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| Volume #5 Issue #2 Date: February 2019
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Get ready, because Fenwick’s 3rd annual "Raise The Shield" event is coming soon! Raise the Shield, our 24-hour online day of giving, will be held on February 21st. Building on the success of the past two years of Raise the Shield, we are very excited that our 3rd annual effort will feature student-produced videos that highlight those areas of the Friars' student experience that are supported with your generosity through Raise the Shield -- and through the Fenwick Fund year-round.
Some of the videos are quirky, some funny, some poignant, some inspiring, but they all point to the wonderful Dominican spiritual value of community, that which makes Fenwick what it is and who we are. For more information please visit www.raisetheshield.fenwickfriars.com.
Watch the 2019 trailer video by clicking below, and thank you for supporting Fenwick’s academics, fine arts programs, student activities and clubs, athletics and tuition assistance through your participation in Raise the Shield.
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| Fenwick's 1st Winter Carnival Is February 10th
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Magician Mr. Danny will entertain the kids. |
| This Sunday is Fun Day at Fenwick! Mark your calendars for February 10: You and your family are invited to Fenwick’s inaugural Winter Carnival. Bring the little ones to enjoy pizza and carnival games as well as work out all that cooped-up winter energy in our bounce house! Then, join us in the Auditorium for special guest Mr. Danny, the renowned Chicago magician. Adults and children of all ages will be astounded by his magic! Bring the entire family for a fun day at Fenwick High School.
Doors open at 11:00am. Magic begins at noon.
$5 per person. Children under 2 are free. RSVP to Peter Durkin at (708) 948-0323 or by email at pdurkin@fenwickfriars.com. Walk-ups are welcome as well.
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| ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT:
The Dual Careers of Paul Tierney, Jr. '60
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Paul Tierney in his NYC office. |
| Fenwick High School and University of Notre Dame alumnus Paul Tierney, Jr. ’60 resides on the East Coast in Darien, Connecticut, and New York City. But his humanitarian roots were planted at home in La Grange Park, IL, and at St. Francis Xavier Parish & School.
“My mother and father always talked about the importance of doing good works for your fellow man,” says Mr. Tierney, who is three months into his retirement as chairman of TechnoServe, an international, nonprofit organization that promotes business solutions to poverty. The company works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries. “Our clients are small, poor, grassroots,” he notes.
Tierney encourages the use of private equity and venture capital to fund entrepreneurial firms in locales such as Africa and Latin America. As he told Forbes magazine in 2010, he believes this funding approach “can be a superior alternative to the traditional development funds funneled through the likes of the World Bank,” the international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects. Read more.
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| ALUMNI SERVICE IN ACTION:
Sarah Lorenzi '97 Is the Driving Force of CAAEL
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Fenwick faculty member Dr. Jerry Lordan remembers how the Chicago Area Alternative Education League (CAAEL) began with John Martin, father of Sarah Martin Lorenzi '97:
"Sarah's dad lived in Forest Park and was a high school physical education teacher and coach [with the Stone Park Education Center]. From time to time he would have kids with disabilities transfer into and out from his classes. He could see their desire to participate in sports curtailed by their assignment to alternative-education schools without extracurricular activity programs. Rather than whine and moan, 'Somebody ought to do something!' he decided to be the change he wanted to see. John started the CAAEL. At first it was just sports like basketball and baseball, which are played indoors. Then they added baseball, softball and track. Then they added poetry slams, spelling bees, art shows, musical performances, dances, etc.
"Dad retired and his daughters [Sarah and younger sister, Katie '00] quit their jobs to run the league. The Kiwanis Club of Forest Park is a financial sponsor to the CAAEL Coed Softball Tournament held in June in Forest Park." Until he moved out of state last year, Fenwick alumnus Jabari Harris '99, a friend of Sarah and Katies's who played basketball for the Friars and UIC Flames, was a basketball coach with CAAEL. Harris also taught physical education at Joseph Academy, a school in Melrose Park serving the needs of young people with severe behavioral, emotional and learning disabilities. www.caael.org
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Editor's note: This is the second in what we hope will be a regular feature highlighting how Fenwick alumni are fulfilling the Community Pillar of Dominican Life through service. The many organizations and works to which Friars are committed are important, however, space considerations limit our abiity to highlight all of them.
