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St.
Henry School Newsletter
April 16, 2010
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Saint
Henry Catholic School
“Soaring with the Lord!” 300 E. Cady Street · Watertown, WI
53094
920/261-2586 · 920/261-3681 (FAX) |
“Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain to receive power and riches,
wisdom and strength, honor and
glory and blessing.”
Revelation 5:12
Those of us who were able to attend the
NCEA (National Catholic Education Association) Convention last week had a
WONDERFUL and very WORTHWHILE experience – as we knew we would. Those who couldn’t go came to school and
worked four days from 8 to 3 or 4 in our library to get it ready for next
year’s computerized system for checking out books. Because they were so determined to get it
finished, they even gobbled down lunches to rush back to the task. Although just a little more needs to be done,
those teachers were justifiably proud of what they did get accomplished. We hope all of you were able to get in some
quality family time over the unusually long Easter break. And wasn’t the weather a joy many of those
days?
Lots of things included in this week’s envelope
for your reading pleasure. Be sure to
check carefully our ongoing calendar on the other side since it contains
details about some interesting activities beginning tomorrow! The state sent some important information
about dangerous spring weather which we were able to whittle down from four
sides to two, since some pertained to schools and/or certain counties
only. Given Wisconsin’s vulnerability to
tornadoes, I urge you to take the time to peruse that. You will also receive the Home and School minutes
from last Monday’s meeting. Please take
the time to read them over. Notice the
openings for next year! Some of you will
also discover grade or activity-specific inclusions in your children’s
envelopes.
Request from our parish finance office. Those
of you who have your children use their own envelopes for giving at Mass –
bless your hearts! – please have them get in the practice of writing their
names and grades on the envelope. It
will help with the bookkeeping task a lot.
In the future, as a cost-cutting measure, the children’s envelopes will
have no numbers on them and it will be necessary for them to be in the habit of
writing their names and grades on them.
Thank you.
Just an FYI.
Someone mentioned to me that they didn’t realize that I, Mrs. Butzine,
the Principal, wrote the newsletter.
Yup. ‘Tis I. I confess.
The mistakes are mine too. It
occasionally enters my head that I should sign this but then again I am usually
trying to limit this to one side and often don’t have room for that. But this week I threw my hands up in
despair. Too many things to share about
children who accomplished some good things recently. (You might have noticed
these in the Daily Times and the Catholic Herald.) I apologize – truly – if I am missing someone. Our Janelle Hamilton won first place in the diocesan
level Knights of Columbus grade seven spelling contest. In the Daily Times
“Design an Ad” contest fifth grader Emma Cole placed second in the grades 4-6
category. Congratulations, Girls. You will find the Third Quarter Honor Roll on
the other side.
I do have to share what I considered an
extraordinary finding over the break. I
decided to go to the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit at the Milwaukee Museum on Holy
Thursday morning. It’s definitely geared
to grownups (or possibly older children with an interest in archaeology). I was looking at a display of ossuaries found
in excavations around Jerusalem. They
varied in age from a few centuries before Christ and then into that first
century A.D. They were limestone bone
containers used after a person’s body had decomposed in the burial caves enough
to put the skeletal remains inside after about a year and seal them inside
these ossuaries. Many of them had Hebrew
or Aramaic inscriptions. And then I came
upon one that knocked my socks off. The
information posted with it said the archaeological scientists were almost
certain this particular one contained the bones of Alexander, the son of Simon
the Cyrene whom the Romans soldiers forced into helping Jesus carry his cross
up to Calvary. Quite certain!! It also mentioned that the Cyrenian Jews were
definitely among the very first Christian community in that first century
Jeruasalem. Mark’s Gospel, written for
the early Christian Jewish community in Palestine, says in chapter 15:21 “A man named Simon of Cyrene,
the father of Alexander and Rufus, was coming in from the fields, and
they pressed him into service to carry the cross.” Mark certainly must have thought the first
readers of his work would recognize the names of Alexander and Rufus or why
would he have mentioned them? And here I
was about 20 centuries later looking at the final resting place for this very
same Alexander. Wow!
Now for our THIRD QUARTER HONOR
ROLL. Three cheers of all of them for
their hard work.
Those with a grade point average of 3.2 to
just under 3.8 are as follows:
Grade Four Jake Evans, Sara Lemminger, Colin
Uecker, and Ethan Walter
Grade Five Joseph Brebeck, Robert Craig, Caitlynn
Hesse, Jesse Jurgella, and Brenna Jo Smedema
Grade Six Brett Caine, Alexander Denault,
Kirstin Evans, Rochelle Gray, John Hertel, Jesse Jones,
Holly Krueger,
Mara Lapp, Lacey Mehltretter, Stephanie Narvaez, Grace O’Connor,
Zachary Vacek,
and Rebecca Vandersommen
Grade Seven Isaac Elsen, Cole Keller, Jeffrey
Schultz, and Caleb Walter
Grade Eight Abigail Beltz, Jill Brebeck, Angela
Breunig, Justin Drebenstedt, Adrian Gottwein,
and Terrence
Reno
The high honor roll students with a grade
point average of 3.8 to 4.0 are as follows:
Grade Four Alyssa Denault and Kaitlyn Linskens
Grade Five
Emma Cole, Gabriel Elsen, Erin Haeger, Karli Kohls, and Natalia Olguin
Grade Six Sarah Bradow, Jennifer Brebeck, Trey
Jahnke, Christopher Justmann, Gabriel Linskens,
Joshua Schroeder, and Steven Vacek
Grade Seven Noah Cole, Janelle Hamilton and Leah
Uecker
Grade
Eight Sara Hogan, Jessica
Mallow, and Kristin Miller
Dates to Mark on Your
Calendar
APRIL
Saturday 17 Watertown’s
CHILDREN’s DAY – 9-12; High School Commons area –
just inside main doors. Especially
relevant for parents & youngsters
from infancy to age 8. Say “Hi!” to Mrs. Kemp & Mrs. Burdick;
enjoy their special fun
activity.
Sunday 18 First
Grade families’ social gathering, 1-3 pm, Mullen’s Store
Monday 19 Grade
Two walking to St. Bernard School for a shared lunch hour. St. B’s Third
Grade coming here.
Weather permitting, of course.
Tuesday 20 Education
Commission mtg., Rectory Hall, 6:30 pm – always open to anyone
interested in attending.
Wednesday 21 Grade One has liturgical roles during 8:15 Mass
9:45 Grade Six play Ivanhoe in PC for 4K- Grade Four
Students
10:45 Band Ensemble performances for all students in PC
Parents welcome to either or
both!
11:30
dismissal for all K-8 students
Friday 23 Student
Council “Hat Day”
Sat-Sun 24-25 Registration
for St. Henry 2010-11 ATHLETIC programs after
4:00 pm (Sat) and8:30 and
10:30 am Masses in school’s first
floor hallway for NEXT
year’s 4-8
Monday 26 “Girls
Night Out,” Riverside Middle School, 6:30 – 8 pm, Grades
4-6 daughters &Moms; information
in Friday, April 16th envelope.
Friday 30 First
Communion “Retreat,” begins at 4:45 in Church
Parents come again to Church
at 7:30 pm for practice for Sunday.
MAY
Sunday 02 First
Communicants meet in first floor hallway at 10:00 am
Memory
verse for week of April 19-23
“My sheep hear my
voice; I know them and they follow
me.” John 10: 27s