KEQ - The Name Issue - Fall 2019

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Letter from the editor Hello everyone, I’m excited to be part of this year’s first KEQ issue, and for all the readers to learn a little more about the history of BSM. I believe that it’s important to be knowledgeable of the history of the communities you immerse yourself in. At BSM, we are often focused on the new features of our school and often forget to look back and value the stories of what brought our school to where it is today. So, I decided that diving into the significance of the various names that are spread throughout our community would effectively unveil much of BSM’s forgotten history.

In telling these stories through names, we hope you will gain a better understanding of what our community is about. There are so many different areas that define who we are here at BSM. Because of this, there were so many different names to choose from. Whether it be the history behind how the city of St. Louis Park received its name or why we are called the Red Knights, there is significance in knowing.

It has been a great joy for me to be the editor-in-chief of this quarter’s KEQ. Thank you to all the writers, photographers, designers, and staff who have contributed to this publication and made it such an easy process.

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Editor-in-Chief: Harry Madden Designers: Flynn Skahan Mason McGonigle Jack Williams Sylvie Poellinger Max Era Wesley Kirchner Max Shogren Andrew Lyons Emily Barron vv Photographers: Lexi Basil Alice Petty Jack Shields Writers: Zach Carden Cooper Gay Charlie Bischel Taylor Fredin Claudia Scherer Grace Cochrane Brady Giertsen Phoebe Selke Mason McHugh Jackie Bucaro Klarence Rozambert Reilly Rahill Maggie Anderson Joey Trella Nicole Miller

KEQ is written and produced by journalism students at Benilde- St. Margaret’s School. The views expressed in this magazine are the opinions of the writers and not necessarily these of the Knight Errant staff, advisers, or BSM administrators.

It is distributed for free to all BSM high school students.

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What’s in a Name?

Throughout the BenildeSt. Margaret’s community, the names of people and places contain stories and significance.

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name: A simple word or phrase that brings to mind a complex, multi-layer idea of a person, place, or thing.

A word that speaks to an identity associated with memories and experiences––both fond or unpleasant. We speak of, call out, and even form judgments of people based on their names. It is the first impression and the lasting memory we recall in interactions throughout our days.

Names can strike fear into others or make them giggle; names can make people scowl or light up with joy; every name carries a stigma and power behind it that cannot be measured.

The significance of a name varies from case to case; however, a story exists behind each one of them - no matter the person, place, animal or thing. Some people or places are named after great leaders or relatives whose impacts are immeasurable, while others are simply given a name because it sounds nice. 10th grader Matilda

Wolfe and 11th grader George Wolfe both stated that they were named after famous Kings and Queens of world history, just as their older siblings were.

However, other stories are similar to that of 10th grader Mitchell “Mitch” Dokman. “[My parents just] liked the name Mitchell,” Dokman said.

In many cultures, names even have secondary meanings that reveal a characteristic or are the basis of a memory for the given person. For example, Senior foreign-exchange student Andie Jia’s real name back in his original home of China is Ming-Chuan. He told the Knight Errant that he was given this name because he reminded his parents of the beautiful views in the surrounding mountains of China. “[My name] means the mountain with wide horizons,” Jia said.

Yet, instead of having deeply meaningful names as Andie does, others may have nicknames, for the simple reasons of convenience or some sort of-usually funny-sto-

ry. Senior Joe Marinaro is commonly referred to as “The Sauce” or just “Sauce” due to his last name’s eerie resemblance to a delicious Italian red sauce. “People call me sauce because my last name sounds like marinara sauce,” Marinaro said. This nickname has even created narratives and legends that describe Joe’s “Sauciness” as a person and his ability to get others “Lost in the Sauce” on the football field.

Joe’s name also reflects his family’s history. “My name came from my grandpa.

His name was Guiseppe which means Joseph in Italian. My family has a very deep Italian background which is shown by my last name,” Marinaro said.

Whether we love our name, hate our name, or honestly could care less what people call us, a story exists behind everyone single one of us and the name we were given. This story is ever-evolving. We will have highs and lows, but it is important to remember that we are living and adding to the history and the memory of our name.

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St. Margaret’s In 1974, Benilde High School and St. Margaret’s Academy joined to become the BSM of today.

