Admissions News

Click on the following link to view McAuley’s recent spot on Fox 23’s ‘Good Day, Maine’ program, a spin-off of News Channel 13’s morning show.

Physics teacher, Jamie Schwellenbach, and McAuley senior, Sara Mercier, sat down with host, Erin O’Valle, to discuss the details of the School’s new ‘Pre-Engineering’ track, designed to promote math and science as it pertains to the engineering profession.

http://www.myfoxmaine.com/good-day-maine/Jamie-Schwellenbach-and-Sara-Mercier-Catherine-McAuley-High-School-101290314.html

Catherine McAuley High School is pleased to announce the awarding of ten scholarships to both incoming members of the Class of 2014 and current McAuley students.

Academic Excellence Scholarship

Full tuition for fours years given to the top-ranking 8th grade student on the High School Placement Test (97th percentile or higher).

Recipient: Brianna Heisler ‘14 of Gray

Academic Scholarship

Half tuition for four years given to the second top-ranking 8th grade student on the High School Placement Test (97th percentile or higher).

Recipient: Carolyn Liziewski ‘14 of Gray

Sister Edward Mary Kelleher Principal Scholarship

A $500 award given to a deserving 8th grade student based on consistent academic performance, a positive attitude and financial need.

Recipient: Hayley Holzhacker ‘14 of Fairfield, CT

Catherine McAuley Scholarship

A $500 award given to an 8th grade student from a parochial school based on financial need, academic excellence, leadership, character and service.

Recipient: Rachael Dalton ‘14 of Portland

Sister Mary Gerald McLellan Memorial Scholarship

A $500 award given to an 8th grade student from a non-parochial school based on financial need, academic excellence, leadership, character and service.

Recipient:  Katherine Lake ‘14 of Falmouth

Parents Club Scholarships

Five $500 awards given to an incoming freshman, a rising sophomore, a rising junior, a rising senior and a graduating senior based on financial need and school and community service.

Recipients:

Class of 2014:  Nancy Umba of Portland

Class of 2013:  Molly Miller of Raymond

Class of 2012:  Kathryn O’Donoghue of Falmouth

Class of 2011:  Jolie Thomas of Gorham

Class of 2010:  Lauren Fecteau of Portland

The Catherine McAuley High School Parents Club is pleased to announce its contribution of $2,500 in scholarship grants to deserving members of the School community.

The total will be split into five equal scholarships of $500, to be presented to a graduating senior (Class of 2010), an incoming freshwoman (Class of 2014) and one award each to a returning student from the Classes of 2011, 2012 and 2013.  All graduating seniors are automatically eligible.  All returning students are eligible to apply and further details, including a Scholarship Application form, will be provided in a mailing in May.  The scholarship to the graduating senior will be announced in May and all other award recipients will be notified in July.

This scholarship grant was made possible by the generous support from the McAuley community for the Parents Club activities over the past year.  Gifts of food, supplies and your labor for the Welcome Back Breakfast, Follow Your Daughter Night, Craft Fair Weekend and many other events have allowed the Parents Club to conserve its income and fund these scholarships.  Accordingly, the PC’s Board and members were pleased to approve these scholarships at its March meeting and give back to the McAuley community.

Thank you for your generous support and please look forward to our mailing in May.

Catherine McAuley High School, Maine’s only private Catholic high school for young women, has established scholarships to be awarded annually to incoming freshmen.  Each scholarship is based on the results of the High School Placement Test (HSPT), which the School administers three times a year to eighth graders applying for admission.

Brianna Heisler, the daughter of Mark and Linda Heisler of Gray, has been awarded McAuley’s Academic Excellence Scholarship, receiving full tuition for the four years she attends Catherine McAuley High School.  Scoring in the 99^th percentile nationally on the HSPT, Heisler is the top-ranking student for those seeking enrollment in the Class of 2014.  She is currently a student at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School in Gray.

Carolyn Liziewski, the daughter of Daniel and Sarah Liziewski of Gray, is the recipient of McAuley’s Academic Scholarship, receiving half tuition for the four years she attends McAuley.  Scoring in the 99^th percentile nationally on the HSPT, Liziewski is one of the top-ranking students for those seeking enrollment in the Class of 2014.  She is an eighth grader at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School in Gray.

Developed collaboratively by the School’s Faculty, Administration, and Board of Trustees, these scholarships reflect McAuley’s commitment to academic excellence and the hope that each student becomes a ‘woman of Mercy’: well educated, self-disciplined, enriched by diversity, able to lead and willing to serve others.

On Thursday, September 10, Catherine McAuley High School had the pleasure of playing host to New York Times Best-selling Author Immaculee Ilibagiza, author of Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, McAuley’s 2009 community-wide summer read.

Ilibagiza is a living example of faith put into action.  A survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Ilibagiza and seven other women spent 91 days huddled silently together in a cramped bathroom of a local pastor’s house, where she miraculously escaped the savage killings around her.  She credits her salvation mostly to prayer and to a set of rosary beads given to her by her devout Catholic father.  With the exception of her brother, who was studying outside of the country during the genocide, Ilibagiza lost her entire family.

In a morning presentation to the student body and in an evening presentation to the general public, Ilibagiza spoke of the importance of spreading kindness, peace, faith and forgiveness to everyone, everywhere.

As a token of the School’s appreciation, Ilibagiza was presented with a Peace Pole, an internationally-recognized symbol for the promotion of peace on earth.  Given by Student Council President Tori McAllister ‘10 and Student Council Vice President Samantha Dedian ‘10, the gift served as a promise for McAuley High School to consistently strive for a better world and live the ideals that Ilibagiza upholds.  A larger replica of the Peace Pole will stand in the School’s Mall, etched with ‘May Peace Prevail on Earth’ in four different languages — English, French, Spanish, and Korean — a representation of the impressive diversity of McAuley’s student body.

Catherine McAuley High School is pleased to announce the appointment of Ericka Prefontaine Sanborn to the position of Director of Admissions and Marketing.

Sanborn, of Standish, has been a member of the McAuley community for the past six years, having served as a member of the School’s English Department, and, most recently, as the Coordinator of Communications and Alumnae Relations.

Prior to joining the McAuley family, Sanborn was the Assistant Director of Admissions at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine.