Mount Assisi Academy’s 59th Commencement Exercises and Baccalaureate Mass took Place Sunday, May 23, 2010, on the school’s campus. The Class of 2010 includes 65 graduates, 97% of whom will continue their education at 44 post-secondary institutions. Collectively, members of MAA’s Class of 2010 have been awarded over $2.98 million dollars in scholarship funds.
The morning’s activities began with faculty, staff, members of the MAA Board of Directors and graduates with their families who gathered to celebrate the traditional Baccalaureate Mass led by Reverend Brian G. Paulson, SJ, president of St. Ignatius College Prep. The Mount Assisi Academy Concert and Liturgical Musical groups led the community in musical worship throughout the Mass, and several graduating seniors also participated in selected parts of the Mass.
The 59th Commencement Exercises of Mount Assisi Academy immediately followed Mass, with the conferring of diplomas conducted by Sister Therese Ann Quigney, Provincial Superior of the School Sisters of St. Francis of Christ the King; K. Tina Donahue, MAA Class of 1964 and President of MAA; and Sister Mary Francis Werner, Principal of MAA. Following the diploma ceremony, Sister M. Ann Barbara Plavac, MAA Class of 1959 and Provincial Vicaress of the School Sisters of St. Francis of Christ the King, announced the winner of the prestigious 2010 Franciscan Service Award – Jessica Curbis.
