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May 25, 2018 Volume 17 • Issue 29

St. Joseph Catholic School

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Graduation is the name of the game! The closing of another school year

means a transition to the next steps for our St. Joseph Catholic School students.

The 8th grade students cel-ebrated their transition to high school last week with their

pinning ceremony held Thursday, May 17. Later that same day, high school students from St. Joseph

and from across the Bryan/College Station area gathered for the Baccalaureate Mass celebrated by Bishop Joe Vasquez at Christ the Good Shepherd Chapel. Friday, May 18 saw the graduation ceremony of the Class of 2018, a class which has, to date, been awarded over $495,000 in scholarships! And our kindergarten class, the future Class of 2030(!) graduated Thursday, May 24. The school year at the second-ary campus wound out with final exams this week, while the elementary campus finished with the end-of-year awards after a 10am Mass today, Friday, May 25. Congratulations to all of our students on a successful year of learning! And thank you

to all of our teachers, adminstrators, and staff for all of your hard work and care throughout the year. We offer a special thank you to Monsignor John McCaffrey as he retires as our Pastor this year. We are very blessed, though, to know that he will still be here as our Parish Priest to say Mass, hear our confessions, and be that loving, positive presence to St. Joseph Catholic School God bless, and have a very safe and fun summer!!

Above left: Mr. Rike presents Monsignor with the Lifetime Service Award for his 33 years as Head of St. Joseph Catholic School. Right: Monsignor thanks Mrs. Linda Ford for her 28 years of service as an elementary teacher at St. Joseph.

Calendar Highlights

Last Day of the 2017-18 School Year - May 25, 1pm!

Summer Hours: • Elementary Campus - Closed for the Summer for

renovations! • Secondary Campus - Open 9am - 3pm Monday -

Thursday throughout the summer.

Tours: If you know someone who is interested in send-ing their child(ren) to St. Joseph Catholic School next year, please give us a call at the secondary campus, 822-6641.

2018-19 School Year: • Back to School Mass - Sunday, August 12 • First day of classes - Monday, August 13 • Christmas Break - December 20 - January 4 • Spring Break - March 11-15

St. Joseph Catholic High School seniors Aus-tin Canatella and Cristian Olvera signed letters of intent to attend and play sports for their re-spective schools. Cristian will play football for

the Texas Prep Sports Academy Cavaliers in Houston. He hopes to then transfer to Austin College to pursue a degree in education. Austin will be play-ing baseball for the Ravens of Benedictine College in Atchison,

Kansas. He plans to major in Sports Broadcast-ing and minor in Marketing. Congratulations to Austin and Cristian! We are proud of you!

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Sign Austin is flanked by his family and coaches as he signs his letter of intent. Family members with Austin were his brother, Joseph, SJS Class of 2011, his parents, Tonya and Rick Canatella, and his grandparents, Anthony and Jane Canatella.

KBTX News Director Darryl Bruffet was on hand Tuesday capturing the moment as Cristian and Austin signed their letters of intent. Their news package is on the KBTX website.

St. Joseph Kindergarten Class of 2018Future Eagles Class of 2030!

Crisitian signs with his dad, Mike Olvera, and Coach Alec Castilleja beside him. Thanks, Rachael Newchurch, for lending your support!

Class of 2018 Baccalaureate Mass

and Graduation

Front (L-R): Roxanne Fernandes, Sara Walker, Rachael Newchurch, Faith Starnes, Tessa Miller (Valedictorian), Shiru Yuan, Jordan Ponzio, Makayla Coe-Rodriguez. Row 2: Jim Rike, Misty Poe (Superintendant of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of Austin), Cristian Olvera, Philip Blaszak, Jared Martinez, Nicholas DiMarco, Daylan Velasquez, and Monsignor John Mc-Caffrey. Row 3: Zane Veteto, Samuel Gonzalez, Bryson Peddicord, John Najvar, Patrick Patke. Row 4: Josh Saldua, David Ji, Patrick Seo, Coltin Slenk, Austin Canatella, Logan Lipscomb, and Brendan White (Salutatorian).

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