Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: He needs time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 2: on K one, the one you trust is brought to
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Speaker 1: And today we have Saint John's School.
Speaker 2: Why golly, it is school time and it's still like
Speaker 2: really murderously hot out there. It should be a law
Speaker 2: against that, doctor Miller.
Speaker 3: Definitely.
Speaker 4: I was telling some people earlier that when school starts
Speaker 4: we should.
Speaker 3: Get fall weather immediately. But it doesn't really work that way,
Speaker 3: does it.
Speaker 1: No, doctor Miller, you brought friend in. We've got a
Speaker 1: new development director that I haven't met yet.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, this is missus Amanda Daniels, and she is
Speaker 4: our director of development.
Speaker 1: Well, very very good, welcome aboard.
Speaker 2: Now we've got Saint John Catholic School kicking off.
Speaker 1: Tell us when so.
Speaker 4: We actually started the week before public schools, So yes
Speaker 4: we did.
Speaker 3: But it's not too late if people are interested.
Speaker 4: We are still taking applications and inquiries, so it's not
Speaker 4: too late to come by and check us out and
Speaker 4: join us.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I understand that we have a lot of things going
Speaker 2: on there, a lot of interesting things with the school.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think people are always pleasantly surprised when they
Speaker 5: learn about Saint John Katholic School. First thing that you
Speaker 5: can do is if you take a tour with doctor
Speaker 5: Miller and learn about the application process, you'd find out
Speaker 5: that elementary students have Spanish, they take computer classes.
Speaker 3: There's a stream for first new fifth grade.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so unique experiences that we're able to offer as
Speaker 5: a private school. And one of the fun things is
Speaker 5: student service hours. Now in the elementary classes, I believe
Speaker 5: that's done through the classes themselves. They'll do a full
Speaker 5: class project. But the middle school has broken up more individually.
Speaker 5: And how many hours do they have to complete as
Speaker 5: middle schoolers of their own service?
Speaker 4: Eighth grade, if I remember correctly, is thirty hours.
Speaker 3: So at the end of the year.
Speaker 4: In the past, Father John set up a time for
Speaker 4: him to go to Tulsa to Catholic charities. We do
Speaker 4: have a new priest, Father Leo, so great fud he
Speaker 4: is great, lots of energy, so I'm excited to see
Speaker 4: what plans that he comes up with to help facilitate
Speaker 4: the eighth grade getting those.
Speaker 3: Hours, well, it was great.
Speaker 1: Now how do we get on board.
Speaker 2: First of all, you probably want to have to visit
Speaker 2: the school or at least call and check things out,
Speaker 2: maybe look at the website.
Speaker 1: How do we go about this if.
Speaker 2: We've got children of age that you think probably should
Speaker 2: be going to Saint John Catholic School.
Speaker 4: There's multiple avenues, so we do have a website. There
Speaker 4: is a parent tab, there's an about us tab, There's
Speaker 4: an admissions tab, so all those will get you to
Speaker 4: There is an inquiry form so you can fill out
Speaker 4: an inquiry. It shoots me an email. I can reply
Speaker 4: to that email with information about the school, and we
Speaker 4: can schedule a tour through email or you can call.
Speaker 4: Or in May, I had a family that were driving
Speaker 4: by and they just saw the school and stop. Part
Speaker 4: came in and we just did an impromptu tour right then.
Speaker 4: So we're available to do those things if you know,
Speaker 4: if I'm not in a meeting or at the radio station.
Speaker 2: Well, the school is not exactly a new school. It's
Speaker 2: been around Bartlesville for a long time.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was established in nineteen twelve. It's one of.
Speaker 3: The oldest Catholic schools in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Indeed, it is, and it's still one of the best
Speaker 2: and I got to tell you these kids that you
Speaker 2: turn out or something else. There are special things that
Speaker 2: happen pretty much on the fundraising side where the students participate,
Speaker 2: and I am so impressed with that, how much attention
Speaker 2: to detail they present themselves and they present their school,
Speaker 2: and it's all about internal discipline and how they seem
Speaker 2: to be a little bit more grown up for their age.
Speaker 1: And I'm really impressed with that. It's never failed.
Speaker 2: Every time I've been to in a bed, always walk
Speaker 2: away with that impression you're doing something right there.
Speaker 5: Something nice about the school is that because we have
Speaker 5: pre k through eighth grade, they're able to interact with
Speaker 5: each other on multiple levels.
Speaker 1: Okay, so.
