Posted:
Tuesday, May 12, 2010
President Jim Adams Wins Prestigious Business Award
Dear Chaminade Family,
On behalf of the Chaminade College Preparatory Board of Directors, I
am proud to announce that President Jim Adams was named the San
Fernando Valley Business Journal’s Best Not For Profit
Executive. President Adams accepted his award at the Best Not
For Profit Awards Reception on May 12. This award follows on the
heels of several other awards for Chaminade. In the past year alone,
Chaminade was recognized as the first Catholic School in the United
States to be named a Model School by The International Center for
Leadership in Education. In addition, Chaminade has also received
the following recognitions, including Favorite Private Middle
School by the Daily News, One of the Best Private High
Schools in LA County by Los Angeles Magazine, one of the Best
Places to Work by San Fernando Valley Business Journal,
and Outstanding Board Award from the National Catholic
Education Association.
President Adams would be the first to say that the school and he
could not have achieved these various recognitions except for the
contributions that so many different people make towards helping
Chaminade “Set the Standard.” Even so, it takes great leadership to
create an environment for this to occur. We are deeply grateful to
have President Jim Adams’ inspirational leadership guiding our
school community.
God
bless,

Ron
Prechtl ’79
Chairman of the Board

Posted:
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Chaminade Celebrity Golf and
Poker Tournament!
The
23rd annual Chaminade Golf Tournament on May 17, 2010 is shaping up to
be quite an event. This year the Chaminade Advancement Office has teamed
up with the Athletic Boosters Association to bring some fun new elements
to the tournament, including celebrity golfers (some of your favorite
pro athletes), a post-golf poker tournament, a wine and cheese tasting,
a cigar roller, and much more! As always, all proceeds from the event
will go to support the school's Financial Aid Program, which offers
tuition assistance to Chaminade families in need.
There is already great buzz about the event and we expect it will sell
out quickly. Space is limited, so please click
here and register today!
If you have any questions about the event , please send an email to
chaminadeboosters@yahoo.com.
See you on May 17th!
The Chaminade Advancement Office and the Chaminade Athletic Boosters
Association

Posted:
Friday, April 16, 2010
Chaminade Family Fun Day!
Family Fun Day is Sunday, May 2nd from 10-3. Mass will be at 10:00
followed by an afternoon of rides, games, food & fun. Grab your friends
and family and come to the Chatsworth campus for a day of laughs!
Flyers will be sent home with all middle school students in their
x-blocks, and high school students will have the flyers emailed. If you
pre-buy your wristbands, you will receive 10 free prize tickets! Come
join the fun!

Posted:
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Chaminade Student is Intel
Science Talent Search Finalist
Senior
Sarine Shahmirian is one of the 40 finalists in the Intel Science Talent
Search 2010 that will travel to Washington, D.C. in March to compete for
awards and recognition! She will also potentially meet President Obama.
Here's a description from the Intel website about the
awards and week-long "Institute".
In March, the 40 Finalists travel to Washington,
DC for the Intel Science Talent Institute. On the basis of interviews
with the judging panel and presentation of their research, 10 top award
winners are selected, including the top winner who is provided a
$100,000 award. While in Washington, Finalists display and present their
research to the public (more
information on Intel STS Public Day 2010) at the prestigious
National Academy of Sciences. Here Finalists explain their research to
thousands of visitors, many of them important figures in the government
and science communities, promoting independent, inquiry-based science
research. Each year, younger, highly-motivated students who plan to
enter the Intel Science Talent Search during their senior year are
inspired at this public exhibition.
Chaminade is both proud and
excited for Sarine!

Posted:
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Susannah's Passing
A
simple Child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?
Wordsworth’s lines resonate with us today as we mark the passing of
Susannah Beazley to eternal life. What should a beautiful high school
sophomore, so vibrant and full of life, know of death? Yet she has been
called home to the Lord on this blessed day. We are left in tears,
pondering this great loss of a beautiful daughter, sister, and friend.
What can we do in a time of such intense sorrow but pray for God’s
consoling hand on the Beazley family as we thank Him for granting the
gift of life to Susannah. Her family and the Chaminade family were
blessed to have her, if only for a little while.
Susannah’s passing, following so closely on Jessica’s earlier in the
school-year, is a lot more pain than our Chaminade family should have to
endure. Our only response can be to trust in the Lord more than ever. We
know that trusting in God does not prevent suffering but it gives us the
strength to endure the pain, to fully encounter our loss, to join our
suffering with Jesus on the Cross and to realize that we become more
holy through trials like these.
Today, our thought and prayers go out in a special way to Susannah’s
family, especially her grieving parents, Ben and Sarah. We pray that, in
these most difficult times, they may find comfort in the arms of their
very own angel, Susannah. May God bless the Beazley family today and
always.
Prayer
for Suzy Beazley
(pdf)

