Lumen News – February 11th, 2022
Important Upcoming Dates:
Feb 11: All School Mass at 7:45am
Feb 12: There’s No Place Like Home ~ Fundraising Gala!
Feb 14: Valentine’s Day Theme Day (wear red, white, pink or hearts)
Feb 15: Lumen Spirit Wear Day
Feb 16: P/T Conferences (2:30-5pm)
Feb 17: P/T Conferences (4-7pm)
Feb 18: Inservice Day (No School)
Feb 21: President’s Day Holiday (No School)
Feb 18-20: 10th Grade retreat @ St. Therese’s Camp (St. Ben’s Winter Retreat)
Feb 23: Wonderfully Made: God’s Unique Gift of Femininity, 6:30-8:30 (Details below) Feb 24: Lumen Spirit Wear Day (HS BB Senior Night vs BCS–schedule below)
Feb 25: All School Mass at 7:45am
Mar 2: Ash Wednesday Mass at 7:45am
Mar 3: Synod Parent-Teacher Session, 6:30-8:30pm (sign up below)
Mar 3-5: BB Regions @ Lumen
Mar 4: Inservice (No School–start of Spring Break)
Mar 14: Return from Spring Break
Mar 16-19: BB State Championships
Apr 15: Good Friday (No School)
Apr 17: Easter Sunday! CHRIST IS RISEN!
Apr 18: Easter Monday (No School)
Apr 23: Spring Speaker Series
Apr 29: Last School Mass with Seniors @ 7:45am
Apr 30: High School Prom
May 4: Class of 2022 Baccalaureate Mass, 7pm
May 5: Class of 2022 Graduation Ceremony, 7pm
May 17-19: Finals
May 19: Last Day of Classes
Principal’s Update:
Well, we are 48 hours away from our annual Gala! There is truly no place like home! We hope all in our school community, and many others from all over, will bid high and bid often over the next few days to help raise money for our school. Each of us should be deeply grateful for dedication and commitment of time and talent by Anne Gore and her amazing auction team, including:
- Danielle Rybicki, who’s guided the Gala to success for the last 6 years. Danielle’s ongoing leadership during this transition time has been instrumental in leading the team to what will undoubtedly be another successful event. Anne is certain that Danielle would have loved to have handed over her impeccably organized binder of notes and walked away, but Danielle has stuck by the team (and especially Anne) for the whole event. THANK YOU Danielle, for your ongoing dedication to our school, and to the success of this event.
- Carla Blackford-Esary who along with her procurement team, helped secure donations from all over Alaska totalling over $76,000 – the largest amount of donations ever!;
- Celine Kaplan for her front-end efforts in securing sponsorships, getting invitations printed and mailed and thank you’s written;
- Tracy Ross, and her trusty assistant Yvette Tousignant, for managing the thousands of details that go into photographing, cataloging and listing almost 500 items onto the online bidding website;
- Merrilleigh Boring for her hard work in managing communication and disbursement;
- Patrick Muller for agreeing to be the ‘boots on the ground’ labor the night of the live event, and for helping with disbursement;
- Amy Locke for her creativity and graphic design work, creating the fantastic “Wizard of Oz” images that we’ve used in all of our marketing efforts;
- To all the parents who helped organizing the awesome class projects up for bid;
- And last but not least, an extraordinary set of parents here at the school, Clay & Laura Butcher, owners of C+L Creative who are not only producing and live streaming the event, but who filmed and produced the “Better Together” video that you will see the night of the event, and ALL of the videos you see on our website and Facebook featuring our school. Clay & Laura – we are forever in your debt.It is clear that we have so many great things going on here at Lumen! I want to end with a special shout out to our boys and girls high school basketball teams. Both teams won third place in last week’s Nenana Invitational Tournament. Additionally, the boys team received the Sportsmanship Award, and Natalie Grubba, Emily Ross, Amara Warren, Brenden Gregory, Robert Wilcox (homeschool), and Tim Bennett (homeschool) earned All-Tournament honors! Tim Bennett also scored his 1000th point in the last game of the tournament, a truly impressive and historical accomplishment in high school basketball!
Last night, both teams won great victories over Unalaska here at home. Brenden scored 51 points (out of 77) in the game, which is absolutely incredible! Way to go, Brenden!
Our teams are on the road again this weekend to the Crowley Classic in Talkeetna. We wish them good luck and safe travels! Please make sure you mark your calendars for the Regions basketball tournament hosted here at Lumen from Mar 3-5. We want to pack our stands with fans and cheer our teams on to a second year as conference champions and well-earned berths to State! Go Archangels!
