St. Mary’s Dominican High School held induction of Student Council and Club officers for the 2021-2022 school year. Guest speaker was Erin Sequeira, Class of 2020. At Dominican, Erin was a member of the Student Council for five years, serving as Homeroom Vice Representative and Representative, Grade Level Coordinator, and eventually Executive Board President. A… Read More
Junior Classical League (JCL) members, JCL moderator Dr. Wayne Rupp, and Fine Arts Department Chair Brenda Castillo visited the New Orleans Opera and saw the first act of Wagner’s Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) as a part of the New Orleans Opera’s Student Night Out. The Student Night Out performance is free to students and their chaperones in… Read More
At the Propaganda Tournament, St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s Academic Games Team competed against other high schools in the New Orleans League. Senior Elizabeth Mobley placed first as an individual. Dominican’s Senior Team, which included one Jesuit player, placed third. Dominican’s Junior Team (A) tied for third place. Sophomores Camille Truxillo and Isabelle Anderson placed… Read More
An anonymous donor’s gift of 100 backpacks in 2020 to Dominican’s Robotics team extended its community reach a year later. The donor requested the backpacks be given to students who would benefit from them. August 2020, 25 backpacks were given to The Peace Center, the Dominican Sisters of Peace neighborhood outreach organization for people of… Read More
St. Mary’s Dominican High School Junior Shania Raimer placed second in the October Lincoln Douglas Debate and second in Original Oratory at the Southside Shark Showdown Speech and Debate Tournament. The Lincoln Douglas Debate is a one-on-one style debate that focuses on the philosophy of the resolution being argued. Ten high schools competed virtually… Read More
“A Place to Lead Indeed” was the focus of the 2021 Louisiana Association of Student Councils (LASC) Senior High Workshop, attended by Student Council Executive Board Officers Vice President Khylar Christophe, Secretary Anne Carr, and Treasurer Monica Cabes. Held June 6-10 at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, the annual event offers the unique opportunity for… Read More
On April 19, 1975, five-year-old Xuan “Cyndi” Nguyen’s parents took her and her siblings – her six-year-old brother and two sisters, ages five and seven, from their home in Phuoc Tinh, a rural area in Vietnam to escape from the Communist. Accompanying them were their grandparents and aunt. Forty-six years later, Mrs. Nguyen who serves… Read More
Members of St. Mary’s Dominican High School’s band and choir have received honors from the Louisiana Music Educators Association (LMEA). Dominican Fine Arts Department Chair Ms. Brenda Castillo is the director of the choir and band. LMEA Instrumental Solo and Small Ensemble Assessment Festival – Ensembles that received Superior Rating are, (from left): Nicole Tran,… Read More