St.Benedict Monday Mail 5/11/20

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2019-20 SCHOOL CALENDAR

SPRING MUSICAL – LES MISERABLES POSTPONED - TBD PLEASE NOTE - ALL CALENDAR DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE! May 11: AP ZOOM MEETING, 2pm May 18: Underclass Honors Day, 7pm on ZOOM, link to be emailed May 21: Last Day of School June 19: Baccalaureate & Graduation, SBA Gym, 6:00pm (TENTATIVE)

Dear St. Benedict parents, alumni, friends, and supporters I’m emailing because St. Benedict needs your help. We have a number of our families that are currently unable to make tuition payments. We want to help those families continue to receive the benefits of a Catholic education, but we need funds to do that. Your gift today will allow us to Be a Symbol of Hope and extend a helping hand to those most affected by our current crisis.

We’re blessed to have a family make a wonderful donation of $10,000. Our goal this week, our SBA Challenge, is to Be a Symbol of Hope, and triple that gift and transform $10,000 into $30,000. Every dollar raised will go towards tuition relief.

We had hoped to address those needs with our big spring fundraiser, Night at the Nest, but postponed that event to help ensure everyone’s health and safety. Our challenge now is to make up for that shortcoming in our fundraising budget.

Will you rise to this $30,000 SBA Challenge?

We understand that not everyone can make a gift right now. For those that cannot make a financial offering, would you consider making a spiritual gift, and praying with your family for our efforts? For those that can donate, we need your help, and we need it today. Help us to build on that $10,000 gift, with a gift of your own. www.sbaeagles.org/donate Thank you, as always, for your support. God Bless and Go Eagles!

Matt Stark, Director of Advancement, starkm@sbaeagles.org

Dear Parents, A Transition Advisory Committee has been put in place to advise all diocesan and parish schools within the Diocese of Memphis on safe practices and procedures for returning to school in August, 2020. The transition committee met last week and will continue to meet for the duration of the summer months.

The transition committee members are as follows: Teddi Niedzwiedz- Principal of St. Louis Catholic School Sondra Morris-Principal of St. Benedict High School at Auburndale Sandra Goldstein-Human Resource Director-Catholic Diocese of Memphis Cristy Sneed-Principal of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Vickie Shaw-Assistant Principal of St. Louis Catholic School Colleen Butterick, Ed.D., LPC- Director of Counseling for the Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Memphis. Dr. Butterick has a doctorate in Counseling and Master and Bachelor degrees in Clinical Psychology. In addition to her work with the Catholic schools, Dr. Butterick has been in private practice in the field of clinical mental health for over 30 years. Her areas of expertise are children and adolescents. Dr. Butterick's children attended Holy Rosary School, Immaculate Conception High School and Christian Brothers High School, and her grandchildren presently attend St. Louis Catholic School and Saint Dominic School.

Lynn Garibaldi Kirkland- has two sons, Clay, a senior at CBHS and Corbin, a 7th grader at St. Louis Catholic School. She attended Holy Rosary and graduated from St. Agnes Academy in 1985. At the age of 14, she was volunteering at St Francis Hospital as a candy striper and was called to nursing. She received her BSN and MSN at the University of TN Health Science Center, College of Nursing. After working as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, Dr. Kirkland received a Doctorate of Nursing Science degree and completed an online Nurse Midwifery program out of Hayden KY. She has worked in L&D at The Med, Ambulatory Care at Gailor Clinic, and was a nurse practitioner at the MedPlex. She was an Associate Professor at the Univ of TN Health Science Center College of Nursing and taught all of the Women's Health curriculum in the BSN, Accelerated BSN, MSN and DNP programs for 10 years. The entire curriculum for the DNP program was online using the Blackboard platform. Nursing was the testing ground for new online learning strategies and new IT devices like Clickers in the classroom. Currently, and for the last 25 years, Dr. Kirkland has been a Women’s health nurse practitioner at MOGA. Lindsay Wilemon RN, BSN, CPN has been the school nurse at SBA for the last 5 years. Prior to School Nursing, Lindsay spent 12 years as a Pediatric Oncology nurse at St. Jude. She taught as an Adjunct Nursing Clinical instructor for Murray State for three semesters. She has been a Certified Pediatric Nurse since 2011.

