Please contact Michael Bennett if you are interested in coaching girls (5th & 6th grade) Volleyball michael.bennett@stlouis.cdom.org

Dear Supporter,

I am delighted to announce that the 2019 Friends of the Poor® Walk will be on September 14, 2019 at Christian Brothers High School at 5900 Walnut Grove in Memphis.

Last year, we raised $55,000 that went toward stocking the food pantry and refrigerators at the Ozanam Center. We served over 54,000 meals in 2018!  The support was absolutely incredible, and this year we’re going to multiply that impact with your help.

Please consider making a donation here: 

crowdrise.com/walk-for-me-the-society-of-st-vincent-de-paul-2019-friends-of-the-poor-walkrun-memphis

Your dollars go the extra mile in helping our friends and neighbors in need:

“For a lot of people who are marginalized, it’s good for them to be able to go somewhere they know is safe and friendly. They can talk to people and make friends. I think that’s important and connection like that is a positive thing for them. A lot of people around here are not working or get so little on Social Security benefits that if we can feed them every day it can help them get by, it’s good we’re a part of the neighborhood and get to help people here.”

 Richard Peyton, President, Memphis District Council (From The Daily Memphian, July/2019)

Please help us surpass our goal of $75,000 by donating and sharing:

 crowdrise.com/walk-for-me-the-society-of-st-vincent-de-paul-2019-friends-of-the-poor-walkrun-memphis

We really couldn’t do it without your support.

With Gratitude,

Dawn Campbell

2019 Friends of the Poor® Walk Chairperson

EVERY DOLLAR DONATED PROVIDES TWO MEALS

Dear SLS Families,

I am so excited to be entering my tenth year serving as the principal of St. Louis Catholic School. Over the past ten years we have accomplished so much as a parish and school community. Last year we completed a three year journey and became the first Catholic School in the state of TN to receive STEM certification from AdvancED; we also completed our system-wide reaccreditation.

One of our goals for the next five years is to increase all aspects of student engagement.  If our students are actively engaged in the classroom, they will develop a love of learning and will be able to dive into solving future problems and challenges with confidence. Our commitment to STEM certainly feeds into increasing student engagement and furthers our resolve to afford the students exposure to problem solving in the classroom that encompasses real life scenarios pertinent to the community.  This next year, I would like to form a group of parent and community STEM enthusiasts who can offer wisdom on developing more opportunities for our students and teachers to interact with community partners and see STEM in action in the workplace.

A top priority 2019-20 is to get our families fired up about their faith.  We have developed a Religion Engagement Task Force made up of teachers and staff members to look at our current religion curriculum, liturgies, and Catholic Schools Week as well as other facets of our faith. Our goal is to celebrate what is working and to enhance ways to get our families more involved in their faith and the offerings in our parish.

Recruitment of quality teachers is always a goal and we are so blessed with the quality and caring faculty here at St. Louis. This school year we welcome three new faculty members to SLS.  Mrs. Melissa Priola is our new Junior High Literature teacher.  Mrs. Priola comes to us with many years of teaching experience in a Christian school setting in Arkansas.  Melissa taught Literature and AP Literature at Central Arkansas Christian Schools from 1998 to 2018.  Melissa is a graduate of Lipscomb University.  We have moved the literature classroom to the first floor of the junior high building to allow Melissa and Karen Wallis, our grammar/writing teacher, more opportunities to collaborate.  I know that Melissa and Karen will make a great Language Arts team.

Over the summer, Erin Brick accepted a new Learning Specialist position at Christian Brothers High School. We will certainly miss her smiling face and nurturing personality.   Fortunately, when one door closes another door opens as we welcome Mrs. Lori Enos as our new Learning Specialist for Junior High.  Mrs. Enos comes highly recommended from Richland Elementary School.  She taught at Richland her entire career and has decided to retire and come work here at St. Louis.  Lori’s son, Weston attended St. Louis in the 7th and 8th grade.  Lori is a National Board Certified teacher.  She received her Bachelor of Education at the University of Memphis, and her Master in Administration and Supervision from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville.  She will be offering support services to our junior high students who have learning differences.  Her positive energy and love of teaching is contagious and will be a great addition to our Junior High team.

Mrs. Maureen Hamrick will be joining our Learning Specialist's Team, as well.  Mrs. Hamrick is a parishioner at Our Lady of Perpetual Help and has two sons who attend OLPH School.  Maureen and her family recently moved to Germantown from Pennsylvania where she taught 2nd grade at Gray Nun Academy in Yardley, PA.  Maureen is a reading specialist who has over twenty years of teaching experience.  She has her BA from Temple University and an MA in Education with a concentration in reading, from Holy Family University in Philadelphia, PA.  Maureen will be working with our 1st and 2nd grade students with learning differences and will be assisting the 5th and 6th grade Learning Lab team specifically in 6th grade math and Language Arts.

I know that everyone will make our three new faculty members as well as our fifty new students and their families feel welcome.  I am confident that we will all show the love of Christ in making them all feel a part of our SLS Family!

Welcome to School Year 2019-20!

Sincerely,

Teddi Niedzwiedz