Gold Cup Ticket Blitz

Last Friday, we asked all students to play a part in our Gold Cup Raffle. We asked each student to send the text shown below to 5 people in their contact list, preferably grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other adults. If the Blitz leads to 300 tickets sold between March 28 and April 7, the entire school will receive a DRESS DOWN WEEK for April 22-25. To date, we've sold 148 tickets toward our goal of 300.

Please help grow our Gold Cup Raffle and encourage your student to follow-up with those they contacted or send it to additional people you know. All proceeds from the Gold Cup go directly to support positive student outcomes in our school!

Initial Text Shared

Hi, this is _____________ with Gross Catholic High School. Our student body is working to reach a goal of selling 300 Gold Cup Raffle Tickets by April 7th to earn a full week of Dress Down Days! Click cougar.family/cb41raffle to help us reach our goal! Thank you for supporting Gross Catholic!

Follow-up Text

This is _________ again from Gross Catholic. If you responded to my text from last Friday, THANK YOU! If you have not yet responded, there is still time to get your Gold Cup Raffle ticket. We are halfway to our goal of 300 tickets and hope to earn those Dress Down Days! Click cougar.family/cb41raffle to help us reach our goal! Thank you for supporting Gross Catholic!

Dux Esto,

Mark McNamara ('90)

Vice President of Advancement

We are half way there!

Help us get to the Finish Line!

Friday, April 4 -

--10:30AM Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mass

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Monday, April 7 -

--Lunch: Donohue's $6 cash

Tuesday, April 8 -

--Lunch: Donohue's $6 cash

--6:45-7:00pm check-in for Family Spirit Challenge at the Varsity Baseball Game



Wednesday, April 9 -

--Lunch: Donohue's $6 cash

Thursday, April 10 -

--Lunch: Chick-Fil-A $6 cash or venmo (preorder by Tuesday)

Friday, April 11 - Mass

--Lunch: Valentino's Cheese Pizza $6 cash

Saturday, April 12 -

--7:00PM Prom at Millard Social Hall

SAVE THE DATE

April 15 - 6:00pm Board of Director Meeting

April 16 - Cougar Cup Day

April 17 thru April 22 - No School, Easter Break

Office Notes:

Thank you to those who have purchased your Gold Cup Raffle Ticket(s). Order forms were mailed to homes the first week of February. Additional forms can be picked up at the school's advancement office, Room 201.

If raffle tickets are purchased online please email lprivitera@gcgmail.org with your and your student's name to make sure you receive credit.

RSVP Deadline for Celebration 41 Event Tickets is April 15th!

Grab some friends and join us for an exciting night at The Cougar Derby.

Admissions Update

If you did not receive an email from FACTS about your tuition plan being added, that means that you still need to complete the re-enrollment process. Your tuition plan can be added in FACTS once that step has been completed.

To access the FACTS Family Portal:

• --Please go to https://gross-ne.client.renweb.com/pwr/
• --District code: gross-ne
• --Type in your username and password. If you have forgotten your username or password, please click on the link provided.
• --After logging in, click on Apply/Enroll in the left menu.
• --Click on the Enrollment/Reenrollment link.

**If you are not able to pay the $350 registration fee right now, please complete everything else on the packet and save it prior to paying. As long as you get past the payment plan set-up, we will be able to enter your tuition plan in FACTS. 

Please reach out to Admissions Director, Ryan Larson at larson@gcgmail.org if you have any questions.

Campus Ministry

***Cougar Cup Field Day is Wednesday, April 16th. All students will need to wear their House shirt that day. If your child has lost or outworn his/her shirt, new shirts are available for purchase in Campus Ministry. Shirts are $15.

This year's Cougar Cup Field Day lunch will be a bit different. 

Next week, Tuesday-Friday, you can pre-purchase a Field Day meal for $8. Lunch sales will take place in Campus Ministry all day long next week. You MUST pre-purchase your meal or brown bag (no microwaves!) your lunch on Field Day!

Here are the details:

*Option 1 - Panda Express bowl with chow mein, choice of 1 entree, fortune cookie, and Fat Boy ice cream sandwich.

• Orange chicken
• Beef and Broccoli
• Teriyaki Chicken
• Green Bean Chicken
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*Option 2 - 3 pieces of Casey's pizza and a Fat Boy ice cream sandwich. All slices of pizza must be the same flavor!

• Sausage Breakfast pizza
• Taco pizza
• Cheese pizza
• Pepperoni pizza

All meal options are $8 each. There are no substitutions or variations. No late sales will be allowed. All lunches need to be purchased by 12:30 PM on Friday, April 11.

Newman Night Returns! Open to all high schoolers in the Omaha archdiocese, this event is a chance to hang out with over 100 other high school students and get a taste of what ministry in college looks like. Come to the St. John Paul II Newman Center on Wednesday, April 30, for adoration, games, talks from Newman Center students, and some fun treats. 

***If we get a group of GC students who are interested in attending, I think it could be cool to meet at Gross at 5 PM for dinner and then carpool to the Newman Center. Please check your calendar and let Mrs. Sweetmon know if you are interested. msweetmon@gcgmail.org 

Counselor's Corner

***Senior Parents:  Recognition Day is scheduled for April 29th at 9:00 am.  All parents and families are invited to join us for this event. At this ceremony, we honor the senior class and other students for their many accomplishments. One of the things we do is recognize seniors for scholarships earned. In order for us to recognize students in this way, we need to be informed of scholarships earned. It is the student's responsibility to bring in scholarship award letters or forward scholarship award emails to the counseling office. The deadline for scholarships to be included in the Recognition Day program is April 9th. Students should notify the counseling office of any and all awarded scholarships regardless of whether or not they are accepting them. Please have students check any and all student portals at the schools they applied to for possible scholarships.

Announcing the 2025 Prom Court

Front row (left to right): Anna Rice, Ava Puentes, Mae Peters, Marie Brousek, Grace Wozniak, Laura Alvey, Hannah Marie Payumo, Sienna Miller

Back row (left to right): Carson Kozeal, Taylor Ross, Robert Greenhagen, Alex Cogswell, Josh Jansen, Cooper Capece, Ryan Stuhr, Dut Akot

Info for Parents about Prom 2025:

Doors open at 7:00

Coronation is at 8:00 (Parents are welcome to attend)

Dance is from 8:30 - 11:00 - If students want to leave before 10:30, parents will be called to give permission. 

Thank you for your support! 

Gross Catholic Booster Club

Did you know that Booster Club membership dues help fund scholarships and grants?! If you are an active Booster Club member and your student is a senior, be sure to remind them to apply for one of the Booster Club-Sponsored Class of 2025 Scholarships! If you are an active Booster Club member and your student is a freshman, sophomore, or junior, remind them to apply for the Booster Club-Sponsored Classes of 2026-2028 Scholarships! Applications have the criteria and both have due dates of April 15th.  

Thanks to all that attended the March 26th Booster Club General Meeting! Our last one of the school year will be on Wednesday, May 14th in the Media Center. We'll be starting a little earlier, at 6pm instead of 630pm, based on the agenda and having pizza! Join us to hear from the coaches/moderators who were awarded this year's funds and to vote for our new officers. All are welcome, members and non-members.