“We wanted to create an opportunity for students to explore their love of reading,” librarian Anne Arriaga said.  “I think so often in high school we get caught up in what we have to read for classes [that] we don’t take the time to read for pleasure, so this is giving you 24 hours to do that.”

This whole reading marathon of sorts was first started last year when the idea arose from a different catholic school in Berkeley called St. Mary’s.

“We knew we had to bring this to Moreau,” Arriaga said. “What a great and unique opportunity for our students.”

Just like last year, this year will be filled with delectable food items, sleeping equipment, board/video games, different judges and also many teams of students with their wide variety of books hoping to last the full twenty-four hours.

With it being a competition, the rules are just as strict. One person has to be reading out loud at all times, and the judges walk around constantly to see if people are actually engaged. One of the librarians Susan Geiger explained how difficult this could actually be.

“It’s pretty grueling; kind of like the dance marathon in the thirties,” Geiger said. “The person who is not reading needs to be standing up. They are welcome to walk around, or [sing] karaoke and dance with the Wii which will all be viewable via live stream. So you have to be pretty active for 24 hours to make it.”

Not all contestants had a smooth ride to the finish. Senior Marlene Imana-Iyemura discussed how she had to go through the whole day with an injury to her lip.

“Half way through the night, my lip split in two. No one had any chap stick, so I had bite the proverbial bullet and continue reading through the pain,” Imana-Iyemura said. “The read-a-thon is definitely not for people who are unable [to] handle exhaustion.”

Throughout the course of the twenty-four hours the food is endless. The culinary arts department provides everyone with dinner, while the library staff supplies mid-night pizza, breakfast, lunch, and snacks, along with loads of coffee. Even with plenty of caffeine, staying up for a full day can be a difficult thing to do for some participants. Some people take a little snooze, but unfortunately for them it counts to their disadvantage because it violates one of the rules.

“The five second rule seems was called upon the most,” Arriaga explained. “ You start to nod off and you know your head will jolt you forward but [by] then a judge has already stopped you, so you’re disqualified.”

Through the day students came up with their own tactics to make sure they do not get kicked out. The people that were not reading would go sing karaoke or stand up on chairs close to the shelves so it would not cause them to lean on anything. Another strategy that was used was the use of ice.

“At four am, people were starting to hit that feeling of sleepiness,” Arriaga said. “Team members would put ice down the backs of [his or her] team members so [they] could stay awake longer.”

For people who could have not gone last year, and the ones that will not be able to go this year, there is the option to watch the live stream from the website. Teachers tuned in a few times last year to see what was going on.

“The interesting thing was the faculty reaction,” Geiger said. “We had people like Mrs. Kleczek online at like two o’clock in the morning saying, ‘I don’t know why I’m still watching this, it is addicting.’”

To make it through a whole read-a-thon it demands a lot of stamina and determination, but in the end all of its for a good cause. Everyone is encouraged to make donations either through the website or by donating books in the library. All of these donations will go directly to St. Leanders School in San Leandro.

Even though the deadline for this year’s read-a-thon has passed, there is always next year for those of you that couldn’t not make it this time around. And for the ones that are participating this year, good luck and happy reading.