Benilde-St. Margaret’s In the early 1970s, both Benilde High School and St. Margaret’s Academy were down in enrollment and the costs of maintaining the schools kept rising. Due to this, both schools were at risk of being shut down. Thus, in 1972, representatives from Benilde and St. Margaret’s had a meeting which discussed how the two schools could merge and continue operating. After the meeting was over, it was decided that the

schools would merge under the name Benilde-St. Margaret’s.

Although St. Margaret’s Academy had a much nicer building, they did not have any sporting fields or the possibility of expansion, unlike Benilde High School.

Therefore, in the fall of 1974, St. Margaret’s Academy and its staff came over to the current location where they became, and are still known as Benilde St. Margaret’s.

Today, Benilde-St. Margaret’s follows the same core values that were taught to both schools in the past. With a yearly scripture theme and a dedication to encouraging students to work hard, pursue their dreams, and show compassion towards their classmates daily, the students and faculty continue to keep the traditions alive and spread the love of God throughout the community.

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St. Margaret’s Academy Before the uniting of Benilde High School and St. Margaret’s Academy, St. Margaret’s Academy was a school that consisted of female students only. The academy was founded in 1907 by the sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as St. Margaret’s Academy and was located near the Basilica of St. Mary in downtown Minneapolis.

Years later in 1960, the school moved locations due to an increase of students and purchased 28 acres where a new school was built on Upton Avenue. This academy was named after Saint Margaret of Scotland,

an English princess and Scottish queen.

Margaret of Scotland was born in Hungary in 1045. However, after William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, Margaret and her family fled to Scotland where she met her husband and the King of Scotland, Malcolm Canmore III. Since Margaret was married to the king, she had the unique ability to influence the public and help the needy. She constantly worked towards helping the poor and living a faithful life as she would encourage people to live a devout life and

grow in holiness.

Margaret is recognized for her life of deep prayer and piety. She often would not eat or sleep so that she would have more time for her devotions which primarily consisted of prayer and charity work. On November 16, 1093, Margaret passed away due to an illness caused by her constant fasting. Years later in 1250, Margaret of Scotland was canonized as a saint by Pope Innocent IV.

Benilde High School Before Benilde-St. Margaret’s, Benilde High School was an all-boys high school that began in 1956.

Benilde High School was named after Pierre Romancon, later named Benildus, a French school teacher and Christian Brother who was up for beatification for sainthood. “When coming up with a name for the school they thought it would be good to have his name be a part of the school,” BSM Campus Minister Mr. Mike Jeremiah said.

According to LaSalle.org, Benildus Romancon grew up on a farm in Thuret, Puy-de-Dôme, France. He was a small child not cut out for the farm life that he was surrounded by. As a child, he was far

more advanced than his peers and felt that he could do more with his life. At the age of 14, he enrolled in a Christian brother’s school in Riom.

Benildus would sometimes be a substitute teacher at his elementary school in Riom. This led him to become a principal at a different school run by the Christian brothers. In his spare time, he made coats and jackets out of old robes for the poor children he taught. He also held evening classes for the parents in the village and performed what some called miracles. He later died and became a saint on October 29, 1967.

The Christian Brothers ran Benilde from the 1950s to the 1970s. Brother Mark

Sullivan ran Benilde. Benilde’s staff was made up of mostly Christian brothers as teachers, but they also had other teachers that were not a part of the church. “Discipline was firm under the Christian Brothers, and you knew what was expected of you,” Father Tim Wozniak, Class of 1966, said.

Benilde had baseball, football, and basketball. The major rival was between the other Christian brother school, De La Salle. School spirit was a major part of Benilde. “One year we had to move a basketball game between Benilde and DeLa Salle to another venue because neither of our gyms was big enough to hold the crowds they were expecting,” Wozniak said.

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Personally, my journey as a Benilde-St. Margaret’s Red Knight started long before I came here in seventh grade. I’ve been forced to attend various plays, banquets, and award ceremonies at BSM since I was about four years old. I hold the title of the youngest of three siblings and eleven cousins to attend BSM for the foreseeable future.

Wherever I go, my last name seems to follow.

High school is already hard enough without the added pressure of holding up a family name. My parents constantly nag me about how I represent the family and how all my actions will reflect on the family. Everything I do eventually comes back to my parents and grandparents.

Teachers compare me to my siblings, cousins, and sometimes even my parents. I am widely known as “Frannie’s little sister” and “Ben’s cousin.”

