8435-10 Commend St. Edward High School

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RESOLUTION NO. $435-10 BY: Antonio, Bullock, Butler, Madigan, Powers, Smith, Summers. A RESOLUTION to commend the St. Edwazd High School community for its many and varied accomplishments during the 2009-2010 school year. WHEREAS, St. Edwazd High School has established a tradition of excellence in education and co-curricular activities since its founding in 1949; and WHEREAS, as one of the city's largest employers, St. Edward High School enrolls more than 800 students and employs nearly 100 administrators, faculty and staff, including many Lakewood residents, and is thus essential to the city's economic and educational well-being; and WHEREAS, the St. Edward community participated in a Service Day on May 8, 2010, with 65 to 75 students, pazents, faculty, alumni and friends helping elderly Lakewood residents and the Barton Center immediately following the worst windstorm in decades (with coordination from Lakewood's Office on Aging); cooked and served thousands of meals to needy people passing through the cafeteria during Community Meal nights; raised $30,000 for Haitian earthquake victims; donated more than 240 pints of blood to the Red Cross; and partnered its pre-engineering students with Engineering World Health to calibrate electrosurgery units that will be used in developing countries; and WHEREAS, the St. Edward .Marching Band earned a "Superior" (the highest) rating by the Ohio Music Educators Association in statewide competition; and WHEREAS, the Edsman student newspaper won the University of Iowa School of Journalism's International First Place Award and the Columbia University Scholastic Press Association's Silver Medalist Award; and the editors of the Edsman were featured in a Plain Dealer article detailing their efforts to help a high school in postwaz Baghdad, Iraq, start and run its own school newspaper; and WHEREAS, Lakewood resident and classics teacher Stergios Lazos was named the American Philological Association's teacher of the yeaz, the only such award given nationally; and Lakewood native and head basketball coach Eric Flannery was named head coach of the U.S. youth Olympic basketball team competing in Singapore this summer; and WHEREAS, 13 seniors were named National Merit semifmalists or commended students; sophomores Dillon Bak and Matthew Smith were just two of 600 students worldwide to earn perfect scores on the National Latin Exam; and junior Josh Mueller earned a perfect score (36) on the ACT exam; and WHEREAS, sophomore Owen McAndrews was selected to U.S. Olympic under- 18 volleyball team; the school baseball team won the state championship in Division I;