March 12, 2010
 
 
President's Letter
 
 
March 2010
Previous Issues of "CresCom" can be found HERE.
 
 
Vol. XIV, Issue II
Previous Issues of "The Celt" can be found HERE.
 
 
School Calendar
 



3/29/2010
EASTER BREAK ANNOUNCEMENT

March 29-31 will be student free days. These days will be issued as part of our Spring break. Special thanks to Cardinal Mahoney, Fr. Juan Crespi, and our president, Fr. Tom Schrader!

 

3/20/2010
Crespi Carmelite Art Exhibit

Calling All Crespi Artists, Past, Present & Future!

SHOW OFF YOUR TALENTS
ENTER YOUR ART WORK IN THE
Crespi Carmelite Art Exhibit.

Click here to download the Entry Form.

A 50th Jubilee Celebration
March 20, 2010
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Student Commons
Located in the Fine Arts Building

Works done in Oils, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pastels, Charcoal, Pencil, Sculptures, and Photographs will be displayed. Work must be matted.
** Your work may be sold as long as 10% of your proceeds are donated to Crespi Carmelite.

 

3/14/2010
Youth Day Information

We will be having a special Mass for Fathers and Sons this Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 9:30AM in the School Gym.  All Fathers and Sons of Crespi are encouraged to attend!  There will be a light breakfast served following the Mass prepared by our Crespi Moms!

(Click here for Youth Day Packet Download) PDF
______________________________________
Chris Knabenshue
Campus Minister/Theology Department Chair
Crespi Carmelite High School
5031 Alonzo Avenue
Encino, CA 91316
cknabenshue@crespi.org
www.crespi.org
(p) 818-654-1311
(f) 818-345-5073

 

3/12/2010
The Celt, Volume XIV, Issue III ONLINE

Volume XIV, Issue III of The Celt student published newspaper is now available online in the School Publications Center.

Click here to download The Celt, Volume XIV, Issue III.

 

3/5/2010
2010-2011 Curriculum Guide

Click here to download our new curriculum guide for 2010-2011, or visit our Academics Page.

 

3/4/2010
Distinguished Speaker Series

 

3/1/2010
March CresCom: Online

The new March issue of CresCom is now available online in the School Publications Center.

Click here to download the March CresCom.

 

2/8/2010
Yuengert selected as finalist in National Merit Scholarship Program

Senior Aaron Yuengert has been selected as one of 15,000 national Finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. The selection process is based on 2008 PSAT results and confirmed by 2009 SAT results. Aaron will find out in March whether he will be selected as one of 8,200 Merit Scholarship winners!

 

1/21/2010
Celts Alumni News Mag, Fall 2009

The Fall 2009 issue of Celts Alumni News magaine is now available online in the School Publications Center.

Click here to download the Fall 2009 issue of Celts.

 

11/17/2009
2010 Dennis Uniform Promotion

 

11/6/2009
Gurian Institute Newsletter

Crespi's subscription to the Gurian Institute Newsletter can now be found in our School Publications page.

To download Vol. 9, Issue 11, Click here.

Be sure to check back for frequent updates to the School Publications page!

 

10/16/2009
Kuder Career Planning System

Crespi Carmelite High School Will Take A Leading Role In Career and Technical Education

Crespi Carmelite High School will make education news this month by launching an initiative to broaden career development. The program, sponsored by the Counseling Department, will provide all students with access to Internet-based career exploration and planning through the Kuder® Career Planning System.

The Kuder system is the premier online career assessment system, providing a comprehensive, research-based approach to career exploration, planning, and development. It is brief, user-friendly, and it’s results–based on extensive research–are highly reliable. The KCPS relates the results of interests, skills, and work values assessments to occupational information. The system opens the door to continued exploration with direct links to job opportunities, postsecondary options, scholarship and financial aid information, and additional career development resources.

“This system will give students the resources to set goals and make career decisions based on their personal interests and abilities. We have an opportunity to inspire student enthusiasm for career planning, help them understand their available opportunities, and prepare them for post-high school success,” comments Sharon Barkins-Wasson, Director of the Counseling Department.

The Internet-based format was selected to support technology-based learning at Crespi and enhance student proficiency on the computer. Online technology allows students to review their results immediately online and involve their parents easily by accessing their career portfolio and assessment results at any time and from anywhere an Internet connection is available.

Crespi students may access aggregate results to assist course selection and aid curriculum planning. This information will allow the students, parents, teachers and counselors to monitor educational transitions and prepare students for post-high school education and employment. At a statewide level, gathered information may help strengthen career development programs and increase retention rates in both secondary schools and postsecondary institutions.

To learn more about this initiative, contact Sharon Barkins-Wasson, Director of Counseling at sbarkins@crespi.org or call 818-654-1312. More information on the Kuder Career Planning System is available from the publisher, National Career Assessment Services, Inc., at (800) 314-8972 or online at www.kuder.com.

 

9/21/2009
Crespi Drama
9/17/2009
Blogs, blogs, blogs

The Crespi Academic Decathlon team is ready to take it to the competition.  Come join after school in room 16 and follow us on our blog at www.crespiacadeca.blogspot.com.

Also, feel free to follow freshman English at www.crespifreshmanenglish.blogspot.com

 

9/16/2009
Environmental Education and Outdoor Leadership at Crespi Carmelite

Environmental Education and Outdoor Leadership at Crespi Carmelite

By Gabriel Griffith, from the Tolucan Times (Toluca Lake, CA)

Baldy Group ’08.Baldy Group ’08.

