On November 18, the

students in the high

school participated in a

retreat that was coordi-

nated by Mrs. Breiden-

stein and a group of

students from St. Isa-

dore’s in Manhattan.

After a normal Friday

mass, all 49 high

schoolers walked over

to the Knights of Co-

lumbus, where they

spent the remainder of

the school day. The

theme of the retreat

was “Walk by Faith”.

Each student received

a sheet of paper with a

shoe that they were to

color/customize to rep-

resent themselves. Eve-

ryone then spelled out

FAITH with the shoes.

Each of the KSU stu-

dents that attended

gave a speech on the

different aspects of

walking by faith. After

each speech, different

activities took place, to

include building the

tallest newspaper

tower, playing

“conference”, tele-

phone, coming up with

prayers to write on

multi-colored feet, and

journaling. A band

from St. Isadore’s came

and played 6 Christian

songs. Before the end

of the day, a Thanksgiv-

ing lunch was served,

that had all the works:

turkey, stuffing,

mashed potatoes,

gravy, cranberries, and,

of course, pie. Overall,

the retreat was a fun

experience and hope-

fully it can be contin-

ued for years to come.

- By Cayley Reeves

NOVEMBER 2011

SAINT XAVIER CATHOLIC SCHOOL

High School Retreat

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SCHOOL

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of Saint

Xavier Catholic

School is to educate the whole person—

body, mind and

spirit—in Christian values in accordance

with our Catholic

faith tradition.

Saint Xavier Receives Grant

Word was recently received that St. Xa-

vier School was the recipient of a grant

in the amount of $4500 from the Wester-

man Foundation. Funds will be used to

purchase equipment for the science lab.

Every year pre-school through

5th grade classes dress up in

their Halloween costumes and

parade through the hallways

of Saint Xavier and over to Mil-

lennium Bank, where, as a

group, they trick-or-treat and

receive candy from the bank

staff.

P A G E 2 X F A C T O R F I L E S

Costume Parade

Saint Xavier’s fall dance On Friday, November 4th, Student Council sponsored St. Xavier’s Fall

Dance. The dance, consisting of a game area, the dance floor, and the

snack bar, was a great hit! We would like to personally thank the Student

Council and their sponsor, Mrs. Breidenstein, for giving us an outrageous

dance!

Fall Dance Chaperones

Verna Corbin, St. Xavier High School senior, was recognized at the Fort Riley Vol-

unteer Quarterly Recognition Ceremony held October 25 at Riley’s Conference

Center at Fort Riley.

Corbin volunteered over 80 hours at Irwin Army Community Hospital’s Informa-

tion Management Department this past summer. One of her many tasks was to

check links on the hospital’s web page to make sure they were unbroken.

St. Xavier Senior Recognized for Outstanding Volunteerism

P A G E 4 X F A C T O R F I

Boy’s Head Coach – Kent Griffin

Boys basketball season for the high school has just kicked off. A lot of people

are saying that this is the Biggest High School Boys' Basketball team with 12

Players. Head Coach Kent Griffin says that he is very excited to see what this

team has in store for the season and he believes the team has a lot of Skill,

Height and Heart.

Girl’s Head Coach – Jamie Humlicek

Nine girls are out for High School Basketball with four returning players. This

is quite an improvement from last year when there were only five players to-

tal. Coach H says the girls have been working very hard, and are all looking

forward to see how it will pay off during the season.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

First Game : December 6th @ Lyndon (away)

Home Game:

Tues, Dec 13

4:30 pm

St. Xavier High School

Boys Roster

Head Coach: (Douglas Hanson)

Adam Carpenter -#2 (8th)

Clayton Davis -#3 (7th)

Chance Fuller -#4 (6th)

Alan Martin -#5 (8th)

Joshua Keating -#10 (6th)

Asa Engelhardt -#11 (6th)

Will Hanlen -#12 (8th)

Tyler Tanguay -#12 (6th)

Ben Hanlen -#13 (6th)

Keoni Vazquez -#14 (6th)

Simon Engelhardt -#15 (8th)

Louis Tracy -#21 (8th)

Kaleo Dickson -#22 (7th)

AJ Fontenot -#23 (6th)

Brody Whitaker -#25 (8th)

Marcus Johnson -#32 (7th)

ST XAVIER MIDDLE SCHOOL

Girls Roster Girls Coach: (Chris Tanguay)

Savannah Quire #2 (6th)

Teresa Balderrama #3 (6th)

Amanda Alderson #4 (7th)

Elissa Burgos #5 (7th)

Hailey VanValkenburg #10 (8th)

Taylor Tanguay #11 (7th)

Jessy Mendoza #13 (6th)

Natalie Santa #14 (6th)

Jemika Pearce #15 (8th)

Tia Wood #20 (7th)

Sport teams build life long Skills

*MJF. quote

11/21– Abilene (Girls) - 4:00

11/22 - Tescott—5:00

11/28 -- Hope– 5:00

12/12 - @ ST.X .vs. Herington 4:00

1/5 - @ ST.X .vs. Hope 5:00

1/12 -@ST.X .vs. Centre 5:00

1/19 - Lucky (Manhattan ) -5:00

1/23 - Abilene (boys) 4:00

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Schedule!!