If you have a service initiative you'd like profiled in FAN, please contact us at communications@fenwickfriars.com.
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| Lower Your llinois State Income Taxes for 2019!
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Would you like to significantly lower your IL state income taxes and help deserving Fenwick students? You can receive a 75% state tax credit in 2019 for contributions directed to Fenwick through the IL State Tax Credit Scholarship Program. For example: Direct a $10,000 contribution to Fenwick and receive a $7,500 State of Illinois income tax credit for 2019.
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| In the Classroom: A Tale of Two Singers
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Pierce and White, guitars in hand, visited two Fenwick English classes studying A Tale of Two Cities. |
| What’s on your playlist? A playlist is, of course, a list of digital, audio files that can be played back on a media player either sequentially or in a shuffled order. In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs, according to Wikipedia. And almost all the kids have their favorite, thematically inspired lists these days -- and they’re quite passionate about the music they like.
One may not think that playlists in 2019 have much in common with Charles Dickens and A Tale of Two Cities, the historical novel written about the French Revolution 160 years ago. Fenwick English Teacher Geralyn Magrady, however, would beg to differ. Ms. Magrady was introduced to a creative, character-analysis activity when she participated in Stevie Van Zandt’s (“Little Steven”) TeachRock professional-development program. (Yes, that Steven Van Zandt – Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Bandmate and of “The Sopranos” HBO/cable TV fame.) Read more.
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| Paul Jenkins '81 Blogs About Why His Twin Daughters Chose to Stay at Fenwick
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The Hill School in Pennsylvania came calling, but Caroline and Cecelia are Friars forever. |
| I can’t tell you how I felt when the call came in. I knew it was coming, and yet I hesitated to pick up the phone when I saw the number in my caller ID. One of the country’s premier boarding schools* was calling to offer my twin daughters scholarships for their senior year. Juniors at Fenwick, they needed only to say ‘yes’ to be carried away into the ivy-covered embrace of East Coast privilege.
They’re hockey players, and the head coach at the prep school had been recruiting them for years. We’d been to visit the school several times. The coach had come to watch them play in tournaments around the U.S. and Canada. My wife and I had always said ‘no;’ we couldn’t see sending our youngest off to boarding school. Read the full blog.
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| COLLEGIATE FRIARS:
Presley Owusu-Bonsu '16 and Casey O'Laughlin '17
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Presely is a junior at Xavier, and Casey is a sophomore at Northwestern. | |
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PRESLEY OWUSU-BONSU Fenwick Graduation: Class of 2016
Hometown: Chicago
Grade School: Holy Trinity Lutheran School, Ghana (West Africa)
Current School: Xavier University (Cincinnati)
Current Major: International Studies and Political Science
Career aspirations: I aspire to work for the United Nations or as a U.S. Diplomat.
Fenwick Achievements/Activities: Track and Field (Varsity), French Club, International Relations Club & Pro-Life Club
Fenwick teacher who had the most influence on you: The people and activities at Fenwick High School have challenged me, encouraged me and helped me flourish academically and socially. The Fenwick atmosphere exuberates with passionate teachers who love their subjects and want to share the knowledge with their students so that they can learn and grow. The teacher who had the most influence on me was Mr. Peter Gallo. He was the first Fenwick teacher I met and helped my transfer into Fenwick smooth. He encouraged me to go above and beyond in anything I did at Fenwick. Read more.
