NEWMAN A Publication of the Newman Catholic Foundation Vol. 25 • No. 45 • WINTER/SPRING 2015 2015 Catholic Schools Week....”Communities Of Faith, Knowledge And Service!” Save These Dates! 2015 NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL SPRING MUSICAL “INTO THE WOODS” April 9th, 10th and 11th at 7:30pm Newman Catholic High School Gymnasium 2015 NEWMAN PROM “A STARRY KNIGHT” Saturday, April 25th • Couple/group pictures by Best Impressions begin at 5pm at NCHS • All students are asked to be at NCHS for class pictures by 5:45pm • Promenade starts at 6:30pm at the NCHS Gymnasium • Dinner is served at 8pm at the Mason City Country Club • Dance is from 9pm-Midnight at the Mason City Country Club CLASS OF 2015 GRADUATION Sunday, May 31st Newman Catholic High School Gymnasium Baccalaureate Mass at 11am Commencement at 1pm NEWMAN FOUNDATION’S 2015 UVSPLASH 5K Saturday, June 27th Newman Catholic High School Football Field Packet pick-up begins at 8pm UVsplash 5K starts at 9:45pm 2015 God’s Portion Day Sunday, November 1st Newman Catholic High School 2015 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK Newman Catholic Schools celebrated Catholic Schools Week January 25th – 30th! It was a fun week filled with activities for the students and faculty to enjoy! It was also a week to celebrate everything that we love about Catholic Schools! Some of the activities included were “Pack The Gym Knight”, all-school Mass, collections for “Mugs of Love”, Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank and the Epiphany Parish Baby Pantry, our local Priests and Sisters joined the high school students for lunch…and much more! The week ended with a special lunch honoring our amazing faculty and staff! The following staff were presented with years of service awards: Steve Calicchia - 10 Years, Brad Till - 20 Years, Diane Steenblock - 20 Years, Sue Brager - 25 Years, Julie Lambert - 30 Years, and Mark Bertch - 35 Years. Greetings From The Foundation Office Dear Friends and Benefactors, The theme for Catholic Schools Week 2015 was “Catholic Schools Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service.” These three components make up the very core of the educational framework of Catholic Schools. Newman Catholic School’s role of Faith formation is the primary reason for its existence. Educating students in the Catholic tradition through classes of catechism, sacraments, and traditional prayer creates a solid foundation for future community leaders. Striving for academic excellence is the basis of instilling knowledge to prepare students for the future. Continued success in Advance Placement courses, ACT & standardized tests has provided a strong educational base for the Newman Catholic students. Students also develop knowledge of life skills, as well as character, respect and responsibility. Students learn the value of service and the role it plays in our community. Students are required to complete service hours and projects as part of their educational commitment. Catholic Schools are Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service to our families, our parishes and our communities. Newman Catholic Schools need your support to carry out our mission. Your prayers and financial support to the Bridging the Gap Annual Appeal ensures a quality, value-based education based on character and Catholic teachings. Newman Catholic Schools has a commitment to providing a quality Catholic education to each student who desires that opportunity. Help Newman Catholic instill Faith, Knowledge, and Service in tomorrow’s leaders of the Catholic community. Thank you in advance for your support. Thank you for your continued support for Catholic Education. Many Blessings, Lynn Ptacek Newman Catholic Foundation Director www.newmancatholicfoundation.com Please remember Newman in your Estate Planning *Please check with your employer for matching contributions *Monthly contributions available through systematic withdrawals *For your convenience, we offer Visa, MasterCard and PayPal contributions NEWMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS SERVING THE COMMUNITY By: Mariya Donets – Newman Senior (Foreign Exchange Student From Ukraine) Every year, Newman Catholic High School Seniors work on their senior service projects for theology. It is a great way to teach the future generation about how important it is to serve others. Senior service projects are not about the grade. It’s an individual program of self-improvement, that helps to recognize each individual teenager’s purpose in life and gives them an amazing experience for future giving. Everybody has a chance to volunteer with the institution that he or she would maybe like to work with in the future. Also, senior service projects push twelfth-graders to think about their future career, life choices, and give them a chance to try themselves in the chosen fields. The important part about these projects is that it is not just about service, but about people’s