Senior Lucas Bowman New England Wrestling Champ

Congratulations to the first Saint to win the New England Wrestling Championship! Bowman competed in the 189 pound weight class.

Mr. SBHS Contest Winner- Ryan Brahm!

Congratulations to the winner of the 2009 Mr. SBHS contest is Ryan Brahm! See his video at

http://saint-bernard.com/mr.-sbhs-2009-winner.sb

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Saints Win Awards in Art

Of the over 1259 entries submitted this year, two SBS students have been given regional honors by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers' Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program for their art work.

Rubson Guimaraes, Class of 2011, received a Silver Award in the Drawing category.

Brad Munton, Class of 2009, received a Gold Award for his photography.

Gold Key Awards are given for demonstrating the highest levels of originality, technique, and personal vision. Artwork recognized with Gold Keys advance on for National level adjudication.

Senior John Francisoni on Service

I'm going to college for film. I love films. I love filmmaking. I think that images, pictures and moving pictures are an equally important form of expression. Equal, that is, to words, speech. But sometimes even images don't do what's being represented justice.

You're about to watch a slide show of images chronicling some of the service related activities that have taken place here at Saint Bernard. You'll see students working, painting in a high-rise apartment in desperate need of work. You'll see kids collecting boxes of stuffing, canned vegetables, the works for our Thanksgiving food drive. You'll see the smiles of students who have donated their time and money to a Walk-a-Thon to aid the impoverished children of Haiti. But you won't see the similar smiles of those Haitians who benefit from our efforts. Nor will you see the satisfied and thankful faces of the people nourished through our food drive. You won't see the smiling renters from Crystal Avenue.

The reward of service, that feeling of accomplishment, the willingness to find something of greater importance than yourself, that feeling cannot be represented in words and it cannot be represented in a 2 minute slide show. However, this slide show will give you a good overview of just some of the great works of service that students at Saint Bernard School take part in and it represents not only Saint Bernard's great ability to find outlets for service, but the amount of positive interest that is generated school-wide when these opportunities arise.

See Slideshow on Service

Students interview Holocaust survivor's daughter

SBS students met for a series of interviews with a Holocaust survivor's daughter. The program is associated with the Jewish Federation of Southeastern CT in New London. Students who volunteered for the project are: Thomas Engel '11, Julia Evola '11, John Francisconi '09, Hannah Grant '10, Michael Hanna '11, Tyler Wild '10.

Saints 6th Grader Top 10 National Music Essay Winner

When MENC, The National Association for Music Education, announced the finalists in the "Music! Just Imagine..." Essay Contest, Saint Bernard 6th grader Morgan Butler, was named as one of the top ten winners. The essay contest challenged K-6 music students to write about the ways they were inspired by music, starting with the phrase "I imagine..."

The essays were judged by a panel of MENC members. A selection of the finalists' essays will be featured in the 2009 World's Largest Concert®, a sing-along event sponsored by MENC. The 2009 World's Largest Concert will take place on Thursday, March 12, 2009 in schools and communities throughout the nation and around the world.

Saints Freshman Female Youth Referee of the Year

Freshman Tara Kowalski was recently named the Female Youth Referee of the Year, by the Connecticut Junior Soccer Association, Southeast District. Tara has been a soccer referee for four years, refereeing recreation, travel and premier soccer teams in Colchester and Marlborough as well as area tournaments and State Cup games.

Tara played Midfield her first season at Saint Bernard for the Lady Saints JV soccer team.