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SERVE
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COMMUNITY
SERVICE BEGINS IN SCHOOL By COURTNEY WESTLAKE For the Herald & Review
DECATUR – St. Teresa High School campus minister Theresa Boynton was recently sent a request
for volunteers to help with a grade school basketball tournament. By the end of the day, she had filled 18 of the 20 open volunteer slots with students from St. Teresa. “The kids just step up,” Boynton said. “There are a lot who volunteer who don’t even need the hours.” The motto of St. Teresa High School is “Serviam,” which means “I will serve.”The school’s mission is focused on loving others and giving freely of one’s time and talent. To fulfill this mission and call to service, St. Teresa employs a Christian Service Learning program in which every student is required to complete at least 10 hours of service a year. “It’s an important component for a Christian school, so they can experience that,” said Kim Peters, guidance counselor at St. Teresa. “The students and their parents are very community-driven; it’s not just the staff but the parents who drive that
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too. It’s a deeply rooted tradition in the St. Teresa school.” To help students accomplish their service hours, the school coordinates two Lend-a-Hand days, during which Boynton organizes the students into groups that volunteer at agencies, organizations and individual homes around the area. This year, the Lenda-Hand days are on October 29 and April 15, Peters said. “We go to 20 to 30 different
organizations or sites in community,” Boynton said. “It’s geared toward helping those in need, to follow the Biblical call to help those less fortunate. We get all 300 kids out in the community twice a year.” While the students are welcome to, and often do, complete service hours outside of the Lend-A-Hand days, Boynton pointed out that by placing them at local sites during that event, the students usually end up
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ST. TERESA 5 implement a recognition program at the senior awards banquet, and possibly for all of the classes, to honor those students who go “so far above and beyond” the service hour requirement. If a student chooses not to complete their service requirement, their grade in theology is lowered two steps. This rarely happens, however, and Peters said it’s much more common that students complete way more service than the requirement. “You’d be surprised at how many go above and beyond many of those hours without any recognition,” she said. “We have lots that come back and ask to do more volunteer opportunities, from the Special Olympics to programs through their own church.” Boynton has a bulletin board up at the school with a variety of volunteer openings, and the board usually fills up quickly. “It’s rare that I have to go begging,” she said with a laugh. “I usually get too many. I’m proud of them; they step up to the plate. It’s a good feeling.”
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volunteering at places they wouldn’t have otherwise signed up at. “We’re putting them in places they’ve never known they could go. So we’re opening up their opportunities to help,” she said. “We have kids who go back after those days and keep volunteering. I had one girl who volunteered at the New Life Pregnancy Center and later she came back with 20 hours more of service there because she liked working there so much.” Community service is becoming such an integral part of a high school experience that even colleges are considering students’ service for admission, Peters said. “For St. Teresa in particular, it’s always been based on faith and the service we can give back to others and how we can give back,” she said. “Our students are doing a great job of making strides to help people.” To recognize the community efforts of the students, St. Teresa has begun to add the number of service hours to the students’ transcripts for each of their school years, Boynton said. And this year, she hopes to
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ST. TERESA
THE MONEY
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ST. TERESA’S MEGA RAFFLE
of a house, but St. Teresa is still celebrating success with their annual Mega Raffle 15 years later. The raffle begins in March each year and runs through the 2nd week of June, said Lindsey Walters, current
CONTINUES TO RAISE FUNDS
money for the schools. Each raffle ticket is $100, and those that buy a raffle ticket can circle one grade school to receive $10 from the ticket. “We have parents and local businesses selling tickets,” Walters
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DECATUR – Fifteen years ago, St. Teresa High School decided to do something new and different to raise money: they raffled off a house. “We were only going to sell 5,000 tickets, and we sold out all of the tickets; it was really exciting,” said Amy Bliefnick, who was director of development for St. Teresa at the time and was hired in the midst of planning for that first raffle. “The development committee had a vision of what they thought it could be, and we sold out two days before the raffle.” The top prize is now cash instead
Herald & Review photos / Ralf Pansch From left, Christina Brinkoetter, Susie Murray, Lindsey Walters and Lisa Feriozzi of the St. Teresa advancement office get ready for the annual Mega Raffle.
