Bishop Gorman High School, Sharing The Pride newsletter April 2016 issue

Volume 22

Issue 6

April 2016

5 th State Title in a row The winter sports season has come to a close. Our teams all experienced a great deal of success, bringing home individual awards, national rankings, league and regional titles, an individual State Wrestling Championship, and a Nevada record setting 5th Straight State Title in Men’s Basketball.

The men’s basketball team finished the season strong by capturing the State Championship title in Reno, NV. In the State Tournament, the Gaels had big wins over Reno High School in the semi-finals and Coronado High School in the finals. It was the 5th State Championship in a row for the team and the 7th in the last 8 years. This was the 18th State Championship for the men’s basketball team at Bishop Gorman, breaking the all-time Nevada Record. Several individuals received awards during the year. Jamal Bey ’18, Byron Frohnen ’16, Ryan Kiley ’17, and Travis Rice ’16 were all named to the Sunset Southwest All-League team. Chuck O’Bannon ’17, Christian Popoola ’17, and Zach Collins ’16 were all named to the Sunset Division 1st Team. Zach Collins was named the Sunset Division MVP as well as being named to the prestigious 24-man McDonald’s All American roster.

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Gaels Theatre Guild Celebrates Successful Winter Season!

Our vocal, theatre and musical theatre program had a busy third quarter of accomplishments starting with our tour of the Mini Musical: Mary Poppins which visited all the elementary schools in the Diocese; the Southern Nevada Regionals Competition where all our 23 thespians advanced to the State Competition; the Catholic Schools Mass at the Guardian Angel Cathedral At the Knight of the Gael performance where the Worship Chamber Musicians participated in the music ministry; the Unifieds College Auditions where several Class of 2016 thespians were offered acceptance into university theatre programs, and our BIG Winter Musical, The Music Man, with the first ever live students orchestra, to the delight of audiences for two weekends in a row.

We immediately stepped into fourth quarter with a performance at the Knight of the Gael.

Class of 2016 students: Grant Gatski and Mia Richard with Class of 2017 students: Ria Joshi, William Reilly, Daniel Shim and Emily Sullivan presented an original musical review created

by Elena Ferrante-Martin and Michael Martin entitled, Songs from the Swing Era. Class of 2016 student, Olivia Cerza, was the student stage manager and technician for the performance.

Guitar Jam! Wednesday, April 6

6:OOpm Jim3 House of Performing Arts Theatre

Summer Enrichment 2016

Registration is going on now! visit: www.bishopgorman.org

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Administration

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Campus Ministry

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Athletics | Activities

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Gael Pride

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Academics

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Advancement

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Bishop Gorman High School

Diocese of Las Vegas

Administration

From the Desk of Dean Anderson, Class of 2018 Dean

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art of the mission statement for Bishop Gorman contains the words “create a community where service is valued and celebrated.” This year the Class of 2018 instituted Sophomore Saturdays. The main goal was to provide sophomores who don’t drive with the opportunity for service hours with their Dean and other responsible adults acting as chaperones. It helped to create a bond, as well as a safe environment for service.

A large number of service opportunities involved working with the Salvation Army serving the community meals twice a month. Many students repeated their service every other week and I hope they continue over the summer as there is a great need for help serving food to the homeless.

Additionally, our students worked on Coats for Kids and the Christmas Toy Giveaway. For this event, students acted as personal shoppers and shopped with parents for their children. Many of our students wore Santa hats and embraced the long hours restocking and shopping.

Activities with the Salvation Army also included taking inventory of donations, as well as unloading boxes of food from vehicles arriving from their food drives.

Finance News

TUITION PAYMENTS

We are nearing the end of the tuition billing cycle for this school year. In accordance with the school’s policy, tuition for the 2015-2016 academic year must be paid in full by April 30, 2016. Please be aware that transcripts and grades cannot be released until your student’s account is current. If you have any questions regarding your student’s account, please contact Vanessa Orozco at 702.476.4023.

TUITION ASSISTANCE

You can still apply for tuition assistance for the 2016-2017 school year by visiting our website, www.bishopgorman.org, where there is a link to Smart Aid under the Admissions tab. Submit your application, pay the required fee online and send them the necessary documents. Please be aware that your application must be verified by Smart Aid before your application can be reviewed by the Tuition Assistance Committee. Returning families must re-apply for tuition assistance each year.

Besides working with the Salvation Army, Sophomore Saturdays also included work with the Alzheimer’s Walk, the Douglas J Green Memorial Foundation, and Best Buddies. Our final project for the year will be working with Three Square, sorting canned goods.

