Saint Mark's High School

 

The team members partnered with students at the school, which serves New Castle County students, ages 3 to 21, who have physical disabilities, moderate to severe intellectual disabilities, or serious health impairments. Together they worked on motor skills as part of the Special Olympics Motor Activities Training Program (MATP), which is designed to prepare athletes with severe or profound intellectual disabilities for sport-specific activities that are appropriate for their ability levels.

Haley Schweizer '13 was named The News Journal's Athlete of the Week this week after breaking the  record for the most career goals by a varsity high school girls’ lacrosse player in the state. Her sister, Courtney ‘09, set the previous record four years ago.

Senior Zachary Boulden has been named as a recipient of the National Merit Scholarship, one of only 2500 awarded directly to candidates from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The Culinary Club held their first Cook-Off competition on Wednesday, May 1. The competitors were tasked with making a main dish of chicken and a chocolate dessert. First place winners were seniors Victoria Bailor and Anh Nguyen, whose Chicken and Prosciutto Ravioli with Marsala sauce and Chocolate Cake Filled with French Chocolate Mousse, covered with a chocolate butter cream frosting, wowed all the judges.

Several Saint Mark's athletes have committed to athletic programs at their college of choice recently.

Many students in the senior class were honored for their leadership this past weekend at the annual Saint Mark's Senior Leadership Mass and Breakfast, held at the school on Sunday, April 28, 2013.

Ten seniors will be recognized at the St. Francis de Sales Awards Convocation, which will be held Thursday, April 25, at Holy Angels Church at 7:00 p.m.

This past Friday, Denis Belliveau, the co-creator of the Emmy nominated documentary, “In the Footsteps of Marco Polo," spoke to freshmen and sophomore students at saint Mark’s about the making of his incredible film and the impact history has made on his career.

Patrick Boland ’13 will perform with the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) All-Eastern Honors Ensemble as a member of the mixed chorus. Boland will sing in the bass section to an audience of thousands on Sunday, April 7, 2013, at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Mortensen Hall, in Hartford, Connecticut.

The Saint Mark’s Odyssey of the Mind team will participate in the 33^rd Annual State Finals competition, which will be held on Saturday, March 23 at Smyrna High School. The team hopes to qualify for the World Finals competition as they did last year. This year’s participants include seniors Carly Alexander, Krissy Giles, Victoria Sanchez, and Patrick Cullington, junior Tyler Apostolico, sophomore Ellen Yun, and freshman Michael Evers.

Saint Mark's was awarded second place this week in the SmartDrive PROMise campaign, which was promoted by the Saint Mark’s Students Against Destructive Decisions/Youth to Eliminate Loss of Life (SADD/YELL) Club. The campaign, which aims to help reduce automotive accidents caused by poor decision making, rewards schools and their students with the greatest number of signatures with funds for prom or for the school. This was the first year for the campaign.

Congratulations to Maureen Donovan ’83 and John Gordon ’95, who were inducted into the Delaware Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, March 16. The induction ceremony was held at the Bob Carpenter Center in Newark. Both Donovan and Gordon had fantastic careers at Saint Mark’s and beyond.

Saint Mark’s will host its 26th Annual Catholic and Private Elementary School Science Olympiad on Saturday, March 23, 2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Teams of students in fourth, fifth and sixth grades will compete in many exciting events over the course of the day. Medals are awarded for the top five placed teams, but the focus of the day is to promote an interest in science for young students and to encourage participation and learning.

Saint Mark’s Blue-Gold Club kicked off Blue-Gold Week with the 27th Annual Fashion Show this past weekend. The week is a concentration of the club’s year-round efforts to raise awareness and funds for both the Delaware Foundation Reaching Citizens with Intellectual disABILITIES (DFRC) and the Saint Mark's High School Blue/Gold Scholarship Fund.

A Saint Mark's alumnus was recently chosen to represent the spirit of Penn State University as the Nittany Lion mascot.

Vanderbilt University informed senior Zach Boulden last week that he will receive the very prestigious Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship, a full-tuition scholarship to Vanderbilt, if he is to attend the school next school year.

Three seniors have been designated as National Merit Finalists and will now be moving on for consideration as Scholars. Zachary Boulden, Christina Fei and Daniel Gildea were in the top one percent of the nearly one million juniors who took the PSAT last year and are are now closer to receiving a National Merit Scholarship.

Saint Mark’s senior Zachary Boulden was presented with the Delaware Better Business Bureau’s Student Ethics Scholarship on Thursday, February 28, 2013.

Several Saint Mark’s students were honored for their performance on the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) test, administered on Friday, February 5, 2013. The top 20 math students from each grade were invited to take the challenging test, which has two forms for high school students to take based on their grade level.

Saint Mark's English teacher Leslie Healey will be a presenter at the 2012 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention, which takes place beginning this weekend in Las Vegas, NV.

Bishop Francis Malooly and several members of the clergy from around the Diocese celebrated Mass with the Saint Mark's community today to commemorate the opening of the 2012-2013 school year and to bless the newly renovated entryway.

Katelyn Falgowski '07, member of the U.S. Olympic field hockey team, and her sister Kerry '01, visited Saint Mark's yesterday as the special guests at the Back to School faculty luncheon to visit the place that she says helped to shape her career as an athlete and as a person.

The varsity girls’ volleyball team has recently been honored as a recipient of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Team Academic Award for the 2011-2012 season. The team is one of only 198 high school girls’ teams in the country to receive this award.

Senior Missy Matsanka ’13 has been named one of the 2012 Young Environmentalists of the Year by Delaware Division of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for her organization and operation of a recycling program at Holy Angels School in Newark.