Lindsay is a CPR and First Aid instructor and has taught classes at schools and in the community. She has four sons, ages 15, 14, 12, and 8 who attend Catholic Schools.

Chrissy Edwards, MSN, RN- A former Surgical Nurse, Chrissy currently works as a Nurse Educator for a medical device company. She and her family are members of St. Louis Parish, and her two children attend St.

Louis School. Chrissy graduated from St. Agnes Academy and the University of Tennessee Knoxville before earning her Master’s Degree in nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center.

Don Thompson- Currently is the Director of Safety and Security at St Francis of Assisi Catholic School. Don retired from the U.S. Navy as an Executive Officer at SEAL Team ONE in 1996 and began teaching in 1997.Don has been with St. Francis since 2005. He has taught PK3/4, Kindergarten (12 years), and First Grade as well as served as Early Childhood Director.

He and his wife Julie together have 7 children and 5 grandchildren.

Kristine R. Crews directs a research laboratory in the Pharmaceutical Sciences department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and is Director of a Residency in Clinical Pharmacogenomics. Dr. Crews earned both her B.S. in pharmacy and her Pharm.D. degrees from Rutgers University. Dr. Crews completed her residency training at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center and completed a research fellowship in clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics at the University of North Carolina and Glaxo Wellcome, Inc. She and her husband Jimmy have 3 children in area Catholic schools.

Angela Fox, MHA is an Executive Director of Operations at Baptist Medical Group. In her role, Angela oversees clinic operations and financial performance of metro Memphis primary care, pediatrics, hospitalists, as well as a number of support departments. She grew up in Memphis, attended elementary school at St. Ann Bartlett and graduated high school from St. Agnes Academy (’96). Angela and her husband, Jason, have two children at St. Louis School, Anna (6th) and John (5th).

Renata Guimaraes, BSN, RN-Renata is the school nurse at St. Francis of Assissi.

Jane Hood- is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner with Mednax Medical Group, as well as University Clinical Health.

Lesley Heckaman- moved here from South Bend, Indiana about 18 months ago.

She is the system director of Employee Health for Baptist Memorial Hospital System and an RN. She has been in health care for 20 years. She has two amazing children: Liam is 5 and attends St. Francis and Madelynn is a freshman and attends St. Benedicts. Leslie attended Catholic School until college and feels blessed to be part of this amazing community.

Scott A. Brown, Ph.D.-Director of Immuno-technology Resource Center, Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. Dr. Brown earned his undergraduate B.S. degree from Murray State University with a major in Biology. He continued his secondary education at the University of Louisville where he completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Biology. In 2001, he joined the group of Nobel Laureate, Peter Doherty, at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for his post-doctoral fellowship to aid in the development of a prophylactic vaccine against HIV, as well as to study the various immune modalities associated with influenza infections. Currently, he directs the Immuno-technology Resource Center at St. Jude where he generates monoclonal antibodies, uses phage display for the generation of fragment antigen-binding (Fab) proteins, and various other reagents used to assist in the studies of basic research performed at St. Jude. During his scientific career, he has published over 40 original scientific manuscripts. Dr. Brown has spent several years in a community outreach program established at St. Jude aimed to educate grade school through high school students about cancer.

Wesley Wade is a lifelong Memphian and graduate of St. Louis Catholic School and St. Agnes Academy. She has three children who attend St. Louis Catholic School, St. Agnes Academy and Christian Brothers High School. Wesley earned her Bachelors of Science in Nursing degree from The University of Memphis Loewenberg School of Nursing and is a registered nurse. After receiving her certification, she began her career at Methodist Central Hospital where she worked in neurosurgery. She also has been an employee of Methodist LeBonheur Surgery Center and realized her love for pediatrics. Most recently she has worked as a school nurse at Hutchison School.

William Mabry, PharmD, MBA- Dr. Mabry currently serves as the Medication Safety Manager at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. He and his family are members of St. Louis Parish and his three children attend St. Louis School. William graduated from the University of Alabama, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, and received his MBA from the University of Memphis.

John Hyden, MD- Dr. Hyden is a graduate of St. Anne Highland School 89 and St. Benedict at Auburndale 93.