Posted:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Eagle Regiment Wins Award
The Chaminade Eagle Regiment was named the Class
2A Bands of America Los Angeles Regional Champion on Saturday, October
31. Along with being named the 2A Champion they were also given an award
for High General Effect. After winning their class during the afternoon
prelim competition they were the exhibition band for the evening night
show, giving them a second opportunity to perform. To conclude their
long but rewarding day the Eagle Regiment was able to participate in the
Finale Awards Ceremony at the end of the night competition and receive
their medals.

Posted:
Thursday, October
15, 2009
Academic Concerns Night
Academic
Concerns Night is scheduled for Monday, October 19th from 5:30PM – 9:00
PM in the Student Center on the High School campus. This is a valuable
opportunity to dialog with the teachers in subjects where your student
is not performing at a level of “C” or better. By having the teacher,
student and parents all meet to discuss how to improve in the class, we
hope that this early, proactive strategy will pay dividends later in the
semester. Remember, this conference event yields the most benefit
when you bring your student along.
Appointment binders are available in the main office, and sign-ups will
continue through Friday, October 16th during regular business hours.
Your student can sign up for you if that is more convenient. Sorry, but
it is not possible to take sign-ups by phone or email.

Posted:
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Chaminade College
Preparatory Parents’ Association is pleased to present the first two
speakers in the 2009/2010 Speaker Series:
Dr. Melanie Willis: "Alive at 25."
October 14, 2009; 7:00 p.m., Bob Hope Center, High
School Campus
Parents from both campuses and high school students nearing or at
driving age are encouraged to attend this very impactful evening. If
you think you know everything there is to know about alcohol and
driving, you are in for a big surprise. Dr. Willis, a retired family
doctor and co-director of the Women’s Alcohol Unit in Phoenix, Arizona,
will give you a bird’s eye view into her own life-changing event.
Chaminade families who have witnessed Dr. Willis' seminar in the past
have requested her to return and share her very powerful message with
our families and our teens. Don't let your teen driver miss this event.
Jack Renkins: "Recruiting Realities."
November 5, 2009; 7:00 p.m., Student Center,
Middle School Campus
Parents and student athletes are encouraged to
attend this highly informative evening of the ins and outs of college
recruitment. It's a game - know the rules! Jack Renkins has established
himself as the number one athletic educational speaker in the nation.
His company was founded to provide student-athletes with an educational
resource on the college recruiting process. We hope you will join us.

Posted:
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Walter
Fritschner
In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to the
following organizations in Walt’s name:
United States Naval Academy Foundation
http://www.usna.com/Page.aspx?pid=1823
International Center for Spinal Cord Injury and
Paralysis Research at the Kennedy Kreiger Institute in Baltimore
http://helpkids.kennedykrieger.org/
“Swim With Mike” program at USC
http://www.swimwithmike.org/involve.html

