Around The Diocese For March 6

Celebrating the 64 years of Holy Family School

Father John Boeglin, pastor at Holy Family Parish in Jasper, writes, “We had our first pre-school registration for Holy Trinity Catholic School for the upcoming year. We had a great response and I know that the school leadership is trying to accommodate, as best as possible, the requests of our school families.

“As our school campus receives a new name, we want to celebrate the 64 years of our school as Holy Family. I have recently counted all of our Holy Family graduates displayed in those wall albums in the school. Do you realize that about 2,350 students will have graduated from Holy Family School from 1952 to May 2015?

“The class sizes varied a lot through the years. The first graduating class (1952) had 23 students and last class (2015) will graduate with 18 students. During the 1960’s enrollment increased to an average of 35 to 45 in a class. During that time we had 2 huge classes. The class of 1966 graduated 73 students and the class of 1969 graduated 63 students.

“During the 1970’s the average graduating class sizes were between 53 and 73 students. The 1980’s graduating classes varied from 23 to 53. The 1990’s graduating classes varied from 20 to 33. The 2000’s classes were similar as the previous 10 years, with the exception of the class of 2006 with 46 graduates. The smallest graduating class was the class of 2013 with 13 graduates.

“We will celebrate the legacy of Holy Family School on April 18 , beginning with the 4 p.m. Mass that evening. We are still in the planning stages for this event.”

Information may be found on the parish Facebook site.

Happy Birthday!

Father David Martin, pastor of Sts. Mary and John Parish in Evansville, celebrates his birthday March 12.

Deacon Joseph Seibert, St. John the Baptist Parish, Newburgh, celebrates his birthday March 13.

Deacon Anthony Schapker, St. John the Baptist Parish, Newburgh, celebrates his birthday March 14.

Father John Davidson, administrator of St. Anthony and St. Joseph parishes, both in Evansville, celebrates his birthday March 17.

Anniversaries of ordination

Father John Davidson, administrator of St. Anthony Parish and St. Joseph Parish, both in Evansville, was ordained to the priesthood March 14, 1964.

Father Donald Dilger, The Message columnist and teacher of Scripture in the Diocese of Evansville, was ordained to the priesthood March 15, 1959.

Happy Birthday!

Lora J. Burris, parish catechetical leader at Holy Name Parish, Bloomfield, celebrates her birthday March 12.

Outstanding educator

Judy VanHoosier, principal at Good Shepherd School, Evansville, writes, “Thank you to those who took time to nominate teachers for the UE Outstanding Educator award.

“Congratulations to Debbie Achilles, Tammy Angermeier, Amy Hart, Joe Mayer and Lynn Scheessele for being nominated. Jenny Masterson was also nominated but since she has previously won the award, she was not eligible. Winners will be announced later in the spring.”

Music awards

Marty Craig, principal at Corpus Christi School, Evansville, writes, “Congratulations” to the following students who received gold in the [recent] vocal competition: Emily Herrmann, Anna Blessinger,

Aubrey Singergold, Julia Knight, Ali Schimmell, Anna Greulich, Laine Ruggles, Stasha Glaser.

“The ensemble members received a perfect gold and the members are Stasha Glaser, Julia Knight, Emily Herrmann, Meredith Hagerty, Anna Schneider, Leah Richey, Ali Schimmell, Anna Blessinger, Erin Macke, Emma Elfreich, Laine Ruggles, Anna Greulich and Aubrey Singer.”

Happy Birthday!

Benedictine Sister Karlene Sensmeier, principal at St. Benedict School, Evansville, celebrates her birthday March 13.

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