St. C's Class of 2009 returns

Tonight Mrs. Loeffler and Mrs English hosted a party for our Class of 2009 to catch up with them before they soon graduate from High School.

As they arrived, our alumni got to put a marble in the jar to signify their first grade class.

 Here are the former 1A students.

Here are the former 1B students.

It was Mrs. Tanner who had the most former students attend.

Thank you to all of you for visiting.

It was good to catch up.

God bless you as you move

 forward in your lives!

Back in the Day

It seems like yesterday that these young ladies were in First Grade. It's hard to believe they will soon be graduating from High School.

Mrs. Loeffler and Mrs. English have invited the girls and boys who were in St. Columbkille Catholic School's class of 2009 to the an alumni party at 6:00 p.m. Sunday, April 21st in the Social Level of our church. They're anxious to see many of their former students.

Homecoming Court at Gross High School

Emily Fanslau, Nate Crnkovich, Natalie Henton, Sarah Watson, Matthew Herting, Noah Fanslau, & Sydney Krist are all alumni of St. Columbkille Catholic School. Saturday night the three seniors and four sophomores were part of the Homecoming Court at Gross Catholic High School.

Senior  cousins Emily & Nate were

 coronated Homecoming Queen and King.

Congratulations to all of you!

National Honor Society

This morning, Gross Catholic High School held their National Honor Society induction ceremony. Junior and senior students are selected based on their merit in Scholarship, Service, Character and Leadership. We were delighted to have 15 of our Alumni inducted this morning.

Congratulations!

Visiting for Catholic Schools Week

Our alumni helped kick off Catholic

Schools Week by gathering today.

Sr. Delores Dolezal who taught at St. Columbkille
Catholic School from 1980 to 1987 was here.

Sr. Delores was delighted to see three of

her former students who all teach now.

It was fun to gather and remember.

The Benedictines are Coming

Sr. Delores Dolezal, OSB and some of her students

It was the Benedictine Sisters from Atchinson, Kansas who provided all of the teachers in our school when it began in 1916. The first lay teacher was hired in 1962 and Sr. Delores was one of the last two Benedictine teachers in 1987.

Sister Delores, Sister Judy Sutera, OSB and Sister Barbara Smith will be here next Sunday. There will be two events on Sunday, then they will visit with the students in our school on Monday. Ther Sunday events are:

2:00 "Benedictine Education: Then and Now" a presentation by Sr. Judy Sutera, OSB in the Steinhausen Center

3:00 A gathering of Alumni in the school

95 Years of School at St. Columbkille

Our parish school was formally founded on February 24, 1916. In August the Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kansas arrived to teach, but the school wasn't done yet. They began classes in the church where students would sit on kneelers and use the pews as desks. October 12, 1916 was the first day of classes in the completed building.

 Some of our alumni returned Sunday to celebrate 95 years.

 

 Even the most recent alumni noticed changes.

Members of the Student Council gave tours. Dr. Cheryl Blue, our principal, was on hand to hear about the past and chat about the present and future.

It was great to gather. We realized we'll need to

start planning for the 100 year celebration in 2016.

Mandolfo Named MVC Defensive Player of the Week

Creighton sophomore Julianne Mandolfo has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Week after averaging 6.86 digs and 0.29 aces per set in two matches last weekend. This is the second honor in three weeks for Mandolfo, who earned similar recognition on October 3rd.

The St. Columbkille product began her weekend with a match-best 21 digs in Creighton’s 3-1 win over Bradley, which moved her from 12th to 10th in school history for career digs. Mandolfo leads the MVC with 5.85 digs per set, a figure that ranks among the top-10 averages nationally.

Congratulations Julianne!

Picture Day

In honor of picture day at St. Columbkille Catholic School today, the alumni Facebook site has posted some class pictures from the 1982-1983 school year.

Take a look and tag them if you know them.

Old Files

In the process of cleaning out the parish basement for future Dead Theologian Society meetings, some boxes of old school records were found and given to Mrs. Overkamp at the school.

Some of the records go back to 1919. Above are how some of the records were kept before later types of filing were used.
All of the early teachers were nuns. Above you can see how everything was hand written including the teacher's name on the top and the end of the year remarks on the right.

There were also numerous newspaper clippings including the pages from the Papillion Times when they used to print a photo of each 8th grader who was graduating that year.

This is some great information to have as the school would like to do a better job of keeping track of, and reaching out to, alumni.