Posted:
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Services for Jessica Roberts
As
Remembered by Brother Adam Becerra:
Jessica
Roberts looked at life with passion by asking questions such as, "What
is our duty in life and how can we live our happiness in such a big
world like this one?" Jessica was always attentive to people's needs and
brought a smile to everyone who crossed her path.
In
Religion, she put on her black glasses that "made her look smart" as she
said, and listened carefully to the lesson. She was also a team player
in softball. She motivated the students and took great pride in her
accomplishments. Her strong faith was evident as she revealed it through
her generosity and care for others. Jessica Roberts is alive in the
heart of our school as we continue to keep her family in our prayers.
As a
seventh grader, Jessica wrote:
“The
most valuable lesson that I learned this year was that friends are the
most important thing in our lives next to family… We need to cherish
them with as much love as we give our parents…My friends always tried to
be there for me and when they could not, I knew that they tried their
absolute hardest to let me know how they felt and how they were there
for me always…Happiness always followed me and my friends. My dream
would be to… know that I had gone through life being a wonderful, loving
person who knew right from wrong and who knew love from hate. I grew to
know God in many ways. God became my rock and I knew that I had
strengthened our relationship for the better..”
God of
all consolation,
in your unending love and mercy for us,
you turn the darkness of death into the dawn of new life.
Show compassion to your people in sorrow.
Be our refuge and our strength to lift us
from the darkness of this grief
to peace and joy in your presence.
We ask this through Christ, our Lord.
A reading from the 1st letter of Paul to the Thessalonians:
Brothers,
we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to
grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus
died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus
those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s own word,
we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of
the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For
the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with
the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the
dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and
are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord for ever.
The Word
of the Lord…. Thanks be to God.
Heavenly
Father, we understand that we are all your children and that we will be
joined with you in heaven when our time has come. Be with us as we
grieve for the loss of Jessica, a member of our Chaminade family. Help
us to understand that she is with you in the place where we will reunite
together to live with you in heaven. We ask you to be with the Roberts
family, extending your healing touch to Mr. Roberts and consoling
Jessica’s parents as they deal with the loss of their daughter.
In Jesus’
name we pray... Amen.

Posted:
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Iowa
Test of Basic Skills
(ITBS)
for
Chaminade Middle School
Next
week all Middle School Students students will begin the Iowa Test of
Basic Skills (ITBS). Sixth graders will begin testing on Monday,
October 5 and continue through Wednesday, October 7. Seventh and eighth
graders will test Tuesday and Wednesday. The main purpose of this test
is to provide information that can be used to improve instruction.
Sixth
grade students will be given the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT).
The CogAT measures the student’s ability to learn in school and
will be administered to sixth graders on Monday. Though standardized
achievement scores cannot and should not replace teacher observations
and classroom assessments, these scores do provide us with supplementary
information that is useful in designing or choosing instructional
materials and creating an effective learning environment.
Students will begin testing at 8:00 each morning. A snack and drink
will be provided during break. School will dismiss at noon on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday for ALL students; however, after school
care will be available each day.
You can
help your child’s performance on these tests by adhering to the
following suggestions:
-
Have your child at school on time on all
testing days.
-
Make sure your child has a supply of
sharpened number two pencils, a good eraser and a free reading book.
-
Help your child to understand the
importance of using their allotted time by double checking for
careless mistakes.
-
See that your child is rested each day
by enforcing a reasonable bedtime schedule.
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Encourage your child to eat a nutritious
breakfast.
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Be certain your child remembers to bring
his/her glasses (if necessary).
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Send your child to school each day in a healthy frame of mind.
Stress the importance of the tests and doing one’s best; however, be
careful not to create anxiety in your child.
Thank
you for your continued support and cooperation.

Posted:
Monday, September 21, 2009
Chaminade
Voted Daily News Reader's Favorite Private
School
Chaminade is pleased to announce
we have been voted reader's
favorite private school by the Daily News.

Posted:
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
IMPORTANT TEXTBOOK INFORMATION
Varsity Books is available for all your textbook needs at
www.varsitybooks.com starting on July 16, 2009. Books will be listed
on the Varsity site by the class they are needed; you will not need an
additional list from Chaminade. Varsity Books is offering 50% off all
methods of shipping for the first two weeks, so order early and save!
Access Varsity Books at
www.varsitybooks.com or call Varsity Books customer service at
877-VAR-BOOK or
help@varsitybooks.com.
9th
and 10th grade students
On the Varsity Books website, eBooks will be listed for those classes
where available. While savings vary for each eBook title, some families
may realize substantial savings. For instance, the World Geography
eBook is 80% of the new print edition cost (over a $75 savings) and the
World History eBook is 63% of the print edition (over a $60 savings).
The school will be requiring eBooks, when available at Varsity Books,
for all 9th and 10th grade students. Print editions of these texts are
optional.
DON’T
MISS OUT ON BIG YEARBOOK SAVINGS!
Yearbooks are a great way to capture priceless memories for your student
and help celebrate the year. Yearbooks may be pre-ordered at a
substantial discount through December 31, 2009. Through Varsity Books,
the middle school yearbook can be pre-ordered at $50 (versus $75 after
December 31st) and the high school yearbook at $75 (versus $110 after
December 31st). Yearbooks are distributed at the end of the school year
on each campus. At the time of distribution, yearbooks may be purchased
on campus at the higher price as long as supplies last.