]]> http://mcexplorer.com/news/2012/04/04/read-a-thon/feed/ 0 http://mcexplorer.com/news/2012/04/04/stop-inaccuracy-2012/ http://mcexplorer.com/news/2012/04/04/stop-inaccuracy-2012/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:41:37 +0000 adviser http://mcexplorer.com/?p=519 A viral video that has reached over 70 million hits has exposed a brutal tyrant who has presented himself as a problem for Ugandans. Or at least, had presented itself.
The video I speak of is the Kony 2012 propaganda video, in which the foundation Invisible Children explains how a war criminal named Joseph Kony and his military group, the Lord’s Rebel Army, abducted 30,000 children to use as soldiers and slaves.
“KONY 2012 portrays, in no uncertain terms, the image of a madman who manipulates children spiritually for his own tactical gains,” the group’s website states. “In a 30-minute film, however, many nuances of the 26-year conflict are admittedly lost or overlooked.”
The foundation relies upon using merchandise and other marketing tactics to try and sell products in order to raise enough money to run the movement.
While this disclaimer has been presented on the foundation’s website, the disclaimer is nowhere to be found in the video or in it’s description panel on Youtube. The lack of a clearly presented disclaimer has misled many people into thinking Kony is still a problem.
“The Lord’s Resistance Army was expelled from Uganda six years ago and has been reduced to a force of about 300 fighters now operating in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and the Central African Republic (CAR),” Jocelyn Edwards writes for the Globalpost.
Not only has the information been skewed, but there has also been a huge controversy over the portrayal of the Ugandan people that has arisen with the release of the video.
“As a result of Invisible Children’s irresponsible advocacy, civilians in Uganda and central Africa may have to pay a steep price in their own lives so that a lot of young Americans can feel good about themselves, and a few can make good money,” writes Adam Branch of the Makerere Institute of Social Research.
“I got into the movement and I was going to buy the action kit, a collection of Kony 2012 pieces of merchandise, but they were all sold out when I wanted to buy it,” junior Sahaj Patel said.
However, one problem with the video that has caused it to receive negative attention is that much of the information used isn’t fully accurate.
The video has not only caused controversy over the Ugandan people’s portrayal, but over relief to Africa as a whole.
“Kony has been in Uganda causing problems for around ten to fifteen years and just now people in the more developed part of the world are hearing about him. The thing that bothers me the most is that we focus on Kony rather than the problems with rape, murder, and sickness in Africa,” theology teacher Jaime Fernandez said.
The problems that the Invisible Children foundation has highlighted are problems that no longer have merit in Uganda. There are bigger problems occurring in Uganda and many of the Ugandan people feel that the stop Kony movement is more disrespectful than it is helpful. Some of their main problems now are huge things that have managed to be ignored by this foundation. The country’s president and the lack of educational systems implemented in the country are currently causing more problems than Joseph Kony is.
“There has also been a massive backlash against the fact that the Invisible Children organization openly supports the 30-year dictator of Uganda Yoweri Museveni, a man who resorted to election fraud last year to hold on to power and has been implicated in murders and acts of genocide against his own people,” Paul Joseph Watson writes on Infowars.com.
While the Invisible Children foundation avoids presenting the current problems of the Ugandan people and has released an inaccurate video documentary to the whole world, it has done a good job of making a video go viral all over the internet in a matter of a few weeks.

With gas prices rising at a record-setting pace, American citizens are now fearing a $5 or $6-a-gallon price. If the price of gasoline were to reach these milestones, our  national economic recovery could be severely jeopardized and this would certainly affect the upcoming presidential election.

Oil supply concerns have grown in the United States as well as Europe after tightened sanctions on Iran led to U.S. crude prices for future delivery being pushed to $109.77 on Feb. 24, the highest in nine months, according to data compiled by the Associated Press.

President Obama rejected the proposed $7.6 billion dollar Keystone Pipeline that would move nearly 900,000 barrels of  oil stateside daily.

“I feel president Obama’s decision was  smart, because  we only have one earth, but there is plenty of oil,” senior Jeremy Imlach said.

“The gas prices are surely tied in to politics, given what is going on with today’s political and economic situation,” senior Nick Rodden said.

This political decision has been under fire ever since,  Bloomberg News stated that “Republicans including three of the party’s presidential candidates — Mr. Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia — have criticized President Barack Obama’s Jan. 18 rejection of Keystone XL after Nebraskans raised concerns about the pipeline polluting their groundwater.”
As Republicans criticize president Obama’s decision, they also begin the volley of negative sound bites and political commercials as the major parties gear up for the 2012 presidential election.

While some believe gasoline prices are simply becoming a matter of political warfare even Democratic former President Bill Clinton backed Keystone’s construction at a Washington-area energy conference stating “the extra cost of running it is infinitesimal compared to the revenues’ that the pipeline could produce.”

With the presidential election looming and many Moreau seniors coming of voting age,  gas prices may alter Mariner voting tendencies, however geographically Bay Area voters tend to be largely democratic.

“The fact that the pipeline has not been on my radar surprises me, it’s something that I would definitely have to look into before casting my ballot,” father Tito Bonoan said.

However, what does this mean within our community? Many Moreau students may be seeing the road a lot less as this school year closes out, particularly due to the fact that as summer approaches prices are likely to escalate even further.

Rising oil prices could also mean more expensive goods for students at Moreau, food prices, school supplies and about every product under the sun is somewhat subject to the price of oil as shipping and production of goods is especially dependent on a large supply of fuel.

