RealizED: more than a word

The Corporate Work Study Program recently hosted its annual Holy Hour in San Francisco. “This event is fun. It’s a great chance to bond with teachers as a supervisor and share our stories,” remarked Aminta Garcia, Senior Director of Quality Control Management at First Republic Bank.
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The Parent Guild Board is happy to announce this year's theme for the annual Parent Daughter Dance. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Tickets are $20 and are on sale in the Business Office
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January 8, 2019 (Chicago) – Today, the Cristo Rey Network announced Network school recipients for the organization’s Test Prep Fund. This fund, made possible by the generosity of John and Charlene O’Shea, aims to strengthen college preparatory and test preparation work already underway network-wide.
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Fr. John P. Foley, S.J., founder of the Cristo Rey Network, recently visited to celebrate our Patron Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Fr. Foley recollected his first visit--the Opening Mass of the school’s first year in the Network--as well as the first years of the Network: “We are greater than the sum of our parts, and that is the Holy Spirit.”
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“It was my first day of work,” remembers Linda Ibarra ‘21, when supervisor Darlene Wilson charged her with the task of creating a newsletter. “We made an outline. Some things she changed; some I changed. So it was teamwork!... Originally we planned for 2-3 pages but we ended up with 8-10. I was happy with the results.”
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John A. Sobrato of The Sobrato Family Organization has given a bequest of $5 Million to ICA Cristo Rey's $60 Million Endowment campaign.
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November 29, 2018 marked ICA Cristo Rey’s 135th birthday. Dr. George Fornero, the school’s principal, shared the multi-generational story with heart and humor. Remarking that in 1876, San Francisco was considered “a foreign mission,” Dr. Fornero said, “Had it not been for Mother Pia agreeing to travel from Brooklyn to San Francisco back then, we wouldn’t be here today.”
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Katica Roy, CEO of Pipeline Equity, a company driven to break down systemic barriers to gender equity, recently visited and shared her story and her mission with our Spartans. “Women aren’t broken, the system is,” Katica noted, before discussing ways to challenge systemic barriers to equity.
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Last month famous painter and hip-hop artist Chali 2na visited campus, by invitation from ICA’s Black Student Union, to speak about his life story and artistry. After speaking with the student body he said, “I liked the maturity level of the girls, especially in this day and time, with the climate in America. Their minds were engaged.”
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