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Schools

Dr. Valenti surprised with high honor

March 19, 2010
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

School Sister of Notre Dame Irene Pryle faked out Dr. Ronald J. Valenti in the best way possible at the 19th annual Teachers’ Awards Banquet, held March 18 at Martin’s West in Woodlawn.

Mercy’s president of 31 years has much to celebrate

May 8, 2008
By Catholic Review Staff
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

She has been the president and principal of Baltimore’s Mercy High School for 31 years, and may have held such a position longer than anyone else in Catholic secondary education. But, Sister Carol Wheeler, R.S.M., somehow retains the creative energy, freshness and vision she had when she came to the newly opened Mercy as a teacher in 1961 and when she became principal in 1977.

Dr. Valenti sees benefits for proposed grant

April 25, 2008
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

One day after attending an April 24 White House summit on preventing faith-based schools from closing in the inner-city, Dr. Ronald J. Valenti, Baltimore superintendent of Catholic schools, welcomed a renewed proposal from President George W. Bush to establish a “Pell Grant for Kids.”

Seton Keough principal honored with an award

April 5, 2007
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

“I was glad to be at a Catholic school where Christ was at the center,” he said. “The students were incredibly resilient. It was really clear that their faith in Christ was the foundation for everything.”

Gov. O’Malley speaks to Catholic educators at mansion

February 8, 2007
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

ANNAPOLIS – Standing inside the governor’s mansion he has occupied for less than three weeks, Gov. Martin J. O’Malley told a group of Catholic educators he never would have pursued a career in public service were it not for his own Catholic education. Glancing at some 30 Catholic schoolteachers and administrators, including Sister Columbkill O’Connor, […]

Launching a dream: Maryland’s youngest hot air balloon pilot sees beauty from above

December 4, 2003
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

Ever since Matt passed his flight test and became Maryland’s youngest hot air balloon pilot on August 24, the nascent aviator has been on cloud nine. Floating on the winds is all he’s wanted to do since he took his first ride at age 6 when his father put him in a hot air balloon at the annual Preakness celebration.

Catholic schools get tough on Internet plagiarism

August 13, 2002
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

These days, it takes less than five minutes to log onto the Internet and download whole papers complete with footnotes and bibliographies. Several Web sites offer such a “service” for free or a small fee, posting hundreds of papers on topics ranging from American literature to Shakespeare to world history.

Catholic school student wins national handwriting contest

June 10, 2002
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

More than a few doctors, notorious for their illegible scribble, would do well to take Michael Daniel Fairley’s advice about good handwriting.

Mutilated African war victims helped by Baltimore Catholic school

November 30, 2001
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools

Friends of Sierra Leone estimates that 75,000 unarmed civilians have been killed and 20,000 mutilated during Sierra Leone’s 11-year-old civil war.

Catholic astronaut from Essex to head for space station aboard shuttle

January 18, 2001
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools

“When you’re in space, and you look back at earth, it strikes you as an overwhelmingly beautiful vision,” Jones said. “It makes me think that God constructed us to appreciate this aspect of creation. He put something in our brains to appreciate the magnificence of creation.”

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