The Challenges of Adventure
This school year brought a return of spring break travel for upper school HRA students. While previous trips have had European destinations, this year we stayed domestic with a domestic outdoor adventure excursion to Moab, Utah. The trip was guided by COR Expeditions, an outreach program of Wyoming Catholic College that offers guided wilderness experiences for high school students and young adults. Our trip lasted seven days and involved canyoneering, rock climbing, and backpacking through a canyon. Eleven high school students attended, accompanied by Mr. Kraemer and Miss Morris. This reflection on the trip is offered by one of our sophomores.
The Knight’s Code of Holy Rosary Academy
“Man am I grown, a man’s work must I do.
Follow the deer? Follow the Christ, the King,
Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King--
Else, wherefore born?”
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Idylls of the King, Book II
Recently, Holy Rosary Academy’s two volleyball teams surged to impressive victories over larger or better funded institutions. Sitting in the stands, I was so proud to cheer with gusto, “GO KNIGHTS!” My admiration for our students grew as I watched them play as a tight team, heard them communicate effectively with one another on the court, and saw them return strong volleys. It was clear that they were getting better with each passing play. As the matches wore on, however, our players grew weary. In the middle of the contest, when it seemed that their energy and focus were flagging, one of our parents suddenly passed around to all of us small slips of paper with the lyrics of the Holy Rosary Academy Fight Song printed on them.
From Alpha to Omega
If you had dropped into our high school Greek classroom in the first week of school, you could be forgiven for wondering whether you had gone astray and ended up in kindergarten instead. Students were practicing their handwriting with furrowed brows, carefully tracing alphas and betas and gammas and deltas over and over again in neat lines down the page. By the end of the week they were practicing “sounding it out”, delightedly surprised over the difficulty of training their brains to see “ν” as “n” instead of “v”, and learning to read all over again.