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ervice hours are required for all students in order to graduate.

The Class of 2016 needed to turn in their 100 hours already in order to participate in any senior activities, including Prom and the Senior Trip to Disneyland.

The Class of 2017 should have 75 hours and the Class of 2018 needs 50 verified hours by the return to school in August.

Please note that parking spaces on campus will be assigned first to those students who are current with their service hour requirement.

It is our hope, through their experiences at Bishop Gorman, that service to others will become an important part of the lives of every student.

Irene Anderson Sophomore Dean

Mr. Barbara is back in 3, 2, 1 Since late December, the BGTV Studios looked a little different at Bishop Gorman. Our Broadcasting teacher, Mr. Joe Barbara, has been on hiatus working on a special project for his other career.

Mr. Barbara, who stars nightly in the Tony Award–winning musical Jersey Boys, was on the East Coast appearing in the world premiere of A Bronx Tale: The Musical, at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ. This brand new project is based on the 1993 movie A Bronx Tale, starring Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri who co-directed and served as producer for the musical respectively. The musical played to sold-out audiences for 4 ½ weeks and received glowing reviews, even from the New York Times.

With such a star-studded creative team, Mr. Barbara said he was honored to be asked to be a part of the production. “It was an incredibly fulfilling experience.”

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Gael Pride

Speech Debate

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CCSD Guitar Festival The BGHS Guitar Ensemble performed for the first time ever at The CCSD Guitar Festival. This non-competitive event featured most of the school guitar ensembles from around the Las Vegas area. The students performed and participated in a clinic after the performance. Our group received an Excellent rating!!!

On March 11-12, the Speech and Debate team competed in Elko, NV at the State Tournament. Hunter Manz ’18 took First Place in Informative Speaking, while the Speech and Debate team took the State Cup in Informative Speaking.

Congratulations Gaels!

Additionally, Isabella Riezler ’16 was a Semi-Finalist in Congressional Debate.

Congratulations!

THEATRE, continued from front page.

On March 10, 11, and 12, Gaels Theatre Guild students were victorious at the Nevada State Thespians Competition. The following events and students have qualified to represent the State of Nevada at the National Competition in June: SOLO MUSICAL THEATRE: Samantha Colwell ’17 with I Don’t Know What I’d Do Without You; Ria Joshi ’17 with With You; Mikayla Kelly ’18 with I Speak Six Languages; Emily Roach ’17 with A Part of That; Emily Sullivan ’17 with Disneyland. ACTING: CONTRASTING MONOLOGUES: Sage DeFreitas ’17 with Sylvia & MacBeth; Jeweli Esparza-Fernandez ’16 with Greater Tuna & Spoon River Anthology; Carrie Letelier ’17 with Brighton Beach Memoirs & Love’s Labour’s Lost; ACTING: DUO SCENE: Sage DeFreitas & Grant Gatski ’16 with Almost Maine; ACTING: GROUP SCENE: Jeweli Esparza-Fernandez, Emily Roach & Emily Sullivan with Steel Magnolias.

The BGHS Mock Trial Team did an excellent job this year culminating in the State Competition where they finished as runner up. Team moderator, Mr. Kevin Nixon, commended the students saying “This team did an incredible job, and exemplified great team work.”

Due to Carrie Letelier’s perfect score for ACTING: CONTRASTING MONOLOGUES, she was not only showcased at the closing ceremony but received a $750 scholarship to use at the International Thespian Festival. It was also a big night for Jeweli Esparza-Fernandez. Jeweli received a $1,000 scholarship to her future university due to her Blue Ribbon Awarded Portfolio for TECHNICAL THEATRE STAGE MANAGEMENT. Additionally, Jeweli received the Best Thespian Award for Bishop Gorman High School.

The Mock Trial team consisted of the following students: Morgan Cook ’17, Brianna Dougherty ’17, Jessica Goodman ’17, Brevin Mixon ’17, Jack Silvestri ’17, Samantha Stanfill ’16, and were led by Team Captain Aidan Kennelley ’16.

We congratulate the entire Mock Trial Team as well as their captain, Aidan Kennelley, who received the coveted Top Attorney Award in the State Competition.

Great Job Gaels!

Congratulations Thespians!

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Campus Ministry

Many Thanks

MITE BOX!

Mr. Nathan Radzak and his first period students are ecstatic over their FIFTH MITE BOX victory!

Bishop Gorman’s baseball team supported the Walk For Wishes and had a fantastic turnout of BG students. Great job, everyone!