He is a Parishioner at Holy Rosary. He and his wife Courtney have three children, Jack (4th grade at Holy Rosary), Reid (Kindergarten at Holy Rosary),and Mary Elizabeth is 2 years old. John graduated from the University of Memphis 97 BS Biology and 2000 MBA. He is a graduate of UTHSC College of Medicine 2005.

He did his residency in Family Medicine at Wake Forest University 2008. Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Boston University 2009. Primary Care Sports and Orthopedics Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics for the past 10 years. Fellowship Director Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship UTHSC. Team Physician: US Soccer, Memphis Grizzlies, Memphis Redbirds, Memphis 901FC, The University of Memphis, Christian Brothers University, Rhodes College, St. Benedict at Auburndale. Medical Director St. Jude Memphis Marathon. Chair of St. Benedict at Auburndale Advisory Board Please be assured that we are doing everything possible to insure a safe return to our schools and to protect our students, teachers and parents.

May God continue to bless us and bestow His wisdom and guidance upon this transition committee.

Sincerely, Mrs. Janet Donato Superintendent

____________________________________________________________________________ Due to risks associated with the COVID19 pandemic, schools are closed and life for students has changed significantly. Of all students impacted, high school seniors may be the most affected. They have missed proms, graduations, state playoffs, big goodbyes and celebrations.

While we can’t replace these missed milestones, our high school sports awards team didn’t want this moment to pass without recognition and a pause of celebration for these seniors.

The USA Today Network will pay tribute to senior high school athletes who did not get to participate in spring sports with a special segment in the Commercial Appeal High School Sports Awards Shows, premiering across the country on Thursday, June 18.

Join the movement, share the stories and submit yourself or the high school senior who should be included in this special tribute by May 14. And be sure to tune in to the awards shows at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 18.

https://sportsawards.usatoday.com/seniors/#//

Be sure to check out the Annual Art Show at this link. https://kaitlynstoddard.pic-time.com/-stbenedictartshow ADMISSIONS Are you concerned about the future of your high school student? Finding the solutions through goodness, beauty and truth only comes with an authentic Catholic education.

Let St. Benedict at Auburndale High School (SBA) be the answer to your prayers. Applications being accepted for 2020-21. sbaeagles.org Admissions Tours continue at St. Benedict!

Are you are looking for another option for your child’s education?

St. Benedict invites you to a personal one-to-one video tour with our Director of Admissions, Justin Wharton. Follow the link below to sign up for a day and time. https://bit.ly/34a397c

Question Questions about Home & School? email sbahomeandschool@gmail.com

LIBRARY BOOKS NEED TO BE RETURNED! For information contact - Mr. Bryant at bryantp@sbaeagles.org

REMINDER ~If your child is too ill to complete the daily assignments, please email Mrs. Wilemon, R.N., our school nurse. Mrs. Wilemon will be in communication with faculty regarding excused absences. (Wilemonl@sbaeagles.org) ~If your child has questions regarding an assignment, an email should be sent to the teacher. Each faculty member will be closely monitoring their emails Monday - Friday, from 8 am - 3 pm. (email available in PLUS PORTALS) ~If your child needs access to a library book or database, please email Mr. Bryant, our media specialist.

(Bryantp@sbaeagles.org) ~If you or your child feels the need to reach out to a school counselor, please do so by email. Our school counselors will be monitoring their emails during the school day as well.

9th and 10th grade counselor: Mrs. Cox (coxm@sbaeagles.org) 11th grade counselor: Mrs. Brannon (brannonj@sbaeagles.org) 12th grade counselor: Ms. Scates (scatess@sbaeagles.org) ~If your child is experiencing issues with his/her school-issued laptop, please email our IT office. (it@sbaeagles.org) ~If your child is having issues with accessing online textbooks, please email Mrs. Sutton. (suttonm@sbaeagles.org) ~ Please note that all areas of our campus are closed (including all athletic fields). ~If your child needs to retrieve something from the building, please email Mr. Hooper, Campus Safety & Security Director (hooperm@sbaeagles.org) ~If you or your child experiences any issues with your PLUS PORTAL, logging on or accessing your account – email Mrs. Donato. (donatom@sbaeagles.org) ~ The School Main Phone line, 901-260-2840, is being monitored and answered from 8 am – 3 pm each weekday should you need to call. ~All office staff (Business Office, Admissions, Athletics, Communications, Campus Operations, Advancement & Marketing) and Administrators are also available via email each school day as well.

