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With the official opening, construction of our Phase III academic spaces is complete. Generous gifts from leadership families have funded 90 percent of this work. We are tremendously grateful for the partnership of the leadership families who have supported these necessary improvements. Today, and for years to come, Priory students can reach their maximum potential supported by the right tools.
Over the course of the last four years, through the Building Ingenuity campaign, there truly has been an awakening. From renovation of classrooms and the track and field to the replacement of original structures, including the pool, the campus has been reborn. Our community-wide 60th anniversary celebrations will culminate with the opportunity for all to contribute to this campaign and be a part of this dramatic campus renaissance.
Completing the construction phase of the campaign may feel like an ending, but as T.S. Eliot reminds us, “the end is where we start from.” As we acknowledge and celebrate the past 60 years and begin the next, filled with hope and promise, we know the founding monks are smiling from the heavens.
Suzanne Couch
Director of Development
We were fortunate to have Abbot Mark Cooper, OSB on campus to offer the LaureL STREAM Center blessing during his annual Directors visit from Saint Anselm Abbey in Manchester, New Hampshire.
His very rst visit to Priory was as Brother Mark Cooper in the fall of 1975, when at the request of Father Pius Horvath, the Abbey graciously shared four monks, including Father Martin Mager, OSB to bolster the dwindling monastic community. As a U.S History teacher, Abbot Mark taught Joe Montero ‘76.
“Completing the construction phase of the campaign may feel like an ending, but as T.S. Eliot reminds us, ‘the end is where we start from.’”
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Lord God, you who are the
giver of all good things, we ask you to bless this building which is dedicated to the education of young women and men of the Priory in the arts and sciences. May they always be inspired
to use their knowledge for the good of the human family and for Your greater glory. Guide and protect all those, students, faculty and visitors who enter here. We thank you for this day and this gift. Amen
-Prayer by Abbot Mark
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