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Classes in Arabic and
Chinese Offered
St. Vincent-St. Mary High School sophomores, juniors, or
seniors have the opportunity to earn honors weighted high
school credit as well as college semester hours by participating
in a grant funded program sponsored by The University
of Akron.
Classes in Beginning Arabic or Chinese will be on-campus
offerings that will be grant funded though 2009 and therefore
be offered at no cost (including books) to participating
students.
Beginning classes in each language are worth 4 credit hours.
Therefore, participating students will attend The University of
Akron, 4 days per week and complete all University
assignments and requirements in order to earn high
school/college credit for the course. Each succeeding level of
the course will be offered on a semester basis.
To be eligible, St. Vincent-St. Mary students will have a 3.2
GPA or higher, will have excellent grades in their current
foreign language, and will have a recommendation from their
current teacher to participate in the program.
Ski Club Off to
Great Start
Joanne Zaratsian, Ski Club Advisor reports….
The newly establish STVM Ski Club is off to a great start!
On Wednesday, January 23rd, we boarded the bus with 40
people for the first ski club run. All students received lessons
and many were taking to the slopes for the very first time. As
the night progressed, many students decided to head for the
bigger hills! Also, a “great job” goes to the students – they were
complimented with outstanding remarks from the Boston
Mills Ski Resort staff.
We are so lucky to have had such an overwhelming response
to this new club! The bus is full for this year’s Ski Club but if
you are interested in next season – please contact Joanne
Zaratsian, Ski Club Advisor jzaratsian@stvm.com or call 330-
253-9113 extension 112. We would like to have 2 buses next
season (80 students) and we are tentatively planning for an
overnight ski trip to New York.
Keara Walsh VM07
Shares Expeience
Keara Walsh VM07, studied Spanish all four years at STVM.
She recently visited with the STVM students taking Spanish to
talk about her summer in Costa Rica. Keara prepared for her
trip through Amigos de Las Americas organization during her
senior year, attending weekly meetings for training during the
2006-2007 school year. She spent most of her summer
working with children in an impoverished town where she
lived with a local family. While in Costa Rica she helped to
plan activities to develop leadership with the local youth and
accomplished this in Spanish only! She shared many of her
experiences both good and bad but reflected nostalgically on
the bond that formed between her and her host family whom
she wishes to visit again some day. Keara also distributed
children's Spanish books like “Dora the Explorer” to the school
in her community that were donated by students in the STVM
Spanish classes last year.
Books for the
Bahamas
The STVM National Honor Society sponsored its second
annual “Books for the Bahamas” Project. The final tally for the
"Books for the Bahamas" drive has been calculated. This year
students and staff donated a total of 1184 books. These books
were sent to Andros Island in the Bahamas to help stock
elementary school libraries.