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CASEY O'LAUGHLIN Fenwick Graduation: Class of 2017
Hometown: Glen Ellyn, IL
Grade School: Visitation, Elmhurst
Current School: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ilinois)
Current Major: Double major in Legal Studies and Learning and Organizational Change (LOC)
Career aspirations: Professional Baseball Player, Attorney, Consultant
Fenwick achievements/activities: Football (three years, almost all positions lol), Baseball Centerfielder, Basketball (took 31 charges in 24 games as sixth man)
Career Fenwick stats (baseball): .407 BA, 10 HR, 105 RBI (apparent Fenwick record), 2x all-CCL, 3x all-area, 2017 CCL Player of the Year, 2017 1st team All-State (Centerfield), CCL vs..CPS All Star Game “3-hole” hitter, 3x CCL White champion, 3x Regional champion, 3 Sectional championship appearances, 1 Super-sectional (Elite Eight), hit for cycle and 2 HR game vs. Mt. Carmel sophomore year. Read more.
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| From the Archives: Raymond Wicklander, Jr. '55
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Setting the Standard for Excellence
High achievements in academics and athletics have been intertwined at Fenwick for 90 years and counting. In 1992, Raymond Wicklander, Jr., Fenwick Class of 1955, gave this speech at the Friars' Athletic Awards ceremony. From Oak Park and Ascension, Ray was a National Honor Society student who played football for four years in high school. He also spent two years swimming and on the staff of The Wick:
On a night similar to this, over 60 years ago in the old Morrison Hotel in downtown Chicago, a new upstart high school from Oak Park, called Fenwick, held its first athletic awards night. Over 900 people attended – in the height of the Depression – for two basic reasons: Read more.
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| FACULTY FOCUS: Second-year
Math Teacher Diane Sabbia
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Ms. Sabbia is in her second year teaching geometry at Fenwick. |
| What is your educational background?
DS: B.S - Illinois State University
What did you do prior to becoming a teacher at Fenwick?
DS: I taught at a small public school in central Illinois, Maroa Forsyth High School, for two years.
What interests do you pursue outside of the classroom? Read more.
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| Have You Read The Wick Lately?
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The Wick student newspaper features some great, Friar-generated content. A prime example is the recent profile of Dr. Jerry Lordan, who has announced his pending retirement in June. Written by managing editor Alexandra Sawasciuk '19, who also in in charge of front-page news, "On Developing Our History" explores recent school heritage from Dr. Lordan's perspective of his nearly 30 years at Fenwick High School.
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| Consider the Gift of a Memorial Brick
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Personalize a gift for the Friars in your life! Commemorative bricks can be purchased now for installation next summer in the ever more beautiful Fenwick Courtyard.
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| Have You Signed Up for "FriarsConnect?"
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More than 650 alumni have signed up for FiarsConnect! What are you waiting for? The new, professional networking tool is 100% exclusive to the Fenwick Community. With it, you will be able to: - Find jobs and opportunities where you can work with your fellow Friars
- Cultivate meaningful mentoring opportunities
- Connect with and organize the powerful relationships available via the Fenwick community
- And so much more
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| Get Your Fenwick Gear from the Friar Shop!
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The Friar Shop is the place to get all the Fenwick Gear you need to show your support and school spirit: T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, accessories and more! Visit us outside of the Fenwick Fieldhouse Gymnasium on campus. We have a number of new items and designs that are available in the shop. Several New T-shirts, men's & women's shorts, dog collars, 20-oz. stainless steel/copper insulated tumblers, visors in three colors (white, black & khaki), a brand NEW trucker hat, ceramic coasters and more. Stop in soon and check it out! Gift baskets also are available. Friar Shop Hours Monday: Noon - 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday - Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
For convenient online ordering ... click here!
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| Alumni Evening in New York City
Wednesday, April 3
Golden Friars Mass & Luncheon
Thursday, June 7 Friar Classic Golf Outing
Thursday, June 14
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Please consider making a gift to help ensure that every class of Fenwick graduates is as prepared for their college years as you were.
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Have something to share with your fellow alumni? Please send all of your alumni news and happenings to Peter Durkin '03, Director of Alumni Relations (pdurkin@fenwickfriars.com).
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