Gulf Pine Catholic

Gulf Pine Catholic • March 23, 2018 19 After applying for and receiving a grant from US Lacrosse, Saint Stanislaus has officially welcomed the ‟fastest game on two feet” onto campus. Over 40 students (seventh through twelvth grade) are partici- pating in the inaugural year of the club that is being coached by Mr. Brian Murphy and Mr. Peter Hoffer, both of whom have collegiate lacrosse experience. Students are being taught fundamentals, rules and basic plays with the vision of hosting a ‟day of lacrosse” at Saint Stanislaus in early May with several teams participating including Brother Martin and club teams from Ocean Spring and North Shore. The future is very bright for the Lacrosse Rocks as they have been asked to join the Louisiana High School Lacrosse League (LHSLL) next year with a JV-B team (seventh-ninth grade) and varsity team (tenth-twelveth grade). Teams from Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana make up the league and the season runs from January until early May. Practices are currently being held twice a week on the Saint Stanislaus campus. If you are interested in helping sponsor the team, coaching, or if you have questions please contact Brian Murphy at bmurphy@ ststan.com . “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” - Walt Disney Kristen Tusa, Coordinator of Academics, Activities, and Travel, for our boarding students, along with the tireless Brother Eduardo Baldioceda and Assistant Prefect Gus dos Santos, accompanied eleven students to Orlando and enjoyed a week of magical fun at Disney World. Highlights included attractions and rides at the Magic Kingdom, encountering rare animals at the Animal Kingdom Theme Park and travelling “Around the Globe, Under Sea and Into Space” at Epcot. Susan Estrade, assistant princi- pal and alumni director, will retire from St. Stanislaus at the conclusion of this school year. Susan’s lifetime commitment to the mission of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart and St. Stanislaus is a living reminder of what it means to be a partner in mission in service to generations of young men. Susan started here at St. Stanislaus in August of 1972. She remained as a teach- er until May of 1981. She then returned in August of 1985 and has been a faithful servant at St. Stanislaus ever since. During that time she has served with eleven different presidents and twelve different principals. She has been a classroom teacher, supervisor of instruction, academic assistant principal, assistant principal for supervision and activities, and assistant principal for student activities and alumni director. But job titles do not begin to capture the duties, responsibilities, and “extra jobs” that come with being part of the St. Stanislaus faculty. Whatever her particular task at hand, Susan has always been a model of dignity, class, thor- ough preparation, and attention to detail. While handling all of her responsibilities at St. Stanislaus, Susan and her husband, Mel, raised two sons (Chris ‘98 and Kevin ‘99) and are now enjoying the rewards of being grandparents. All of us in the St. Stanislaus community are deeply grateful for Susan’s leadership, guidance, wisdom, pro- fessionalism, and sense of humor. We wish her the very best health and happiness as she moves to the next phase of her life, and we hope she will visit often - especially for special occasions that she won’t have to plan! Estrade St. Stanislaus College, Bay St. Louis Over the Mardi Gras break, Letha Boudreaux, her husband Perry, Harriet Bellone, and the Marine Science interns flew to Portland, Oregon, to attend the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) and to explore the Pacific coast. OSM is a biennial event which hosts the largest international assembly of ocean scientists, engi- neers, students, educators, policy makers, and other stakeholders to gather and share their results on research, applications, and education. This is the 19th OSM conference and only the third one that has invited K-12 students to present at the conference on research they’ve conducted inside and outside the classroom. This is the second OSM conference that SSC Marine Science interns have attended. In 2016, SSC Marine Science interns went to OSM in New Orleans and presented on an unknown species of pipefish that was caught during fieldwork. This year, the interns presented on the Mississippi Oyster Gardening Program at SSC. Our students designed a poster on their research that was professionally printed and they also prepared an oral presentation. They presented their poster in a scientific-style poster hall along with over 3,000 scien- tists and graduate students from all over the world. They not only have experience presenting at a scien- tific conference now, but they also have a scientific publication to add to their resumes! Only 33 students participated from 13 schools. Students came from Oregon, Washington, Texas, New Jersey, Missouri, Mississippi, California, and Netherlands. Upon check-in to the conference, students were immediately paired up with two PhD candidates, who served as their mentors for the day. These mentors pro- vided them with a personal tour of the facility, gave them feedback on their poster and oral presentation, took them to various research talks and a visit through- out the exhibition hall where they got to interact with numerous universities, companies, and agencies within the field of ocean sciences. After an overwhelming day of being immersed in the scientific community, our interns couldn’t be that close to the Pacific Ocean and not explore. As one would expect, Mrs. Boudreaux had the interns hiking waterfalls, scoping out sea lions, wading through tide pools, and getting up close and personal with Pacific Ocean marine life. The group went on its own Goonie adventure stopping in Astoria, and then exploring Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach and Hug Point. They also hiked two miles around the majestic Latourell Falls. While on the Pacific coast, the group identified sea lions, gooseneck barnacles, limpets, sand dollars, mole crabs, mussels, red algae (Corallina and Porphyra), brown algae (kelp), and various species of sea anemones,snails, sea stars, and hermit crabs.