Similar to me, current senior Anna Kocourek is

a second-generation Red Knight. She comes from a long lineage of aunts and uncles (nine to be exact) and is the second child of five: a brother who has already graduated, a sister currently in her sophomore year, and two more who have yet to make their BSM journey. Although Kocourek does not feel like her last name has been a vital part of her high school career, she does feel some additional pressure from having a family that is so involved in the BSM community. “I am so afraid of getting in trouble and my grandparents finding out because they are so connected with the school, and I don’t want to ‘ruin’ our name, and I feel like I need to live up to my cousins’, brother’s, aunts’ and uncles’ reputations,” Kocourek said.

Despite the pressure, Kocourek does still enjoy the enhanced sense of community that comes with having a historical name. “I enjoy being a legacy student. It makes the school community feel more like a family, and it’s really fun to have other legacies in your classes that your parents went to school with. It really gives you the ‘it’s a small world’ feel and I love it,” Kocourek said.

Junior Griffin Murphy bleeds BSM history. He is a

third-generation Red Knight on his mom’s side, and a fourth on his dad’s. Murphy will also graduate 100 years after his great-grandmotheeels the pressure that comes with being a legacy. “It kind of makes me feel like there is already a certain standard set on me by teachers. I think it comes from teachers and other staff knowing my family members and knowing me on a more personal level,” Murphy said.

Despite the added pressures that come with having a legacy name, I still have managed to step away from my last name and create my own identity. I get really excited when I have teachers that nobody else in my family has had so I can have them get to know me as me, rather than a younger sister or cousin. Even teachers who have had multiple Scherers make an effort to get to know me as a student, not a last name. I enjoy the connections and sense of community that comes with being a legacy and enjoy continuing the tradition that my family started so long ago.

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Our Lady of Peace Named shortly after 9/11, BSM’s chapel brings a message of peace to all who pray there.

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he Our Lady of Peace Chapel, the BSM chapel, is the heart of the Benilde-St. Margaret’s community, physically and mentally. The chapel is the location for the rosary, before-school prayer, team prayers, and various other events.

The chapel was dedicated on October 2001 by the Mahoney and Rauenhorst families, and the altar was blessed by Archbishop Harry Flynn. At the time, Archbishop Flynn was a great friend of the BSM community and was a great choice to bless the newly built chapel. “He loved his God and he loved his people, as we should,” Campus Minister Michael Jeremiah said.

The Mahoneys and Rauenhorsts were both very good friends of the BSM community and were on the building committee for the new space. They were also donors who were motivated to make this chapel exactly what it needed to be for BSM. “The Rauenhorsts have a long history here. All of their kids went here. They wanted the chapel here,” Jeremiah said.

Planning for the chapel began in the late 1990s. The student liturgical committee and the Faith Formation department wanted the chapel to be a place that would bring the community together. The windows on the back wall are designed to bring in light and warmth, making it a welcoming space.

This welcoming space also brings lots of peace (hence the name). “And we thought, what a better name for a place that brought such peace to people,” Jeremiah said.

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hung in Benilde High School. The corpus has been hung up since the merger in 1974. In 2012, the Christian Brothers of DeLaSalle High School gave BSM relics: an old artifact of St. Benilde as well as the original Vatican documents authenticating the relics. Those documents are held in a case on the north wall of the chapel showing the authenticity of the chapel.

The name, The Our Lady of Peace, was chosen by the BSM students of 2001 as a result of the 9/11 attacks that occurred that year. Since the chapel had just been built, many prayer services were held asking for peace for the country. “And on 9/11, we had a ton of students coming into the chapel. We had a special prayer for all of us whose lives were changing,” Jeremiah said.

In 2011, a BSM student, Jack Jablonski, was tragically struck from behind in a hockey game and was paralyzed. The game took place over Christmas break and the day everyone returned, students were in and out of the chapel praying for Jack and his family. The sadness of this event was felt by everyone causing a wave of people to come to the chapel.

The chapel is still just as much in use today. It is a sacred place and always will be. The chapel holds class meetings and other events and is known by everyone. “We have monthly common basket meetings that help those in need,” sophomore Clare Meyer said.

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Red Knights

Once a Red Knight, always a Red Knight, but the Red Knights have only been the school mascot since 1957.

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efore Benilde High School combined with St. Margaret’s Academy, there were still the Red Knights. Benilde High School’s mascot was eventually the Red Knights but it took a little while for that to happen. For the first year, Benilde did not even have a mascot.

