2009 - 2010 Jesuit Student Events | You Can Believe Dat! Superb Saints Kick Colts in
Super Bowl, and Jays Collect on Bet with Brebeuf Braves
Jesuit principal Mike Giambelluca, backed by a host of Blue Jays, participates in a
Friday afternoon teleconference Super Bowl wager with the principal and students
of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory in Indianapolis. According to terms of the bet,
the Saints’ victory means that Brebeuf’s principal must wear a Saints jersey
for one day and display a Jesuit t-shirt in a prominent place in the school.
Additionally, Brebeuf will soon be displaying a Saints flag for one week
in a prominent location so that it will be visible
to all students and faculty.
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Super Bowl Fever Hits Carrollton and Banks!!! 
The Blue Jay Band with Band Director Jason Giaccone gets the Blue Jays fired up
during a Super Bowl Pep Rally in Traditions Courtyard. Friday brough a number
of events to celebrate and support the Saints in Super Bowl XLIV. Take a
look at the photo galleries below and see the Blue and White
cheer for the boys in Black and Gold. Go Saints!
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Jesuit Celebrates the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV
Audio: In His Own Words
Mr. Dave Dixon
Rallies Blue Jays
on Eve of Super Bowl!
(Introduction by Fr. McGinn)
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Back from Their Christmas R & R, Blue Jays Eagerly Start a New Semester 
Sophomores Phillip Hicks (left), Allen Putnam, and John Pharis are
all thumbs up and ready to start the second half of the school year.
Take a look and see how the Blue Jays opened the second semester!
Back to School Photo Gallery |
An Accomplished Suzuki Violinist, Jesuit Pre-freshman
Wows Assembly with a Serious Rendition of Humoresques 
After serenading the student assembly on Friday morning,
pre-freshman Josh Hickey strikes the pose for
Clarion Herald photo journalist Beth Donze,
who is writing a story about the young
violinist for an upcoming issue.
| Listen To His Violin... With an introduction from college counselor Merrick Lyons,
Josh Hickey, who embraces the Suzuki method, plays a condensed
version of Antonin Dvorak’s Humoresques for the Jesuit student body.
(Total Run Time 2:13)
Download the MP3 File of Hickey’s Performance Violinist Josh Hickey.mp3 |
Blue Jays Meet the Big J Read Author: Boy's Life
Robert McCammon Author Encourages Blue Jays to Read, to Think, and to Learn from Life's Challenges 
In his talk with the school community, Boy's Life author Robert McCammon shares his experiences as a writer to teach the value of overcoming challenges and disappointments. Above, Mr. McCammon answers a question
from senior Paul Mickan (right).
Big J Read: Tuesday's Author Visit Photo Gallery |
Jesuit Parents, Alumni & Friends Prove an Enthusiastic Audience as Boy's Life Author Robert McCammon Describes the Intricacies of Writing Novels
An audience of almost a hundred parents, alumni, faculty, and friends pay rapt attention Monday evening (August 17) to Boy’s Life author Robert McCammon,
who is visiting Jesuit High School in connection with the Big J Read project.
Mr. McCammon shared the pleasures and difficulties of the writing process,
including conceiving ideas and bringing them to fruition, character and plot
development, and even the delicate art of negotiating with the publisher
the inclusion of profanity in books such as Boy’s Life.
Following his address, Mr. McCammon graciously answered questions,
signed his books, and chatted with several Blue Jay bibliophiles.
Big J Read Monday Night Photo Gallery |
Best-selling author Robert McCammon is giving Jesuit High School’s inaugural Big J Read a huge shot in the arm. His appearance Monday evening at Jesuit was the opening of a double-header that attracted an enthusiastic audience. The second half of the double-header takes place on Tuesday (August 18) when Mr. McCammon talks about writing Boy’s Life and his numerous other novels with several hundred Blue Jays. 
Author Robert McCammon on
the stage of Jesuit’s Auditorium
on Monday evening.
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Boy’s Life, the winner of the 1991 Bram Stoker Award and the 1992 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was selected by a faculty committee as Jesuit’s first Big J Read project in which the entire Blue Jay Community reads a single novel over the summer for the sheer pleasure of reading. Boy’s Life is a coming-of-age novel, “a whirlwind voyage into the realm where innocence and evil are on a collision course… a tour de force of magic and wonder, a journey that is at once joyful, unrelentingly mysterious, and hauntingly poignant,” according to the book’s dust jacket. Mr. McCammon says he is greatly honored by the selection of Boy’s Life as the first Jesuit Big J Read and recalls “fond memories” of addressing Blue Jays back in 1994 when he was the featured speaker at the school’s bi-annual Visiting Author’s program. Fifteen years ago, he still remembers the perceptiveness of Blue Jays in their questions and comments about his book. In his recent letter to the Jesuit Community, Mr. McCammon admits that Boy’s Life remains somewhat of a mystery even to him. “I put down the words, I arranged the sentences, I guided the plot along until I reached The End and there were no more words to be written,” Mr. McCammon writes in his letter. “Yet...Boy’s Life continues to amaze me, because it seems to be more than words and sentences and line of plot. For some readers, it has no End, for they read it over and over again. They draw comfort from it, and they see it as a window into the world of wonder. Sometimes I think that even though I wrote Boy’s Life, I was just along for the ride, for I had no idea how the book would touch so many people in so many countries, and across so many generations.” Once again, Jesuit High School welcomes Robert McCammon to New Orleans and Carrollton and Banks! |
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