As alternate technologies continue to develop, we may begin to see more fuel friendly and even electric-powered vehicles on the roads around the Bay Area.

So the next time you fill up at the pump, ask yourself if you are doing your part in aiding our political process.

In the past, Moreau has always been an advocate of need-based grants to their students. But in the last four years, the average annual figure has doubled. This year alone, Moreau granted in excess of 1.4 million dollars of need-based tuition assistance to roughly 30 percent of our students.

Several events and fundraisers help contribute to this massive fund, but one of the landmark perennial events is the Funding Hopes and Dreams Luncheon.

“This is the third year in a row that we are having ‘Funding Hopes and Dreams’ and we have an organized system for inviting people,” President of institutional advancement Tom Hyland said. “We invited people who have supported in the past and have made donations to tuition assistance or have made donations of a certain five hundred dollars or more to the school.”

While the luncheon is limited to those who Moreau invited based on their donation history, it was also possible to reserve 8 seats, as a table captain, through a collective donation of at least $1,000. But the most exciting donor this year was Fremont Bank.

“Our friends at Fremont Bank have made a very generous donation and they’re paying for the lunch and everybody who comes to the lunch can eat for free, but they are asked to make a donation. Plus, we do have some anonymous donors who agreed to match dollar for dollar, up to 45 thousand dollars,” Hyland said.

The luncheon is also one of the most effective fundraisers because it allows donors to experience how the funds directly affect their benefactors. The event featured speeches by Rick Maya ‘90 and Jennifer Rillamas ‘11. Maya is the Superintendent of Catholic Education for the Sacramento Diocese and is responsible for the division of over 55 million dollars in assets over 3 high schools and 10,000 students.

“The gift of a Moreau high school education is one that is near and dear to my family’s heart. I know for a fact  that our family could have never afforded full tuition and without financial aid, it simply wouldn’t have happened” Maya said.

Rillamas’ family suffered through hardships during the 2009-2010 school year, and through the need based tuition assistance programs she was about to continue at Moreau, graduating with honors, all while going on to the University of Portland.

Both of the day’s keynote speakers inspired donors to give generously after they saw exactly how their money could go to work.

“I think that everyone our community needs to be given the opportunity to go to such a wonderful school such as Moreau, where possibilities are opened up so that students can achieve great things in life,” alumni Robert Warren said.

By donating donors knew with confidence they were helping better our society by providing young, studious people with financial backing to support their academic aspirations.

“This event is not only funding hopes and dreams, it’s creating them,” Rillamas said.

Moreau held its second Career Day on February 17, informing students on different paths they can take after they’ve completed high school.

Career Day lets alumni share their stories and professional experiences through the years. Dani Lorta, Alumni Relations Director, believes all students can benefit from this insight.

“What’s important about career day is that it’s an opportunity to see something new, and learn something different,” Lorta said.  “And [also] to be able to ask questions in a field you’re curious about.”

This time around, the presenters included Justin Chimenti ’90- Sales/Marketing, Aura “Rose” (Suarez) Giuffre ’91- Legal Counsel, Christine Griffin ’00-Biochemist, Stacey Wiley ’89-Entrepreneur/Animal Care, Rob Fratus ’85-Firefighter/Paramedic and Roger Kuan ’90- IP Attorney.

Each of the presenters had a unique story. Wiley initially perused a degree in literature but it wasn’t for her. She had a love for  animals and ended up staring her own business for dogs.

“Personally I didn’t know what I wanted to do till I was in my late 20’s,” Wiley said. “It’s okay not to know right off the bat, because I could have made some really bad decisions and be stuck in some professions that I was not really passionate about.”

Senior Brittney Nguyen benefited from Wiley’s presentation.

“I actually decided what career path I wanted to focus on after listening to that speaker,” Nguyen said.  “Going really helped and I definitely recommend others to go to any speaker that remotely interests them.”

Griffin is a UCSF researcher and also a part-time teacher. She talked about why it’s important to maintain good relations with teachers and professors after high school and college.

“When you have a class that you really like, go and meet with your professor and talk to them because those connections you make will actually help [you] the rest of your life,” Griffin said.  “I am still good friends with some of my professors here at Moreau Catholic,  from my college and then from my graduate school. And through those contacts I have gotten more jobs and better jobs.”