director of advancement at St. Teresa. St. Teresa teams up with the three Catholic grade schools in town – Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Patrick and Holy Family - to sell tickets and raise
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said. “We have seller incentives – we have a drawing at the end of the raffle, and we give away free tuition as well as $1,000, $750, $500 and $250.” Each time someone sells 30 tickets, their name is put into the drawing, Walters said. The grade schools also hold their own seller incentive drawings, she said. “It gets the whole Catholic community involved,” she said. St. Teresa advertises for the mega raffle in the Herald & Review, on the local radio stations with live remote broadcasts and at local businesses. Many of the businesses that are
helping to sell raffle tickets display an orange sign, she said. “Some have a St. Teresa affiliation, and some just like to get involved in selling,” she said. Then in June, the raffle winners are drawn, from smaller $250 prizes to the grand prize of $100,000. This year, St. Teresa sold 3,893 tickets in the mega raffle, and Tom Gallenbach, a 1950 St. Teresa graduate, won the $100,000 prize. Gallenbach is now a priest living in Las Vegas. “We give away about $140,000 to $150,000 in prizes,” Walters said. “For the past two years, we’ve had 75 winners.” The mega raffle has become a city-wide affair since the beginning days, said Bliefnick, who is also a graduate of St. Teresa. “It’s not just the Catholic community; the whole Decatur community has embraced it, which has made it an exciting fundraiser,” she said. “I’m happy that it’s continued. It’s a great fundraiser for not only the high school but the grade schools too.” Tuition only covers about 60 percent of the budget, so the funds procured from the mega raffle aid in covering the rest of the operating costs for the schools. This year, the raffle raised about $200,000 for the schools Walters said. “It goes to our operating expenses – power, electricity, internet, maintenance, cleaning, and things like that,” she said. “(The raffle) is vital; it’s one of our biggest fundraisers.”
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ST. TERESA
THROUGH THE GENERATIONS
By COURTNEY WESTLAKE For the Herald & Review
DECATUR – When she was in high school, Teresa (Dowd) Hayden spent her summers babysitting for $15 a week. She then used part of her money to help her family pay her tuition at St. Teresa High School.
Teresa once again through two of her grandchildren, Wyatt Wilkerson and Holly Haskins, who are both seniors at St. Teresa. Hayden said she was thrilled when her family members began attending St. Teresa again, from her son-in-law to her grandchildren. “Oh, I loved it,” she said. “We all love it; it’s a fun thing. St. Teresa is a wonderful place for a very good education.” That is precisely the reason Holly and Wyatt’s mothers – Teresa’s
Haskins said she believes there have been more opportunities open to her children by going to a smaller, private school. Both of her children played multiple sports during their high school careers and were on high honor roll. “There are more opportunities because there aren’t as many kids, so they get more attention and are able to do more,” she said. “Between all of the activities they have at school and church, we’ve also become friends with all of the kids’ parents. It’s very
part of the Bulldogs football team,” Wilkerson said, adding that Wyatt is now a senior lineman on the team. Wilkerson also spoke highly of her son’s experience at St. Teresa. “He is in honors classes, and likes the social part very much. Academically he was always interested in science and math, so I like the opportunities he got with honors classes,” she said. “He always had a good relationship with faculty, and that pertains to the fact that there is a small class size, so if you were having a difficult time or needed more attention, there was the opportunity there to get it. The religious aspect was also very important to Wyatt, and he got involved in service and student
Herald & Review photo / Ralf Pansch Teresa Hayden, center, a graduate of St. Teresa High School, is flanked by her grandchildren, Holly Haskins, left, and Wyatt Wilkerson, who are carrying on the family tradition of attending the school.
