crusader connection week of november 6, 2015
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On the Menu
Upcoming Events
— Week of November 6, 2015 —
Stay Connected with LCHS:
11.6 Tri-M Meeting11.9 No School11.9 Teacher In-Service11.11 Humanities Field Trip to Philadelphia Museum of Art11.12 Group Shadow Day11.12 Academic Council Meeting11.12 Band and Guard Practice
11.6 Cheese ravioli, side salad, Italian bread, fruit, tomato soup, egg salad/tuna11.10 Cheese steak, oven fries, veggies with dip, fruit, chef choice sandwich11.11 Stuffed shells with meat, sauce, side salad, Italian bread, fruit, Italian sub11.12 Chicken and waffles, corn, fruit, hot ham and cheese11.13 Popcorn shrimp, buttered pasta, steamed vegetable, fruit, tomato soup, egg salad/tuna
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Administrative Corner
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Athletics
Attention parents! We need your help at the winter sporting events – this includes concessions, gate sales and help in other miscellaneous areas. Check the website for signup link coming soon.
We are actively seeking students in grades 7-12 for our middle school and high school wrestling teams. If you want to participate in a sport that will give back to you more than you will give it -- come see us!
We are in the high school wrestling room on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-7:30 p.m. Contact LCHS Head Coach John Clark for more information or to register: [email protected]
Tickets are still available for a day of shopping and sightseeing in New York City on Sunday, December 6. Trip benefits the LCHS Field Hockey Team. This is NOT a chaperoned trip. Please contact Diana Anater at 717.951.5198 or [email protected] with questions.
Varsity Club Christmas Greens on Sale NowThe Varsity Club Christams Greens sale is now underway. Orders will be taken until November 12. Click HERE for an order form and description of greens available. Proceeds will assist families in need.
Christmas in the Big Apple
Parent Help Needed at Winter Sporting Events
Wrestling at LCHS
Lancaster Catholic has partnered with gphomestay, an educational service company specializing in providing quality homestays for international students who attend American high schools. We are searching for families who interested in hosting an international student during the 2015-2016 academic year. To learn more about homestays, click HERE for an informational letter from LCHS and gphomestay.
Host Families Needed for International Students
www.gphomestay.com | [email protected] | 781.996.0429
PARTICIPATE in cross-cultural exchange
BUILD a lifelong relationship
RECEIVE a monthly stipend of $1,200
FOSTER diversity in American education
Now partnering with your neighborhood school, Lancaster Catholic High School!
At gphomestay, we know that meaningful cross-cultural relationships foster world harmony across our planet. That’s why we pair dedicated American host families with international high school students who are enthusiastic about living in and learning about the United States.
All gphomestay hosts welcoming students from Lancaster Catholic High School are compensated with an annual $12,000 stipend.
Know someone else from the Lancaster area who might be interested? Refer them to us and receive a $300 referral bonus when they are approved to host!
Learn more at www.gphomestay.com
HOST ANINTERNATIONAL STUDENT
...and open your window to the world! Parents and friends are invited to Poetry Out Loud on Friday, November 6 from 1:30-3:00 PM in the small gym. Students will recite memorized poetry on stage. Alum Ben Zanowski will entertain guests with acoustic guitar between contestants. Thirty-seven students will compete to be our school champion and move on to regional competition. More information about the contest can be found at www.poetryoutloud.org.
Poetry Out Loud -- Today!
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Fine & Performing Arts
Drama Department to Present Cash on DeliveryThe Drama Department will present the play Cash on Delivery on November 20 and 21 at 7:30 PM.
This fast paced British farce concerns a con artist who has duped the welfare authorities for years by claiming every type of benefit for the innumerable people he claims live at his address. He’s sent scrambling when welfare investigators show up and he is forced to prove all of his boarders are in fact real. A hilarious comedy full of mistaken identities, slamming doors, and a con that spirals out of control.
Tickets are on sale now: $14 reserved seating, $12 general admission adult and $7 general admission student. Tickets also will be available at the door.
For tickets or information, contact Tony Brill, FPA Director, or send payment and a SASE to Mr. Brill at 650 Juliette Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17601.
