Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Montgomery Catholic Students Enjoy YMCA's Youth Judicial Program

Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School's Youth Judicial participants once again had a wonderfully successful weekend. Senior D'Jara Britton served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, along with her Bailiff Clarissa Deal, presided over 16 judges, 16 bailiffs, several sheriffs, 12 Premiere League teams and 56 upper level teams, all taking part in the YMCA's mock trial competition held at the Embassy Suites in downtown Montgomery.

Montgomery Catholic's Premiere League team, Chad DuBois, Jordan Heymann, John Preston Houston, Zack Hulcher, Megan Karst, Caroline Smith, Jack Starr, and Mary Allison Tyner, learned all about courtroom procedure and ended up placing 2nd of all of the plaintiff teams.

Both of Montgomery Catholic's upper level teams--plaintiff team Ryan Crutchfield, Anna Freedman, Jovon McCloud, Amalia Ortero, ML Shipman, Latajah Sigler, Alex Taylor, and Lizzie Terino--and defense team of Barbara Bradley, Walt Cobb, Dom Godwin, Kevin Norris, Lexie Segrest, Joseph Sutton, and Elizabeth Thrower--all met their gol and placed in the Top Ten!

Seniors Ashley Johnson and Fred Randall worked tirelessly as the press corps all weekend publishing daily newspapers that were distributed to the entire delegation.

Working with the Montgomery Catholic students were four incredible attorneys who willingly gave of their time and expertise. Joe Rech, husband of Middle School Guidance Counselor Sarah Rech, Melinda Perritano, wife of High School Dean of Students Steve Perritano, Melinda's colleague Susan Turley, and Montgomery Catholic alumnae of 2002 Laurel Crawford helped our stduents preparer for this exciting competition.

When asked how this competition compared to football, senior Jovon McCloud replied by saying, "Football is just physical, but this was exhausting!"

Pictured: Montgomery Catholic Youth Judicial Participants just before the competion began Lexie Segrest, Jordan Heymann, Chad DuBois, Amalia Ortero, Elizabeth Thrower, Latajah Sigler, Kevin Norris, Joseph Sutton, Dom Godwin, Barbara Bradley, Walt Cobb, Zack Hulcher, Mary Allison Tyner, Jack Starr, Megan Karst, and John Preston Houston.

Montgomery Catholic Students Shine in "Design An Ad" Contest

Artwork from two Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School students were selected as part of The Montgomery Advertiser's "Design An Ad" contest. Sixth grader Courtney Wallace won third place for her advertisement for McPhillips, Shinbaum, & Gill. Fifth grader Preston Beesley won Honorable Mention for his Country Cottage advertisement. Both students were recognized at an awards ceremony.

The following students from Montgomery Catholic's St. Bede Campus participated in the contest from Mrs. Boyd's Class: Ashley Donohue, Charles Deuter, Christine DeVries, Denise Jaimes, Ethan Ronan, Hugh Walker, Ivy Bach, Iyana Tate, Joseph Dene, Joshua Katz, Julia Rodriguez, Katie Smith, Kelsie Majewski, Lucy Waites, Madison Bednarz, Margaret Ann Allen, Morris Lottinger, Preston Beesley, Sam McCracken, Saxton Bibbins, Tess Casey, Theron Hewlett, Tori Barranco, Tyler Barranco, Victoria Scott, and Will Couey.

The following students from Mrs. Tynan's class also participated: Abaigeal Gilbert, Anna Marie Koerner, Beth Vaughan, Brian Brunson, Caroline Mullikin, Claire Fischer, Donald Griffin, Emily LaFreniere, Eric Crenshaw, Erin Barnett, Eryka Ellington, Jacob Atchley, James Warner Cleghorn, Katherine McDonald, Kathleen Beesley, Lacy Herbek, Lexie Bourgeois, Lori Moody, Madison Searcy, Marissa Dogan, Mary Selvaggi, Megan Stembridge, Morgan Micher, Nadine Moussalli, Patrick Wood, Tori Harris, Wilson Miles, and Zachary Roberts.

The following students from Mr. Meier's class also participated: Adam Bristol, Alejandra Vasquez, Amber Williams, Ansley Rohde, Ansley Taylor, Ashleigh Little, Audrey Kim, Brian Anderson, Briana Chavez, Collin Stewart, David Bender, Devin Kelly, Emily Tolar, Erica Harris, Francisco Gonzalez, James Sadie, Josh Hamilton, Kenneth Bell, Ledariane Moore, Madison Gaston, Michael O'Connor, Michelle Warrick, Mitch Dedek, Olivia Stephenson, Skye Anderson, and Winston Wright.

Pictured: Montgomery Catholic's "Design An Ad" Contest Winners Courtney Wallace and Preston Beesley with teachers Allison Boyd, Tina Tynan, and Larry Meiers.

Montgomery Catholic Drama Department Performs "Check, Please!"

High school students from Montgomery Catholic's Drama Department recently performed in their first production of the season "Check, Please!" A Comedy in One Act by Jonathan Rand. Students in Miss Elizabeth Bryan's Drama class worked for weeks on scene changes, costumes, lines, and props, getting all of the elements in place for the first production of the year. Before the show, Daniella Hincapie and Miranda Rushton sang "Angel of Music" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. The following students played a role in the production: William Whitt, Anna Freedman, Ryan Crutchfield, Alicia-Ruth Jackson, Nandi Ramirez, Jake Crutchfield, Jamiyah Woodson, Slade Eiland, Kelsey Donohue, Christine Held, Jessica Heymann, Gus Loria, Elizabeth Thrower, Timothy McOmber, Ashley Johnson, Conner Preston, Marie Quillin, Lizzie Terino, Giselle Simms, Alex Valdez, and Peighton Jolley. Courtney Willcox served as the Student Director, Katherine Terino as the Assistant Student Director, and Tyler McGee was the Technical Director. Pictured: Ryan Crutchfield and Lizzie Terino in Montgomery Catholic's production of "Check, Please!" by Jonathan Rand.

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Middle School Students Donate to COPE

Middle School students in Miss Vinson's NOW class at Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School were awarded a pizza party for donating the most baby items during their service drive for COPE. COPE, Counseling Outreach for Pregnancy Emergency, is a non-profit organization in the River Region offering free services for women facing crisis pregnancies which provides women with alternatives to abortion, pregnancy testing, adoption information, and parent education training. Lorie Mullins, Executive Director of COPE, accepted their donations and thanked them for their generosity. Pictured: Miss Vinson's NOW class with Lorie Mullins and Middle School Principal Maria Nolen.

Montgomery Catholic Students Explore Dauphin Island Sea Lab

The Science Olympiad team from Montgomery Catholic's St. Bede Campus recently enjoyed an enrichment field trip to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The students had the unique experience of studying the beach and marsh ecosystems first hand. They enjoyed seining for marsh organism in the Mississippi Sound and identifying the plants and animals along the beach, dunes, and maritime forest of the island. It was a truly enjoyable and memorable experience that added greatly to our students’ background knowledge and understanding of these complex ecosystems.