Important Upcoming Dates:

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:

Wow what an awesome Gala last Saturday! Thank you to everyone who bid high and bid often to support our school! I want to give a special shout out again to Clay and Laura Butcher, and our dedicated auction team of Celine, Tracy, Merrileigh, Patrick, and Carla. We are so very glad Gala coordinator emeritus Danielle Rybicki returned from retirement to provide additional assistance and support. And every good team needs a good leader, and this event could not have come together without the commitment and passion of our very own Anne Gore!! Initial fundraising numbers look very promising, so thank you all! Well done!

I’ve fielded a few inquiries in the last few days about our mask policy. With the number of cases declining quickly and positive test rates decreasing in the same way (praise be to God!), it is time to reevaluate our protocols. On Tuesday, I enjoyed hearing students’ perspectives from the class representatives in our Student Leadership Board, and this listening session extended into hearing from the members of our School Board at the monthly meeting that same night. Tomorrow, while our students are enjoying an extended weekend, our staff and teachers will be here attending Mass, praying for our students and families, conducting faith formation, and preparing for our COGNIA reaccreditation review. We also plan to discuss our protocols as a staff and evaluate next steps. I anticipate further fruitful discussion, with an update being sent to families over the weekend.

I deeply appreciate everyone’s patience throughout this. I always want to hear as many perspectives from anyone willing to share, so please feel free to email me at bross@lumenchristiak.org. I might not respond back directly, but please know I will take your thoughts into careful and prayerful consideration.

Please pray for our Class of 2024 10th graders who will be on retreat with St. Benedict’s this weekend as well as our middle school volleyballers who finish up their season with a jamboree on Saturday. Our basketball teams have had a few games canceled due to this crazy weather, so we are hoping that we can get those rescheduled soon. We wish our high schoolers good luck and Godspeed as they enter the last few, yet critical, weeks of their season!

Campus Ministry:

Archangel Sports:

Tournament
February 19th

Location: Lumen Christi Gym

Game times for LC: 9:30 am / 11:10 am / 12:50

Consolation Game: 2:30 pm

Championship Game: 4:10 pm

High School Basketball

Girls
Thursday, February
Mt. Edgecumbe JV at 8:15 pm

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:

WOW – JUST WOW!

Thank you to all who volunteered, donated and participated in this year’s “No Place Like Home” Gala last Saturday night. It was a great success and we absolutely could not have done it without each and every one of you. We’re still crunching the expense numbers but as soon as we have those

and can release an event net proceeds amount, parents will be the first to know.

COACH JOHN WARREN won the “Ruby Slippers” contest! Now the quest begins to find men’s size 11.5 ‘ruby slippers’ but once we’ve secured them, we’ll get the day scheduled, and oh yes, there will be plenty of pictures taken and shared! Huge thanks to Coach for being such a good sport, and to his many in-laws who jumped in to cement in his “winning” (losing?!) of the contest. Be sure and check out the school’s Facebook page where there are lots of pics posted from the night!

Thank you!

Volunteer/Parent Share Hours Opportunities

Synod Parent-Teacher Session

https://signup.com/go/tOhJQOF

Archangel Attic

http://rmd.me/K35tQofj0Vf

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!

Archangel Sports:

Middle School Volleyball

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)

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:

Important Upcoming Dates:

Feb 4: All School Mass at 7:45am
Feb 7-11: Spirit Week (themes below)
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 24: Lumen Spirit Wear Day (HS BB Senior Night vs BCS)
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:

Thank you to all who joined us Tuesday evening for our 6th Annual State of the School. I apologize for the audio if you tuned in to the livestream on Facebook. We had it all set up to go beforehand and then, as technology is apt to do, it failed at the last minute. We have added the slide deck to our school website for your further review here:https://lumenchristiak.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Lumen-Christi-State-of-the-School-2022-1.pdf

For those not able to attend in person or virtually, we introduced our illustrious School Board and our parish and school staff. We reviewed our foundational documents, including our mission statement, our vision and Core Values, and our six Attributes of a Lumen Graduate. We highlighted some of the great things we have done over the past year, including a 30% increase in enrollment and strong performance by our Class of 2022 on the PSAT and SAT despite the challenges of COVID. While other schools and districts are discussing “learning loss” from online learning or lockdowns, we celebrated the learning and development accomplishments of our students. Four members of our Class of 2022 spoke about their experiences taking college classes while in high school, winning a state basketball championship and playing football for Dimond, participating in our Student Leadership Board and our rifle program, and working on critical thinking and speaking skills in our Senior Bioethics Seminar and debate program. Joshua, Brenden, Frankie and Jack, as well as the other 12 members of the Class of 2022, continue to make us proud and showcase the awesome things happening here at Lumen.