Finding the right career takes some work. Chimenti, who now is in sales with Pandora, discussed how things don’t always come easily. For a few of us we might just choose a career, but not actually think about what it takes to actually get there.

“It’s a tough rode and it takes a long time to develop the skills that you need, and even if you fail few times [don’t] not give up. Keep pushing forward for the goal that you have in mind,” Chimenti said.

When choosing a career it’s important to go for something you are actually passionate about, otherwise there’s no point.

“The most important thing I learned was that you need to find a job that you enjoy, not settle for something that makes you miserable,” senior Cassie Boccaleoni said.

Students will have one last opportunity to experience this type of in-depth look at the professional world. The last Career Day of this year is currently scheduled for April 24.

“Every year we have about three or four new courses that come online,” Assistant Principal of Instruction Mike Aquino said.

For the 2012-2013 school year, these new classes are Biotechnology, Advanced Digital Graphics, and American Law and Justice.

“New courses come about as a result of teachers coming up with new ideas,” Counseling Chair Jim Patterson said.

“Before you have a course, you have to have somebody that will teach it,” Aquino said. The Student Curriculum Committee is also consulted for new-course ideas.

After the course’s curriculum is planned out, it needs to be approved by Academic Council – a monthly meeting of department chairs.

“There’s a set of standards that they use to evaluate the courses,” Patterson said. “Is it something that is appealing to colleges? In some cases that doesn’t matter – like for some theology classes that are meant to be spiritual, not intellectual.”

After approval, the Mission Integration Committee, which is in charge of measuring everything against the school’s mission statement, reviews the curriculum as well.

“Once [Mission Integration Committee] approves the course, it becomes part of the catalog for the next year,” Aquino said. “The next big step is whether enough students sign up for the course for it to run.”

Sometimes a new course can’t run because of scheduling conflicts. “When that happens, we try to offer it twice, but if it still doesn’t work out, the course disappears,” Aquino said.
AMERICAN LAW AND JUSTICE
American Law and Justice was created to supplement Mock Trial. Moderated by history teachers Phil Wilder and Peter Zegura, Mock Trial is both a club and a team.

“There’s so much information that’s involved in Mock Trial – the laws, the Constitution, presenting an argument, being a witness, understanding how due process works,” Wilder said. “We kept hearing how some other schools had a class [to go with their Mock Trial programs] but we had never been able to have one before.”

While it wouldn’t be required to be a part of Mock Trial, as a semester class, American Law and Justice would be “a good hands-on way to learn how the law and judicial system work,” Wilder said.

Although not yet confirmed, another exciting opportunity for the class is the possibility of it being taught by an actual attorney that has taught college classes before. “Not only will this give students a sense of the law, but it would almost give them the experience of a pre-law undergraduate course,” Wilder said.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
Biotechnology aims to introduce students to the field of, well, biotechnology.

“Last year, the science department went to the National Science Teachers’ Association conference,” science teacher Kerrie Gibson said. Gibson will be teaching Biotechnology next year. “At the conference, [we] went to a presentation on how to start a Biotechnology program … I thought [it] would be a good fit for Moreau.”

Students in Biotechnology will first learn SLOP – Standard Laboratory Operating Procedures. “These are the skills that a lab worker must master if he or she is going into an academic or corporate lab setting,” Gibson said.

Gibson hopes that the class will help students gain knowledge and hands-on experience. “It will prepare them for future internships at a biotech company or research facility,” Gibson said.
ADVANCED DIGITAL GRAPHICS
Advanced Digital Graphics was born from student-driven desires to have more digital photography and design classes.

“It was becoming apparent that students entering AP Studio Art needed another semester of digital design in order to be fully prepared to develop a quality portfolio,” art teacher Brooke Nelson said. Moreau previously offered no second-level digital design course, forcing students to jump from beginning courses to the AP class.

The course will cover a wide range of mediums. “I didn’t want the course to be limited to just photography or graphic design,” Nelson said. “I wanted to open the class up to students interested in all digital mediums, including animation, web design, and fashion design.”

In the semester-long class, Advanced Digital Graphics students would create advertisements, CD covers, labeling, and other marketing materials. “Students will develop their own style branding, and design trends and their impact on society will be discussed,” Nelson said.

