April 11, 2018 - The Prop Room
Crusader Players director, Joyce Flanagan and several members of the group sent two days going thorough all the items that had been accumulating in prop room 101. Some items were discarded, others organized, packed and labeled to be sent to the new prop room down the hall. New racks were installed in the green room to accommodate the hanging costumes. Still other items, like choir gowns and a couple dozen Music Man costumes, were donated to a local theater group.


May 5, 2018 - The Library
A casual conversation about what to do with a library full of books that needed to be cleaned out to make way our new media center, turned into an opportunity to extend the lives of the books by donating them to students and teachers overseas.

The project was spearheaded by our Scholars' program students, faculty members Dr. Peter Umoh and Ms. Becca Corso, along with Sue Oates, moderator of the school’s Crusaders Corner store and parents Bob Oates and Sally Sluga. A team of over 30 current students - and a few incoming 8th graders - packed over 4,500 books into boxes (supplied by Mike Hennessey of Muscle Men Movers), labeled, taped and loaded the boxes into a waiting 17 ft UHaul truck. Within three hours the books, ranging from fiction to literature, history, poetry, religion, Shakespeare, and reference materials were removed from the shelves and stacked in the UHaul.

A team of four other volunteers then stacked the boxes on pallets in a waiting garage. As soon as the funds are raised and the logistics in place, the books will be shipped to St. Anne’s Cathedral, Diocese of Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria. Rev. Dr. Gerald Akata, who helps manage the diocesan Catholic schools in Nigeria, will receive the books - thus completing the transfer of learning tools from one Catholic school to another, continents apart.

Also, over the course of a month, the greater Stamford community, as well as the seminarians from St. John Fisher Seminary, faculty, staff, parents, students and alumni were all encouraged to come take books for their personal libraries.


May 28, 2018
Graduating seniors, Katherine Santer, Zach Shoztic and Jared Blue spent the morning cleaning out room 107 to make room for the Guidance offices to use this as their swing space during construction.