When Benilde High School opened in 1956 with only 100 sophomores and a little over 200 freshmen, the school was still very much incomplete. “[During Benilde’s early days, there was] no school song, no mascot, no varsity teams, no yearbook, no plays. Everything was added as my class moved forward each year,” member of Benilde High School’s first graduating class Bob O’Hara said.

At the beginning of O’Hara’s junior year in 1957, a schoolwide vote was held to determine what the school’s mascot would be. “We needed a mascot… it was essential,’’ O’Hara said.

O’Hara’s Geometry teacher and track coach, Ralph Costello, came from Wisconsin to Benilde when it first opened. The school Costello came from was nicknamed the black knights. “I liked the name Knights since most schools in the metro had bird or cat-like animals as mascots [and] my favorite color is red. I then combined red and knights for Red Knights. The rest is history, ” O’Hara said.

After the mascot was named, BSM continued with the theme of knighthood. The yearbook is named the Sangraal, meaning the Holy Grail, which was what the knights of King Arthur were seeking. ”The Great Hall is where knights would get together to meet with their king. So when we get together there for mass we are meeting with our king,” BSM teacher and campus minister Mike Jeremiah said.

The Knight Errant, the school’s newspaper, comes from the idea of providing a message from the knights. “Everything [in the school] speaks about knighthood,” Jeremiah said.

Furthermore, the identity of what a knight represents speaks to the identity of the school. “[The school represents] the different values and characteristics that knighthood is all about: chivalry, honor, integrity, and truth. All those different characteristics of a knight [also characterize] us as a school,” Jeremiah said.

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Welcome to

St. Louis Park

BSM is located in St. Louis Park, a city whose name holds both history and community.

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he city of St. Louis Park was founded as a village in 1886 and has been an essential suburban city of Minneapolis ever since. The city has been home to a large population of the Jewish community, The Pavek Museum, Lilac Park, and of course, Benilde-St. Margaret’s.

The name St. Louis Park came from two railroads that passed through the St. Louis Park land in 1871. This railroad was named the “Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad.” Real estate speculators at this time thought that St. Louis was a good name for a town, and it made sense for the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad to go through both cities: Minneapolis and St. Louis. The “Park” in the name was added after the St. Louis land and improvement

company made a deal with the railroad company which entailed the word “Park” being put on the end of the city.

One of the most notable aspects of St. Louis Park is the large Jewish community that resides throughout the city. When the city was just beginning, many immigrants from across the world began to move into Minneapolis and the surrounding cities. At that time, the Jewish community was faced with marginalization, so many congregated together to feel more secure. Schools and jobs in the St. Louis Park area were strict on enforcing fair rights to people of uncommon backgrounds. This was appealing to a lot of the Jewish immigrants because not all areas at the time were as accepting.

Since Jewish people have become a prominent population in St. Louis Park, the city has stayed just as culturally diverse as

before. The city is still just as accepting as it was before and that is still a very important reason for people to live there and be a part of that community. “I’ve come to the conclusion that a culture of inclusion and diversity was a Park ethic long before either word became a buzzword. SLP is also geographically smaller than many other suburbs, which perhaps accounts for some of the cultural cohesion,” SLP History Board Member Bill Beyer said.

Dating back to the early 1950’s, Benilde-St. Margaret’s has had a special relationship with not just the St. Louis Park community, but especially Beth El Synagogue. “[Beth El and BSM ] have a long-rooted friendship that is from a historical birth in the 50’s. That’s special,” BSM President Dr. Adam Ehrmantraut said.

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he majority of students at BSM have been to a football game at home on the turf field since the fall of 2010. The turf is where the football team, soccer team, and lacrosse teams play home games and host practices, but it hasn’t always been the main stage for sporting events at BSM. Right behind the loading dock, adjacent to the faculty parking lot, is where the old stadium sits, surrounded by the track.

Today, students who are involved in track and field and cross country use the track most frequently. Junior High level sports are the main users of this track, but the track and field show their age. “It’s

harder to practice over there because it’s rundown and it’s not as nice. Also I think it should be converted into a turf so it can be used for multiple sports teams. It would be better for varsity level sports because varsity level sports barely practice on grass so it would be better,” co-junior high coach Sam Richardson said.

During its heyday, the track was made out of a different surface than modern tracks. “The track that is still around today has been used for many years, and back in the day, it was a cinder track, so if you fell, students would have cinder burns,” Alumni Relations Director Ms. Mary Fran O’Keefe said.

