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Summer greetings, Priory!
While you are enjoying the relaxing pace of summer, know that the Priory campus is buzzing with activity, preparing for two new facilities and for the beginning of an exciting new school year.
As Director of Development, I’d like to introduce myself, and to report that our Building Ingenuity Campaign has been very successful, thanks to the incredible philanthropic support of families like yours. To date, we have raised over $18 million dollars, including contributions from faculty and staff, trustees, and parents. It is my great privilege to accept the baton from outgoing Director of Development Siobhan Lawlor and to enter the final stretch as we work together to achieve our goal of $25 million.
With classroom renovations completed in 2014 and the opening of Schilling Square and the Benedictine Classrooms in 2015, we are now in the third and final phase of Building Ingenuity. Two significant projects remain: the construction of a regulation-size field and six-lane track, and the STREAM Center. Colony Construction has already begun work on the track and field, which will be completed late this fall, and demolition of the Arts Building is scheduled for late summer to make room for the much-anticipated STREAM Center. Progress!
These improvements are scheduled for completion in time for our 60th Anniversary celebrations in the fall of 2017. Priory’s new, modernized academic spaces will allow us to better
Mr. Molak oversees construction of Priory’s ‘Field of Dreams’ and our Benedictine philosophy: “To return that which has been in our care in as good or better condition than it was when given into our custody.”
— John McQuiston II (Always We Begin Again: The Benedictine Way of Living)
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