As most of you know, Mr. Van Hecke begins each school year by giving us students a quote or a saying to focus on and remember as we work our way through the year. One that stood out most to me was the year that he reminded us always to have AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE.
Graduation 2015 Speeches and Images
2015 Graduation Address to Seniors by Nick Zepeda
Dear friends and family and graduates, I poked my head into the wrong room at the wrong moment and there I discovered Mr. Van Hecke and the seniors in a secret meeting. They were plotting and scheming, as usual, and told me that I was needed as victim in this, their rite of passage…
St. Augustine Academy Commencement – Student Speech by Marietta Collins
As most of you know, Mr. Van Hecke begins each school year by giving us students a quote or a saying to focus on and remember as we work our way through the year. One that stood out most to me was the year that he reminded us always to have AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE…
St. Augustine Academy Commencement – Student Speech by Thomas Schuberg
We have received a superior classical education here at St. Augustine Academy. We have been taught the basic tools of the mind: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. We have all developed theologically, intellectually, and morally. We have been taught some rather important material, such as how to research, construct, and defend a thesis, or how to live a virtuous Catholic life…
St. Augustine Academy Commencement – Valedictorian Speech by Elisabeth Seeley
One of the greatest benefits I’ve been given at St. Augustine’s is having enthusiastic teachers. Earlier this month, Pope Francis stated that “The influence of an educator, especially
for young people, depends more on what he is as a person and the way he lives than what he says.” The teachers at this school convey their love of truth, goodness, and beauty to us every
day, in class and out…
