CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK
Last alumna of first graduating class remembers Sacred Heart School, Troy
When Marjorie Hope started the fourth grade at the newly-opened Sacred Heart School in Troy, Calvin Coolidge was the president of the United States, Charles Lindbergh had crossed the Atlantic in the "Spirit of St. Louis" and Babe Ruth had just hit his 60th home run of the season for …
CONNECTING WITH COMPUTERS
Coding a new talent for local students
Coding is the language that computers speak. Now, students at Catholic schools in the Diocese of Albany are learning that language.
ST. CATHERINE'S CENTER, ALBANY
One room for a child in need, made by three Yusko brothers
In October, an 11-year-old boy named Ethan got a new room at Byron House, thanks to the Yusko brothers.
ST. MADELEINE SOPHIE
Teachers' RCIA experience comes into pre-K classrooms
Just a few years ago, two pre-kindergarten teachers at St. Madeline Sophie School in Schenectady joined the Catholic Church through the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults.
BACK TO SCHOOL
These teachers are heads of the class at their alma maters
When Lexi Cuomo and Carrie Devine go to work each day, they encounter memories of their school days in a way many other teachers may not. Mrs. Devine, the preschool teacher at St. Mary's School in Waterford, and Ms. Cuomo, a history teacher at Central Catholic High in Troy, are …
ST. CLEMENT'S/SPA CATHOLIC
Saratoga family band raises $60K for Leukemia Society
Inside the Kakaty family's Saratoga Springs home on a recent afternoon, oldest child Kenny was in the middle of a guitar lesson. Siblings Bella and Joey were doing homework. Soon, however, they convened in the basement music room, complete with guitars lining the walls and a raised stage with an …
SERVICE WORK
Siena student heads to Nepal
In August, Justin Kenyon of Immaculate Conception parish in Glenville will travel to Nepal for a two-week-long service trip through the volunteer service organization United Planet.
ST. BERNARD'S SCHOOL
'Intelligent people build doors:' Speaker will address immigration
Immigration is a hot-button issue these days, in the United States and around the world. If Catholics get the public conversation on immigration wrong, says Rev. Robert McTeigue, SJ, "the consequences are very high."
PERSPECTIVE
Siena College marks 80th anniversary
At its founding Sept. 22, 1937, Siena College in Loudonville expected 40 students. More than 90 came.
AID EFFORTS
Schools push hard to help hurricane survivors
All 22 Catholic schools of the Albany Diocese have been participating in a national fundraising effort for hurricane relief, and impressing diocesan officials with their passion to help.
IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES
College student from Diocese gives speech in U.N. chapel
Victoria Los of St. Peter's parish in Saratoga Springs gave a speech in September in the United Nations Chapel in New York City about applying religious principles to local-level and global refugee-assistance efforts.
SARATOGA STUDENTS WRITE SPOOKY TALES
Teacher Erin Crowther at Saratoga Central Catholic High School had seven of her students participate in a Halloween-oriented writing challenge: exploring the mystery of Eliza Walsh's untimely death generations ago and her ultimate resting place in the Ballston Spa Village Cemetery. The students wrote about what may have happened and …
STATEMENT
School aid veto disappoints
Last week, the New York State Catholic Conference was informed that Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed legislation (S.6089) that would have averted cuts in state reimbursements to Catholic and other non-public schools. The cuts are based on the state changing a nearly four-decade-old formula for calculating reimbursement.
DELMAR NATIVE
LaSalle alum wins major piano prize
In November, Ryan Reilly, a 25-year-old Delmar native and alumnus of LaSalle Institute in Troy, became the first American to take home the prestigious Frenchilla-Zuloaga international piano prize.
ST. MARY'S/ST. ALPHONSUS
Glens Falls Masses get boost from student musicians
Every Friday morning, at the weekly school Mass for St. Mary's/St. Alphonsus School in Glens Falls, a group of band students plays as a small ensemble during the offertory collection.
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