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separate from St. Margaret’s, it had a completely different stadium. That stadium was far different than any stadium we have today and was located across from the Junior high. The stadium was used mainly during the 1950s and contained wood bleachers.

“There were also no lights to the old stadium, so when there were night games it was cold and very dark. The lights did not go up till the late 80s,”, O’Keefe said.

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From a Chistian Brothers’ residence to the classrooms of today, the small building on the north end of BSM’s campus has served many purposes.

he north building is one of the oldest parts of today’s Benilde-St. Margaret’s building. When it was first built in 1956, the north building’s purpose was to house the Christian Brothers and hold various classes.

The Christian Brothers worked as both the teachers and the school’s principals. The classes that they taught consisted of religion, art, and history. There was no connecting hallway, so it was open between the school and the north building. “You can imagine getting to and from the north building on a cold day was chilling, to say the least,” Director of Alumni and Community Events Mary Fran O’Keefe said.

There were 12 Christian brothers living in the north building at one time. The many offices that fill up the north building today once served different purposes for the Christian Brothers. What is now the copy room was the communal shower and the conference room was their living room.

There was a chapel in the north building

and it was located on the left upon entering.

In the early 70’s, the Christian Brothers were planning on closing Benilde High School due to the lack of enrollment. But, once Benilde High School and St. Margaret’s merged, the Benedictines from St. Johns moved in. There were about six of them and they were all priests. They made few renovations; however, they did move the chapel to a different room. The Benedictines stayed there until the late 80’s. “I remember going to the north building chapel for a small group mass,” O’Keefe said.

The late 80’s is when the dorms began to be converted into the offices and classrooms that we are familiar with today. The individual rooms were turned into offices.

This was done by adding carpet to each room and removing the beds that were there. Some rooms still contain items that remain from when the priests resided in the north building. “My office used to be one of the brother’s bedrooms. They took

the sink out and left the closet and mirror,” Director of Alumni Relations and Parent Stewardship Ms. Rachel Olson said.

Next time you are in the north building look for the hidden relics of the brothers. The school also made the addition of adding a band room. Although there are rumors of a hidden pool and secret rooms, the north building is now simply classrooms for the Junior High as well as the Senior High. The north building is home to a wide variety of classes such as History, Science, Health, Latin, Spanish, French, Band, and Orchestra.

The north building has been and always will be a staple of BSM’s history.

Whether it’s the cause of your tardy or a reminder of the school’s rich religious history, the north building will forever be a part of BSM.

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One club at BSM honors the legacy of St. Margaret's Academy with its name and mission.

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efore Benilde-St. Margaret’s, there was Benilde, an all-boys Catholic school, and St. Margaret’s Academy, an all-girls Catholic school. The two combined in 1974. Each school had an individual legacy, but when they joined together, these legacies faded from view. BSM’s allgirls club, Reviving Daisy, is working to preserve the legacy of St. Margaret’s Academy while at the same time making school better for the girls of BSM. Originally, Reviving Daisy was known as Reviving Ophelia. The name is taken from the book Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, which examines the pressure put on young girls. The book isn’t exactly obscure, but it’s not well-known in high school circles by any means. The club’s name change was an effort to make the club more understandable and thus more appealing. “These girls decided that they wanted to change the name to Reviving Daisy because they also felt like… no one really knew what Ophelia is… It seemed a little odd that [the name] didn’t appeal to people as much as something more happy, like Reviving Daisy,” Amanda Anderson, the club’s faculty advisor, said.

When considering the name change, an important factor taken into consideration was the connection to St. Margaret’s

Academy. The all-girls club was a continuation of the all-girls school, so it felt right that they should choose a name that connected them to St. Margaret’s. The daisy was a clear choice. “The daisy has kind of been a symbol of St. Margaret’s Academy… every year, I think, every year since graduation at St. Margaret’s Academy started, the tradition is to carry a daisy as… a symbol of peace, or hope, whatever it may be. And then the yearbook at St. Margaret’s Academy was titled The Daisy,” Anderson said.

In choosing a symbol of St. Margaret’s, the club made an effort to bring back the legacy of the school. When St. Margaret’s combined with Benilde, the worry that the new BSM didn’t preserve its legacy persisted. “[We] were thinking… we [can] revive that name, revive that spirit, that feeling [that]… St. Margaret’s Academy… hasn’t gone away completely,” Anderson said.