Mr. Nathan Radzak and his Junior English class have achieved SIX MITE BOX VICTORIES this year!

“We would like to thank Bishop Gorman High School for organizing such an enthusiastic group to volunteer at Three Square! We appreciate your team contributing time on Tuesday evenings to help sort and sanitize enough bins to distribute 21,000 Kids Cafe meals for children who are food insecure and hungry in our community, and bag over 5,000 lbs. of produce to individuals who are food insecure and hungry in our community.

Please share our thanks again with everyone.

We appreciate all of our wonderful Three Square volunteers that help make our mission possible! Again, thank you for supporting our vow to end hunger in our community. We look forward to seeing your team throughout the year!”

Kari Guerrero

Volunteer Coordinator Three Square

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Academics

Counselor’s Corner SENIORS: LAST CALL for Scholarship Information: Colleges will include scholarship information in either their admission letters or separately. When you receive the scholarship information, please give a copy of your scholarship letter to Mrs. Burford in Student Services. THE LAST DAY TO DO SO IS APRIL 30th!

Scholarship information is listed in the graduation program and we want to make sure that you get recognition for the scholarships you have received. You do not have to attend the school offering the scholarship in order for the information to appear in the graduation program. We include college related scholarship as well as outside scholarship information, so please turn in a copy of everything you receive.

COURSE REGISTRATION: Course registration for the

2016-2017 school year is coming to a close. If you have not returned your forms and deposit to the Finance Department please do so as soon as possible. Once classes are full you will be placed on a waiting list with no guarantee of a spot.

SUMMER ENRICHMENT: A great way to open up your fall schedule. Registration for summer school is done online at www.bishopgorman.org. There you will also find a list of available courses and session dates.

Attention Juniors: Parking: Students: Please park in your assigned parking spot.

Parents: Please park in the parking lot next to the baseball and softball fields.

On Monday, April 18, from 7:00a.m. - 9:00a.m. the JET Tour is coming to Bishop Gorman High School. The JET Tour (Jesuit Excellence Tour) consists of 14 of the 28 Jesuit Colleges and Universities that have campuses throughout the United States. Such schools as Creighton University, St. Louis University, Marquette University, Loyola University, Santa Clara University, University of San Francisco, Gonzaga University, and others will be here to recruit you for their schools. These are selective schools and they are inviting juniors who have a GPA of 3.0 or above and their parents to attend this mini college fair. The event will be held in Ryan Hall on the 2nd floor of the ATC.

Students attending the JET Tour will miss their 1st and 2nd period class. Make sure to obtain a pass at the ATC before you leave.

Students are responsible for any schoolwork missed. Students are welcome to see Mr. McAllister in his office with any questions. This is a great opportunity to find out about admissions, financial aid, and other related college questions.

Visual Arts Dept. Hosts

visited Mrs. Feely and Ms. Dawson’s AP Studio Art classes giving demos on his art processes and techniques. He was able to critique various students interested in pursuing careers in creative writing, illustration and creating comic books. We thank Mr. Patric Reynolds for his visit and for inspiring our students and their creative talents!

Artist Patric Reynolds

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he Visual Arts Department was very excited to welcome working artist, Patric Reynolds, to the Bishop Gorman campus February 22-24. Patric Reynolds is a former Las Vegas high school teacher who left his teaching career to pursue his dream of becoming a comic book artist. Since graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2009, he has worked with Patton Oswalt and Joss Whedon (Serenity: Float Out), “HellBoy” creator Mike Mignola (Abe Sapien: The Haunted Boy), Marc Andreyko (Let Me In), Steve Niles (The Thing: The Northman Nightmare), David Lapham (Exile to Babylon), and iZombie creator Chris Roberson (Aliens: Fire and Stone) as comic book illustrator, all published by Dark Horse Comics. Currently he has reunited with Mike Mignola on the comic series “Joe Golem: Occult Detective.”

During the first and second day of his visit, Mr. Reynolds met with art classes and talked about creating dynamic compositions. He also discussed his career path and portfolio while entertaining questions and sharing words of wisdom with students looking to pursue their passion. On the last day of his visit Mr. Reynolds conducted a workshop on Word Triggers with students in the Art Club and NAHS to help them visualize major concepts and ideas. He also

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Athletics | Activities

ATHLETICS The women’s basketball team had another good year, finishing the season 29-2. They won the Sunset Southwest League and finished 2nd in the Sunset Division, losing a close game to the eventual state champion. The team had several standouts including Skylar Jackson ’17 as well as Megan Jacobs ’16, Raychel Stanley ’16, Madison Washington ’16, and Madison Ulrey ’16.

