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Catholic Memorial School e-Knightline March 15, 2010

MGH's The One Hundred Award to Honor CM

Mass General Hospital will honor the students and administration of Catholic Memorial School on June 2 as one of this year's "The 100."

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The annual recognition given by MGH since 2008 is designed to honor "one hundred individuals and groups whose diligence and discoveries, philanthropy and passion have helped advance the fight against cancer."

In CM's case, MGH will pay tribute to the school for its five-year involvement in the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Walk, held each October on the Boston esplanade...[read more]

Parents Council Fashion Show this Sunday!

A limited number of tickets are available until Wednesday for this Sunday's Parents Council Fashion Show. Tickets are $50 each or $400 for a table

of eight. Click here to purchase your tickets.

This year's Fashion Show, to be held at Moseley's on the Charles, will include fashions for both women and men and an exciting series of silent auction items. Click here for a complete list of silent auction and raffle baskets.

CM Alumni: News and Notes

Mike Dunne '70 recently completed the Leadership Chattanooga Program, where he was selected as class speaker for graduation. He has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and was recently honored for his Discount Drug Program by NACo--the National Association of Counties.

Mark Hohmann '93 lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where he is the business manager of St. Francis High School. He earned a Master's degree in Ministry and Business Management, and married Julie Webb in 2008.

William DeSimone '04 graduated from Curry College in 2009 with a major in criminology and is hoping to get a job in that field as a probation officer.

Douglas Eberly '05 has been selected as one of 25 members of the U.S. Coast Guard accepted to flight school for this upcoming year. It's likely that he'll start his training in Pensacola, FL this fall.

Anthony Straughn '05 (above, center) was one of eight students at Bridgewater State College to be inducted into the Hall of Black Achievers on February 27. At Bridgewater, Straughn has served as a resident assistant, treasurer and president of the Afro-Am Society, and vice president of Men Integrated in Brotherhood. He was also a senator and vice president of the Student Government Association and vice president of the Pre-Law Association. Straughn studied criminal justice and hopes to attend law school.

Note: these are just some of the News/Notes that alumni have been submitting for the next issue of CM Magazine. Alumni--click here to send us your news, photos, or updates!

Upcoming Alumni Receptions
Fort Lauderdale, FL Reception
Wednesday, March 24, 5pm-7pm
Hosted by Jack Mulhern '63

Naples, Florida Reception
Sunday, March 28, 5pm-7pm
Hosted by Jack Cleary '64 and his wife, Nancy Cleary

Please RSVP to Douglas Zack, Director of Advancement (617) 469-8017 or DouglasZack@CatholicMemorial.org

Dyson wins Gold Key from Scholastic and Boston Globe

Dyson's work (pictured below), one of four CM students' artwork earning honors with the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards, will be on display at Boston's Museum of Transportation for the month. His work, titled "Measurement of Man," looked so precise and professional that art teacher Ann Malachowski had trouble believing he had completed the entire project himself...

Along with Dyson '12, Philip Hong '11, James Donovan '10 and Mike Larocque '10 earned honorable mention. All four students were honored at a Boston Globe hosted ceremony over February vacation...[read more]

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Behind the Iron Curtain: BERSI in Eastern Europe

"Standing at 'Checkpoint Charlie' and the remnants of the Berlin Wall, brought me back in time to a world that I thought never existed, or that I never appreciated." So wrote Michael Gallagher '11, one of the thirty-two students on this February's BERSI trip to Eastern Europe, in his reflections afterward.

Joined by Director of Campus Ministry and theology chair Brian Scott and theology teachers William Hahn and Tim Lewis, the group visited Munich, Krakow, Prague and Berlin.

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Gallagher continued: "Prior to my visit, the Berlin Wall was just a wall, and nothing more. But I learned that the magnitude of despair there was much greater than what I would have imagined before visiting it..." [read more]

Campus Ministry focuses Missions Collections on Spirit Week, Lent

This year, CM's homeroom collection for the Missions is taking place only during Lent, and this week, students can dress down for a $10 donation to the missions. Here, CM's communications director Mr. McGonegal reflects on where our missions money goes.

Let me tell you about the men who receive our missions money.

They are men like Br. James Glos, Br. Richard Glatz, and Br. Michael O'Donnell. They're Edmund Rice Christian Brothers who work in the poorest neighborhoods of Lima, Arequipa, Chimbote and Moyobambo, Peru.

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It's been great getting to know these men through the past two BERSI student trips to Peru. Last June, Ms. Hamilton and I took twelve students to Canto Grande, where CM's "sister school" is.

Before I left, I asked Brother Glos how I should bring the missions money to him. "Cash," he said.

Needless to say, I was worried to act as the courier of a four-figure sum of money through the streets of Lima, where thousands of people in great need would probably like to get their hands on it...[read more]