on April 23rd @ Tescott, April 26th @ Juniors: Jacob Chaney, Yvonne Manhattan, May 1st @ Tescott, May 4th @ Engelhardt, Forrest McCann, Cayley Riley County, and Regionals on May 18th. Reeves Go Rams!
Seniors: Lené Keating, Adam Whitaker, Killian Wood
BIRTHDAYS January Joshua Lorentzon
1/3
Brooke Davis
1/9
Seth Carpenter
1/11
Chance Fuller
1/17
Griffin Powers
1/22
Killian Wood
1/26
Grace Lichtensteiger
1/28
Matthew Musto
1/31
February Brandon Stillwell
2/2
Taryn Tanguay
2/4
Miranda Powers
2/5
Tony Reese
2/6
Ethan Friday
2/7
Elissa Burgos
2/10
Lauryn Peterson
2/12
Gedrick Comiso
2/14
Adrian Robles
2/16
Jacob Lorentzson
2/17
Ahmed Mansaray
2/17
Cesar Robles
2/21
Megan Stenstrom
2/23
Noah Brown
2/27
Payton Alviar
2/28
March Jonathan Duenas
3/3
Alex Daniels
3/12
Sydney Wood
3/12
Micah Smith
3/16
Analisa Quinonez
3/17
Aidan Gaono
3/19
Verna Corbin
3/20
Alex Schmidt
3/26
Jacob Chaney
3/30
Claudia Mendoza
3/31
April Allison Shackelford
4/8
LiliAnya Alsobrooks
4/8
Jacob Keating
4/10
Collin Leach
4/13
Naomi Tanaka
4/15
Alicia Carrasquillo
4/21
Jimin Kim
4/22
Joshua Pearce
4/23
Dustin Shackelford
4/16
Kimberly Keating
4/28