News from the Guidance and Counseling Center
By Mrs. Anne Hagen, MSW, LCSW
All students in the class of 2009 should return to school in August with names of two to five colleges to which they will apply for admission. If you need assistance with this process, please call or email Mrs. Hagen soon so you have most of the summer to prepare. You will also be expected to take the ACT for your best score on September 13, 2008. You must register for this ACT by August 12, 2008 at www.act.org.
Have a great summer and please contact me as needed over the summer.
Message from the Finance Office
By Mrs. Lisa Sieve
Tuition for the 2008-2009 school year is $7,850.00. If you have elected to pay directly to school, either once a year or by the semester, those payments are due by July 31, 2008. Remember to mark your calendars because tuition statements will not be issued until sometime in August. Families paying the entire amount by check prior to July 31, 2008, are entitled to $100.00 early pay discount. Please deduct this amount before submitting your payment. Payments received by us after July 31, 2008, do not qualify for the discount. Prepayments for tuition can also be made beginning as early as June by mailing payments to St. Elizabeth Academy. Please mark your envelopes "ATTN: FINANCE OFFICE".
During the summer months, I will be available to assist you in any way that I can. Notification letters regarding scholarships, financial aid, and any other tuition deduction will be sent by Sr. Lorraine during the month of June. Parents should begin budgeting now for those expenses coming up on Book Day, August 13, 2008. Books will not be issued until full payment is received for books and fees. If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Sieve.
St. Elizabeth Academy 2007-2008 Annual Fund
By: Mrs. Celeste Marx
Annual Fund and Major Gift Director
As we approach the end of our fiscal year, June 30, 2008, we thank the parents, faculty, staff, alumnae, board of directors and friends for their participation in the St. Elizabeth Academy Annual Fund. These gifts significantly impact our students and help us fulfill our mission of developing the success woman inside each girl that attends St. Elizabeth Academy.
Participation in the Annual Fund serves as a visible vote of confidence in the mission of St. Elizabeth Academy. Every check we receive contributes to the countless opportunities our students receive at SEA. To date, we have received in excess of $105,000 in gifts toward our $110,000 Annual Fund Goal. If you have not made your 2007-2008 Annual Fund Gift, please consider making it prior to June 30th. The Annual Fund is the best way possible way to make a difference in the future of St. Elizabeth Academy. Whether your gift is $10 or $10,000 it is important that it be made.
Annual SEA Golf Tournament, July 18
Join us for a day of golf at the new Norman K. Probstein Golf Course at Forest Park. The day will begin with coffee & donuts at 7:00 AM. Play will begin with a shotgun start at 8:00 AM and will conclude with lunch at the Clubhouse at approximately 1:00 PM. The registration fee of $100.00 per player includes: green fees, carts, breakfast, lunch, gifts and prizes. Non-golfers are invited to join us for lunch. A lunch reservation may be made for $20.00 a person. Please join parents, alums and friends for a fun-filled day at Forest Park. Please see the golf brochure for registration on our Golf Tournament page or contact Sharon Stockmann for additional information.
If you are not a golfer, please support the SEA Golf Tournament as a volunteer, with a sponsorship or send a silent auction item. Call Sharon Stockmann to volunteer. See the brochure for sponsorship information on our Golf Tournament page. It is an affordable way to advertise and support our school. Please consider donating or soliciting silent auction items for our golfers. Suggested items would include: gift certificates, golf clothing, golf equipment or a specialty item from your company. We are beginning to receive a variety of items from our vendors and friends. To date we have the following sponsors:
Title Sponsor
First Bank
Lunch Underwriter
Richard E. Bank
Attorney at Law
Beverage Cart Sponsors
Food Service Consultants
Four Paws Animal Hospital
Berger Devine Yaeger
Putting Contest Sponsor
Tom and Meg Maher
Hole Sponsors
Bob Bauer
Biggies Restaurant
Commerce Bank
Gateway ProClean
Kate and Tom Gunn
Kuehnlein & Kuehnlein, LLC
Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of O'Fallon
The Trim Shop Joy Cain '65 & Doe Laurenti '64
Weiss & Associates, P.C.
PARENT ASSOCIATION NEWS
"Thank you" to retiring officers, Mrs.Therese Fenske and Mrs. Therese Syberg who were honored at the Spring Concert on May 6, 2008. SEA Parent Association Officers for the 2008-2009 school year are:
Mrs. JoAnn Gallen, President
Mrs. Peggy Schmitz, President Elect
Mrs. Sheree Pope, Secretary
Mrs. Karen Strebler, Treasurer
Thanks to Mrs. JoAnn Gallen, Mrs. Sheri Pope and Mrs. Peggy Schmitz for making all the faculty and staff feel like "STARS" at the Appreciation Luncheon. It was a wonderful luncheon catered by Helen Fitzgerald's Irish Grill and Pub, a Syberg's establishment. Thank you to Mrs. Jan Booth, who created star centerpieces which included colorful plants. Each teacher received a colorfully wrapped Blockbuster Gift Card with a package of popcorn. Mr. Sebastian was honored and thanked as a retiring teacher. Faculty, staff, and parents spent time conversing and felt very appreciated.
Please continue to use you Schnuck's Community Card each time you buy groceries during the summer as this donation to the SEA Parent Association really adds up. Schnucks has given over $1000 this year to the SEA Parent Association.