purposes in life. Everybody has to write a paper about their purpose before starting to create a project plan. A person’s plan should match his/her purpose at least in general ideas and values. As soon as all ideas are put in the plan, then the most difficult part begins - to start putting the plan into action. Teenagers nowadays are unbelievably busy. Between school, work, sports and college applications it is really difficult to find the time for something like volunteering. It’s truly wonderful and inspiring that NCHS Seniors show such a big interest in their projects and spend so much time on them. Everybody’s project is very individual. Seniors are able to choose to work with people they would like to and do what they like to do. For example, Kaden Waddle helped to coach his sister’s 6th grade basketball team to get a deeper connection with their faith and gave him experience for his future career as a basketball coach. Joey Verstegen, Tim Smith and Brenden Webber also coached basketball for the Parks and Recreation of Mason City. Abby Morse volunteered for Crisis Intervention (emergency psychological care aimed at assisting individuals in a crisis situation to minimize the potential for psychological trauma), where she worked at a kids carnival and organized paper work; she said that she has learned a lot about herself while giving back to the community. She truly feels that she put her God-given talents into good use. Maddie Holmgaard created a “Faith In An Image” blog, where every week she chooses a topic to write about and then chooses a picture and a song to go with it, she hopes to bring to people some words of wisdom and bring a little joy in people’s life (check it out on faithinanimage.weebly.com). Emily Till dedicated her time to service in the community by working for some of the corporal works of Mercy, volunteering at the community kitchen and helping at the free clinic. Nicole Hehr is tutoring students from 1st grade to juniors in high school, and she is happy to share her gift of easy ways to memorize things which helps her to do well in school and hopes to help other people understand these concepts by themselves. Kari Leer is helping at local nursing homes and volunteering at the Humane Society of North Iowa. Hannah Romig volunteered at Heritage Care Center, where the residents of this community enjoy the simplest activities where she improves her communication skills while learning to understand a different age group of people. Mariya Donets (an exchange student from Ukraine) is helping a war refugee camp back home; the conditions for people, who were forced to leave their houses in Eastern Ukraine and move to the south where they suffer very bad, due to lack of heat, food, and medications for many disabled adults and children; Mariya is collecting donations, supplies and any help to send home. Calyn Reddy (an exchange student from South Africa) is working with Mary’s Meals to defeat the world’s hunger. Mary’s Meals provides meals and education for children in poor countries all over the world; seeing poverty and hungry children in her community back home, Calyn felt like her fundraiser for Mary’s Meals will help the world to become a better place (it costs only 20 dollars to feed a child for a year and your donations will be really helpful). The overall goal of Mary’s Meals is that at least a million children all over the world will be able to get a meal a day. AJ Hanus is working with the elderly, by organizing a class to teach them how to use the iPad and other technology. Erin McDonald uses her gift of being creative to do art while organizing different activities for children at the Clear Lake Art Center. Spencer Wihlm, Tove Conway and David Schupick are giving lectures to 7th graders that hopefully inspire teenagers to work towards self-improvement while opening their hearts to God and their community. Everybody’s plan is unique and we will be able to look at the wonderful results when the seniors make presentations of some of their works in April. Good luck, seniors! 2 • Newman Connections KNIGHTLY NEWS Knight varsity boys bball By Coach Fischels The Newman Varsity Boy’s Basketball season ended their final season in the North Iowa Conference, February 26 in the district final with a loss to eventual state qualifier West Hancock. The boys finished with a 13-12 record. Kaden Wadle was named first-team all conference. Kaden was also the third Newman Boys Basketball player in history to go over the 1,000 point mark for his career. He finished with 1,157 points, 497 rebounds, and 447 assists. Joey Verstegen was named to the all conference second-team. Joey and Kaden were both four year varsity players for the Knights. Junior Hunter Fettkether was an honorable mention player. Next year will be interesting with the creation of the Top of Iowa Conference (TIC). Newman will join Osage in moving over to the East Division of the Super Conference and compete with the former members of the