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HOLY CROSS HIGHLIGHTS HOLY CROSS HIGHLIGHTS
Opening Liturgy Empowers
Distinguished Knights
On Friday, September 14th, Holy Cross High School
launched the 2007-2008 school year with a liturgy celebrating
the beatification of Father Basil Anthony Moreau. Faculty
and students were joined by members of the school’s Board
of Directors, Women’s Guild, and, Father’s Club.
Celebrants at the Opening
Liturgy (l-r) Br. Stephen
LaMendola, csc, ’67, President;
Fr. Frank Schwarz, Chaplain;
Chuck Merritt ‘84, Board
Member; Msgr. Martin
Geraghty, Pastor of St. Robert
Bellarmine; Rev. John Costello
’81, Board Member and
Pastor of the Holy Trinity
Church; Br. William Zaydak,
csc, ’72, Assistant Provincial; Bishop Guy Sansaricq, DD,
Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn; J. P. Seon ’98, Director of Campus
Ministry; Daniel Bartolomeo ’73, Chair, Board of Directors;
Michael Sapraicone ’74, Vice Chairman, Board of Directors;
Msgr. John Tosi, Pastor, St. Luke’s Parish.
Extraordinary Eucharistic Ministers
installed (l-r) Back row: Rev. John
Costello ’81, Board Member and
Pastor, Holy Trinity Church; Holy
Cross Seniors--Amer Juntado,
Matt Kelly, Chris Engelmann,
Vincent Tulino, and Fr. Frank
Schwarz, Chaplain. Front row:
Seniors Nicholas Rao, Scott
Cermak, Kevin Power, Chris
Tromp, Robert Renzi, and Luis Restrepo. (Not pictured: Fabio
Acquista, Daniel Dodge, Nicholas Vigorito.)
Members of the Student Government
were installed on this special occasion.
(l-r) Back row: Prince Mingle, Junior
Vice President; Diego Cardosa
Pereira, Junior President; Neil
Doherty, Senior President;
Christopher Hay, Senior Vice
President; John Petinos, Sophomore
President; and Mrs. Magaly Lopez-
Lohnes, Moderator. Front Row: Amer Juntado ’08, Representative;
Peter Levantis ‘09, Second Vice President; Matthew Kelly ‘08,
First Vice President; Conor McGuirk ‘08, President; William
Rennie ‘09, Secretary; Robert Goger ‘10, Treasurer.
SADD Encourages Positive
Decision-Making
Faculty advisor Cathy Vodopivec
(far left) and members of SADD
(Students Against Destructive
Decisions), sponsored a Dress
Down Day on Wednesday,
February 13, 2008 commemorating
the launch of an initiative
to educate students about the
consequences of poor choices involving drugs, alcohol,
impaired driving, violence, suicide and other destructive teen
behavior.
Holy Cross Community Gathers
at Mass of Thanksgiving
Altar Servers flank Father
Frank Schwarz, Chaplain,
at the Mass of
Thanksgiving on
Wednesday, November
21, 2007. (l-r) Seniors:
Christopher Tromp,
Nicholas Alvarez,
Vincent Tulino, Nicholas
Rao, Kevin Kelly, Father
Schwarz, Christopher Engelman, James Papavero, Matthew
Kelly, Gerard LaJoie, Peter Cecere, Rafael Angobaldo, Louis Restrepo,
Kevin Power, Dave Marsala, Scott Cermak, and Chris Franceschini ‘09.
An Award-Winning
Discovery at Holy Cross!
10) Holy Cross High
School’s literary magazine,
Discovery 2007,
receives First Place
Award from the
American Scholastic
Press Association in
December. (l-r) Seniors
Max Vetrano, Chris
Temperini, Michele
Daus, Faculty Advisor,
Scott Cermak, Chris
Engelmann, and Br.
Stephen LaMendola, csc, President
Holy Cross Students Spread Cheer
Throughout the Holiday Season
Students display “comfort kits” prepared
for patients at the Coler-
Goldwater Specialty Hospital and
Nursing Facility on Wednesday,
December 5, 2007. (l-r) Emilio
Cruz ’11, Cameron Martindale
’11, Winston Nget ’08, Andrew
Gelb ’08, John Rose ’10, Luke
Serkanic ’08, Frankie Riviera ’11, Michael Marden ’11.
Fifteen seniors earn the privilege of
competing against faculty in the
Annual Christmas Classic on Friday,
December 21, 2007. Through contributions
from peers, friends and
employers, students raised $5,200
to be contributed to various charities
including St. John’s Bread and
Life, the Little Sisters of the Poor,
VISIONS, St. Joseph School for the
Deaf, the US-Africa Children’s
Fellowship, and Holy Cross Missions in Africa. (l-r) Back
row: John Meyer, Ben Schiavi, Robert DiRe, Brandon Kubic, Rodney
Robinson, Glen Barker, Billy Demos, Frantz Chauvet, John Azzopardi;
Front row: Thomas Lamb (Captain), Manoli Sgouros, Markos Krevatas,
Bryan Ashworth, Angelo Gurino, Charles Pierre, Coach Kevin Kelly.
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