We celebrated and recognized our newest “And Then Some” Award recipient, Class of 2024 sophomore Kennedy Thimsen, who goes above and beyond to make Lumen a special place to be each day. We recognized the great accomplishments of our National Honor Society chapter and Mrs Loeffler’s tremendous work in faith formation through our active Campus Ministry program. We thanked all those who helped us achieve 108% of our goal through the LUMENary Drive last fall and our Director of Advancement, Anne Gore, provided an update on our annual Gala scheduled for Saturday, Feb 12th as well.

We ended the evening by highlighting where we are going in the future. I encourage you to review some of the things we are still planning on doing, including our COGNIA reaccreditation review on March 30-Apr 1, our math curriculum review scheduled for Apr-May, and the soon to be announced School Crest competition.

I covered a lot of ground in an hour on Tuesday and I know I left many things out. We just have so many good news stories here at Lumen to sing from the mountain tops. I hope you take time to review the slide deck and take pride in your school. I’m happy to follow up with any questions you may have.

We pray for victory, good sportsmanship, and safe travels for our high school basketball teams competing in Nenana this weekend as well as our middle school volleyball teams who will compete in a jamboree here at Lumen on Friday. May you have a wonderful weekend! God bless!

Campus Ministry:

The monthly theme for February is LOVE FOR NEIGHBOR. Below are some helpful resources for parents looking to discuss the strength of Love for Neighbor at home: https://www.sportsleader.org/sites/default/files/newsletter-assets/Love%20for%20Neighbor%20Parent%20P DF%202.pdf

• Join us February 4th (ton orrow) in classroom 107 between 6 and 7 p.m. to make sandwiches for Brother Francis Shelter. Students have made almost 700 so far!
• Legion of Mary meets each Monday during 7th hour in room 120.
• 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 week our sports teams celebrate Mass together. Parents are invited! Each sports Mass is at 7 a.m. in St. Benedict Church. Schedule is as follows:
  • ○  Basketball: Wednesday, February 9
  • ○  Riflery: Thursday February, 10
  • ○  Volleyball: Wednesday, February 16

○  Riflery: Thursday, February 17

Last Friday students made 285 Sandwiches for Brother Francis Shelter!! Thank you for all your donations; please keep sending meat, sliced cheese, and bread.

Front Office News:

TICK TOCK! NINE DAYS and COUNTING!

This coming Monday, things start to roll out and by next Saturday when we go live, we’ll be full steam ahead!

**REMINDERS**

**If you want to pre-order a meal from our community partner Bridge Seafood Restaurant, those orders are due this Saturday at noon! Don’t miss out on the chance to have dinner made for you on the night of the event. Head Chef Patrick Hoogerhyde will be on hand to help distribute meals if you have any questions about them.

**Set your alarms for 6:45p on the night of the event, that’s when the pre-show starts and when you can start registering for or whiz-bang fantastic door prizes!

**At last check there were 2 AK Airline Raffle Tickets left for sale but still lots of the (just released yesterday) “$250 worth of Gala-Cash” ones. Get’em while you can!

**Register here to do darn near everything! Purchase meals, buy raffle tickets, starting next week view and bid on items: https://lchsak2022.ggo.bid

Finally: Below is the schedule for next week, stay tuned on Facebook for more information as we’ll be pushing out news there every day. Oh – and curious about 2/10 – “Archangel Select”? All class projects and high end items fall into this category. Oooooh so fancy!

Spirit Week (Feb 7-11)

The Student Leadership Board has voted on holding a Spirit Week for the week of Feb 7-11 to show spirit for our upcoming Gala as well as the high school basketball tournament in Su-Valley (Feb 10-12) and the middle school volleyball jamboree on Feb 11. Theme days are:

Wonderfully Made: God’s Unique Gift of Femininity

National Honor Society (NHS)

Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe

The National Honor Society is organizing a “Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe” running January 24th- February 4th. Essential items will be collected by grade and boxes of these necessities will be assembled and delivered to Beans Cafe to help during the winter months. Students who donate the following items to their advisories will receive a spirit day and the grade with the highest percent participation will receive an ice cream party:

The Postal Service is delivering one shipment of 4 COVID tests per residential address. Enter your name, address and email at www.usps.com/covidtest. Note that we also have a robust supply at the school right now, so if you need some before your supply shows up in the mail, don’t hesitate to ask!

Come Support Two of Our Lumen Students!