The club aims to make school a bit more manageable for BSM’s girls. For the past few years, the club has been a place for girls to relax. They often color, get coffee together, or just talk. But managing school isn’t just found in relaxation. Reviving Daisy is also a club where members can build friendships. “It’s so you can meet new people that are in your grade or not, and you can just interact with all the girls, and you can just have fun and not worry about

school,” Elizabeth Gamache, a senior Reviving Daisy captain, said.

The club didn’t begin as a place for relaxation. One original aspect of the club that has come and gone is a ‘big sister’ idea, where junior or senior girls help sophomores and freshmen with any of their high school problems. Additionally, Reviving Ophelia, the book that gave the club its original name, focused on the struggles of young women, so the club originally focused on women’s issues as well. “We used to do some things for women’s history month… we used to have people present on different topics, [like] equality in the workplace. Some years it’s been more educational,” Anderson said.

Despite its changing focus, Reviving Daisy remains relevant in the BSM community because of its central message: all girls belong. “[Reviving Daisy is] an empowering place for women to feel comfortable and feel like they can totally be themselves. It doesn’t have to be a place where you’re trying to impress anyone else… [you can] completely be yourself… wherever you’re at socially, whoever you are, you are good enough, you’re valued, you’re accepted,” Anderson said.

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Red Knotes The Red Knotes have found the perfect pun for a group dedicated to perfect pitch

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riginally started as a pop choir accompanied by music and dance called the BSM Pop Choir, the music department made a transition to a spring-auditioned a capella group called The Red Knotes. Run by both Director of Vocal Music Nancy Stockhaus and BSM’s new choir teacher, Ryan Werdon, the pair continuously strategize and plan for The Red Knotes’ future.

In the year 2017, BSM choir alum Carrie Mather came up with the name “Red Knotes,” a pun infusing the school’s primary color and the BSM Red Knight for the group’s moniker.

When the Red Knotes began, Benilde-St. Margaret’s was one of the very few high schools in Minnesota to have an a capella group. The transformation from a pop choir to an a capella group was made when the music department first commenced competition. Ms. Nancy Stockhaus and choir teacher Mr. Adam Petroski made

the sudden change when they realized the group was bringing in more a cappella elements through the music they performed.

With strong musical influences from a pop group called Pentatonix, the music department was inspired. “[There was] a change in the musical culture toward a capella singing with an upswing of stardom towards a group called Pentatonix, and with cultural switches in musical elements from show choir’s singing and dancing,” Stockhaus said.

Since the change from a pop choir to an a capella group, The Red Knotes have been vicariously making changes to the music department’s program. “With the many changes the music department is making for the Red Knotes, we are taking the right step in the right direction. With the many talented students on the roster and the new addition of Mr. Werdon, we can really build a great bond and work very well together,” junior Lucio Fialo said.

This year, the Red Knotes are requiring new and active members to audition regardless if the auditionee previously made it or not. “Being a little different this year, everyone will have to reaudition to enter the Red Knotes,” Stockhaus said.

With the 2020 season approaching, The Red Knotes look to continue to innovate. “With The Red Knotes continuously bringing in new elements and having a signature group which is especially unique, considering a lot of schools don’t have their own signature group, we continue to elevate The Red Knotes which delivers BSM something special and something to look forward to,” Werdon said.

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Though the library has changed both its location and look over time, the Moore family has always played a role in delivering the multipurpose space of today.

s students, faculty, and visitors walk into the doors of BSM, one of the first things that catches the eye off to the left of the entrance is the Moore Library. This multipurpose space is used for studying, reading, and getting help from teachers, but its name comes from a single family whose history with BSM dates back to the 1960s.

The Moore family, consisting of parents Arthur and Maureen and kids Tom, Ann, Bill, Art, Rob, Kathy, John, and Mike, moved to Minnesota in 1963. When the family moved, the four youngest boys went to Benilde and Benilde-St. Margaret’s. Art, Rob, and John graduated from Benilde in 1966, 1969, and 1974 and Mike graduated from BSM in 1976 after Benilde and St. Margaret’s merged two years prior.

The Moores’ involvement with the library didn’t begin until the 1990s; this is when the library was first renovated and dedicated to Arthur S. Moore, but original-

ly it was located where the chapel currently resides. When the library was moved to the front of the school to allow for a chapel space in the early 2000s, the Moore Library was named in honor of both Arthur S. Moore and Maureen B. Moore.