Corn Bowl Conference. newman’s robotics team rocks! Newman’s Robotics Team, “Land of Giants”, competed in the Iowa FIRST LEGO League Competition. The event occurred on Saturday, January 17 and included 72 regional qualifiers from across Iowa.The team received 1st place in the Robot Design-Innovation and Strategy category. FIRST is a global robotic initiative to promote science and technology. Team members are Aryamaan Choudhury, Alec Frey, Erik Manness, Mya O’Connell, Leah O’Connell, Lucas Pistek and Seth Pistek. The team is coached by Paul Pistek and Julianne Zahner. If you have “KNIGHTLY NEWS” to share about your student , athlete, group or team please send information to Tina at [email protected] newman high School Band department news The Newman High School Band had the huge honor of being selected for the IBA! For the third time in school history, and the second time in four years, the Newman Catholic High School Concert Band was selected as the Class 1A Honor Band to perform at the Iowa Bandmasters Association Convention. This is the highest possible honor that a high school concert band can receive in the state of Iowa, as only one band is selected from each of the four classes – Newman was the only Class 1A group selected. They have been very busy preparing to give a concert at the IBA Convention. Unlike a typical performance, they will be preparing for a 40-50 minute program! The performance will be held on Friday, May 15th at 9:00am. The IBA Convention is held in Des Moines, at the Downtown Marriott Hotel. We hope to see many of you in attendance that day. Congratulations again to our students for this great honor! The Newman Band has had several students accepted to honor bands recently: NCIBA Middle School - Lily Castle, 7th grade, trombone; Grace Henrich, 8th grade, flute; Zoe Marquis, 8th grade, alto saxophone; Emily Shatek, 7th grade, flute; Lucas Udelhofen, 8th grade, alto saxophone (alternate for the All-Iowa 8th Grade Band) Karl King Middle School - Lily Castle, 7th grade, trombone; Ellie Determan, 6th grade, percussion; Kylie Hansen, 6th grade, clarinet; Nick Schmidt, 7th grade, percussion; Emily Shatek, 7th grade, flute; Emily Udelhofen, 6th grade, clarinet NCIBA High School - Carolyn Bernemann, 10th grade, flute; Nicole Hehr, 12th grade, flute; Annie Moore, 11th grade, trumpet; Grace Pistek, 10th grade, clarinet Cyclone Honor Band - Carolyn Bernemann, 10th grade, flute; Brena Hamilton, 9th grade, trombone; Grace Pistek, 10th grade, clarinet The band also had 4 students audition for the Iowa All-State Band in November. Those students were: Carolyn Bernemann, 10th grade, flute; Nicole Hehr, 12th grade, flute; Annie Moore, 11th grade, trumpet; Grace Pistek, 10th grade, clarinet Congratulations to Mr. Tipping and all of his students on an amazing winter season! Upcoming band events include: • 6-8 Solo/Ensemble Festival - Thursday, April 9th • IHSMA Solo/Ensemble Festival - Saturday, April 18th • IHSMA Large Group (Band/Choir) - Friday, May 8th • High School Spring Concert - Tuesday, May 12th • IBA Performance - Friday, May 15th, 9:00am at the Downtown Des Moines Marriott • 5-8 Spring Concert - Tuesday, May 19th • North Iowa Band Festival - Saturday, May 23rd Newman Connections • 3 KNIGHTLY NEWS Mission Trip To Haiti By Shannon Behr-Newman Junior Going on the medical mission trip to Haiti was one of the most eye opening experiences that I could have ever dreamed of. Being in the heart of the small village of Bord De Mer truly brought the meaning of poverty to a new level that I had never seen. I feel blessed to have been given the opportunity to serve these amazing people and deepen my spiritual life. After seeing the people struggle to make it through the day, it showed me how lucky I am to be born into a family where my parents could easily feed me, clothe me, and provide even the simplest tasks, such as bathing me without fear of the water being unclean. As I look back on the trip, I feel there is only one thing I would’ve changed, that would be, being able to stay longer and help more people in need. The people are struggling, and I believe that as their brothers and sisters in Christ we cannot stop trying to make a change in these people’s lives because we have been fortunate enough to live the life we do today. newman middle school’s very special veterans day project By Mrs. Brager It all started in October of 2013, a simple middle school project that turned into a huge honor for Newman Middle School Students. Last Fall, Newman Catholic Middle School Students sent Veteran’s Day cards to Mrs. Brager’s Nephew, Warrant Officer Brad Nelson, and his Black Hawk Helicopter company in Afghanistan. After that, the students wanted to do more! So, with the help of Mrs. Brager and Mrs. Moorehead, the middle school students collected items that the soldiers lacked in Afghanistan. One hundred and seventy five pounds of items were donated by the students. The packages were shipped on Thanksgiving weekend, along