Fall 2005 - St. Charles Preparatory School

Development Update
Tutoring Fund has been initiated by
Frederick J.
Gottemoeller, an
alumnus from the
Class of 1958. The
endowment honoring
the late Father
Haluska, who
taught geometry
and physics at both
the prep school and
the former St.
Fr. Charles A. Haluska
54
Charles College
from 1953 to 1963,
will become a
permanent fund in the St. Charles Endowment.
Gottemoeller, a world-renowned
bridge and highway designer, credits
Father Haluska for “unlocking the potential
that he didn’t know existed” in him
when he was a student at St. Charles in
the 1950s. When fully funded at $25,000,
The Father Haluska Fund will support the
school’s after-school tutoring program,
which will be located on the second floor of
the new Student Services & Fine Arts
Center. Gifts to support this fund are
encouraged from alumni and parents of
alumni. Call the Development Office at
(614) 252-9288 to make your pledge.
Special Thanks
St. Charles wishes to thank the following
for their assistance with the Campaign for
St. Charles naming opportunity brochure:
Adrenaline Advertising
(www.adrenalineadv.com) and its founder,
Neal Robert, a 1985 St. Charles graduate,
for his graphic design and creativity; and
Sue Horn, principal of Old Trail Printing
(www.oldtrailprinting.com) for the generous
support in helping produce St. Charles
programs throughout the years. Horn’s
son, Matt Kaercher is a member of the
Class of 2005.
Remaining Opportunities
Funding for the balance of the Student
Services and Fine Arts Center is coming
from private donations from alumni,
parents of alumni, and parents of current
students. Numerous naming opportunities
for the building’s floors, rooms and areas
are being offered.
The Fine Arts Floor will house a new
classroom, faculty office and rehearsal
space for the music program, including
choral and jazz band rehearsal space, a
large art classroom and a faculty office,
and a new ceramics studio including a kiln
and a mud room. The school is seeking a
pledge of $250,000 to name the third floor.
St. Charles Colonnades will mirror the
school’s front colonnades and will be
located at the west entrance to the new
student commons and student center. The
new colonnades will not only provide
shelter to those walking from the student
center and commons to the school’s
gymnasium, but it will provide cover to
the new St. Charles Walk of Honor that
was previously located in the north
courtyard. The school is seeking a pledge
of $250,000 to name the colonnades.
A Second Floor Balcony will be located in
the St. Charles Student Services Center
and will provide an overlook to the new
student commons. The school is seeking a
pledge of $50,000 to name the second floor
balcony.
A Third Floor Balcony will be located in
the St. Charles Student Services & Fine
Arts Center and will provide an overlook
to the new student commons. The school
is seeking a pledge of $50,000 to name the
third floor balcony.
A Music Rehearsal Room will be located on
the third floor of the St. Charles Student
Services & Fine Arts Center. The school is
seeking a pledge of $25,000 to name the
room.
Window Tributes made of 5-ft. x 5-ft.
limestone blocks will be located on the
ground floor of the student commons. The
tributes will be created when the 11 lowerlevel
windows of the east and west wings
and 4 windows in the main hallway are
removed and enclosed. The tributes are
suitable for St. Charles alumni and their
families, faculty and individual classes.
The school is seeking $25,000 for each of
the remaining 10 inserts.
The Saint Charles Walk of Honor will be
relocated from the north courtyard to
underneath the new St. Charles Colonnades.
The school is seeking $1,000 for
each of the 20 bricks remaining on the
Walk of Honor.
Principal Dominic J. Cavello said
funding for both structures was made
possible solely by gifts and pledges of
alumni, parents, and area friends through
the Campaign for St. Charles.
“We have a tremendous group of
campaign leaders and a loyal group of
alumni and parent contributors who have
been solidly behind St. Charles and its
expansion projects through the years. All
of us here are grateful for this support
toward a one-of-a-kind project,” Cavello
said.
S.C. Mom expresses special
affection for St. Charles with
$50,000 gift
Annette Prunte Hilaman, D.D.S. expressed
her special heartfelt affection for
St. Charles last July by extending a
$50,000 gift for the Prunte Family Art
Room to be located in the St. Charles
Student Services and Fine Arts Center now
under construction.
Her gift acknowledges her family’s
strong ties to the school. She said her son,
Elliot, “enjoyed and learned from art
classes he took during his two years at St.
Charles.” He went on to graduate last
spring from Bishop Hartley High where
he was a member of the honor roll and is
now a freshman at The Ohio State University.
With her gift, Dr. Hilaman also
wanted to honor her parents, John and
Hilda Prunte, who worked so hard in the
school cafeteria, with the Mother’s Club,
and in other activities when St. Charles
resumed its normal preparatory high
school operations in 1969 after restricting
enrollment to seminary prep students the
previous eight years.
Her brothers John ’72, Thomas ’75
and Dominic Prunte ’77 are St. Charles
graduates, as is her nephew Tom Prunte
’03. Two other nephews – sophomore John
Prunte and freshman Michael Simmons —
are current St. Charles students.
Dr. Hilaman has a “strong belief in
Catholic education” and wanted to support
the values and type of education St.
Charles that provides its young men.
A single mother, Hilaman maintains a
dental practice in Columbus. She credits
St. Charles Advisory Board member, Dr.
Tom Ryan ’58 for being both a friend and
mentor. She said Ryan “motivated me to
pursue dentistry as a profession, which
allows me to give back to the community.”
Generous gift — generous supporter
Annette Prunte Hilaman, D.D.S. and her son, Elliot.
St. Charles Preparatory School