Winter 2016
A Glimpse into Latin Club Service
St. Ursula’s Lighting the Night One Bracelet at a Time
In early October, the St. Ursula OJCL chapter
supported the Leukemia and Lymphoma society through
the Light the Night Walk, which occurred on October
15th, 2015. A student, Natalie Bradley, suffered from
Leukemia at the end of her senior year and devastatingly
lost the battle the summer of 2009. We also honor a St.
Ursula Senior, Sara Shinn, who fought the battle in 8th
grade and freshman year. In order to remember Natalie
and support Sara’s fight, our school participates in the
Light the Night walk at Sawyer Point.
This year, the student council sold t-shirts, and we,
as an OJCL chapter, made and sold bracelets to the
student body in order to spread awareness for these
diseases. They were braided orange and white,
representing the colors for Leukemia and Lymphoma.
There was very high demand for the bracelets; we sold
every single one. Together, our chapter contributed eighty
hours of service to this project, which involved making and
selling these bracelets. As a school, we had a “team” for
the walk and contributed money to the society. The St.
Ursula OJCL contributed about $200. This has always
been our biggest service project as a club, and this year
was more
successful
than ever
before.
St. Ursula
students (from
left) Emma
Maliborski,
Jess
Badinghaus,
Maggie
Sullivan, and
Eliza Fisher at
the Light the
Night Walk
By Maggie Sullivan, St. Ursula
Madeira’s Annual ThanksGIVING
Every year, the Madeira Junior Classical League has
a canned food drive amongst its members lasting the two
weeks before Thanksgiving. Each level of Latin competes
to bring in the most cans per capita, and the winning class
gets a pizza party and movie to watch in class. This year,
Latin 4 won the drive with nearly 30 cans per student for
the eleven students in the class. Latin 1 and Latin 5 were
the runner-ups, each bringing in just over 20 cans per
member.
After the drive, we filled seven cars with the cans
we had collected for the drive as well as cans that the we
had picked up from several streets in Madeira (for our Fall
Harvest Collection). Then, we drove them up to Inter
Parish Ministry, a food pantry and soup kitchen for the
homeless, and we unloaded them from the cars into the
basement cellar where donations are stored. Although it
took a lot of work to complete the drive, count the cans,
and bring them to the food pantry, we knew that we
would be providing many of the homeless people in
Cincinnati a Thanksgiving meal.
The Madeira Junior Classical League at the Inter Parish
Ministry
By Kelsie Parker, Madeira
XIII