The new and improved Moore Library was created with the help of a donation from the eight children of the Moore family. “At the time, the renovation of the first library was the greatest need. When BSM built the new library, it was a natural progression to continue to support the library,” 1974 Benilde graduate and former BSM boys’ basketball coach, Mr. John Moore said.

Thanks to the Moore family, the library space is used heavily by students doing a variety of tasks during their free hours, before school, or after school.

“Any given day students are doing a lot of different things [in the library]. Some are reading for school, some are reading

for fun, sometimes they’re playing games, doing puzzles, or doing homework. Some are just chilling out and watching Netflix,” BSM’s librarian, Ms. Laura Sylvester, said.

In addition to providing students with a place to work and relax, the library also serves as a place to get help with homework in the math resource center and the writing resource center. “I think [the math and writing center] allows for students to get help outside of class to understand the material better,” junior Maya Jones said.

Time spent in the library is a different experience than spending time in other areas of the school. “It is just a space for students to do different things that they need to do in an environment that is still relatively quiet instead of the commons and the atrium,” Sylvester said.

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The center of BsM athletics is dedicated to a former faculty member who passed away.

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he BSM gym––home to basketball games, volleyball games, phy ed classes, a weight room, and locker rooms––has been around since the mid1980s. Many know it by its name the Haben Center, but few know who it is named after.

William J. Haben tragically died in 1984 after having a stroke during a BSM administration meeting. He was urgently taken to the hospital where he later passed away. Ms. Mary Fran O’Keefe, Alumni Relations Director, who was at the meeting, went to the hospital with him that day. “We were all there, and they rushed him to the hospital. I remember going with a bunch of teachers to the hospital,” O’Keefe said.

Haben attended Benilde St. Margaret’s as a student, successfully coached the varsity boys’ basketball team, and taught social

studies at BSM. His three kids, Mark ‘76, Chuck ‘79, and Judy ‘80 attended Benilde-St. Margaret’s.

Because Haben was such a figure of the community and the new gym was built shortly after his death, it was dedicated to him by the Benilde-St. Margaret’s class of 1984 and officially named the Haben Center. “[Mr. Haben was] a well-liked, great teacher- - [an]awesome coach from [the] Benilde [High School] days to the beginning of Benilde-St. Margaret’s,” O’Keefe said.

Along with the Haben Center, there is also a history award named after him called the William Haben History Award.

Each year, this award is presented by the social studies department to a senior who demonstrates a passion for social studies.

“That’s why they give the Bill Haben Social Studies Award every year, because he had such a deep love and real love for

social studies,” Mr. Mike Jeremiah, former teacher and current campus minister, said.

Jeremiah knew Haben very well, and he taught the Haben children during his first years teaching at BSM. “Anytime you asked [Mr. Haben] how he was doing he responded, ‘Up and taking nourishment,’” Jeremiah said.

Today the Haben Center is viewed as the center of the community. It is the home to pep fests, gym classes, sports events, grandparent’s day mass, and past graduation ceremonies. Each event makes an impact on the students, teachers, and alumni of the BSM community. “I go to the Haben Center almost every day for practice, and it doesn’t have air conditioning, but it is one of my favorite places in the school,” senior Sarah Luong said.

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sAN GRAA hen the school year nears its end, the yearbook staff hands out that year’s edition of the Sangraal, a book full of memories. Of course, this book is dedicated to the students but its name is also important — Sangraal means Holy Grail.

Before the merger, Benilde High School and St. Margaret’s Academy each had their own names for their yearbooks.

Benilde High School’s was the Benilden, and St. Margaret’s was the Daisies. Ms. Jan Johnson, the first advisor for the Sangraal, was there when the name was introduced.

“A student introduced the term to us during the first year of the merged schools. His name was Jim Hennessey. The knights of the yearbook’s name, Sangraal, were those knights in search of the Holy Grail, thus, Sangraal, which probably comes from Old English,” Johnson said.

Mr. Mike Jeremiah, Campus Minister, joined the BSM community for the 19751976 school year. Even though he wasn’t here for the first year of the Sangraal, he has a general idea of how the name came to be. “My perception is that we are the Red Knights and so a lot of the things that we have pertaining to our school deal with

a medieval knighthood. In the King Arthur legend, the Holy Grail is the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper. The Knights of the Round Table were in search of the Holy Grail. That was one of their quests.

So everything here at BSM is connected to knighthood,” Jeremiah said.