Tri-M Bon-Ton Community Days FundraiserLancaster Catholic High School’s Tri-M Music Honors Society is selling Bon-Ton Community Days coupon booklets to raise funds for their 2015-2016 community service project, Brittany’s Hope Foundation.
Coupons may be redeemed at any Bon-Ton location from November 11-14 during the special Community Days event. Booklets contain exclusive savings and incentives perfect for early Christmas shopping.
The booklets are available for $5 and all proceeds from the sale of the booklets will go directly toward the service project. Purchase booklets from any Tri-M member. Parents may also purchase booklets by sending $5 to Tony Brill, Tri-M Faculty Advisor, at LCHS and bookets will be sent home with students.
Brittany’s Hope Foundation, located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, is dedicated to aiding and facilitating adoption of special needs children from around the world.
The LCHS Respect Life Club is sponsoring its annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. Nonperishable foods, frozen turkeys, supermarket turkey certificates and monetary donations will be collected in homerooms and accepted in the Main Office November 2-23. The collected food will be blessed at the LCHS Thanksgiving Mass on November 24 and then delivered to needy families.
We hope to feed sixty needy families again this year. Any assistance which you can provide will be deeply appreciated. Thank you in advance for your generosity!
Thanksgiving Food Drive
Congratulations to Peter Witkowski - Tenor II, Sheridan Schryer - Alto I, Erin Mary Lynch - Soprano II and Maria Howe - Soprano II for their selection to the Lebanon/Lancaster Music Association County Chorus, and to Sheridan Schryer - Alto I for being selected to the Pennsylvania Music Educator’s Association District Chorus.
Singers Selected for County & District Choruses
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Other Announcements
Thank You to Our Purple Level Sponsors
Catholic Schools Week Kickoff with the Hershey Bears!
January 30, 2016
The Serteen Club is selling the SaveAround coupon books. The coupons cover the Lancaster/York area and are good through the end of 2016. Books cost $20, and the club uses the money raised to buy food to serve meals at the Ronald McDonald House in Hershey. The Serteen Club is serving breakfast on Saturday, November 14. Purchase books from a club member or contact Dave Sharp at [email protected].
Serteen CLub Selling SaveAround Coupon Books
Brereton ManorCostello BuildersClyde W. Kraft Funeral Home, Inc. Design DataD & M Recycling: Used Clothing and Shoe RecyclingDonegal Insurance GroupDr. David A Richards, DMD, Ltd. Dentistry
Dr. Eric Howard, DMDDrevna Physical TherapyFortiusHall Media SolutionsJ & J Service SolutionsKegel’s ProducePA Truck CentersQuality Digital Office Solutions
St. Anne’s Retirement CommunitySudbrink Oral AssociatesTrout, Ebersole & Groff, LLPTwo Dudes Painting CompanyWeaver Associates, Inc.Williams ApothecaryWillow Valley Associates
An important aspect of the academic program at Lancaster Catholic High School is that we are accredited by the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges. Our first accreditation was awarded in 1936. What does this mean to you? Accreditation by an internationally recognized organization gives an added value to an LCHS diploma. Colleges and universities know that an accredited school has been reviewed by an outside organization and that the school meets certain academic standards.
To be accredited, every seven years Lancaster Catholic must conduct a self-study. This is in preparation for a visiting team of educators coming to the school to evaluate and review our programs. This school year we are conducting our self-study. The projected Evaluation Team visit is fall 2016.
As part of this self-study process we must survey our stakeholders. Our parents and students are our most important stakeholders. Below is a link to a Survey Monkey® parent survey. Please take time to complete the survey. The survey will also be available on the For Parents page of the LCHS website until FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20.
Students may access the student survey from the For Student page of the LC website, beginning Friday, November 6.The results of the survey will give the faculty important information to use in determining our goals and objectives for the next seven years.
If you have any questions about this process please feel free to contact Miss Susan Martin, Middle States Facilitator at [email protected]. Thank you in advance for giving your time to this important task.
Survey Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZB9X76Y
Middle States Accreditation Parent Survey