Page 3 - Priorities #34 2006-July

Have a blessed summer,
Tim Molak Head of School
From the Head of School
is beyond fixing. Among the features on the new site:
• The home page has drop-down menus from the main navigation buttons, and portals for students, parents, staff and alumni. The portals offer a single click to the features these audiences use most frequently—thus bypassing the information meant for visitors to the site.
• Also on the home page, a search feature, quick- links feature and site map (showing the entire navigation system) will make it easier for users to find what they want. All teachers have Web pages with basic information and links to personal sites at their request.
• Many features, such as the Middle School Week at a Glance, are designed for easier viewing. Online admissions information is more user- friendly. Arts and athletics are more prominently featured.
• Completely new graphics compliment our website and other marketing materials. The
site looks a lot like the campus itself—lively
and interesting people and activities set in a lovely, tree-filled campus and rural valley. The Benedictine message is as pervasive on the site as it is on the campus.
A very attractive feature is that Kelly Sargent, who maintains the site, can more easily update and modify it. That process will go on in stages over the next year.
Finally, this coming fall we celebrate two milestones – Father Egon’s 90th birthday in October and in November the 50th anniversary of the first Mass said on the Priory campus by Father Egon.
We will be inviting you to join us in a honoring our Founding Father and the roots of the Benedictines in the Bay Area.
The campus is abuzz with pre-construction activity, the sun’s shadow is gracing the landscape outside my window, and I know the Priory is poised (in the words of our campaign slogan) ‘Now... and for the next 50 years.’
We will be inviting you to join us in honoring our Founding Father and the roots of the Benedictines in the Bay Area.
DSear Priory Community,
ummertime has arrived
at the Priory and all of
our students are away on
a variety of adventures, activities and experiences. This “down time” is so very important to our students and staff, giving them time to renew and refresh themselves for what awaits them this August.
The end of the year was a flurry of enriching activities for our graduates from the High School and Middle School. The High School commencement activities provided special venues for the school community to say goodbye to the class of 2006.
They ranged from the Junior–Senior Breakfast to the Senior Last Chapel, and the Senior Dinner with their parents, where tributes were paid to each student. Father Martin’s slide show—created with photos he has taken throughout their seven years here—put into pictures and music their incredible journey. The following week our eighth graders said goodbye to the Middle School—the wonder years—and hello to the high school— hopefully, some of the best years of their lives.
Our campaign and construction planning is
on schedule, with an anticipated performing arts groundbreaking in late July. The goal is completion
by late August 2007. This new building, along with the relocated and renovated library and student center (Trinity Project) is a much needed addition to our physical plant. This past year, contributions to
the Trinity Project were outstanding, with 71 donors giving over $5 million in cash and pledges. We are very grateful to everyone who found it in his or her heart and pocketbook to answer the call to make this dream a reality. Trinity Project fundraising is still in full swing so that we can reach our goal of $13 million.
This summer we are launching our first new Web site since the mid-1990s, and it is much needed. It replaces a site that has been patched so many times it
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