CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
CATHOLIC EDUCATION
Students, teachers from closed school welcomed elsewhere
Schenectady's two Catholic elementary schools have experienced significant increases in enrollment this year, in part because former students of St. John the Evangelist School, which closed last June, transferred there.
COLLECTION
Books soothe families of NICU babies
Matthew Roohan, a sixth-grader at Holy Spirit School in East Greenbush, spent Thanksgiving dinner canvassing his family's guests for donations: His religion class was collecting books and funds for a special project.
EVENING OF PRAYER
Taize members visit Siena
Siena College will host two brothers from a French ecumenical monastic order for an evening of prayer and song April 10, 7:30 p.m., in the college chapel.
HIGH SCHOOL HELP
Diocesan Dash will support Catholic schools
Advancement directors from the Albany Diocese's four Catholic high schools have joined forces to reenergize an annual 5K run that raises money and awareness for the schools.
HELPING HOSPICE
Fundraising book is just ducky
Ten-year-old David Carroll will probably cherish his illustrations for a new children's book written by his mother for a long time. The book, "Ducky Wucky," humorously tells the tale of an eight-year-old girl's escapades with her pet duck.
MASTER'S DEGREE
Theology grad came home to Church
This spring's crop of graduates at St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry at Albany included Margaret Anderton, an educator who served as a deacon in the Reformed Church in America before reverting to Catholicism.
STUDENTS SING
St. Jude chorus records album
The chorus at St. Jude the Apostle School in Wynantskill is accustomed to displaying its talents in public: The third- through sixth-graders perform at malls, VA hospitals, community events in Troy and locally-televised Christmas concerts.
FUNDRAISERS
Box tops, receipts add up for schools
Though diocesan school fundraisers have grown more sophisticated in recent years, Catholic schools in the Albany Diocese are not discounting the impact of clipping food labels and collecting store receipts to redeem for school supplies.
CLASS PROJECT
Saint Rose does PR for Mater Christi
When seven senior communications majors from The College of Saint Rose in Albany took a tour of Mater Christi School earlier this semester, they fell in love with the Albany students.
ST. MADELEINE SOPHIE SCHOOL
Student, teacher...and now principal
A tattered backpack hanging on Kelly Sloan's office door reminds the new principal of St. Madeleine Sophie School in Schenectady where she came from.
SACRAMENTS
Her Christmas gift: First Communion
A sixth-grader at Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School in Schenectady received a special Christmas gift in the presence of Bishop Howard J. Hubbard and her school community this week: Jesus.
DANCE
Mater Christi offers hip-hop club
A kid-friendly version of South Korean singer Psy's song "Gangnam Style" blared out of the speakers in a room at Mater Christi School in Albany after school last week as half a dozen second- through sixth-grade girls busted out some warm-up moves.
THREE DECADES
She taught generations, including her own family
Susan Hartmann has taught second grade at St. Ambrose School in Latham for so long that she's not sure what it will be like not to return in the fall.
CATHOLIC CENTRAL, TROY
CCHS coach isn't sidelined yet
Bob Gilligan officially retired from teaching and coaching at Catholic Central High School in Troy five years ago, but he still coaches co-ed golf at the school and cheers for other athletes.
CHRIST THE KING
School successfully transitioned to early childhood center
Even though Christ the King parish in Westmere, Albany, closed its school in 2010, it has not stopped educating children.
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