P A G E 6 X F A C T O R F I L E S

St. Xavier Catholic School Honors Veterans

St. Xavier Catholic School celebrated Veteran’s Day by inviting veterans to join them for Mass. Af-

ter Mass, veterans were treated to a coffee/muffin breakfast in the school library. Later that after-

noon, a ceremony was held in the school gym where Major Ken Hanlen spoke to the students.

The entire assembly recited the Pledge of Allegiance and sang several patriotic songs. The cere-

mony concluded with the playing of Taps by music/band direc- tor, Stuart

Workman and John Weber.

LEFT: Major Ken

Hanlen addressed students, faculty and guests.

Parent veterans and parish

veterans enjoyed a breakfast

in their honor. AT RIGHT...

P A G E 7 N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 1

VolleyBall Sub-state

For St. Xavier’s high school volleyball girls, this year has

been a step up from the last. This year, sub-state took place

on October 22nd, in Frankfort, Kansas. The team played exceptionally well

for having to adjust with many injured players, who were not able to play.

After playing Frankfort’s team, the girls came home. The coach, Allison

Coy, was proud of the girls’ improvements as a team. They hope to have

a better season next year and say goodbye to their three parting Seniors:

Lené Keating, Keonya Jackson, and Kellie Powers.

November Birthdays

Name Grade

Alexis Wahl 10th grade

Brody Whitaker 8th grade

Louis Tracy 6th grade

Ben Hanlen 6th grade

Allen Fontenot 6th grade

Conner Wisdom 6th grade

Teresa Balderrama 6th grade

Jose Hoyos 4th grade

Joel Carrasquillo 2nd grade

Isabella Coffey 1st grade

Samuel Blunt 1st grade

Jason Jeanmarie 1st grade

Mark Hoffman Kindergarten

Noah Fields Kindergarten

Gregory Doremus Kindergarten

This year the Yearbook Staff is going to continue the mystery

person mini game. Like last year, it’s a game that anyone can

play as long as you are a student of St. Xavier School.

In this game, anyone has an opportunity to “Guess Who’’

the mystery person is. In addition, if anyone can guess the right

answer, he/she will be able to claim a prize. For more informa-

tion just ask Mrs. Fowler.

Place your guesses in the box that is located in the computer

lab. One winner will be selected at the end of every month.

This person likes the color of

Purple, is 5’ 8” tall, likes to

work outside and pizza is

their favorite food.

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Last month’s Winner:

Seth Carpenter

Last month’s mystery per-

son: Verna Corbin

In our first pep rally of the year, we had many fantastic things hap-

pen. We had the always exciting student faculty volleyball game,

recognition of this year’s junior high and high school volleyball

players, always adorable preschoolers cheering, and the trash bag

three-legged race! The students won in the student-faculty volley-

ball game by a significant number of points, but the teachers did a

great job keeping up. The players in the volleyball game are listed

on the left side of this page. The participants in the trash bag three-

legged race were the top sellers in each class for trash bag sales.

They had an awesome time racing each other. The preschoolers

were super cute and definitely pumped up the crowd. The first pep

rally of the year had some fun memories and the next one will be

held during basket ball season.

Oct 14th 2011

PLAYERS FOR THE STUDENT

FACULTY VOLLEYBALL Pep–Rally!

NOVEMBER 2011 TEACHERS:

Mrs. Christiansen

Mr. Griffin

Ms. Ogle

Mrs. Powers

Mr. Swisher

Mrs. Tanguay

Ms. Humlicek

STUDENTS:

Yvonne Englehardt

Cayley Reeves

Victoria Fuller

Keonya Jackson

Kellie Powers

Leslie Reese

Krystina Sunley

Miranda Powers

Alexis Wahl

Like every other year, we here at Saint Xavier school have had red rib-

bon week. But unlike last year we had a Junction City police officer

come and talk to the middle and high school. Officer Paqutte came and

talked about some of Junction City’s laws and what it would cost it you

broke that law. We also had Mrs. Nicole Sizemore came to read a story

about red ribbon week. The students wore there jeans and a red on

Wednesday October 26th. They where also able to wear they ribbon

that was pasted out all week.

RED RIBBON WEEK