On February 10,11,12, 18 and 19 Dimond High School Theatre will be presenting a musical based on The Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale: ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. Kateri and Vincent’s Everard will be participating in this drama production! See flyer below for more information:

Volunteer/Parent Share Hours Opportunities

Synod Parent-Teacher Session

https://signup.com/go/tOhJQOF

Archangel Attic

http://rmd.me/K35tQofj0Vf

Important Upcoming Dates:

Jan 30-Feb 5: Celebrate Catholic Schools Week/Re-registration Begins
Jan 31: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School 6th Grade “Jump Up Day”
Feb 1: Casual day for any student who wears Mass uniform to church on Jan 29-30 Feb 1: 6th Annual State of the School Address, 7pm (gym)
Feb 2: BB Team Mass at 7am
Feb 2: Assist at JBER USO, 3:40-7pm (Faith in Action Opportunity)
Feb 3: MS VB and Riflery Team Mass at 7am
Feb 4: All School Mass at 7:45am
Feb 7-11: Spirit Week (themes TBD)
Feb 12: There’s No Place Like Home ~ Fundraising Gala!
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) Mar 2: Ash Wednesday Mass at 7:45am
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

Principal’s Update:

We congratulate Class of 2023 Junior Natalie Grubba and Class of 2024 Sophomores Kateri Everard and Mia Sperbeck for their induction into our National Honor Society chapter. Congratulations to the three newest members of NHS and well done on your service, leadership, character and scholarship!

As mentioned last week, for any Lumen student who wears their school Mass uniform to church (Catholic parish or otherwise) during this weekend (Jan 29-30), they earn a casual day on Tues, Feb 1.

Finally, I hope you will consider attending our 6th Annual State of the School on Tuesday, Feb 1st at 7pm in the gym. This annual event brings our community together to hear presentations on what we’ve accomplished this year and where we are going in the future. This serves as my quarterly Principal-Parent Forum, so you won’t want to miss it. We hope to live stream the event via Facebook. I hope to see you on Tuesday!

Campus Ministry:

This week’s virtue is UNDERSTANDING. Below are some helpful resources for parents looking to discuss the strength of Understanding at home: https://www.sportsleader.org/sites/default/files/newsletter-assets/Understanding%20Parent%20PDF.pdf

●  Our 10th grade retreat is February 18-20 at St. Therese Camp. Further information will be coming out soon. We are working to ensure safety of all retreatants as the COVID status fluctuates.

●  All Students are invited to the St. Benedict Win ter Retreat February 18-20.

Saturday, Jan 29th vs CIA @ Lumen (1pm) Feb 3-5 at Nenana Invitational Tournament

High School Boys Basketball

Saturday, Jan 29th vs. CIA @ Lumen (2:30pm) Feb 3-5 at Nenana Invitational Tournament

Front Office News:

TWO WEEKS!

So. Many. Great. Things. Happening and the Gala is just 2 weeks away!

Second thing – Door Prizes! Not gonna lie, we were scratching our heads over how to best distribute “virtual” tickets. We now have that dialed in! The night of the auction you simply have to enter your name in the ‘comment’ section of the Facebook live stream feed – members of our crack shot team will be monitoring that and will enter your name into a spreadsheet of assigned numbers. An online random number generator will select the winners of each prize.

Here’s the fine print: you have to have your name entered before 7:10pm. The pre-show starts at 6:45pm, so we recommend you log in early, get your name entered and then get ready for the show which will begin promptly at 7:00pm. More fine print: While there’s no cost to be entered in for a Door Prize Drawing, you must be present online to claim your prize and win.

Door Prize #1 = Airpods Pro
Door Prize #2 = Two nights at the Captain Cook Hotel in a Junior Suite + a $200 gift certificate for the Crow’s Nest
Door Prize #3 = Willow Creek raft trip for four

HOW TO GET INVOLVED:

** Register here for the live and silent events, and to purchase AK Airlines Raffle Tickets: lchsak2022.ggo.bid

** Like , Love , Invite and Share our Event on our Facebook Page:(7) Lumen Christi High School Gala/Auction Fundraiser | Facebook
** Keep watching our Facebook Page for more information about……everything!

The USO is a nonprofit support organization whose mission is to connect service members with family, home and country throughout their service to our nation. https://alaska.uso.org/stories/1

Free At-Home COVID-19 tests

The Postal Service is delivering one shipment of 4 COVID tests per residential address. Enter your name, address and email at www.usps.com/covidtest. Note that we also have a robust supply at the school right now, so if you need some before your supply shows up in the mail, don’t hesitate to ask!

National Honor Society (NHS)

Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe

The National Honor Society is organizing a “Beanie Box Drive for Beans Cafe” running January 24th- February 4th. Essential items will be collected by grade and boxes of these necessities will be assembled and delivered to Beans Cafe to help during the winter months. Students who donate the following items to their advisories will receive a spirit day and the grade with the highest percent participation will receive an ice cream party:

7th- hats and lotion/ body wash
8th- gloves and deodorant
9th- socks and lip balm
10th- hand/feet warmers
11th- travel shampoo and playing cards 12th- coffee and toilet paper