There’s a plethora of activities surrounding St. Benedict’s Commencement – from the inaugural Senior Awards Dinner for the Girls Prep Division on Wednesday (June 3) and culminating Sunday with the 147th graduation ceremony for the Boys Prep Division. Read about those two events and everything else surrounding a memorable year on so many fronts here at The Hive.
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A huge THANK YOU goes out to everyone who participated in our “Best of Benedict’s,” a special three-day event that celebrated Students, Faculty and Alumni and raised over $700,000 to support The Hive. If you didn’t have a chance to participate, there’s still time to make a gift before the end of our fiscal year (June 30) by clicking this link.
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Preparing for – and completing – a “Trail” to remember! Despite a record number of students hiking the Appalachian Trail, and in the midst of a world-wide pandemic, no project seems too daunting for the students or adults of our community. Click here to read more.
The Hive held its first in-person Convocation since the shutdown in March of 2020 due to the pandemic. The Hive has produced and broadcasted Convo virtually to all students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends since March 16, 2020 – three days after the shutdown on Friday, March 13, 2020. On-site Convo was held on the Upper Field at School – the first time our morning gathering was held outside – and delivered over our YouTube Channel, something we plan to continue once things return to normal for Summer Phase. Click here to watch.
St Benedict's Spring Phase Course, "Real Men Cook," was featured last week on the TV Program Daily Mail on New York’s WPIX Network (Channel 11 locally). Click here to watch.
Stage Rage – The theatrical/therapeutic Spring Phase project, which helps students give voice to their personal traumatic experiences, gave its first performance with our Middle Division students and faculty as the audience last Friday. Click here for more details and photos.
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The Gray Bees Garden – Soil to Plate – has been in existence for the past 11 years teaching students during Spring Phase to appreciate and grow vegetables for the school and monastic communities. They will be selling their produce online by clicking here and scrolling down to the Gray Bee Garden.
St. Benedict's Literary magazine, The Kayrix, is amplifying the voices of our students through poetry, essays, short stories, photography, and fine art. All submissions can be viewed on The Kayrix website, which started this year.
New Jersey’s First Lady, Tammy Murphy, wife of Gov. Phil Murphy, paid a visit to The Hive on Friday, May 22, where she spoke to the Girls Prep Division students. “Whatever career you pursue in the future. Wherever life leads you. I hope that you will stay engaged. I hope that you will find ways to speak out and use the skills and values that you’ve learned here at St. Benedict’s,” said Mrs. Murphy.
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Our “Best of Benedict’s” celebration wrapped up with a salute to our Alumni with a Virtual Reunion. The evening started with a number of virtual breakout rooms before everyone came together in one place and enjoyed more than an hour of discussions and laughs with Fr. Edwin.
Have you downloaded your custom Gray Bee Zoom/Google Meet background yet? Choose from over 20 images, including the ones made by our own photographer extraordinaire Mike Scanlan H’97. Click this link to see all our background images. Then click the download button below your photo of choice, and right click to save image(s).
Miami Heat’s Precious Achiuwa, who was at St. Benedict’s for two years, where he flourished on the court and in the classroom, is featured in a mini-documentary by his NBA team. The Nigerian-born Achiuwa was drafted 20th by Miami in the first round of last year's NBA Draft and has enjoyed success during his rookie season.
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Turn Yourself In! Have you started a new job, won an award, got married or welcomed a child to your family? We are currently working on the Summer 2021 issue of St. Benedict’s Magazine, so if you have news to share with your classmates, keep us informed. Email your requests to Noreen Connolly H’11 at [email protected] by Wednesday, June 9, to be included in the next issue of our magazine in the Class Notes section.
Don't forget to visit the Gray Bee Shop during the month of June to receive 15% off our Gray Bee hats! Have a June birthday? If you spend $40 or more you will receive a free gift on us. To learn how to claim your free gift, please click here.
St. Benedict’s wins when you use Amazon Smile Program, which is perfect for those of us home-bound and relying on online orders during this pandemic. The Hive participates in Amazon's Smile program. In order to help (at no additional cost to you), go to smile.amazon.com, and when prompted for a charity, enter "St. Benedict's Newark." Then find “St. Benedict's Preparatory School” among the different institutions with similar names to ours. To date, the Amazon Smile program has raised over $4,000 for The Hive.
St. Benedict's continued to offer in-school COVID-19 testing until the end of May. But with the school-year coming to a close on Sunday with Commencement, on-site testing will be suspended. Thanks to everyone who regularly took part in this highly-successful effort, which was coordinated tirelessly by our own Dr. Glenn Cassidy ’90.
Ad Finem: We Are All Coming Back! After a year which forced us to get creative while undergoing some severe challenges due to the pandemic, The Hive will be back for full, in-person learning for all 900-plus students beginning with the first day of Summer Phase on July 26th. Watch video.
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Whatever hurts my brother hurts me.
Whatever hurts my sister hurts me.
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