The following departmental awards are made to students in the class of 2012. Congratulations to all recipients!

As we prepare to advance yet another amazing class of St. Gregory graduates, we have been reminiscing about years past and wondering where our amazing alumni are now. If you are the parent of an STG grad or you are an STG graduate, please contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and let us know what you have been up to and please provide us with your updated contact information. We'd like to make sure you now what we've been up to while you have been away. Congrats Class of 2012!

During Innovation Days a group of highly motivated and creative students designed and produced T.V. show called The Nest. As a St. Gregory Middle School Production, The Nest reports on current events at the school, advertises for upcoming activities, and serves as a showcase for student performances. You can see this combination in their premiere episode. We hope to make this a club for next year, so you could look forward to more episodes. Watch for more posts next week as we share the other innovative activities that happened these past two days! 

Friday, May 11, is a special night for the middle school fine arts department. Starting at 5:30 is the middle school Art Show. There will be appetizers and refreshments served. Our middle school band will play at 6:20, and the middle school play, Sideways Stories from the Wayside School will start at 7:00 p.m. Ice cream and apple turnovers will be served at intermission and the food is free of charge! Come and enjoy a lovely evening of arts and entertainment!

Northern Arizona University has awarded the NAU President’s Scholarship and the NAU Merit Scholarship to St. Gregory seniors:

• Spencer Brodkey:  NAU President’s Scholarship
• Dominic Centorbi:  NAU Merit Scholarship
• Kaeleigh Jackson:  NAU Merit Scholarship

Who: St. Gregory 9th grade students

What: An End of the Year Swim Party just for you!!

When: Sunday, May 20   12-3 P.M.

Where: The Tucson Racquet Club, 4001 N. Country Club Road

STG graduate Deborah Tempkin '03 is a 2012 Finalist for the Call to Service Medal. This award will recognize a federal employee whose professional achievements reflect the important contributions that a new generation brings to public service. This medal is accompanied by a $5,000 award. Tempkin leads the government-wide campaign against bullying, working with the White House and federal agencies to educate school districts and governments at all levels on what they can do to protect young people from this painful and sometimes fatal problem. Read the full story here.

It’s tuition time again!  By now everyone who has turned in a contract should have been billed for 2012-13 tuition. The first tuition payments are due May 15, 2012. To help families wanting to make electronic payments we would like to let you know we have launched a new Tuition Payment Portal on the school website.

Students were notified that they were the only yearbook in southern Arizona to earn the National Yearbook of Excellence Award! This program includes public, private, and charter schools of all grade levels. A list of criteria for the award included relevancy of content and organization, and acknowledges that all cover and page layouts were completed in detail before deadline. We hope our St. Gregory community will appreciate and enjoy this memory book!

There are still a lot of Family Association activities underway before school lets out for the summer, including year end grade parties, grad night, the May staff appreciation lunch, and the MS art show & production. Come hear more about them and find out how you might be able to help. We will also reflect on the year's successes and vote in next year's slate of officers. Your attendance is important. Refreshments will be served

Our first Upper School track season ended on Saturday, May 12 at the state meet, where Tobias Gloesslein ('14) successfully moved up from his seeding to earn a 20th place ranking in the 800m race for Division IV with a 2:10.15.  Congratulations, Tobias!

We're all really excited about the middle school promotion and student dinner/dance on Thursday, May 24th. We hope that all middle school students will be in attendance as we celebrate our wonderful sixth, seventh, and eighth graders.

The first STG12Hour held last Saturday on the school's campus was a tremendous success. 67 people signed up in advance to help us raise funds for the St. Gregory scholarship fund and to sponsor students in Kenya. During the day an additional 62 people arrived, registered, ran or walked a few miles and took part in the various activities that took place during the day. The 129 participants accounted for 629 miles!

Dr. Colleen Kelley has accepted the offer to teach in the St. Gregory science department beginning in August, 2012. Dr. Kelley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Richmond and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University.

The French 1 class was treated to a visit from Mimi Méhalaine, a French woman who is working in Tucson as an au pair. Ms Méhalaine brought along her charge, 2-year-old Lakshmi, who also speaks French.

Goetz Family Fund
Many of you have asked what you can do to show your support of St. Gregory's longtime campus maintenance manager, Don Goetz, who was recently diagnosed with a serious illness. Don is also the parent of a St. Gregory 8th grader. Don has been a dedicated, hard working employee at our school for almost 13 years. Always willing to lend a hand, stay late, go that extra mile, or just offer a smile and a wave, Don has been there for us. It has been said, "Don cares for this campus as if it were his own child."

Middle School students did an extraordinary job these past two days developing their innovative mindsets and muscles during our first ever "Innovation Days."  They were treated to an excellent presentation by Dr. Anna Spitz, a St. Gregory parent attached to a NASA funded mission to research an asteroid, who explained the very many innovative strategies being employed by that team to conduct that research.  M

St. Gregory College Preparatory School is getting national recognition for its efforts against bullying.

 

Congratulations to Alex Valencia ! She won an Honorable Mention in the Congressional Art Competition last month with her painting of an Arizona Centennial theme. We have attached a view of the painting for you to see. The other outstanding paintings that we entered in to the contest were created by Sierra Decker, Hannah Sawyer and Skye A-Jones.