“I was one of six kids, and the only one of the six who stayed at St. Teresa; my siblings all went to Stephen Decatur but I was especially fond of it and involved in a lot of things at the school,” said Hayden, a 1956 graduate of St. Teresa. This year, during trips back to her hometown from her new residence in Arizona, Hayden will be able to experience some of the sporting events and school activities of St.
daughters – say they decided to send their children to the school. “We’ve been Catholic our whole lives, and my kids attended Our Lady of Lourdes,” said Robin Haskins, whose son Joey also graduated from St. Teresa in 2007. “I feel like they’ve had a really good education there, they’ve enjoyed it and it’s been a positive experience. We even moved out to Warrensburg, but my son didn’t want to switch schools.”
family-oriented; we’ve really become a community.” Rocki Wilkerson said her son Wyatt had always wanted to attend St. Teresa to become a part of the football program. Wyatt was given a choice when he graduated 8th grade from St. Patrick’s grade school about where he wanted to enroll for high school, and he chose St. Teresa, she said. “He lived for the football program; he always wanted to be a
ministry.” School activities and programs are some of the things that Hayden said she remembers most about her time in high school and is thrilled that her grandchildren are able to experience the same things. “Back then, I remember Friday night football games; we always had an assembly on Friday, and I was on the cheerleading squad,” she said. “Yearbook was also a big thing back
ST. TERESA 9 turning 50 next year, and they’re going to get together to celebrate,” Haskins said. Wilkerson said she believes that St. Teresa has done a great job at preparing her son for the next step after high school. “St. Teresa has given him a good foundation academically and spiritually, and I think Wyatt will do just fine wherever he goes,” she said. “I hope someday he realizes how important that foundation was.” Both Wilkerson and Haskins said they feel blessed that their children were able to experience a positive and quality education at St. Teresa just like their mother did. They have a closeknit family, Wilkerson said, and Holly and Wyatt are very “connected,” especially after spending their high school years together. “It is a sacrifice to send your kids there because it is expensive. But it’s a quality education with faith-based environment,” Haskins said. “It’s a wonderful community to put your kids through. It’s a good thing; I would do it over again.”
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then. We just had such a good time. Those were special years.” Hayden can recall at least five couples from her class of about 74 students who ended up getting married, she said, and several more students went on to become nuns or priests. She and her husband still keep in touch with many of her former classmates, some of whom even live in Arizona and get together with the Haydens on occasion. “Our class has always been really close,” she said. “We still have our reunions, and we have a pretty good turnout. There are a lot of good friendships. It seems like when you go to school like St. Teresa, the friendships are close and they last, which I think is special.” When Haskins’ son Joey graduated from St. Teresa, she said there were seven boys in his class who had grown up together since preschool and decided to have their graduation party together. She also acknowledged that her husband’s group of friends from St. Teresa also still gets together often. “Their group of friends is all
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KAIROS RETREAT
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programs offered at St. Teresa to allow students to deepen their faith and explore their relationships with themselves, others and God, said Dan Boynton, director of retreats and business education department chair
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at the school. The retreat opportunities for students are progressive as the students grow older, starting with a one-day freshmen retreat led by a group of seniors. The next year,
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DECATUR – During her junior year, Leanne Wagner was thrilled to learn that she was hand-picked by faculty members and upperclassmen at St. Teresa High School to become one of six female leaders for the senior retreat called Kairos. The honor grew even more when her peers selected her to be the “rector,” who is in charge of the entire event. “Going on Kairos was an amazing experience in itself, but leading it was an honor, and seeing the reactions of the girls in my class was wonderful,” said Wagner, a 2009 graduate of St. Teresa. Kairos is just one of several retreat
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sophomores are able to attend a 24hour retreat called Quest. “Boys go one week, and girls go another week,” Boynton said. “It’s another step in their faith journey, so they can grow a little deeper in their faith. It’s a student-directed retreat.” The Teens Encounter Christ (TEC) retreat is open to students who have turned 16 or completed their sophomore year. TEC is sponsored by the Springfield Diocese and takes place in Springfield, so the teens can get to know students from other area schools. Then, when students are seniors, they can attend Kairos, which is a three-day retreat – one for boys and one for girls – in the spring off campus. Boynton and several other faculty members help to facilitate Kairos, with student leaders also coordinating much of the retreat. “Kairos means God’s time,” Boynton said. “It’s a good experience for seniors because they are just about to move on to the next big phase as they graduate high school. It’s an excellent way to keep them grounded in their faith and cement their relationships with each other and