Speaker 5: Whether that's walking into mass on Friday mornings, the middle
Speaker 5: schoolers will join up with the younger kindergarten first graders
Speaker 5: and they walk in together and sit together. So the
Speaker 5: younger students can learn discipline and control from the middle schoolers,
Speaker 5: and the middle schoolers have a sense of maturity and
Speaker 5: they get to have responsibility in in learning about, you know,
Speaker 5: how to show somebody else the correct thing to do
Speaker 5: and how to behave. Something cool they did last year
Speaker 5: was the middle school elective is one of them is
Speaker 5: home eck and you learned so many important things through
Speaker 5: home ex And so they did a sewing unit and
Speaker 5: the kindergarteners drew little monsters, and unknown to them, the
Speaker 5: middle schooler sewed the monsters into their own little stuffed
Speaker 5: animals and they presented it to the kindergarteners for a
Speaker 5: Christmas present. Oh, and it was so exciting getting them
Speaker 5: to team up. And I mean just pure joy on
Speaker 5: the kindergarteners faces when they were presented with their own
Speaker 5: creation that had been made for them.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's really impressive. You know.
Speaker 2: Home mech is a thing that it's got to be
Speaker 2: for everyone, because I'm killing you. They tried it when
Speaker 2: I was in junior high for six weeks that the
Speaker 2: boys took home ch and the girls took shop and
Speaker 2: both the found mutually beneficial. It keeps a guy from
Speaker 2: running into the mercery store yelling.
Speaker 1: Hey, where do you get the toast? You know, so
Speaker 1: it all works out great.
Speaker 2: But this is really wonderful how the interactions take place.
Speaker 2: Now when we are a new family, say coming into
Speaker 2: Bartlesville or to the Bartlesville area, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: getting to know you going along here, and we provide
Speaker 2: great ways to folks to come in and get acquainted,
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, But it's still that personal get together
Speaker 2: finding out a little bit more about each other, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yes? And I want people to know that.
Speaker 4: The one thing that makes our school excellent as well
Speaker 4: is you don't have to be Catholic to attend our school.
Speaker 4: I know that might intimidate a lot of people or
Speaker 4: make them a little hesitant, but our Catholic enrollment last
Speaker 4: year was less than fifty percent. So what makes it
Speaker 4: nice is it still that faith filled.
Speaker 3: Nurturing environment.
Speaker 4: So we're showing children and teaching them about values and
Speaker 4: about Christ. But even non believers, people that are not
Speaker 4: Christian at all, still attend our school because we believe
Speaker 4: in the dignity of the human person and respecting all faiths,
Speaker 4: and our classes are small. It gives children the opportunities
Speaker 4: to bond with their teachers and build those relationships. So
Speaker 4: it's a great environment. If you want a nurturing, safe,
Speaker 4: faith filled environment.
Speaker 1: Very good.
Speaker 4: You have a website, don't you, absolutely so it's SJCSKA
Speaker 4: dot org.
Speaker 2: Now, when it comes to keeping the school doors open,
Speaker 2: tuition doesn't always cover.
Speaker 1: Everything that's right.
Speaker 3: Tuition cannot be the cats all, it can't be.
Speaker 2: This is why we do some fun things that put
Speaker 2: the fund in fundraising.
Speaker 1: Right, yes, what do we do?
Speaker 3: Yeah about that?
Speaker 5: So last year was definitely a transition year.
Speaker 3: It was the first year that we.
Speaker 5: Didn't have the annual gala. Yes nuts right, Yeah, So,
Speaker 5: I mean we took a hard look at it. And
Speaker 5: fundraising can be you know, it comes and goes with
Speaker 5: what's going to be popular for people, and for us,
Speaker 5: we really want to lean into our relationships and our
Speaker 5: connections with the people who support the school and so
Speaker 5: what we have kind of changed our model from one
Speaker 5: big ticket evening to a series of donor dinners and
Speaker 5: so those are intimate conversations. So we have wonderfully generous
Speaker 5: donors and we had two last spring who volunteered to
Speaker 5: kick off this series. They hosted a group of people,
Speaker 5: looked at the invitation lists and they chose the invitation.
Speaker 5: They hosted the dinner and they fun things. People got together.
Speaker 5: They were able to have better conversations with doctor Miller,
Speaker 5: with the father, and we were able to talk about
Speaker 5: avenues of giving such as Gopher Catholic, which is the
Speaker 5: you know the tax break scholarship, you know funding program, which.
Speaker 1: Has been a real successful thing.
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean if you donate an amount, you get
Speaker 5: a seventy five percent tax break on your taxes the
Speaker 5: following year, so it comes back to you when you give.
Speaker 5: So we have three of those organized for the fall already.
