2024 Alumnus of the Year & Magis Award for Young Alumni Nominations

We are seeking nominations for the 2024 Alumnus of the Year and the 2024 Magis Award for Young Alumni. The deadline for nominations is Wednesday, July 31, 2024.

The St. Bonaventure’s College Alumnus of the Year Award recognizes an outstanding graduate whose contributions have notably improved both their profession and community. The recipient is a well-rounded person who is intellectually competent, open to growth, religious, loving and committed to justice in the generous service to the people of God.

The Magis Award for Young Alumni honours a young alumnus with a record of extraordinary professional, community or academic achievement. The recipient is a young adult who has continued to include religion in their lives, is intellectually competent, loving and open to growth. Following the teachings of St. Bonaventure’s College these alumni remain committed to justice in the generous service of the people of God. Recipients of the award will be 30 years of age or younger as of the close of nominations for the Awards.

If you know someone deserving of one of these titles and would like to nominate them, the nomination forms are linked below:

Alumnus of the Year Nomination Form

Magis Award for Young Alumni Nomination Form

50th Reunion - Class of 1974

Calling all St. Bon's Graduates of 1974! A guided tour of St. Bon's has been booked for Friday, August 2, 2024 at 4:00pm - meet at Mullock Hall.

After the tour of the school, graduates will have dinner and catch up at the Courtyard Marriott on Duckworth Street.  

If you have any questions about the upcoming reunion, please email your classmates Bernie Kavanagh at bjk2@queensu.ca or

Peter Wakeham at peterjameswakeham@gmail.com

50th Reunion - Class of 1975

The Grade 9 class of 1975 are planning 50th reunion activities in St. John's from July 31st to August 3rd, 2025.

Below are some ideas that the planning committee have been thinking of:

July 31st – Welcome ride on Ocean Quest in the afternoon

August 1st – Private tour of St. Bon’s followed by dinner/drinks at The Elk’s Club

August 2nd – Craft Brewery bus tour and pub crawl

August 3rd- farewell breakfast

All events are still in the works. Committee members are still collecting emails and contact information. If you are reading this and would like to send your information, please contact Pots at pgrporter@gmail.com or Oscar at cowanpf@gmail.com

Recycling

A great way to support the school is by recycling your beverage containers. Bring your items to the local EverGreen depot and enter the school phone number (709-726-0024) on the self-serve screen, obtain stickers for your bags and pass them in. 

For more information, please click HERE.

What's Happening at St. Bon's?

The school year proved to be another fun and eventful one for our students and staff. Along with so much academic learning and growth, new friendships were formed and so many memories were made along the way. Here are some of the highlights from June that we would love to share:

• Our Grade 6 students celebrated their, "walk across the parking lot"! They have officially completed their elementary school days in Holland Hall and will join Mullock Hall in September. We cannot wait to welcome them into their next chapter!

• We are so proud to share that Target Marketing and Communications Inc. campaign for our school, "What Did You Learn Today?" was awarded the 2024 Pinnacle Award of Excellence. How amazing is that! Thank you, Target!

• Our Kindergarten students celebrated their big graduation day, and made some sweet memories with their fellow classmates and families. We are incredibly proud of these little leaners! Grade 1, here they come!

• Grade 6 students celebrated their big win at the Sgt. Geoff Walsh Memorial Baseball Tournament! Thank you to our amazing coaches. Way to go team!

• We celebrated the achievement of our students during our annual award ceremonies. We are proud of so many wonderful accomplishments from our equally wonderful students.

• Our Grade 12 class celebrated the end their grade school years at St. Bon's with many memorable celebrations and events, including a dinner and dance, their Tie Ceremony and Commencement. Our graduating class has been awarded over $70,000 in scholarships with acceptances into post secondary institutions across the country and beyond. Way to go Class of 2024. "Go forth and set the world on fire"!

We warmly wish all our staff, students and families a wonderful and restful summer. Congratulations on all your successes! A special congratulations to our graduates!

Grade 6 students walked across the parking lot to their new academic home at Mullock Hall

President and Head of School, Stephen Handrigan, proudly holding the 2024 Pinnacle Award of Excellence

Introducing the Class of 2037. Way to go, Kindergarten graduates!

Sgt. Geoff Walsh Memorial

Tournament Champions!

We are so proud of our Graduating Class of 2024!

Alumni News

If you have any announcements (such as weddings, births, achievements, notable anniversaries, deaths, etc) please email Dana Norman at dnorman@stbons.ca or call 726-0024 ext 228.