know they can carry their faith with them in the next part of their faith journey.” Lindsey Walters, who now serves as the director for advancement at St. Teresa, graduated in 2003 and attended the retreat as a senior. “I had a great experience; it’s not mandatory, but almost 100 percent of the class goes,” she said. “It makes your class so much closer. I know it’s a real emotional retreat for a lot of the girls.” Wagner echoed Walters’ sentiments. “It becomes a part of us,” Wagner said. “Everyone always says they wish it could have been earlier (in our high school career). The connection you have afterwards is really incredible. Everyone is closer and more understanding, and you realize your friendships and relationships could get deeper than you ever thought possible.” Wagner said she would encourage anyone to attend Kairos, whether they are a spiritual person or not. “It’s a spiritual retreat, but you don’t need to be spiritual to participate,” she said. “It’s incredibly meaningful; you can’t really explain it unless you experience it, and you can’t appreciate it until experience it. You just need to open up - the term we use is ‘let go and let God’.” Boynton said he believes that everyone will have a positive experience if they come into a retreat with an open mind. “We’re not in control; God is in control,” he said. “If our leaders are well-prepared, and our candidates are open to the experience, we can all have a great experience.” The retreat programs always seem to have a high turnout at St. Teresa, Boynton said. During last year’s Quest retreat, everyone in the sophomore class attended except one student, he said. His goal is to encourage as many students to attend as possible so that they have the opportunity to delve into their faith journey. “The goal is for the kids to deepen their faiths overall, so they can feel good about where they are in their faith lives,” he said, “but also understand that it is a journey and they have love and support along the way.”
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THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
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By COURTNEY WESTLAKE For the Herald & Review
DECATUR – From hosting major community fundraisers to serving up lunch each day, the Knights of Columbus hall has been an integral part of the community for years, and even more so now with a major renovation. The Decatur Illinois Council was established on May 12, 1901, with the focus of helping those less fortunate. The Knights of Columbus Council 577 is located at 522 E. North St. and between March 2008 and July 2009, was the object of a major facelift in
order to better serve the community. The subject of a remodel came up when members began to realize that the inner workings of the building needed to be replaced, such as the plumbing, electricity and even the roof, said Tom Dilbeck, a Knights of Columbus member and a 1969 graduate of St. Teresa High School. “Everything had run its course and was needing a lot of maintenance,” he said. “It had been 40 years, so it was time to do
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offering a sports bar atmosphere with big screen TV viewing, as well as a banquet area that can accommodate up to 380 guests for weddings, parties or other events. “The main hall is a little smaller, but the bar area is a lot bigger so there are more opportunities to serve lunches and host smaller meetings,” Dilbeck said. “The old hall held between 500 and 600 people; back then we had bingos, but we no longer do. This one still holds over 300. And we needed more space on the other side.” The banquet room is available with full in-house catering and is available for rent seven days a week depending on availability. Dilbeck said the hall has hosted many community and private events since opening with the new renovations, such as the United Cerebral Palsy’s Barstool Open, the Special Olympics Tootsie Roll Drive,
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fundraisers for local organizations and even a dance for kids with disabilities. Wedding receptions are also held at the hall; Dilbeck said May and June of 2011 are already booked up. “St. Patrick’s parade is a big time for us too; we have a party before and after,” Dilbeck said. And in October, the Knights of Columbus Hall will be the location of the St. Teresa Homecoming celebration for alumni. Dilbeck said about 300 people are expected at the celebration event, which will be a big
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MARK MCLEOD
CONTINUES THE TAILGATING TRADITION AT ST. TERESA
By REX SPIRES
For the Herald & Review
DECATUR – If you don’t want to have fun, you shouldn’t be around Mark McLeod. Fun should be his middle name. Anyone who knows him or has
Herald & Review photo / Ralf Pansch Mark McLeod has taken tailgating to a new level and can oftentimes be found at a St. Teresa home football game.