God Bless and Go Eagles!

SBA wants to be a symbol of Hope during these unprecedented times by supporting school families, future Eagles, alumni, friends and supporters. We have compiled a list of businesses that have a connection in one way or another to our school. They might be open right now and need your immediate support, or they might be currently closed, but in need of your support when we resume living the way we’re accustomed.

“A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed."

If you’d like to add a business to this list, please email Dir. of Advancement Matt Stark starkm@sbaeagles.org. Thank you, God Bless and Go, Eagles!

Food Casa Mexicana Charlie’s Meat Market Chez Philippe Crazy Italians Dixie Queen Milano’s Pizza River Oaks Roosters Chicken Shack Skybox Grill Superlo Foods Vanelli’s Deli VooDoo Café Business A & B Body Shop Absolute Moving Services Ace Hardware Aquarium Services Arlington Liquors Beach Body Tans Bellano Dental Health Bonnie Henry, Crye-Leike Campbell Clinic Discovery Learning Academy Ditto Aesthetics Elvis’s Auto’s Ferren Family Counseling Frase Protection G & H Heating+Air Great Clips Highbar Trading Co. Prudent Financial Richard & Co. Salon Richards Heating & Air Saba Automotive Salon Ziba Shades of Color Landscaping Smith’s Plumbing Services Studio v Salon Supercuts Susan St. John, Crye-Leike Tennessee Window Tint Terminix Tiffany Cotner, Keller Williams Tracy’s Foreign Car Service

8057 Highway 64, Memphis 38113 4700 Summer Ave, Memphis 38122 2638, 149 Union Ave, Memphis 38103 1250 N. Germantown Pkwy #105, Cordova 38016 1884 N. Germantown Pkwy, Cordova 38016 2735 Highway 64, Eads 38028 5871 Poplar Ave., Memphis 38119 5980 Bartlett Center Place, Bartlett 38134 2140 W. Poplar Ave., Collierville 38017 4571 Quince Road, Memphis 38117 7873 Farmington Blvd., Germantown 38138 2780 Bartlett Blvd., Bartlett 38134

213-0775 683-1192 529-4000 347-2499 321-5185 235-7377 683-9305 877-5555 854-0509 683-5594 754-2246 590-4007

5405 Pleasant View Road, Memphis 38145

262-8547 304-3470 466-0316 491-1410 867-2745 372-1555 388-9110 833-5308 759-3111 484-1533 755-9300 385-9191 498-9126 755-1800 870-0971 236-7257 762-1270 820-4406 861-1414 301-2054 382-0299 828-4968 570-0700 334-1048 461-3511

7860 Highway 64, Oakland 38060 11949 US-70, Arlington 38002 6490 Memphis Arlington Road, Bartlett 38135 2705 Appling Road, Memphis 38133 7887 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown 38138 2596 Corp. Ave, Memphis 38132 1600 Bonnie Lane, Suite 106, Cordova 38016 6397 Summer Ave, Memphis 38134 818 Willow Tree Circle, Cordova 38018 1691 N. Germantown Pkwy., Cordova 38018 5406 Republic Drive, Memphis 38118 5100 Poplar Ave., Suite 2220, Memphis 38137 2150 W. Poplar Ave., Suite 104, Collierville 38017 5290 Crestview Drive, Memphis 38134 7727 Highway 70, Bartlett 38133 2362 N. Germantown Pkwy., Cordova 38016 6820 Braden Road, Arlington 38002 6843 Summer Ave, Bartlett 38134 6525 Memphis Arlington Rd., Memphis 38135 Supercuts.com 2330 Harley Wind Drive, Memphis 38134

646 Monroe Ave., Memphis 38103

412-4481 213-0905 937-2560 581-3242 526-1644

Faith at SBA!

Mass offered in memory or honor of a loved one or friend?

Contact: Sharon Masterson mastersons@sbaeagles.org

SBA Project Graduation 2019-20 We’re still planning to have this fun event for our seniors!