The wrestling team had another successful season and continues to thrive and grow in numbers. Several of our wrestlers did well in the Sunset Regional Tournament and the State Wrestling Tournament.

Sunset Regional Winners: Santi Bent ’16, Mason Campbell ’17, Joey Mazzara ’18. Sunset Regional Placers: Garrett Wallace ’17, Charles Mapes ’17, Dylan Auschwitz ’18. NIAA State Qualifiers: Santi Bent, Mason Campbell, Joey Mazzara, Garrett Wallace, Charles Mapes, Dylan Auschwitz.

The Spring Sports season is in full swing now. Look for updates on these sports in the next issue.

Go Gaels!

Joey Mazzara: NEVADA STATE CHAMPION Mason Campbell: Nevada State Runner-Up Santi Bent: Nevada State Runner-Up Garrett Wallace: Nevada State Bronze Medalist Allison Petix ’17: USA WRESTLING HIGH SCHOOL WOMEN’S STATE CHAMPION

Activities

s n o i 2016-2017 ASG t a l u a r g n Co o the t Class Officers Class of 2017 President: VP: Secretary: Treasurer:

Garret Citrin Madison Mastrangioli Audrey Conway Amber Berky

Sunday, May 1, 2016 5:00pm Sophomores who ordered a class ring will be able to pick them up at our annual Ring Mass in the Bishop Gorman Chapel. More information will be posted on the Bishop Gorman website as the event draws closer.

If your child has not RSVP’d for the Ring Mass, they can do so with Mrs. Portz in Campus Ministry or email: sportz@bishopgorman.org.

Class of 2018 President : VP: Secretary: Treasurer:

SOPHOMORE RING MASS

Emerson Wieczorek Nikki Ebalo Gabe Kaufman Paul Gillett

Class of 2019

President: Anchor Brant VP: Lauren Lombardo Secretary : Caroline Anderson Treasurer: Olivia Maalouf

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Advancement

Bishop Gorman Celebrates 34 Annual Knight of the Gael th

On Thursday, March 9th parents, alumni and friends gathered to honor The Mowbray family at the 34th Annual Knight of the Gael.

Along with the Mowbray’s closest friends and over 500 guests, we celebrated the founding family of Bishop Gorman High School and their devotion to Catholic education. The Mowbrays have been generous donors, devoted fans and loyal supporters since day one.

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Passp rt 2016

Tasting, Entertainment & Silent Auction Friday, May 6th 7:00pm - 11:00pm Red Rock Casino Resort Spa

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS ONLINE AT:

We couldn’t have done it without the help of our partners, Red Rock Resort Casino and Spa, Station Casinos, Breakthru Beverage Nevada, Destinations by Design, Bernhard & Williams Photography, Encore Productions and Five Star Creative.

WWW.BISHOPGORMAN.ORG or call the Advancement Office

702.476.4032

Thank you to our auction donors Gustav’s Master Chef Catering, BSN Sports, The Shane Victorino Foundation, Hakkasan Group, Morton Group, Optic Gallery, Mowbray Limited LLC, Mallinger Family Eye Care, Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas, the Mowbray Family, Schutt, and Stitched Lifestyle.

Get ready to have a good time poolside!

Experience fine cuisine, a great silent auction, entertainment and wines from our friends at Breakthru Beverage.

A very special thanks to our many volunteers and student performers that helped make the evening extra special. Thank you to Mrs. Elena Ferrante-Martin and the Gaels Theater Guild; Mr. Geoff Neuman and the Drum Line & Student Orchestra; Mrs. Sandy Young and the senior Varsity Cheerleaders and especially our MC for the evening, Student Body President, Doug McArthur ’16.

Medical Society Club

Thank you to Radiologist, Dr. Alan Weissman (father of students, Joshua ’16 and Blake ’18), for taking the time out of his busy schedule to present a lecture on the History of Medicine to the students in the Medical Society Club. Approximately 80 students were in attendance and enjoyed listening to his lecture and learning about the Medical profession.

DON’T MISS IT! MAY 7

The BGHS Jazz Ensemble will be performing at Jazz In The Park at The Clark County Government Center.

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Go Gaels!

HAMMES CAMPUS STORE It is that time of year again! store.bishopgorman.org

HOURS

Monday-Thursday: 7am- 2:30pm Friday: 7am - 2pm

Visit the Hammes Campus Store and Website for New BGHS Uniform and Spirit Wear Items!

For more information visit: www.bishopgorman.org.

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