Dear ICA Family and Friends,

Congratulations to the Class of 2008! I am very proud of you wonderful Spartans! I ask the entire ICA community to join me in thanking and praising our God, for your spirit is truly that of building doors if the knock doesn’t come! Go for the doors and windows of your future and open them with confidence that you are truly a child of God, a gift to our world, a treasure we shall always cherish. Remember, you always have a home at ICA!

Congratulations to senior, Fatima Duran, our 2008 Gates Millennium Scholar! Yearly, the Gates Foundation awards 1000 scholarships nationwide for all expenses, tuition, room and board, to the college of choice for a bachelor’s degree and if the chosen field of study is math or science, the scholarship will pay all expenses through a PhD! Fatima will be attending USF in the fall! We are so proud of you!

This is ICA’s 5th Gates winner in five years! What an impressive record for this little school on the corner of 24th and Guerrero!

Please note a very important Calendar change: Next Tuesday, May 13 students will be dismissed at 3:05 instead of 1:05. We will have our Awards Assembly that day, plus a special assembly with school police liaison, Officer Lewis. The Awards Assembly will highlight year long student accomplishments as well as focus on senior awards. Officer Lewis will speak to the students about safety, especially during the upcoming summer months.

A big THANK YOU is in order to our Parent Guild Board who has faithfully served the ICA community during 2007-08!

Thank you to:

If you are interested in joining ICA’s Parent Guild Board, please contact the school office.

CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU!

Have a wonderful summer! God bless all of us!

In Peace,

S. Janice Therese, O.P.

                                                                                        

Parents:

Didn’t meet your service hour requirement for this year??? It’s not too late to earn service hours by donating classroom and office supplies which will enable us to start the new school year on the right foot. Please note the following much needed items and send to school as soon as possible. Thank you!

• Paper! Paper! Reams/boxes of white, colored
• boxes of paper clips, large and small
• binder clips, small, medium and large
• rolls of scotch and masking tape
• Expo markers and Expo erasers
• staples and staple removers
• glue sticks
• red correcting pens
• alkaline batteries AAA, AA, C, D large packs
• letter size hanging folders
• letter size file folders, 1/3 cut, box of 100
• Kleenex
• paper towels
• disinfectant wipes
• hand sanitizers
• Band-aids
• chemical ice packs
• ace bandage wrap, 3 inches
• medical tape, 2 ¼ inch
• cases of water, 16 to 20 oz bottles
• HP inkjet print cartridges #20 black
• postage stamps
• scissors
• staplers
• chemical ice packs
• good used one sided paper

Important Dates and Information:

• Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors have finals, May 27-29. Please make sure that all tuition and fees due for the current year are paid in full prior to these dates. Also, all outstanding detentions must be served by Thursday, May 22.
• Textbook “Free Market”
• Seniors can sell their textbooks on Tuesday, May 20 at lunch time and after school in rm. 203.
• Juniors, Sophomores, Freshmen can buy/sell textbooks after finals on Wednesday-Thursday, May 28-29, in the auditorium.
• Freshmen can bring their texts that will be used in the 2008-09 school year to the café after their final exams on Thursday, May 29. Each text must have an envelope with the student’s name and amount being requested for the text written on it, inserted in the book.
• Sophomores can bring their history text to the café after their final exams on Thursday, May 29. Each text must have an envelope with the student’s name and amount being requested for the text written on it, inserted in the book.
• A suggested Used Books Cost listing will be given to all students when they receive their draft schedules for 2008-09 (if 2008-09 registration is paid) on May 16.
• Information on the final decision of the Cristo Rey Feasibility Study will be emailed to all families, posted on ICA’s website and a letter sent in the mail as soon as possible. We expect to know the final decision in middle or late June.
• The summer packet will be mailed to all students for the 2008-09 school year in July. If you do not receive it by the 1st week of August, please call school.

