People and Events
Baking bread at St. Agnes School
WEST CHESTER — Thanks to a grant received from the King Arthur Flour Company, St.Agnes students attended a Life Skills assembly on April 12 and learned how to bake bread — from scratch. According to the Vermont-based company, which has delivered their Life Skills Bread Breaking Program to 120,000 other school students elsewhere, baking is […]
Cover girl
Mount St. Joseph Academy Senior Kathryn Glover of Langhorne made the cover of FIRST USA’s Robotics Magazine! She is shown displaying the trademark hand sign of her school’s all-girl Robotics Team, The Firebirds. Kathryn, along with the other 59 members of the team, competed at the FIRST Robotics Regional Competition in Washington, DC this past […]
Sister Helen Prejean to talk at Chestnut Hill College
PHILADELPHIA, PA- Sister Helen Prejean, best-selling author of “Dead Man Walking” and anti-death penalty advocate, will present the lecture, “Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues” at Chestnut Hill College on April 6 at 7 p.m. in Sorgenti Arena. The lecture is sponsored by the Institute for Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Chestnut Hill College. Sister Helen […]
Conwell-Egan Catholic’s EAST Program recognized
While attending the 2011 Environmental and Spatial Technology (EAST) Conference in HotSprings, Arkansas, Conwell-Egan Catholic High School’s EAST team was honored as ranking among the top in the nation. Conwell-Egan Catholic (CEC) was named Superior School, thehighest conference rating, and CEC’s program won the Award of Excellence as one of the top three schools for […]
Jumping for Japan
The Peace Partners in first, second, third, and fourth grade in St. Eugene School in Primos will have people sponsor them as they Jump for Japan. Each student will collect $.25 from sponsors each day they jump. Student will be jumping with their Peace Partner at lunch recess time beginning March 27th and ending April […]
Praying for the missions
Students at Sacred Heart School in Oxford join thousands of Holy Childhood Association members in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and across the United States in prayer for children in the missions during HCA’s National Prayer Week, the week of March 13.
St. Mary Magdalen CYO basketball teams shoot for a cure against cancer
MEDIA — St. Mary Magdalen’s CYO basketball teams recently hosted basketball games and fundraising activities to raise money for the Philadelphia-area Coaches vs. Cancer Program. The second annual St. Mary Magdalen Coaches vs. Cancer basketball weekend raised $6,850, which benefits cancer patients and their families across the Philadelphia region. In just two years, St. Mary […]
Tracking hurricanes at Our Lady of Ransom
Students at Our Lady of Ransom School track a hurricane as part of an e-Mission transmitted from the Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling Jesuit University. The sixth graders functioned as meteorologists, forecast specialists, zone projectors, team recorders and ETAs for the estimated time arrivals of their respective hurricanes.Students tracked and conveyed information via netbooks and […]
Medical reasons prevent SJU’s president-elect from assuming office
PHILADELPHIA – St. Joseph’s University announced March 10 that Jesuit Father Joseph O’Keefe, S.J., will be unable to assume the presidency of the university after a routine medical examination revealed some serious medical issues.St. Joseph’s board of trustees elected Father O’Keefe as St. Joseph’s 27th president earlier this year, on Jan. 24, following a nationwide […]
Flying carpet lands in North Wales
NORTH WALES — St. Rose of Lima School students will be performing “Aladdin Jr.” at 7 p.m. March 4 and at 2 and 7 p.m. March 5. The musical, adapted from the Disney film “Aladdin,” is directed by Elizabeth Cascarelli. For more information and ticket prices visit the school’s web site www.srolnwales.com