JULY 2017 16 | FRONTDOORSMEDIA .COM 2008 and relocation. As Rev. Bolding said in the latest alumni magazine feting the 100th anniversary, the school has a deeper understanding of the meaning and purpose of education. It sees education not merely a means to transcend social class, to find the right job or to make money. A Saint Mary’s education, rooted in the ancient tradition of western civilization, is ordered toward happiness, the kind that comes from fulfilling one’s true purpose. Students leave with an understanding of how to live well. “What makes Saint Mary’s so special is its commitment to providing an authentically Catholic and authentically liberal arts education to its students,” said Rev. Bolding. “We strive to fulfill the traditional aims of education — to form young men and women in truth, goodness, and beauty. In one very real sense, Saint Mary’s is from the ‘old school.’ However, this commitment to preserving the traditional ends of education has the effect of making us a little bit countercultural, swimming upstream in a way that is really refreshing and attractive to our families. So, in another equally real sense, Saint Mary’s remains something new.” The school’s classroom success extends to its fields and courts. Saint Mary’s has a rich athletic tradition, with 80 percent of its students competing in a team sport and its football, softball and girls and boys basketball teams winning a combined 20 state championships and one national championship (including the victorious 1949 team led by Bool). The school can brag that NBA champion and former Phoenix Suns star Channing Frye, Class of 2001, and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Andre Ethier, Class of 2000, were once (and will always be!) Knights. The century milestone for Saint Mary’s will be feted at a gala on October 21 at the Sheraton Grand Phoenix. Co-chairs for the gala are alumni Beth Wand, director of operations at Sunland Water Company and Barbara Bandura, first vice president at MidFirst Bank. It will be a bittersweet celebration for not only alumni but also those who keep the tradition alive every day, such as Fessler, its principal who has also served in her 32 years at the school as teacher and assistant principal. “I can think of no better way to spend my life than to be a member of this school community which focuses on teaching students where and how Truth and Happiness is found,” she said. The gala will bring together the school’s nearby and far-flung alumni — the ties that bind them to each other and to the school they love coming together for one night under the same roof in Phoenix. COVER STORY CONTINUED Sign of a Catholic school - a confessional amid the hallway lockers.

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