We awoke to six inches of snow. With ninety-degree days back in Encino, we hadn’t anticipated a blizzard. I crawled from the tent to find the Crespi Mountain Men in shock, elation and wonder. Daniel and Mike were up first, huddled over a tiny chemical stove, struggling in the wind to start a fire. Daniel—the lanky, gear-head and budding zoologist—looked up as I approached: “Mr. Griffith, this is the first time I’ve seen snow!”
This fall, Crespi Carmelite High School is excited to initiate a new honors sequence committed to an approach to education affirmed by Daniel’s enthusiastic confession that morning: invaluable learning occurs outside of the classroom, nothing is more “outside of the classroom” than the wilderness, and the best preparation for engagement with environmental issues is actual experience in the environment.
Accordingly, Crespi Carmelite’s new Environmental Education and Outdoor Leadership honors sequence is based on an interdisciplinary approach to environmental studies and outdoor leadership. Participation in the sequence includes:

  • Completion of the Current Issues in Science, an environmental science course.
  • Participation in an Outdoor Leadership Expedition offered by Crespi.
  • Participation in multi-disciplinary Environmental Leadership seminars led by Crespi faculty.
  • A Thesis Project involving hands-on research.
  • Wilderness or environmental service.

We drove less than a hundred miles to reach Mt. San Gorgonio, the highest peak between the Sierras and the Mexican Border. With the start of the new EEOL program this fall, we look forward to more Crespi Men reaching ever-distant summits.

Crespi Carmelite High School is located at 5031 Alonzo Ave., Encino, CA 91316. For more information, call (818) 654-1329 or visit www.crespi.org.

 

9/11/2009
Carmelite official praises school...

Carmelite official praises school, parishes 'looking to the future'

By Paula Doyle, The Tidings

The Spanish priest sitting in the principal's office last month at Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino has something in common with the school's namesake besides nationality.

Carmelite Father Fernando Millán Romeral, prior general of the Order of Carmelites is a friar, or member of a mendicant order, as was Franciscan Father Juan Crespi, life-long companion of California's Mission system founder Fray Junipero Serra.

Father Romeral was visiting Los Angeles for the first time to attend Crespi High School's 50th anniversary celebrations, where he was the principal celebrant for a packed Jubilee Mass on Aug. 22 for the school's all-boys' student body, alumni, faculty and friends at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. He also toured local Carmelite-staffed parishes, including St. Raphael in Los Angeles and St. Jane Frances de Chantal in North Hollywood.

"We are friars, not monks," the Rome-based prior general told The Tidings Aug. 21 during an interview attended by Carmelite Father John Welch, prior provincial of the Carmelite Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, based in Darien, Ill.

Rather than removing themselves from the world, Father Romeral explained, Carmelite friars "accept the challenges of the modern world [in areas such as] education, politics and social justice [while] living in a contemplative way or practicing 'contemplation in reality' --- not only being contemplative but contemplating the people of God in the dark and the light and the complicated and complex reality around us."

The brown-robed head of the Carmelite order, elected two years ago this month at age 45, says priorities of the world-wide religious community of 2,000 friars include increasing vocations, strengthening missions and re-envisioning their ministry.

"We are starting a new millennium. Carmelites have eight centuries of history, born in 1207. We need to rethink our identity and [decide] what the church and the modern world are asking from us," said the friar, a former professor on the faculty of theology of the Pontifical University of Comillas in Madrid.

"I think we have something important to offer the world and the church, and that's the sense of contemplation --- of spiritual depth," noted Father Romeral. "We are involved in many ministries, such as schools, parishes and universities, but our style is to do it in a very contemplative way. We live in a world with so many machines and gadgets everywhere. Sometimes we need a little bit of spiritual and human depth to meet God."

At the 50 Carmelite-run schools around the world, students have opportunities to develop their interior life as well as their exterior life. "A school like Crespi becomes a faith community within which the individual is encouraged to respect himself, to grow into an identity as part of a community and to realize he's loved by God," said Father Welch.

"To have self-respect, to have identity, to not always seek outside 'Who am I?' [but] to try to hear within" is the aim of Carmelite education, said Father Welch. He added this is accomplished by giving students quiet time for reflection, teaching practices like centering prayer and having school retreats, liturgies and peer ministry.

"We are living in a culturally complex moment within the church and our society," added Father Romeral, "but I think we can give in our schools a deeper sense of life." He praised Crespi for being "a wonderful school," and shared that, as an alumnus of a Carmelite school in Madrid, he has a keen interest in the survival of Carmelite schools.

He pointed out that a recently-formed international commission for Carmelite schools will have a congress in Ireland next spring celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Carmelites' first modern school (a college) in Dublin.

"We are trying to reestablish our presence in our schools," said Father Romeral, acknowledging that Carmelite vocations have decreased in the US and Europe in contrast to places such as Africa, India and Indonesia where Carmelite vocations are growing. Indonesia has been the biggest province of the order for the last 15 years.

"It's not possible today to have 8-10 friars in our schools; perhaps we'll have one or two friars to keep the Carmelite Catholic identity and have lay people be more involved in direction," said Father Romeral.

"Our numbers (in the western world) are going to decrease. We have to cope with this situation with hope and be present in another way. We'll have little communities in the midst of the people, serving, offering Carmelite charism," said the prior general.

As far as the health of local Carmelite-run parishes he had visited before speaking with The Tidings, Father Romeral was optimistic. "We got a very good impression of both St. Raphael and St. Jane Frances de Chantal. The nicest thing for me was that both were looking to the future, building things and renewing the parish," said Father Romeral.

 

9/9/2009
We Understand Boys and How They Learn

Crespi featured in U.S. News and World Report Magazine. Click here to read the article.

 

8/20/2009
Transportation Enrollment Forms Online

Crespi offers transportation to students who cannot otherwise organize a ride to or from the school. Click here for more information.

 

3/13/2009
2009-2010 Expense Sheet

The new expense sheet for this school year is now available. Click here to download.

 

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