A Toast of Praise to freshmen Haneen Awadallah and Ysabella Porche who placed 3rd in Public Forum debate and junior Alyssa Ordoyne who competed in Senior Impromptu at the February 1- 2 tournament, hosted at Ben Franklin High School in New Orleans. Dominican was among 14 schools that competed at the tournament, with 14 teams in… Read More
Following the celebration of the Justice Awareness Mass, Dominican’s annual one-week canned food drive kicked off with a spirited “Everyone CAN Be a Hero … By Fighting Hunger!” video, featuring faculty and staff in Superhero attire. Class teams were inspired to bring in canned food and meet the goal of 20,000 cans of food. 8th… Read More
At the 38th annual Gulf Coast Faith Formation Conference in January, Jill Cabes, MA, Vice President of Dominican Catholic Identity and Matthew Foss, MS, Science Department Chair at Dominican, were panelists in the parallel implementation workshop sessions on Science and the Catholic Faith: Overcoming the Myth of Conflict. The three-day conference was hosted and sponsored… Read More
February 18th through February 22nd The Black and White Shop will have extended hours the week of Monday, February 18 through Friday, February 22. The shop will be open from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm or by appointment. Contact Jessica Dupepe, Black and White Shop Manager, at jdupepe@stmarysdominican.org or 504-518-5052, to set up an appointment time. Read More
Using glue and Popsicle sticks, Kenny Lannes’ engineering class at St. Mary’s Dominican High School applied their knowledge of the basic physics (shear loads and bending moments) of bridges. Teams experimented with shapes to determine which ones were the strongest structurally, and collaborated on design and construction. The final test of their completed bridges was… Read More
Students in Ms. Anne Comiskey’s Law Studies class received real world experience from guest lecturers Dean Mary Garvey Algero and John Sudderth. Algero, a 1982 Dominican graduate, is the Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Academic Affairs and Warren E. Mouledoux Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University. She directs the Legal Research and Writing… Read More
A Toast of Praise to the Dominican Debs who took home several wins at the American All-Star Louisiana State Dance Competition January 19-20 in Lafayette. They competed in Division 3 that included Archbishop Chapelle, Jesuit, Mount Carmel Academy, and Ouachita High School. The Debs brought home the following wins: JAZZ — First place in their division;… Read More
In the Gayle and Tom Benson Science and Technology Complex, students in Mrs. Claudia Vallejo’s Spanish IV AP class were discussing in English and Spanish the book, Turning Pages: My Life Story about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the impact of books on her from childhood to today. The first Latina Supreme Court Justice… Read More