Young Palisadians

Compiled by LAURA WITSENHAUSEN Associate Editor Students at St. Matthew’s Parish School have been busy collecting money to contribute to the tsunami relief efforts. Students have been encouraged to do jobs at home and bring in and share the money they have earned. Funds have also been raised at school through the sale of special reminder wristbands, a bake sale and a talent show. Preschool II students made pins and note cards for sale. The note cards were created with two methods. In one process students dipped their colored chalk drawings into water, then lifted them out to discover a unique piece of art. The other process involved painting with frozen watercolor ice cubes. ‘We saw the devastating effect water had in Asia,’ said teacher Amy Weiss. ‘Our use of water has created something beautiful.’ The preschoolers raised over $200. o o o The 6th, 7th and 8th grade students of Corpus Christi School presented a $10,000 check to Barbara Curtis, principal of St. Raphael’s Catholic School in South Los Angeles on February 28 to benefit the school’s scholarship fund. In appreciation, St. Raphael School’s gospel choir, led by vice principal Peter Scott, performed a soul gospel concert for the entire Corpus Christi student body. The Corpus Christi students raised the money from a giant flea market on January 22 as part of the school’s outreach program. These funds will provide one-year scholarships for four students at St. Raphael’s, Corpus Christi’s sister school. The unsold items from the flea market were donated to the Boys and Girls Club of Venice. The Corpus Christi Outreach Committee would like to thank Ralphs and Gelson’s for their donations of bags and butcher paper, and Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Joyce for sponsoring the hot dog stand. o o o MIRANDA HALLEY has been named to the Lewis & Clark College dean’s list for the fall semester of 2004. The dean’s list honors academic achievement each semester. Miranda is a freshman at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. o o o BRIAN BUCE, a senior at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, was named a National Merit Scholarship finalist. As such, he is being considered for one of 8,200 National Merit Scholarship awards, worth $33.9 million, which will be offered in the spring. He is the son of Robert and Barbara Buce. o o o Two Palisadians were named to the dean’s list of Emory College, the undergraduate college of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. They are SHANNON GARRISON, daughter of Phillip Gregory Garrison and Kathleen Maria Garrison, and JEREMEY KLEIN, son of Dr. Irv Klein and Sue Obadiah Klein.