seen him in action when he’s operating his monster grill at a football game or a charitable event will tell you that. During a typical fall weekend, McLeod may log a thousand miles or more and cook hundreds of pounds of meat and other goodies while tailgating at football games all over the Midwest. He’s been known to set up his custom-built grill at a high school football game on a Friday night, head for northern Indiana to do the same thing at a Notre Dame game on Saturday, fold his tent and repeat the performance at a Chicago Bears’ game on Sunday. It’s a schedule that might do in a lesser man, but McLeod is a robust fellow who competed in “tough man” contests in his younger days. Just as he’s told many people, football has been his passion ever since he played for Assumption High School more than 30 years ago.
“I don’t have any hobbies. I don’t play golf or do anything like that,” he said. “If my buddies want to go see a good high school game, or an Illinois or pro game, we load up the cooker and a bunch of meat and take off.” His initial foray into grilling came some 13 years ago when he and his friends put up a tent at a St. TeresaCentral A&M showdown and sent out the word to fans of both teams, “ya’all come.” It turned out to be so much fun and drew such a favorable response from the fans that he’s continued that pattern ever since. At these outings, he doesn’t charge any of the people who partake of the food, but there is a large tip jar handy if someone wants to contribute. He’s found that people are usually appreciative and will throw enough money into the jar to come close to what he spends on supplies. “I don’t do it to make money. I do it because I like to see people have fun and to be around people who enjoy that kind of thing.” McLeod explained. By the same token, neither his cooker nor his grillmates are for hire. “People want me to come to their
John, Martha & the Kids Thank St. Teresa for the Great Memories! Aimee Brinkoetter Class of ‘90 John Brinkoetter Class of ‘68
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ST. TERESA 17 Assumption nearly 15 years ago. It has been modified, enlarged and refined at least a couple of times into the gleaming stainless steel showpiece it is today. It is capable of cooking steaks, chops, porkloins, burgers, hot dogs and brats all at the same time depending upon the occasion and how many people are expected. With that kind of draw, it never fails to be a hit with the fans or people attending a charity benefit.
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functions and cook for them,” he said. “They ask me what I charge for doing it. I tell them I won’t take money because that means they can dictate when and where I have to be and what I’m going to cook. That’s not why I built the cooker. If I think it’s for a good cause, I may donate it, but I won’t rent it.” He and his friends built his first cooker and the trailer used to transport it in his garage in
At the request of Curley’s Sports Bar owner Bill Miller, McLeod will have his monster grill at St. Teresa’s homecoming and plans trips to other high school, Illinois and St. Louis Rams football games in the near future. “I’ve been slowed down a little bit by my 11-year old son’s Junior Football League games, but after Oct. 2 we’ll be going to a lot of games,” he said. When he isn’t tailgating, he’s running his Decatur-based trucking company, McLeod Express,
commanding a fleet of 320 tractors, more than 800 semitrailers and 425 employees. His vehicles move general freight from coast to coast and he counts ADM, Tate & Lyle, PPG Industries, Skeffington’s Budweiser Distributor, Coca-Cola and Proctor&Gamble among his largest customers. And when it comes to employee perks, how about this one? He cooks for his truckers and office staff every six to eight weeks or so. “They love it and I get a kick out of it,” McLeod said.
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G-1 Lisa Ernst Feriozzi ‘75, Allison Feriozzi ‘06 H-2 Jerry Dawson ‘74, Brian Dawson ‘06 I-3 Mark Brumleve ‘79, Chet Brumleve ‘04 J-8 Martha McNamara Brinkoetter ‘68, Jodi Brinkoetter Powell ‘95 K-10 Marty Bushell ‘76, Matthew Bushell ‘06 L-9 Dianna Reynolds Wagner ‘79, LeAnne Wagner ‘09
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