The Gretchen Wenner Butler Student Wellness Fund February 29, 2024 The Need Mental health and wellness are key to our students’ overall health and wellbeing. Good mental health is as important as good physical health. Diagnoses of neurodiversity, anxiety, and depression together represent the most diagnosed mental health conditions among school-age children nationally. Those diagnoses become even more prevalent during the teen years. We experience all these […]
Lenten Reflection: Caring for Others February 29, 2024 Junior Elizabeth St. Hilaire shared the following reflection about serving others during Lent. As we prepare to celebrate the resurrection at Easter, Lent is a time to consider sacrifice, prayer, charity, and helping others. “You will never regret helping someone.“ Charity and almsgiving are pillars of this Lenten season. Because I am myfather’s daughter, this task […]
Lenten Reflection: Giving Alms February 29, 2024 Physics Teacher and Esports Coach Charles Miller shared the following reflection about almsgiving (giving) is a way to live out our gratitude for all that God has given us, and as way of showing that we are responsible for each other. When I was a kid, my dad told me a quote that completely confused […]
Prep Alums Turn Poetry into Action February 16, 2024 Emiliana Cofell ’12 & Rebecca Hare ’11 Find Inspiration in Benedictine Values in Collaboration of Social Justice Publications Emiliana Cofell ’12 met Rebecca Hare ’11 in the halls of Saint John’s Prep in 2009 where they both discovered their love of poetry. Solo contributors to the school’s literary magazine, The Triangle, they didn’t become literary […]
Two Saint John’s Prep Seniors Named National Merit Finalists February 12, 2024 Saint John’s Prep Seniors Evan Danielson ‘24 and Patrick Duffy are finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.
In Memoriam ~ Michael M. Donahue ’50 February 12, 2024 Michael M. Donahue ’50 Michael Martin Donahue, age 91, of Plymouth passed away on February 3, 2024, of natural causes. Michael was born in St. Cloud to Garrett and Erma Donahue. He attended St. John’s Preparatory School and Saint John’s University, graduating with an Economics degree. Michael married his childhood sweetheart Mary Donahue […]