• Summer School: for current Spartans: June 9 - July 11;
• for incoming Freshmen: June 16 - July 11
• Summer Office Hours: June 9 – July 11: 8:00 am to 1 pm;
• July 14 - August 1: closed for cleaning
• August 4 - 8: 8:00 am to 1 pm
• 2008-2009 School Beginning:
• August 11, 12: closed for faculty/staff in-service
• August 12: Mandatory Parent All Sports meeting @ 7:00 p.m.
• August 13: Freshmen/New Student Orientation
• Freshmen/New Student Parent Dinner @ 6:00 p.m.
• August 14: Orientation for all classes/Picture Day
• August 15: Feast of the Assumption, Formal Uniform; class sessions - 1:10 pm Dismissal

A copy of the August and September calendars is included with this mailing. Please note that 1st Semester Exams are scheduled for December 17, 18 and 19, 2008. In order to receive semester credit for classes, students must take all exams. Please do not schedule travel plans that will intrude upon your daughter’s exam schedule. All students will receive their calendar planners at the August Orientation and families will receive their copy at Back-to-School night on September 11, 2008.


2008-2009 Student Leadership

The present school year is dashing to a mad finish as graduation events, final exams, scheduling for new classes and dreams of summer swim in the heads of students and staff alike. A small group of Spartans are already mentally planning activities and events to outdo this year’s.

• Francesca Bolivar, Aislinn Diaz, Leighton Giannini and Beverly Sackrider are our Associated Student Body officers who have pledged to fulfill their offices to the best of their ability.
• Sandra Beltran, Dania Herrera, Maeve Ragusin and Janne Rivera have been voted as the new senior officers.
• Caroline Dittman – president, Natasha Marston – vice president, Keilah Cabrera – secretary and Jessica Lucha – treasurer have been selected to lead the Junior class.
• Our youngest students (soon to be sophomores) have chosen Veronica Gomez, Jessica Lacayo, Sophia Quinlan and Norma Sackrider to steer the helm for their class.
• We look to these young women to hold high the torch of faith and leadership that they have inherited from their predecessors as we conclude our 125th anniversary year in the fall.

Poet in the Making

Juniors Racing onto College

The Class of 2009 is intensely and seriously on the college track. Aislinn Diaz and Natalye Pronio both have been named Venture Scholars with a $40,000 scholarship at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. As the Executive Director of Undergraduate Admission states: “”As a Venture Scholar, you have taken the initiative to excel in your studies; your work …impress(es) us. You have demonstrated that you are poised to face the next challenge in your academic career and will be well prepared for college.” Leighton Giannini received a Dean’s Scholarship of $24,000 to attend Marietta College in Ohio. Marietta is ranked #6 in the Midwest by 2007’s US News and World Report. Our juniors are being curried by colleges even before they have been formally accepted during their senior year. We know that our “Queens” will quickly accumulate many other accolades.

Gabriela Mastro met the requirements to enter the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2007 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship /Qualifying Test. She is among the 50,000 highest-scoring participants of some 1.5 million entrants. This is the first step in identifying and honoring “academically talented young people throughout the nation”. Congratulations to each of, especially our own Gabby!

2008 Contest

Honors and Pre-Calculus Classes – “Budding Builders”

Community Outreach

Office Depot Program

Got Lunch?

Benedict XVI’s Historic Visit to the U.S.

ICA Celebrates Athletics!

2007-2008 ATHLETICS DISTINCTION AWARD WINNERS

As this school year comes to a close, please encourage your daughter to participate in athletics next year.

Remember, all athletes must have a current annual physical examination on file. Please submit these documents to the main office. Summer is the perfect time to get clearance to become eligible to try out for fall season sports. Our physical clearance form can be downloaded from the Athletics page at www.icacademy.org.

Spartans of the Month

Hodgepodge

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Prayer Corner

• for the grandmothers of Madeline Arnold ’08 and of Ashley Doll ‘11, the uncle of Katarina Ortega ’08, the cousin of Rickala Geeter ’11 and the cousin of Betsy Padilla ‘11 who passed away;
• the father of Annalisa Bouska ‘10 and the mother of Elyssa Lezcano ‘09 recuperating from hospitalizations;
• in gratitude for the safe delivery of Lizette ’08 and Yesenia Lechuga’s ’10 baby brother and the baby sister of Nancy Gutierrez ’10;
• for God’s healing strength and comfort to the people of Burma suffering because of the cyclone;
• for God’s blessings on the graduates of the Class of 2008;
• for all those for whom we have promised to pray;
• for all those who have been so very good to us at ICA!
• for all those for whom we have promised to pray;
• for Peace in our homes and in our world!

Charity Calendar Winning Numbers for 2006 and 2007