St. Michael Messenger St. Michael Messenger - St. Michael's Abbey
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The Pioneer Press<br />
News from <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Michael</strong>’s Preparatory School • www.<strong>St</strong><strong>Michael</strong>sPrep.org<br />
The school year is underway! The student body has an individual personality<br />
which distinguishes it from previous years. This year, there is a greater<br />
appreciation for music and a larger number of students practicing a greater<br />
variety of instruments. This variety runs the gamut from ukuleles and accordions<br />
to clarinets, brass horns, and<br />
percussion. “Music brings out the<br />
beauty and unity in life,” says senior<br />
Georgio Navarini. “My playing the<br />
music makes the experience all the<br />
more spiritual.” In the classroom,<br />
students practice piano while others<br />
harmonize as a barbershop quartet.<br />
Sophomore Moises Gomez, who sings second tenor, explains it thus: “When we sing<br />
barbershop it goes from having four separate voices to one common voice. It’s a wave<br />
which overtakes and elevates you.”<br />
Additionally, our athletes demonstrate amazing grit rallying in the third and fourth<br />
quarters; the football players have closed game scores which had a 20 or 30 point spread at<br />
halftime. Varsity player Marco Saglietto understands the value of this sort of comeback.<br />
“Football is the ultimate team sport. We’re all a ‘family,’ and without my individual<br />
commitment and sacrifice for the team, my ‘family’ suffers.<br />
Therefore, I do all that I can – every time.” In an Orange County<br />
Register article dated September 27, 2011 <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Michael</strong>’s Prep<br />
was recognized as the best 8-man football team in the county.<br />
Finally, there is a lively sense of tradition. Two of the men on<br />
staff are graduates of the Prep School. Frater Bruno Johnson<br />
is a seminarian and teaches US Government; Isaac De Robles<br />
is an Iron Man competitor and coaches our cross country<br />
team. “I wanted to give back something,” De Robles explains<br />
Nicholas Munsell<br />
“for everything I received while I was a student here.” Two of<br />
the freshmen are the sons of alumni who graduated in the ’80s. One of the freshmen is<br />
Nicholas Munsell. “My Dad said he learned a lot and had a lot of fun. So, I wanted to do<br />
it too. What’s neat is that we both have Fr. Gabriel as our history teacher.”<br />
Even as the years go on, some traditions at <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Michael</strong>’s seem not to change.
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