with Christmas cards. To show their appreciation, Mrs. Brager’s Nephew, Brad, asked his commanding officer if he could fly a mission for the Newman Middle School Kids. On December 10th, 2013, Brad had the distinction of being Pilot In Command of the Black Hawk Helicopter that flew the mission from Bravo Company “Black Knights” for Operation Enduring Freedom over the skies of Afghanistan. Along with CW2 Brad Nelson - Pilot In Command were, PFC Michael Bales - Crew Chief, CW2 Sean McClure – Pilot and SPC Mark Torres – Door Gunner. Recently, the Newman Catholic Middle School Students had the privilege of meeting Warrant Officer Brad Nelson. Brad spoke to the students and presented the school with the US Flag that was flown on the mission that honored the Newman Middle School Students. Our Newman Family is very thankful for these men and for their part in keeping peace, we know the sacrifices they make are many, we are very blessed these men do what they do to help keep peace in our world. The Newman Middle School Students sent out Veteran’s Day cards again, this past Fall, to a friend of Brad’s and his company in Afghanistan, so the tradition will continue! 4 • Newman Connections newman vocal department A great day of singing was had in the community through Singing Valentine’s on Friday, February 13. Students also recently volunteered their time to sing as a small group at a Valentine’s Day get-together at the Manor in Mason City. Others volunteered to sing at a Valentine’s Day dinner in a private home that was purchased through the auction at God’s Portion Day. Sixteen Newman students participated in the 5th/6th North Central Iowa Choral Directors Association Honor Choir held at NIACC on Monday, Feb. 23. The guest conductor was Tanya Rosenkranz who was the 2014 OPUS conductor. Three students competed in the Musical Theatre portion of the State Individual Speech Contest that was held in Forest City on Saturday, Feb. 28th. Students are getting ready for the musical, Into the Woods, which will be presented on April 9, 10, 11 in the HS Gymnasium. The Newman Vocal Music Department has had a successful winter and should be proud of all of their accomplishments! Newman Catholic High School Proudly Presents Their 2015 Spring Musical – “Into The Woods” The Newman High School Music Department will be presenting the musical “Into The Woods” on April 9th, 10th and 11th at 7:30pm in the Newman High School Auditorium. “Into the Woods” combines the well-known fairy tales of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and the story of the Baker and his Wife. It is sure to be a production that all ages will enjoy! Tickets are on sale in the Newman High School Office, Hy-Vee West and Hy-Vee East. Tickets are $8/Adults and $5/Students. NEWMAN Catholic Foundation Educating the Mind, Heart and Spirit THANK YOU TO OUR 2014 GOD’s Portion Day DONORS THANK YOU TO OUR 2014 GOD’s Portion Day business DONORS AC Pharmacy Concepts Mason City Tire Service Allied Redi Mix Mason City Youth Hockey Amish Heirlooms McCloskey Appliance Amish Impressions McDonalds Anytime Fitness Mechanical Air Systems Co. Armour Eckrich Metalcraft Inc. 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Everyone who participated last year had an absolute blast, so you don’t want to miss it! Runners and Walkers...Young and Old...Wagons and Strollers Welcome! The registration fee is $40 and includes a t-shirt, glow accessories and a post dash bash. (Team & Family discounts offered) This is a Newman Foundation Fundraiser. Special THANKS to our sponsor Corporate Farmer! For more information or to register go to: www.cd5k.com 2015 ANNUAL APPEAL - BRIDGING THE GAP 2015 ANNUAL APPEAL Bridging The Gap Rev. John Gossman Dear Friends Of Newman, Pastoral Coordinator Dave McLinn President Jeff Gribben Vice Chair Mike Castle Treasurer Angela Determan Secretary Board Members Tom Abbas Mike Anderegg John Duffy Tom Fischer David Moore Gary Nyhus Paul Pirkl “Bridging the Gap”…...What do we mean and why is it important? We should all be proud of the Standard of Excellence we have set at Newman for Faith Formation, Academic Excellence, and Cultural development. However, the cost of these standards continues to be a challenge. Presently tuition and Parish Support cover about two thirds of this cost. Fundraising efforts are responsible for “Bridging the Gap” to maintain our standards. This gap is especially apparent as we strive to fairly compensate the talented and dedicated staff we have at Newman. Despite the continued success of God’s Portion Day, the importance of our Annual Appeal to bridge this gap has increased. Our goal is to increase the Annual Appeal funds by 25% in 2015. Every contribution is both important and greatly appreciated. Please join me by taking the first step to making this Annual Appeal a success. On behalf of the entire Newman Family, thank you in advance for “Bridging the Gap”! Regards, Fr. 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