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Hispanic Heritage Month

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Multicultural Parents Group in conjunction with the Multicultural Student Union will be hosting a bi-lingual Hispanic Mass on Thursday, October 28th at 3pm in St. Mary’s Chapel.

Fr. Roberto of La Sagrada Familia along with their chorus has graciously accepted our invitation to celebrate mass with the Saint Ignatius High School community on this day.

Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15, the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries”

Debate team advances to state finals

so close to the finals

After the walk from Parma to Saint John’s Cathedral and back to Saint Ignatius on the Pilgrimage retreat, Cameron Colella ’12 was still able to win the 2nd speaker award at John Carroll University policy debate tournament held on October 15-16, 2010. from a field of 60 debaters.

Cameron and his partner, Jon Dokler ’11 also became the first team this year to advance to the state finals in March.  There were 30 teams from two states in competition.  The top eight teams advance early to the Ohio High School Speech League finals held in March 2011.

Also competing for Saint Ignatius were the teams of Kevin Pucci ’14 and Andrew Beddow ’14, Sean Lavelle ’14 and Kieran Kelly ’13, and Daniel Counihan ’13 and Zachary Leciejewski.  Except for Daniel, for all others this was their first tournament.

"I'm sooo tired. Only 4 more hours."

A Novice Reflection on Policy Debate

New Trier Debate Tournament

By: Daniel Counihan’13

1-5. That was the record at my first ever debate tournament, 1-5. I am a first year debater at the New Trier National Tournament. Now you’re probably wondering why a novice is attending a national tournament. My answer, I have been working on debate since the beginning of the school year and was planning my first tournament to be at the John Carroll University tournament. But I went to room 512 after school as usual for my daily lecture to learn enough varsity theory to attend John Carroll.  As I walked into the room Cameron Colella, a third year junior debater, who attended the University of Michigan debate camp, asks if I can attend New Trier since they needed a forth person and didn’t have anyone else ready. I said I sure and that was that. They told me I would be debating with Ben Griffin a third year senior debater. Over the next few weeks Cameron taught me theory and Jon Dokler, also a senior, wrote updates along with Ben.  I learned as much as I could as fast as I could.

the boys after the storm

The Thursday of departure came and we left school after 5th period walking to the RTA. New Trier is a High School northeast of in Winnetka, Illinois. That night we wrote updates (I just highlighted them) to prepare for tomorrow’s first four of seven preliminary rounds of debate. The first round I was nervous knowing what I had to do but not knowing if I could. The round started at 11 am and Ben and I expectedly got \”schooled”

Wildcat Golfers finish second at Pine Hills

The Wildcat golfers took second place in the district tournament at Pine Hills on Wednesday.  The total was 308 with  scores of 74, 77, 78, 79 (Beau Titsworth and Matt Gerard were low scores respectively).  Christian Wagner and Connor McCafferty both posted scores under 80.

They are heading  Thursday for a practice round at the much ballyhooed Scarlet Course at The Ohio State University.  Friday and Saturday they play 36 holes against the best of the best.  Please give them your support.

Service at St. Herman\’s

Service at St. Herman’s

Thomas King ’13

For over 20 years St. Ignatius High School has been sending students to St. Herman’s House of Hospitality. Founded on September 27, 1977 by Mother Mary Blossom and Father Gregory C. Reynolds, the goal of this Russian Orthodox monastery is to provide food, clothing, and shelter in a safe alcohol and drug free environment to the needy of the Greater Cleveland area. This homeless shelter on Franklin Boulevard has provided an average of 70,000 meals, 1,800 showers, and overnight accommodations for over 11,800 men each year. St. Herman’s also gives out nearly 80,000 food bags of eggs, milk, meat, juice, and bread to over 1,300 mothers and children. This semester, I have had the honor of performing my duties of Sophomore Service at this house.

Once a week, I leave school with fellow students for 4 periods to help out at this extraordinary place. A majority of my time there is spent preparing meals for the lunch hour, often times making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, cutting vegetables, and tossing salads. Cleaning the house by dusting furniture, raking leaves, and washing the picnic tables are also among some of the common household tasks we do. Several times we have carried boxes of donations ranging from food to clothing, much of it coming from local supermarkets and charities. One sight that caught me by surprise was that St. Herman’s wanted us to help load clothes into an Easter Seals truck. This showed how even while accepting donations of their own, they are generous enough to pass on to other charities clothes that they don’t need.

One day they invited us to take a break from our chores and join them in a service said by Father Vladimir Ivanov. It was an interesting experience to watch volunteers, priests, and the guests all come together for an hour to celebrate an Orthodox mass with Father Vladimir.  The guests at St. Herman’s House of Hospitality are more than grateful for our help. I have had many conversations with the people we often see walking on the streets, many of whom regularly stop by to watch our athletic teams’ practices. I am getting to know these people whom we often ignore as we walk downtown, and realizing whom these men and women are and hearing their stories. In one conversation, a man walking past saw the trademark St. Ignatius shirt and tie, looked at me and asked, \”You boys are from that school down the street, uh that St. Ignatius, right?”

Noted Author to Address Students

On Tuesday, October 26, the English Department, as part of English Week and to underscore the school’s \”combating prejudice”

Wildcat Navy at the Head of the Ohio Regatta

The squad had it’s best performance in more than a decade at Saturday’s race.   The novice rowers (those in their first year of rowing), placed 1st and 3rd in the 4-man race, then captured 2nd in the 8-man race.     The varsity fared just as well, taking 1st and 3rd place in the 4-man race and 2nd in the 8-man race, just behind Pittsburgh Central Catholic, the runner up at last year’s national championship regatta.

In addition, the Varsity double won their race, which is a first in our programs history.

All these medal finishes resulted in the Wildcat Navy capturing the overall men’s points trophy – the Dan Thompson Cup – again, a first for the Blue & Gold.

The team now prepared to race in the Youth 8+, Youth 4+, and Youth 2x and the Head of the Charles in Boston on October 24th.   Live results are available at www.hocr.org.   The lads will be racing 70 teams from around the world.   The school is hosting a travels with the cat event on race day in Boston as well, so we hope to see any SIHS alumni and friends while we’re in beantown.

Verbatim

“The tragedies that have challenged our school community in the last year have shown what faith and love can do in the face of despair. It is as much in suffering and death as it is in life and love that we are united.”

Mr. John Jarc, posted on Adam Grodzik’s Facebook memorial page.

Cruciverbalia

Download this issue’s cruciverbalia

The solution can be found here: Sept-Crossword-key.jpg

6th Floor Pool by Chris Koehler ’13

What the faculty are dressing up as this year for Halloween

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