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St. Henry School Newsletter
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Our VISION:
Responsible and resourceful graduates
rooted in faith and alive in Christ!
A fond and heartfelt “Good-bye and God be with you” to our
eighth grade graduates.
Jarrett Beal Alexander
Beltz
Emily Ceithamer
Megan Feilbach
Melanie Heese Benjamin Krueger
Megan McPherson Timothy Miller
Catherine O’Connor
Joseph O’Gorman David Olguin Nathan Opps
Nicholas Peirick
Andrew Ready David
Schuett
Hayden Searcy Natalie Sims Sarahi Tovar
Anali Valadez Nancy Vega Taylor Wagner
Justin Zimmerman
We will so miss you. Thank you for sharing yourselves with us.
Continue to be great St. Henry Hawks and “SOAR with the Lord!”
A HUGE need for many volunteers for some
really important projects this summer.
Wives, please share these requests with your husbands. We very much need
more than just a few good men!
Project one: Putting in MOUNTING brackets for a TV and DVD
and VCR players in eight classrooms. Mr.
Paul Elsen, a brand new parent whose youngsters just
joined us in May, volunteered to head this project. He is coming here next Tuesday evening to get
a “lay of the land” and will then make final plans on how to proceed. Working on some weekday evenings or on a
Saturday are both possibilities. PLEASE
call him if you think you can contribute your skills and labor to this work. He is available evenings at his home at
206-7535. Please contact him soon
and then he will have your name and number and times when you could help. I KNOW we have some DADS with good basic
carpentry skills.
Project two: Removing our 250 plus locker doors to be
stripped down and re-painted. This has
been a dream of many years and it’s coming true. Thanks to the generosity of HASA, two former
St. Henry School parents, and YOU VOLUNTEERS, our children should come back to
much brighter hallways and almost-like-new lockers! Getting the doors off (and then putting them
back on) will be a tremendous task.
It will need dozens and dozens of volunteers. A date has been picked. Saturday, June 30th. (Earlier Saturdays were ruled out because the
Parish Center had been rented out for graduation parties, and we didn’t think
the party participants would appreciate being overrun by hordes of banging
volunteers in the building.) Although
MEN with MUSCLES and TOOLS are really needed, women would be helpful in bagging
the nuts, bolts, handles and locker number tags and carrying doors to the
loading trailer. And I don’t mean to be
sexist – maybe even some of you gals can help with the doors themselves. Please call Michelle Uecker,
our Home and School president if you know you can come. Her home phone is 206-9125. This project is virtually impossible without
MANY HELPERS but very do-able with them.
Mr. Ruehlow, our maintenance man, will be here
on this date to help. Starting time:
Tools needed:
3/8” hand hex nut driver
flat nose pliers
long thin screwdriver
big heavy slotted screwdrive
normal slotted screwdriver
You might want to have them marked in some
ways for you to identify and/or bring them in a carrying case/bag so they don’t
get mixed up or lost.
Also, would you mind donating/bringing
along some black electrical tape and a box of quart-sized (or bigger) Ziploc or
Hefty bags to store the parts for each locker?
If it’s a hot day, some fans might be a good idea as well. I’m sure HASA will provide some coolers with
soda and water.
Hopefully, we will have so many volunteers
the project will be completed in a matter of hours but since it takes 15-20
minutes to remove the door and its parts, you can see why so many are
needed. Granted, sharp people may devise
a system for speeding up the process but in all fairness, if you can help,
please volunteer and come! We are
talking 250 plus locker doors! By the
way, Mr. Tim Smebak of STRIP IT is the former parent
who is volunteering his large trailer for transporting the doors and is
removing the old paint at a very reasonable cost. Mr. Neeman of AD
Tech is the former dad whose company is donating the entire painting
process. Talk about wonderful people.
Please be one of them! And yes, we will
need probably as large a cadre of volunteers to put the doors back on. It LOOKS as if the date for that will a late
July or early August Saturday but we will have to play that a little by
ear. I suppose the bulletin will be one
way to communicate that date. Maybe HASA
could even consider a calling list to inform parents of that date. Wow.
This is EXCITING!
Dates to Put on Your Calendar
JUNE
Monday 11 School
Awards Assembly, PC,
Graduation,
Tuesday 12 Last
day: Mass at
fun games &
activities,
Sunday 17 Protecting
God’s Children workshop for volunteers,
St. Bernard’s Watertown,
Monday 18 Grades
1-5 SportsLife Camp begins. Thru Thursday. Adult
and older children volunteers needed.
Contact Mr. Weissenborn to
register or help at 261-6332
or 261-8159 or toddwe@charter.net
Saturday 30 All
tuition for 06-07 due. (Please see
contract.)
JULY First monthly payment
for 07-08 tuition sent to SMART
company this month. For those who pay
07-08 tuition in full, due by
end of this month.
May be mailed to St. Henry School.
Sat-Sun
14-15 St. Henry Parish
Picnic! (St. Henry’s feast day is
actually July 13th.) Car raffle winner picked
AUGUST
Monday 13 Athletic
Association Board mtg., computer lab,
Wednesday 15 Protecting
God’s Children workshop for volunteers,
St. Bernard’s Watertown,
Tuesday 21 Protecting
God’s Children workshop for
volunteers,
St. Bernard’s Watertown, Contact
Sr. Marcia Vinje
at 608-821-3031 for time
Wednesday 22 Mandatory
mtg. for St. Henry volleyball coaches,
computer lab,
mtg. for all league volleyball coaches at
Saturday 25 Back-to-School
Packets available in church after Masses.
Please pick up and have requested
paperwork ready to be
brought back first day of school. (Thank you!)
Also, first annual (?)
SEPTEMBER
HASA ALL School Families Back-to-School Picnic after
Tuesday 04 07-08 school year begins at
All School
Mass (grades 1-8) at
Wednesday 05 Protecting
God’s Children workshop for volunteers,
Sacred Hearts, Sun Prairie,
Thursday 06
Parent orientation mtg.,
information that at least one parent
should be
in
attendance to hear. PLEASE set aside the evening.
Saturday 15 Protecting
God’s Children workshop for volunteers,
St. Henry Rectory Hall,
Monday 24 Protecting
God’s Children workshop for volunteers,
Sacred Hearts, Sun Prairie,
St. Henry School’s CORE VALUES:
Joy, prayer, honest effort,
ongoing achievement,
cooperation, and service.