Campus Ministry:
The monthly theme for February is LOVE FOR NEIGHBOR.
This week’s strength is RESPECT: The strength to show honor and goodness toward others, recognizing their talents.
You can find great conversation starters and other ideas on this week’s virtue on the following website:
https://www.sportsleader.org/sites/default/files/newsletter-assets/Respect%20Parent%20PDF.pdf
- This Friday from 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. we are making sandwiches for Brother Francis Shelter. All students are invited. We have made 968 sandwiches to date!
- Legion of Mary meets each Monday during 7th hour in room 120.
- Remember to send in permission forms: Our 10th grade retreat is February 18-19.
- All Students are invited to the St. Benedict Winter Retreat February 18-19.
- St. Benedict Youth nights are Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. All are welcome!
- Each game week our sports teams celebrate Mass together. Parents are invited! Eachsports Mass is at 7 a.m. in St. Benedict Church. Schedule is as follows:
- ○ Volleyball: Wednesday, February 16
- ○ Riflery: Thursday, February 17Happy Birthday to Quinn Webb Thursday, February 10!
Thank you for all your donations; please keep sending meat, sliced cheese, and bread. You can drop off any time during the week, by noon on Fridays. Unfortunately we cannot use condiments, peanut butter or jelly for sandwiches. Some of these items have come in and were greatly appreciated at the food bank.
- For those experiencing homelessness, hunger, and isolation especially during these temperatures
- For those affected by the Madagascar floods, Texas wildfires, and Tonga eruption.
- For those in the Philippines suffering from the aftermath of floods and landslides
- For the health and safety of our school families
- For an end to the pandemic
- For unity in our country
It’s GALA GO-TIME!
HAPPY GALA WEEK!! IT’S TIME TO BID!!
Silent auction bidding is underway! If you haven’t already registered, do it now because we’ve got over $76,000 worth of adventures, items, meals, gift cards, desserts and MORE available to bid on. There’s something for everyone!! Register here: https://lchsak2022.ggo.bid
Don’t forget to purchase a $25 Raffle Ticket that could become $250 in “Gala Cash” to spend the night of the auction. Those tickets are available up until 9a on Saturday.
If you pre-ordered meals for the night of the event, pick up for those is 3pm-5pm this Saturday.
We’re still in need of parent help next Saturday, February 19th, from 12p-3p to help disburse items. Use the sign up at the bottom of this newsletter if you can help (and knock some Share Hours out of the way!)
Last but not least….The ultimate success of the auction will depend on having both silent bidders, and bidders online during our live “virtual” event this Saturday, 2/12 starting at 6:45pm. PLEASE SHARE and INVITE your FRIENDS AND FAMILY. With everything online, anyone, anywhere can participate and attend! PERSONAL INVITATIONS work best so PLEASE help us spread the word.
Thank you!
Archangel Sports:
Middle School Volleyball
Jamborees
Friday, Feb 11th Location: Lumen Christi Gym Time: 4:00pm
Tournament
February 18th-19th Location: Lumen Christi Gym Time: TBD
Both teams will travel to Su-Valley February 10th-12th
(See below for details)
High School Basketball
Senior Night will be held on Thursday, February 24th at our games vs BCS at Lumen
Girls at 6pm Boys at 7:30pm
Front Office News:
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Don’t forget, Parent-Teacher conferences are coming up next week!
Wednesday, Feb. 16th from 2:30pm-5:00 pm & Thursday, Feb. 17th from 4:00 pm -7:00 pm
*Normal dismissal (2pm) on these days.*
Debate Team Shout Out
The ASAA Drama, Debate, and Forensic tournament at Bartlett High School was held on January 28th and 29th with Liam Dupras placing 1st in Extemporaneous Commentary and Team Jack Murkowski and Vaeda Michaelson placing 2nd in Public Forum! Wow! Go Lumen!
Congratulations debate team and Mrs.Reed!
You’re Invited to:
Wonderfully Made: God’s Unique Gift of Femininity
http://www.aknfp.com/home/billings-ovulation-method
Come Support Two of Our Lumen Students!
On February 10th,11th,12th, 18th and 19th, Dimond High School Theatre will be presenting a musical based on The Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. Kateri and Vincent Everard will be participating in this drama production! See flyer below for more information:
Volunteer/Parent Share Hours Opportunities
Synod Parent-Teacher Session
Archangel Attic