27th Annual Dinner Auction
March 7, 2009
Mark your calendars - The St. Elizabeth Academy Auction 2009 is scheduled for March 7, 2009. Co-Chairmen for Auction 2009 are Junior parents, Anne & Sam Scherer and Carol & Joe Herber who have graciously volunteered to lead the auction again. They have brought some interesting and successful changes to our auction which they will expand this coming year. SEA has been blessed with wonderful parent support of our auction in past years. Parent ideas, volunteer efforts and willingness to request auction items, makes our auction a great success. Auction planning continues throughout the summer. If you have a special interest in chairing a committee for 2009, know of a special donor that should be contacted, or have corporate contacts that would be interested in underwriting a part of the auction, contact Mrs. Stockmann in the Advancement Office.
Art Department Request
By Mrs. Patti Siegel, Art Teacher
The Art Department is looking for the lids to plastic gallon ice cream containers because they make great palettes for acrylic paint. We will also use the bucket if you are just going to throw it away, but the lid is of special interest. Thanks!
SEA Musician Chosen for All-State Band
Congratulations to St. Elizabeth Academy Freshman Candace White for being selected to participate the 2008 Missouri Lions All-State Band. Candace, who plays the alto saxophone, will participate in the Band Camp at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Then the band will tour selected sites throughout the state of Missouri. The band will conclude their performances by participating in the July 4 VP Parade in downtown St. Louis. On July 26, the Missouri Lions All-State Band will perform at the All-Star Football Game at Warrensburg, MO. The St. Elizabeth Academy Orchestra and Jazz Band is conducted by Mr. Terry Sebastian. Look for the article about Candace in the Suburban Journal in June.
Award Winning SEA Musicians
With Mr. Terry Sebastian
Class of 2008 Graduation
St. Elizabeth Academy Graduation was held on May 19, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Pius V Church on South Grand. The ceremony was elegant with the students in their white robes, mortarboards and forget-me-knot bouquets. The faculty dressed in their black robes and hoods representing their degrees and schools of graduation. The SEA Chorus, under the direction of Mr. Harkey and accompanied by Sr. Marilyn Schneider, CPPS, sang a farewell blessing for the graduates. Guest Speaker, Ms. Kacie Starr Triplett '98, Alderwoman of the 6th Ward told graduates to work fiercely toward their goals and congratulated them on their graduation from St. Elizabeth Academy.
Kathryn Nickell is valedictorian and Kasia Polanska is salutatorian of the Class of 2008. Sarah Howard-Willms is the recipient of this year's Archbishop May Award and the SEA Bread and Roses Award was earned by Margaret O'Brien. Congratulations to all graduates on achieving their goal and the best of wishes as they go on to college.
WELCOME NEW SEA PARENTS!!
If you are new to St. Elizabeth Academy, please mark your calendar for the NEW PARENT DINNER hosted by the SEA Parent Association on Thursday, August 21, 2008. You will receive an invitation in the mail in early August. Please come to the dinner to meet the sisters, faculty, staff, board members and other parents. SEA welcomes you!
St. Elizabeth Academy Welcomes Mike Shannon
The Voice of the St. Louis Cardinals, Mr. Mike Shannon, expressed his heartfelt gratitude as the officers of the St. Elizabeth Academy Wellness Club presented him with a $1,000.00 check, in memory of his late wife, Mrs. Judy Shannon on April 16, 2008.
Each year the students of St. Elizabeth Academy focus on one of the core values of their sponsors, the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of O'Fallon, Missouri. This year the focus was hospitality. Throughout the school year, St. Elizabeth Academy students sought opportunities within and outside of school to extend hospitality and service to others. The Academy's Wellness Club sponsored a Penny Challenge and in keeping with the theme of hospitality decided that the proceeds should be directed toward a service project.
Mrs. Patricia McLaughlin Bolling, the 1989 St. Elizabeth Academy Distinguished Alumna, and former member of St. Elizabeth Academy's Board of Directors, accompanied Mike on his visit to St. Elizabeth Academy. Mrs. Bolling and Mrs. Judy Shannon were best friends. The presentation was made in honor of that very special friendship, in honor of all those who have waged their war with cancer, and in honor of the life of Judy Shannon and all those she touched with her love, friendship and hospitality.
In Memory of
Sister Margaret Brady, CPPS
1926 -2008
Sister Margaret had a special place in her heart for St. Elizabeth Academy where, in addition to teaching English, she gave her tireless efforts for 6 years as Principal, 10 years as Director of Development, and 2 years as Director of Alumnae. Her boundless energy and hard work evidenced the gift of herself to the school she loved. In recognition for her 23 years of dedicated service to "Lizzies", the Alumnae Association presented Sister Margaret with the Distinguished Honorary Alumnae Award in 1996. She spoke about her memories of SEA at the 100th anniversary celebration of the St. Elizabeth Academy Alumnae Association in 2007.
Since Sister Margaret donated her body to St. Louis University School of Medicine, there was no wake. An Evening Prayer Service of Thanksgiving with sharing of memories was held on Friday, May 30, 2008, and a Memorial Mass was celebrated by many at the Motherhouse in O'Fallon on Saturday, May 31, 2008. She has molded St. Elizabeth Academy in many ways over time and we are grateful for her dedication.
SEA Mission Statement
St. Elizabeth Academy, a private Catholic girls' college preparatory high school, sponsored by the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of O'Fallon, Missouri, makes academic success an attainable goal for girls who have a wide range of abilities and come from diverse backgrounds. The religious atmosphere, the caring community, and a challenging individualized curriculum enable students to become well-educated, self-confident Christian women in a global society.
Summer Construction - New Chemistry and Physics Classrooms Coming August 2008!
