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Ascension History

Ascension celebrated its Centennial in grand style in 2007.  As part of the year's events we spent a great deal of time learning about our past.  As graduates of Ascension School, you are part of our story!  If you would like to read more about Ascension, use this link for an order form for our parish centennial book. 

P.S. Ascension School will be one hundred in 2012.  If you'd like to help plan this milestone, contact the Advancement Office,

708-434-1558.

Order an Ascension Parish
Centennial Book! (PDF)

 

 

Help us find your classmates!

The biggest challenge of getting an alumni program underway is maintaining the database. Of the 5,000 plus students who have graduated from Ascension
we have about 4,300 names but only
3,000 addresses.

With each mailing, we request 'address change' information from the post office, and we receive
70 - 80 changes.

Some of them
come back with forwarding addresses but most of them simply inform us
"forwarding order expired." We are, apparently, quite a nomadic people!

We know that you know where some of these people are and we're asking you to help us get in touch with them.

So please, take a look at these files and let us know if your brother is
listed there, or your father or your cousin or your neighbor. Let us know, too,if you are certain that someone listed has passed away. (We are reluctant to accept hearsay evidence for obvious reasons!)

Thanks for your help! We look forward to a deluge of e-mail, phone calls, notes in our mailbox….

P. S. While we're talking about the database: are we spelling your name correctly?
Do we have your married and maiden names straight? Do we have you in the right class?
Please let us know!

 

 
 


Happy Birthday Rosemary!
RMM birthday

Rosemary McGauley McCormick, class of 1934 celebrated her 90th birthday with a party in the Pine Room. Rosemary's family and friends honored her with a scholarship fund in her name. Rosemary's daughter Bridget is Ascension's beloved PK4 teacher, Bridget Cantafio.
Thank you, Mrs. McCormick and congratulations!

Ascension Introduces:

Memorial Bricks
Phase One: Gym Entrance

Memorial Bricks

Memorialize your years at Ascension with a brick engraved with your name and class year -- or use the brick to honor the passing of an old friend. Ascension will begin offering bricks Fall 2009 and will place the first bricks outside the gym entrance on Clarence. We've laid the beautiful red bricks that will honor friends, family, coaches, teachers -- or your own days of glory on our basketball court.

4 x 8 bricks: $125
8 x 8 bricks: $250
Each brick you purchase comes with a mini-brick to give to your honoree or to keep in your home.
For more information, please contact the Advancement Office at 708-434-1558.
Download an order form here.

 

Come Golf with Us!

Friday, June 25, 2010

Big Run Golf Club

Lockport, IL

Get this date on your calendar today, so you are ready for next year!  The outing at beautiful Big Run, a gorgeous hilly, tree-lined course, sells out each year.
This year's outing.

Register now.

Please contact Chip Pollard if you need more information about the Ascension outing or if you would like to donate a raffle prize.  All outing proceeds benefit the Ascension School endowment and the Reese Family & Ascension Alumni Scholarship Fund.

Come 'brunch' with us!

The Third Annual
Gold Alumni Brunch
Sunday, June 27, 2010

All alumni who graduated fifty or more years ago, come have breakfast, visit old friends, bring your photos, tell your stories!
Invitations will be in the mail early in March!

The Centennial Project

The Ascension Ambassadors, sixth, seventh and eighth graders committed to serving their community and learning more about Ascension's history, launched the Centennial Project early in 2009. Working with the Advancement Office, the Ambassadors wrote to over 1,100 alumni, asking that they complete a survey and send us a record of their memories of Ascension School.  The Ambassadors drafted the letter with the help of their Language Arts teacher, Ms. Katrina Vainisi and addressed the envelopes by hand.  With the letter, the Ambassadors sent an Ascension Alumni Data Sheet which will collect new alumni data and help build a record of family relationships in the alumni database.  The mailing included a return envelope addressed to the Ambassadors who sent the letter; the Ambassadors will help to record alumni responses.

The other piece of the Centennial Project will be a "e-campaign" designed to capture as many email addresses for alumni as possible.  In February, the Advancement Office will begin a "Charger Chain Letter" with a goal of establishing e-communication with all alumni.  Watch this page for reports of our progress!

