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Greetings!
 | | Brenda Brown, Director of Advancement |
The last quarter of 2010 brings you many great ways to get connected at Prep. The list of fun events include the 11th Annual Prep Classic at Madden's, Collegeville Colors, Oktoberfest, Legacy Dinner, the Loeber Lunch in Saint Paul and Christmas at Saint John's. If you haven't yet joined us at one or more of these events, please consider this your personal invite for the remaining events! More information can be found on the PAN.
PAN? What's the PAN? It's the new Prep Alumni Network! This new online service is only available to Prep alums (you are an alum if you sat in a Prep chair as a student for one day!). You are now able to search online for other Preps, by graduating year, first and last name and you can also conduct advanced searches by geography and occupation. So if you are looking for a Prep podiatrist in Pittsburgh, you can now find that person! Due to privacy concerns, we are not able to directly give personal information for alums. With the PAN, you set your own privacy controls for your profile and choose what you'd like other alums to see.
The PAN also has all of our events and online registration with the ability to securely pay for events and make donations. For those of you who like Facebook, you can link the PAN to your Facebook account. And for those who don't care for Facebook, but still want to connect with Preps, it works completely outside of Facebook as well.
The other exciting aspect of the PAN is the Career Center. Preps can post open positions, search for jobs, post your resume and also request Career Mentors or volunteer as a Mentor. In these crazy economic times, we all need to tap into our networks and we hope that the PAN will help our Prep alumni connect with other Preps. Please post any open positions you may have and consider volunteering as a Career Mentor to help out a Prep who is just starting out.
If you are an alum, you will shortly be receiving a letter which gives you your ID number, but click here to check it out and register. You might be able to register with your birthdate before you receive the letter (we don't have birthdates for all Preps, hence the ID number mailing). You can also access PAN through www.sjprep.net under Alumni/Prep Alumni Network or Alumni/Find a Classmate.
We hope that you will find a way to connect with Prep- either at an event or in the comfort of your own home. Let's keep our Community strong!
Benedictine Peace,
Brenda |
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Come and see the SJP Fall play - Our Town |  The Saint John's Preparatory School's Theatre Department will present "Our Town" today, Friday, October 29th and Saturday, October 30th at 7:30 pm and Sunday, October 31st at 2:00 pm in the Stephen B. Humphrey Auditorium at Saint John's University. Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the door up to 30 minutes prior to each performance. All seating is general admission. |
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Your feedback is needed! | |
You are an integral part of our school community and we would like your opinions. As part of our periodic self-study process, we are conducting a formal survey of our constituents. The survey will take approximately ten minutes to complete. Please note the following.
· Please review the school's mission statement prior to completing the survey: Saint John's Preparatory School exists to inspire students to great achievements and self-understanding by involving them in a premiere liberal arts curriculum focused on Academic Rigor and Spiritual Growth within a Benedictine Environment.
· Your answers are anonymous and confidential, so please provide your honest opinion. We are using a third party (ISACS survey team) to process the survey and we will not know the identity of any survey participant.
Please take the survey multiple times if you have multiple roles within the school. For example, if you hold all of these roles, please answer the questions from a parent's perspective, then take the survey again as an alumni, then again as a staff member.
· You will be able to provide written or narrative comments about your views of our school along with answers to specific questions.
· Please complete the survey during this session. The survey will close on November 12, 2010.
· Please let Brenda Brown know if you have technical difficulties with the survey. CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY - Thank you!
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Annual Legacy Dinner Celebration- November 13th, 2010 | |
You are cordially invited to join
Headmaster, Timothy Backous, OSB, members of the Prep School's Board of Regents, Alumni Board,
faculty and staff in celebrating the many successes of
Saint John's Preparatory School on
Saturday, November 13, 2010
6:00 Social 6:30 Dinner
The Weber Center
Saint John's Preparatory School
The Legacy Dinner is Saint John's Preparatory School's
annual celebration of its founding on November 10, 1857.
The Legacy Dinner celebrates and thanks our
supporters and honors those who have made a
special impact on the life of the school.
Armor of Light Awardee
+Fr. Jim Tingerthal, OSB '52
Lumen Gentium Awardee
Carol Hrdlicka,
Wife and Champion of
POW David Hrdlicka '50
Please R.S.V.P. online by clicking here
by Monday, November 8th or contact Mary
at mritter@csbsju.edu or 320-363-3317.
(Reservations required, seating is limited.) |
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Texas Stand Up - Join us for a SJP evening! Nov. 10th |  Once again, you are all invited to "break bread" with Brenda Brown, Director of Advancement, and get the latest and greatest news from Saint John's Prep. Details of this upcoming event are as follows:
Maggiano's Little Italy
November 10th, 2010
7 to 9 PM
205 Northpark Ctr
Dallas, Texas 75225
214-360-0707
Cross Streets: Northwest Hwy and North Central Expwy (75) Northwest Corner
Ask for the Saint John's table in the Sunroom
This will be a casual event at a great restaurant where you can drop by anytime after 7 and enjoy a family style Italian dinner and reminisce with fellow alums and friends of the Prep School. There is no cost for this event but any contributions will go to the Saint John's Prep.
Please RSVP by Nov 9th to Williammarrin@yahoo.com or 469-358-7383.
Regards,
Bill Marrin
SJP '61, SJU '65
We look forward to seeing all of you who can attend!
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Alumni Career Day Presenters Needed |
Every other year we hold an Alumni Career Day at Prep. This is a fun and informative day where students explore career choices with alums. This year it will be held on Friday, April 8, 2011 and we need alum presenters! We
wrap up the day with a Seniors vs. Alumni basketball game, so come out to cheer on your classmates or play. If you have questions or are intersted in participating, please contact Mary Jo Leighton '80 at mleighton@csbsju.edu or Brenda Brown at bbrown@csbsju.edu. |
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Thanks for coming! Oktoberfest 2010 | |
Thank you to all you hungry and thirsty patrons who came and celebrated SJP's  Oktoberfest on October 9th. With the help of Emmerich and Burgi Sack in the kitchen we had fabulous food! Students did a great job serving and taking care of our guests. We had a small beer crisis in the beginning for which we apologize, but after the fix the mugs were beautiful and frothy. We are grateful to all the parents, students, volunteers, faculty, staff and alums that made the evening such a success! |
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SJP alum chosen for Lilly Fellow |  Erin Eighan '06 recently recieved the Lilly Fellow. Check out her story! |
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This is cool - Tour the Vatican from your home! |
Tony Mediavilla wrote in to share a great website. "For your enjoyment!  This site is incredible, you can click on any numbered part of the Vatican map, and then move around the interiors enlarging anything that catches your interest. This site could occupy you for a very long time, so pour a cup of something and take a visual trip." Click here to begin your tour.
INSTRUCTIONS: After you link on the site below and select an image and it appears, then HOLD DOWN THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON AND SLOWLY MOVE THE CURSOR AROUND THE ROOM |
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