April 2008
Alumni E-Newsletter
Dear Alumni,
I
hope that you and your families celebrated a very blessed Easter last month.
The following is a bit of the news and information that may be of interest
to alumni.
Alumnus
Donates Portion of Book Sales to School
Alumnus and author Bill Jaenike,
class of 1952, has generously offered to donate the
author's commission of $9.00 for each copy of his book, The
Black Robes in
Paraguay, The Success of the Guarani Missions
Hastened The Abolition of the Jesuits, purchased by
alumni. Go to www.steliznyc.org/jaenike.asp to
order a book or for more information. To learn more
about the book, please go to www.blackrobesinparaguay.com,
which includes the Table of Contents.
In
Memoriam: M. M. St. Cecelia
Sr. Roberta McInerney, SHCJ, passed away on
February 21, 2008 in Rosemont, PA. She
was a teacher at St. Elizabeth School,
full-time from 1956-1960 and part-time
1967-1971. Her religious name was M.
M. St Cecelia, to reflect her love of
singing.
Sr. Roberta entered the Society of the Holy
Child Jesus in 1953 and worked at various
sites a teacher, campus minister and
director of religious education. She
retired in 2004, living in Rye, NY.
Following cancer surgery in January of this
year, she was brought to Holy Child Center
in Rosemont, where she died peacefully less
than a month later.
If you have any special memories of M.M. St.
Cecelia, please email them to me at
officedev@steliznyc.org
and they will be posted on the website.
School News
Please remember in your prayers our second
grade classes, who will receive the Sacrament of First Holy Communion on
Sunday, April 27.
Congratulations to Marcela Madera who
came in second place at the North Manhattan Catholic Schools Speech Bee.
She will represent the district at the Manhattan Speech Contest in a few
weeks.
As we mentioned last month, thirteen
of our students and two teachers will have the privilege of
attending the Youth Rally with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, on April
19 at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers. We send with them our
blessings on this exciting occasion.
Congratulations to the St. Elizabeth School faculty and staff who
were victorious in overtime at the Annual Faculty/Staff-Student
Basketball Game on April 8. The score was 39-34.
Old Photos Needed
We will be working to expand our
Archive photo pages on the website. If you have any old
class photos, pictures of teachers, and anything else that may be
of interest to your classmates, please email them to me at officedev@steliznyc.org.
Be sure to check our website at
www.steliznyc.org
for more information about school and alumni news and events, and
for recent photos. May God bless you and your families this
spring and always!
Sincerely,
Jenny Kaeppner
Director of Development
St. Elizabeth School
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