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Ascension's Second Annual

Gold Brunch

Sunday, June 28, 2009

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Our 2nd annual Gold Alumni Brunch was filled with laughter and stories of those golden years at Ascension. Click the photo above to see a slide show of many of our treasured friends.

Ascension's First Annual

Gold Brunch

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Nearly one hundred of Ascension's "gold alumni" gathered in June for our first Gold Alumni Brunch. Our guests enjoyed a lovely liturgy, happy memories shared with old friends, and Kate Seavey's delectable food, served by Ascension's dedicated Ambassadors.  Thanks to everyone who helped put this special day together, and to those who took advantage of the opportunity to come home to Ascension.

The Brunch benefits the Reese Family & Ascension Alumni Scholarship Fund

All proceeds from the brunch will become part of the Reese Family & Ascension Alumni Scholarship Fund.  Opened in 2007, the Reese Family fund is held at Chicago Community Trust and will provide, through its earnings, financial aid to Ascension families who could not otherwise afford tuition.  George ('52) and Mike ( '55) Reese challenge all alumni, but in particular their classmates from the early fifties, to help us build the fund.

Gifts for this fund can be sent directly to Ascension School at 601 Van Buren, Oak Park, IL 60304.  Please indicate that your gift should be directed to the Reese Family Fund.

 

Reunion News

The Class of 1980

The Class of 1980 will have a thirtieth reunion on Saturday, June 26 at 6 pm in the gym. Mary Jane Goldthwaite and Glen Hughes are planning the party. Contact Mary Jane for additional information, or to help with the planning.

Class of 1970

The Class of 1970 will have a fortieth reunion on Saturday, June 26 at 6 pm in the Pine Room. Join us for the golf outing on Friday, June 25th and then for a great trip down memory lane on Saturday. Watch this site for details!

The Class of 1976

The Class of 1976 will gather on Saturday, November 27, 2010 in the Pine Room. If you'd like more information, or want to help plan the party, please contact Gina Petruzzelli Reckard.

Class of 1988

The Class of 1988 will have a twenty-second reunion (better late than never!) on Saturday, April 10, 2010. If you 'd like to help plan the celebration, or simply need more information, please contact Dave Spillane.

Class of 1979

The Class of 1979 had a grand time "re-uning" in the Pine Room, celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of their graduation. For more pictures, click on the link below.

reunion

 

Visit the Class of 1979 Page

Visit the Class of 1969 Page

Visit the Class of 1968 Page

Visit the Class of 1967 Page

Visit the Class of 1958 Page

Visit the Class of 1957 Page

Thinking about

a class reunion?

Reunions are crucial to the development of our alumni program – nothing we do to invite alumni to get involved at Ascension is as effective as a class gathering and only you, as an alum, can schedule and plan a reunion. 
There is much that we can do, though, to help, and we love doing it! 
Please click here for a downloadable pdf:  Reunion Guidelines.

 

Seventh Annual

Alumni & Friends

Golf Outing 2009

Golfing

Click the golfer for a slide show of the fabulous Alumni & Friends Golf Outing! June 26, 2009 was a glorious day at beautiful Big Run, a gorgeous hilly, tree-lined course.

As always, all outing proceeds benefit the Ascension School endowment and the Reese Family & Ascension Alumni Scholarship Fund.

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Sixth Annual Alumni & Friends Golf Outing 2008

We had a lovely, 95% dry day for our outing this year. Eighty golfers enjoyed a great day at Big Run Golf Club -- challenged by the course but heartened by the company of good friends. With the proceeds from the outing this year, Ascension School will open an endowment fund through the Archdiocese of Chicago.  For more information about the outing, the endowment or alumni programs at Ascension, please contact our development office at 708-434-1558.

 

Many thanks to our outing sponsors:

Community Bank

Oak Park River Forest

ATF

oakparkapartments.com

Federal Trading

Many thanks to our raffle sponsor

Marion Street Cheese Market

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to our sponsors

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Ascension Wear?

charger wear

Sweatshirts, Pajama pants, T-Shirts, blankets! Take a look at the NEW order form for Ascension-themed clothing and gifts.

Ascension Wear Order Form 9-08

 
   

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