Modern language teacher Henny Chen displays her Smart Board.

Modern language teacher Henny Chen displays her Smart Board.

Every two years, we have the Olympics. Every four years, we have a presidential election. And every six years, we have WASC.

A team of six people from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges visited Moreau from March 4-7, the culmination of a self-study report that took eighteen months to engineer.

But what exactly is WASC?

“WASC is a process that every school, public or private, has to go through,” Assistant Principal of Campus Life Katie Teekell said. Since Moreau is a Catholic school, however, there is an additional layer of assessment – review by the WCEA (Western Catholic Educational Association).

The members of the visiting committee were educators from other Bay Area Catholic high schools. “Everybody is a part of WASC – the idea is that you’re being examined by your peers; you’re not being judged by some outside entity,” Assistant Principal of Instruction Mike Aquino said.

The WASC process, which ultimately leads to a six-year accreditation, began back in 2010. “To be accredited, you have to develop a report. There’s a series of questions that you have to answer, and the answers have to be put into a book,” Aquino said.

To answer the questions, four focus groups of 10-12 people were formed from Moreau faculty, staff, parents, students, and board members.

Junior Scott Lowder was a member of one of these groups. “We met regularly to discuss our claims and how we could back up what we were saying with evidence,” said Lowder. “I remembered the accreditation process from when my previous school had gone through it many years back, so I was happy to be able to help out again.”

“The idea was to try to do a ‘bottom-up’ inclusion of everyone’s voice in the writing of the report – it was a group-authored endeavor rather than just one person writing,” said Aquino. “There was a group of about five people that edited the book in the end to make the final changes and put it all together.”

English Department chair Cheryl Steeb was a member of that core team. “We were each in charge of a different facet of the report,” Steeb said. “We also became the go-to group for when the visiting team had questions or issues. We were the first team to meet with them on Sunday when they arrived – they came with a lot of questions!”

When the visiting team arrived, they were led on a tour around the school by a group of Link Crew leaders. Senior Anuraag Kumar was one of those selected to lead the tour. “The committee members were so nice and connected with each of us,” Kumar said. “I’ve done tours for Link Crew with parents and students before, so it was really natural.”

On Monday, the committee got its first look at a typical day at Moreau. “It’s not about ‘good behavior’,” Aquino said. “The focus wasn’t to be different from what we normally are, but to showcase what we do. We told teachers not to schedule tests during the visiting days – you don’t want to be walking around trying to see what students are learning, and all you see is them taking a test.”

Modern language teacher Henny Chen had a unique view on the WASC process. “When I first started teaching at Moreau in 2007, the previous WASC accreditation had just happened. I had to go back and look at what I’ve been doing for the past few years and see if my curriculum really fit the ESLRs and such,” Chen said. “It was kind of like a journal for me – a reflection of my teaching here at Moreau.”

The main goal of the visiting team was to review and affirm everything that was written in the self-study report. “They weren’t trying to find anything wrong with us – they were trying to affirm what we’ve said about ourselves,” Teekell said.

Steeb, who has witnessed numerous prior WASC visits, said that this visiting team was very well-prepared in comparison to their predecessors. “This year’s process was extremely thorough – they really read the report and took the whole thing very seriously,” Steeb said. “It was very gratifying!”

Consequently, the school’s hard work paid off. “The WASC committee wrote a report and delivered it to us,” Aquino said. “The school got a very positive report! It highlighted how articulate students were, how much they knew about Holy Cross, and how they care about the school.”

But the process doesn’t end with the assessment. “Now that we have the report,” Aquino said, “we have what we can start working on for the next six years! When they come back, they’re going to look at what we said we were going to do and check the degree to which we were able to do it. It’s really just the beginning of the next process.”

Even though we go to a private school and pay tuition, many department budgets and school operations require more funds and additional revenue sources.

“There is a perception that Moreau Catholic is a very wealthy school so there isn’t a need for fundraising, and that is not true,” Director of Institutional Advancement Thomas Hyland said. “The school is able to operate from year to year based on tuition. But it’s because other people have contributed that we are able to move on.”

Tuition and fees only cover about 89% of the total cost to educate a student at Moreau. This leaves a gap of roughly $1,900 per student needed to fund the school’s operating costs.  To fill that gap, the school needs to fundraise.

