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Welcome to a new school year! A time for new beginnings and familiar connections.
Welcome to the Class of 2020 as they start a new journey on their path to knowledge and truth. As we begin the second year of our newsletter, what a great time to reflect on a few highlights of the past year as well as our plans for the new year.
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Peg Washington of Alpine Fireside Health Center presents
a certificate of recognition to NHS member Bridget Bishop '17 for water donated to the Red Cross. Boylan students were able to provide 8,782 bottles of water for disaster relief.
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Congratulations to our eight choir students who were selected to participate in the Millikin Vocal Festival. Nearly 300 student singers spent two days
working with the Millikin Choral Faculty to put on a wonderful festival concert.
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We are beginning our second year of the President-Principal leadership model
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The first year saw many accomplishments including the opening of the Lou and Irene Bachrodt Center for Health and Fitness and the culmination our five year Imagine campaign with the support of over 10,000 donors. The benefits of the campaign also included further capital improvements, support of our Annual Giving Program and our Educational Foundation. We expanded our efforts to tell Boylan Catholic's great story through our new e-newsletter, increased social media efforts, and a dynamic marketing plan which includes messaging, branding, and encouraging more people to learn about Boylan Catholic.
A new year creates the opportunity to set new goals. These include strategic planning, enrollment and marketing, Catholic identity, and advancement.
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Fuel Up to Play '60 volunteers remind students to eat breakfast before school.
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We are excited to craft our road map for the next five years with a new Strategic Plan.
Our last plan was created in 2008. Today many of those goals have been realized, and we look forward to this new plan with the support of our Board of Consultors, faculty, students, parents, pastors, and elementary school principals.
We will be expanding our important enrollment efforts through marketing and communication to include a new, updated website soon. In the coming weeks we will launch the Parent Ambassador Program, headed by a group of parents dedicated to the positive promotion of Boylan Catholic to help sustain and grow enrollment.
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The cross country team prays with
Coach Linda Schmitt and Father David Finn before a meet.
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As the fall athletic season began, we implemented the Sports Leader Program.This is a Catholic virtue-based formation program for coaches based on the four pillars of Virtue, Mentoring, Ceremony, and Catholic Identity. It allows us to create an intentional and structured curriculum to help form leaders and teach virtue to our students. Moving forward, we will roll it out to each season of teams. You can learn more about the program at
www.sportsleader.org.
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Advancement efforts continue,
focusing on the Annual Giving Program. There are numerous ways to support Boylan, and no gift is too small. Through the generosity of faculty, students, parents, alumni and friends, we can sustain and grow our Annual Fund which provides one third of our students with financial assistance. Our mission is to make it possible for every stu
dent who desires a Boylan education to obtain it.
The Advancement Office also sponsors many great events. These are open to everyone, and we welcome all of you. Some of our more current event dates are listed in this newsletter. You may visit our website at
www.boylan.org
. for the entire year's calendar. We hope you can join us and we look forward to seeing you.
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Class of 2020 - Bishop Lane Scholars
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Ten members of the Class of 2020 received the Bishop Lane Scholar Award at the Fall Awards Assembly on September 22. These students achieved a composite score of 95th percentile or above on the High School Placement Test,administered to all incoming ninth graders. The new Bishop Lane Scholars are:
Carson Coffey, Zachary Farson, Maxwell Hughes, Joshua Lewandowski, Isabel Maas, Nathaniel Muldowney, Nadia Nosek, Benjamin Thomas, Seth Tischman, Michael Wilburn.
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Congratulations to our
2016 Alumni Award Recipients:
VERITAS: Patrick Bachrodt '64
HONORARY ALUMNA: Patti Alms
OUTSTANDING TEACHER:
Jule Popanz
ALUMNI EXCELLENCE:
Peter Roche '64,
Ingrid Augspols Sharos '71, Jeffrey Maney '84,
Paul Rinehart '86, Michael Tarro '86
YOUNG ALUMNA: Elizabeth Grace '04
They will be honored Thursday evening at Fresco, Anderson Gardens: our eighth annual Alumni Awards Ceremony. Reception at 6:30, Ceremony at 7:15.
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Homecoming 2016 Activities
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September 24 - October 1
Activities include all home sporting events
- September 27 Soccer vs. Belvidere, Swimming vs. Belvidere
- September 28 Powderpuff, Tug of War, King Coronation
- September 29 Featured speaker: Laurie Lennon Hynes '67, RN, MEd, MAHCM, Vice President, Mission Integration St. John Providence will make a presentation to the faculty.
- September 29 8th Annual Alumni Awards at 7 pm at Fresco at Anderson Gardens,
Freshman Football
vs. Freeport
- September 30 Introduction of Boylan's 1966 Big 8 Conference Champion team (pre-game) football vs. Freeport, recognition of Alumni Award recipients, Queen Coronation (half time)
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Joe Fehrle '14, captain of the North Central College football team, was featured in the Week Four Uniform Release for the Cardinals vs. Millikin Big Blue game on
9/24/16.
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GRADS, PARENTS, FRIENDS;
We would love to hear from you! Send us your news and ideas
or answer our
featured question
:
What is your favorite memory of Boylan?
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Did your school visit Boylan this month?
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Monmouth College
NIU-Engineering Program
Rockford University
U of I-Urbana-Champaign
Augustana College
Northwestern University
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Xavier University
Western Illinois University
Bradley University
Ball State University
Loras College
Northern Michigan University
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Colorado State University
U of W - Green Bay, WI
DePaul University
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville
Millikin University
University of WI- Whitewater
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Can't make it to the game?
No problem, catch all of the action LIVE on the NFHS Network. Watch from your phone, tablet, computer, or Apple TV!
Subscribe to the NFHS Network and a portion of your subscription purchase will be given back to Boylan Catholic High School.
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Boylan Catholic High School
(815) 877-0531
bfrisch@boylan.org
www.boylan.org
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