Speaker 5: So three donor dinners coming up, and that allows people
Speaker 5: who are interested in supporting the school to find one
Speaker 5: that they can attend. If we hear a family or
Speaker 5: an individual is interested in attending a donor dinner, then
Speaker 5: we can find a time and a date that works
Speaker 5: for them, and then people can get creative with it.
Speaker 5: It doesn't mean that you're sitting down and you're having.
Speaker 2: You know, a art discussion, yeah.
Speaker 5: And a three course dinner where you're being talked at.
Speaker 5: It can be as mingling and as party filled as
Speaker 5: you want it to be.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is great. Therefore, it's a little bit more
Speaker 2: into it. You learn a little bit more about the
Speaker 2: school and learn a bit more about the advantages that
Speaker 2: it presents.
Speaker 1: So wow, that's good thinking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're excited. We're excited to do it.
Speaker 5: And well, after the three in the fall, we'll see
Speaker 5: what we have for the spring.
Speaker 3: So and speaking of spring, don't forget to.
Speaker 4: Mention that what we did last year, Missus Daniels worked
Speaker 4: with the Kittie Park and so we did just like
Speaker 4: a celebration for families and students and you know, donors
Speaker 4: when to come and we just had a fun time
Speaker 4: at the Kittie Park celebrating our efforts and the year.
Speaker 3: It's really special at a kitti park. It was really cool.
Speaker 5: I go away and it felt so nice and safe
Speaker 5: to just have Saint John and affiliating families running around.
Speaker 5: And we got to announce the amount that we raised,
Speaker 5: which I will announce again. So we raised one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty six thousand dollars last year, and so we're
Speaker 5: excited to top that this year.
Speaker 1: Well, very good. You've set out the challenge, an't you.
Speaker 1: So let's go eclipse that goal. That'd be a great
Speaker 1: thing to do, definitely, Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: And speaking of eclipsing the goal, one of the fun
Speaker 4: things that Father Leo we do an auction and so
Speaker 4: it's normally.
Speaker 3: Like teacher experiences, So it's really nice for our kids,
Speaker 3: like maybe you get to.
Speaker 4: Have lunch with your teacher or go to the movie
Speaker 4: with your teacher, or do a book study with your teacher.
Speaker 3: It's really special for the kids.
Speaker 4: But Father Leo suggested that we do a dinner with
Speaker 4: the bishops. So that's going to be really exciting because
Speaker 4: that's not only going to appeal to our families, but
Speaker 4: it might appeal to the greater Catholic community and maybe
Speaker 4: people that are just interested in meeting our bishop.
Speaker 1: And Bishop Conda he's a little fit.
Speaker 5: He could use the deal absolutely all right, now are
Speaker 5: straightening up a little bit and going, oh, can I
Speaker 5: have a dinner with Bishop Condoa. Yes, that auction is
Speaker 5: going to be alive from October twentieth through October twenty fourth,
Speaker 5: So October twenty fourth is when you're really going to
Speaker 5: need to get your bidding in and that once you,
Speaker 5: whoever wins that will get to plan the dinner when
Speaker 5: they want it, how they want it to go, and
Speaker 5: the bishop will attend.
Speaker 4: And not only that, Father Leo told us that if
Speaker 4: we raise just more money than we did last year,
Speaker 4: just more, he will agree to do a dunk tank.
Speaker 4: So the kids are going to love that so long
Speaker 4: it is so odd it is.
Speaker 3: I know that the kids will be really excited, and he.
Speaker 2: Is so fun anyway and fun loving. I bet you
Speaker 2: he just can't wait to do it.
Speaker 3: I bet you're right.
Speaker 4: He has lots of energy and is bringing that to
Speaker 4: the Catholic community of Bartesfeldt's.
Speaker 1: Very all right.
Speaker 2: Saint John Catholic School. It's just pretty much right across
Speaker 2: the street from Saint John before the Latin Gate Catholic
Speaker 2: Church and then Father Lynch Hall.
Speaker 1: Is part of the school, part.
Speaker 2: In relationship to being built into it, but its own
Speaker 2: entity of things.
Speaker 1: But wow, it is a beautiful school.
Speaker 2: You've got a nice playground there, nice safe neighborhood, good
Speaker 2: neighbors and also just a great way of teaching and
Speaker 2: learning too.
Speaker 3: That's right, We're very blessed.
Speaker 2: Okay, And once again let's give them out the phone
Speaker 2: number and the website so parents can find out a
Speaker 2: little bit more.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 4: So our phone number is nine one eight three three
Speaker 4: six zero six zero three and our website is sjcsahokay
Speaker 4: dot org.
Speaker 1: You'd better than I was. Thank you very much, folks.
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Speaker 1: I want to Thank you ladies for coming in.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Alrighty