President Terry Lee explained the reason why the school doesn’t charge each student the full cost of tuition is because it would get too expensive.

Throughout the year the school holds a variety of  fundraisers that each benefit different things. Starting off with the annual fund, which is broken down to parent and alumni appeals. During this process the IT Department ask parents and alumni to contribute money to the school. And since our school counts as a non-profit organization, every donation made is tax deductible.

Another fundraiser every student should be familiar with is the student fundraiser, in which the money goes towards a direct purpose. Over the past few years we’ve got new TVs,  a upgraded theater, a renovated grotto and much more.

To benefit the athletics program at Moreau, the school holds an annual Crab Feed, which has been going on for 43 years.

About 30% of the students that attend the school are on some type of aid. So to raise money for the tuition assistance program there is the Funding Hopes and Dreams Luncheon (story on pg. 1).

Moreau also gives out scholarships to incoming freshmen, and the Annual Brother Gary Stone Golf Tournament raises the money specifically for that.

One of the points of fundraising is to make sure every student receives the best education possible.

“The work that we put into fundraising is really to support every single student in [this] school,” Alumni Relations Coordinator Dani Lorta said.

Parents, alumni and organizations are not the only ones that give money to the school. Every faculty and staff member donates money each year depending on how much they can give.

In the end, it’s more about participation than the amount, that’s why all families are encouraged to donate.

“I hope everyone becomes a donor, and can feel the pride of knowing that you’re a part of a legacy of this school,” Lorta said.

“While I was performing, I just had a smile on my face because I was having fun doing what I love to do,” senior and Nuestra Gente co-president Karina Sanchez said. “You could just see the reactions on the children’s faces and it was really neat to see. Their enjoyment made all of the hard work worthwhile.”

“We did this last year and it went well,” Teekell said. “[We did] our performances and also held a Q&A. The little kids were really adorable and they asked all of these questions about the different cultures and dances.”

Student leaders and those a part of each group were notified weeks prior to this year’s actual Culture Day in order to have enough time to rehearse the routines.

“Preparing for Culture Day was super stressful because we had to have our performance ready early this year,” Sanchez said. “Last year, we performed at St. Felicitas, but it was a week or two after Moreau’s Culture Week.”

“[Since this event was] two weeks earlier than Culture Week, we had to prepare an early dance in time,” Filipino Club member and junior Darien Rivera said. “[The preparation] for this event gave us a better basis and established more structure with participation for Culture Week.”

“The preparation for this event was kind of crazy,” Indian Club dance participant and senior Maddy Pruneda said. “We only had about three weeks to learn the dance, but I believe that we managed to pull it off.”

Each routine also had significant meaning pertaining to each culture represented.

“[The dances] were from different areas of India,” Indian Club member and sophomore Nitin Bajaj said, “so not only did we show popular cultural dances—we showed different parts of the country and not just a part of it.”

“The dance really represented the uniqueness of our club,” Rivera said. “It dates back to the roots of Filipino culture and [it’s] a very vivid way to express our heritage and truly represent our club’s focus.”

With stress, time management, and participation playing big roles in not only the production of the Culture Day, but also the plans for Culture Week, the clubs were collectively feeling the pressure to balance all aspects of performing.

“We had a bunch of practices and even though there were times when people wouldn’t show up, we still managed to come together as a club to make things work out in the end,” Indian Club president and senior Crystal Pereira said.

After successful performances, the clubs got the chance to conduct a Q&A session with the St. Felicitas students, who, along with the performers, were content with the outcome of the dances.

Many club members have high hopes for Moreau’s upcoming Culture Week.

“If everything goes the way we want it to, [Culture Week] should turn out really well,” Pereira said. “The outfits and the formations are going to look really nice. My main concern is everyone being able to learn the dance on time.”

“[Culture Week] is going to be nerve-wracking and exciting all at the same time!” Pruneda also said.

Obviously, the seniors are anticipating a memorable final performance.

“Since this is my last culture week, I am naturally excited. This will be my fourth time participating in the dance and it has been interesting to see how each year the group [has changed] and how that affected the dance,” Sanchez said, regarding the addition and loss of members.

These Mariner clubs put on a great production for the students of St. Felicitas. Culture Week is fast approaching and the talents of Moreau will be on display for all to see on March 29.