A tradition for the St. Benedict seniors is a drug and alcohol free “lock-in” given by the senior parents. Over 95% of our seniors participate each year and they have a wonderful time. We rent out Incredible Pizza and they have unlimited play time, as well as unlimited pizza, drinks and snacks. Whether your child loves go-karts, bowling, putt-putt, laser tag or lots of video game. There is something for everyone! Each senior receives a goodie bag valued at over $100 as well as super door prizes that have included 32-inch flat screen TV’s, Yetis and Gift Cards to name a few. It will also be the last time they will all be together as a group.

SENIOR PARENTS, BE SURE TO SEND IN YOUR STUDENT’S RESERVATION AND PAYMENT!

We hope to have Project Graduation in conjunction with the Commencement ceremony that the school is planning – Date to be announced.

Ticket price is $175, payable to SBA. Amy Iovinelli, SBA Project Graduation Committee Chair 901.849.9644 • amyiov6@gmail.com

St Benedict Project Graduation Rules & Permission Form SBA Project Graduation (PG) is held on the night of graduation at Incredible Pizza from 11:30 pm-5:00 am.

Incredible Pizza is located at 1245 Germantown Parkway Cordova, 309-3132. The purpose of SBA Project Graduation is to have a drug and alcohol-free evening of fun and fellowship one last time.

RULES: If graduate arrives and is suspected to be “under the influence” (either alcohol or drugs) and the student fails a Breathalyzer test, parents will be called and the student will not be admitted to Project Graduation regardless of the paid admission.

▪ We strongly suggest that parents drop off their students and pick them up due to the long hours of fun, they will be very tired.

▪ No guests are allowed; ONLY students of the SBA Class of 2020 who have paid.

▪ Check-in is between 11:30 pm - 12:00 am. No one will be able to enter after 12:00 am.

▪ All bags, purses and items brought must be checked in. The less students bring with them the better. Storage is limited.

▪ No one will be allowed to leave early without a signed parental form. If a student has permission to leave, a parent will be notified and the student will not be allowed to re-enter. Students will not be eligible for door prizes if they leave early.

▪ There will be food and drink provided all night long.

▪ PG ends by 5:00 am. If a student does not feel capable driving home, please notify any of the chaperones and we will call a parent to come pick-up him/he.

Any questions or if you need to reach us during the event: Amy Iovinelli (901.849.9644)

SBA Project Graduation Permission Form I/We do give our child ______________________________permission to attend Project Graduation, and we acknowledge the rules listed above.

I/We can be reached at ___________________________ in the event of an emergency.

I/We DO______ give our child_____________________ permission to leave Project Graduation at any time during the event. WE acknowledge that we will be notified by the phone number listed above that he/she is leaving.

I/We DO NOT______ give our child_____________________ permission to leave Project Graduation until the event is finished.

Signature: _____________________________________ Date: __________________________

QUESTIONS? – Contact Amy Iovinelli, amyiov6@gmail.com, 901-849-9644

March 30, 2020 Dear Parents, We wanted to update you regarding your student’s Eagle Café balance.

If we do NOT return to school from the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of the semester: • Declining balances o All positive balances will roll over to the 2020-2021 school year. o All outstanding negative balances are due as soon as possible. Balances must be paid in full. A balance notification letter will be emailed to you soon from our point of sale system.

• Meal Plan Participants o For any days missed since March 16 due to being out from the COVID-19 Pandemic, we will issue a credit to the declining balance account for the 20202021 school year. Credits will be applied at the end of the semester.

• If your student is graduating or transferring to another school, we will issue a refund at the end of the semester. A withdrawal request must come to us from the school business office.

Should we return to school before the end of the semester, we will issue credits for days missed to the declining balance account.

We encourage you to take this time to review your balance online at www.mypaymentsplus.com. Individual statements have been emailed to all students with balances due on their account. Please send payment to clear the balance by the end of the month. You can send payment to SBA (via mail) or make your payment online with the MYPAYMENTS plus account.

If you have never logged in before and need your student’s ID number to register, please contact Angela Reed at areed@mmihg.com. Please let us know if you have any questions at all about your account. Thank you and stay well!

Angela Reed, Food Service Director MMI Dining Systems, St. Benedict