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June 13, 2008
More stories about Catholic schools and their accomplishment
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Grade Schools...
 St.
Catherine children aid charities
Children attending vacation bible school at St.
Catherine Church in Columbia put their lessons on
serving others into action. The week-long program was
titled “God’s Big Back Yard,” and the theme was service
to family, friends, neighbors, community and Jesus. The
85 children in the program donated new stuffed animals
to the Teddy Bear Project, which distributes stuffed
animals to emergency agencies to comfort upset children
involved in a fire or traffic accident. The vacation
bible school students also donated $1,258 to The Smile
Train, which helps provide surgery to children from
other countries with cleft palates. Among the St.
Catherine Children who collected stuffed animals for the
Teddy Bear Project were: (front row, L-R) included Adam
Glynn, Anna Glynn and Erin Glynn; (back row) Daniel
Brown, Evan Glynn, Sam Skelley, and Sarah Glynn.
 Overbrook middle school students win Metro trash art contest
Overbrook School students Caroline Sheridan’s and Maggie MacCurdy’s creation Noah the Gnome won first place in the middle school division of the recent Metro Beautification Trash Art Contest sponsored by Metro Public Works.
Trash art submitted to the contest had to be created out of a variety of trash, have functionality, originality and be well assembled. Caroline and Maggie created Noah from all types of plastic trash, according to Overbrook art teacher Ann Ripley.
“They had to use plastic that had been used and cleaned,” Ripley said, so the girls used bottle tops, crushed plastic eggs, shredded plastic grocery bags, colored electric tape, plastic forks and spoons, and different size plastic bottles that they cut up.
“It is so fun to see Maggie and Caroline at work on an art project,” Ripley said. “They jump right in and find creative solutions to transforming plastic trash into a whole new work of art. I was really proud of how hard they worked on this – they spent so much time in the art room creating Noah!”
Overbrook School students Caroline Sheridan, left, and Maggie MacCurdy pose with Noah the Gnome they created for the Metro trash art contest. The girls’ creation won first place in the middle school division.
  St. Edward students shine in forensics
The St. Edward School forensics team one first place in the 2008 diocesan forensics tournament. Sarah DeHarde of St. Edward won the Spirit of Forensics Award.
High Schools...
Titans’
Young hosts clinic at Ryan
Luke Strebel, a seventh grader at St. Henry School
and Dalton Crowe, a fifth grader at St. Matthew
School, listen to instruction from Tennessee Titans
quarterback Vince Young and Father Ryan High School
head football coach Bruce Lussier during Young’s
football camp at Father Ryan on Thursday, June 26.
Young’s camp was staged as part of the Father Ryan
Summer Camp with more than 40 of the flag football
campers joining the Vince Young camp. Young, other
players and the Father Ryan coaches led the campers
through the drills during the day.
 St. Cecilia Academy softball pitcher named all-state
St. Cecilia Academy graduating senior Leah Deutsch was chosen by the TSSAA Division II AA Middle TN Region Coaches to the all-state softball team. Deutsch, who lives in Franklin, was the pitcher for St. Cecilia’s softball team and will be attending the University of Alabama in the fall. “It is great honor,” to be chosen for all-state, said SCA Athletic Director Jerry Landers.
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