Each year, yearbook students work to live up to the standards of the Sangraal’s history. Ms. Kelli Rahn, the current Sangraal advisor, always makes it known in the first week of class the meaning behind the Sangraal. “Thinking about it as the Holy Grail holding that year’s memories is a nice image. Every year you want to capture that

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year. I think as any student publication, the idea is that it’s made by the students and it represents the students. It needs to be inclusive, and I think the Sangraal captures that,” Rahn said.

Co-editor-in-chief of the Sangraal, Kylie Krumenauer, has only been on the staff for two years. Running 2018-2019’s spring supplement and going to all of the Jostens’ — the Sangraal’s publisher — workshops, Krumenauer finds that the Sangraal has a good meaning behind it.

“To me, the meaning behind the book is to showcase the year in pictures, by including as many people as we can. I was interest-

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ed in joining yearbook because I love BSM and I love the fact that the book serves to commemorate years at the school. Being behind the scenes of the yearbook is a lot more work than I expected but it’s a really cool feeling watching the book unfold!”

Krumenauer said.

What the yearbook means to Jeremiah is what the staff members of the Sangraal hope to achieve when creating the 200-page book. “For me, every now and again I will take those yearbooks out and page through.

They are lasting memories. I look at some of those pictures from the yearbooks back in the 70s and 80s, and it just takes me back

to that time period. I know for students and alums, it is kind of lasting memory, and it takes them back in time to those days that they spent together here,” Jeremiah said.

In the end, the Sangraal is the Holy Grail, holding memories as they go on each year. This year, there are 17 editors working on the book every first period making sure when the book is distributed, students, faculty and staff are satisfied with the 200page book.

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Knight Errant Publishing Volume 46 this year, the Knight Errant has dedicated itself to publishing the news of BSM and its community for almost 50 years.

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he Knight Errant newspaper was created in 1973, and ever since the paper has constantly been changing and growing into what it is today. The name of the Knight Errant actually comes from the Middle Ages when a knight would wander from different camp to camp gathering and sharing news. This correlates closely to the Knight Errant of BSM, seeing that the mascot is the Red Knights and the newspaper is in charge of sharing and gathering the news of the BSM community.

In the 70s when the Knight Errant first began, the black and white paper with red accents was handed out weekly with much shorter stories. Then in the early 2000s, the same black and white theme was held, except a new colorful front page was created and began to be handed out monthly. Slowly over the 2000s, the Knight Errant paper shifted into more of a tabloid format with one big story per page, and a more professional style and design began to become incorporated.

In 2009, the Knight Errant made its first debut online and has won SNO’s distinguished site award every year since its been around (since 2014). Then in the spring of 2014, the Knight Errant created its first-ever KEQ. Named Knight Errant

Quarterly, the goal was to produce a magazine for each quarter of the year. However, now there are only 3 KEQ’s produced, with the last one doubling as apotheosis, the school’s literary art magazine.

At the end of every year, the Knight Errant is submitted to Colombia Scholastic Press Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. The Knight Errant is proud of all its accomplishments including winning various scholastic press association awards and being at least a finalist for the online pacemaker award every year since 2009. Although winning awards is exciting, these awards are not the goal of the Knight Errant. “The biggest success is not the awards we have won, but rather how we are and remain a student-driven, student-run press association,” Knight Errant advisor Kari Koshiol said.

Every year the Knight Errant has its specific goals and along with that personal successes. It could be as simple as no more headshots, better communication, or this year’s goal of better captions. However, a consistent goal of the teachers has been to figure out an effective way to grade this class. The grading system has constantly been evolving over the years, originally students were graded for every story, for

example, losing points if you didn’t get published. However, with this system, there was no way to account for ethics. Nowadays there are targets set for students, along with work review meetings, which creates a real-world learning experience for the students. “We try to assess students in terms of timeliness, quality, contribution, collaboration, and ethics. In this way, their grades are more of a job review. Our goal is to run the classroom like a newsroom,” Knight Errant adviser Tiffany Joseph said.

The Knight Errant’s overall goal is to continue its growth and success, and some of its future goals include bringing back the videography class or creating a broadcasting class. “The use of multimedia gives students the ability to be creative and the option to tell their story uniquely and more comprehensively,” Ms. Anna Overbo said.

The Knight Errant remains a powerful and important experience for the students involved. “I think it’s super powerful how students have the freedom to post what we want and the opportunity to have our work read by our peers, teachers, and administration,” News Editor Quinn Elsenbast said.

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