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Catholic Schools Week culminates with Mass
By PETE SKIBA (Contact)
Friday, January 30, 2009
NAPLES — The St. John Neumann’s Celtics basketball team wasn’t tearing up the court with lay-ups, but everyone in the gym caught the positive vibration of Friday morning’s event.
Bishop Frank J. Dewane came to the gym to celebrate with a Mass the faith, tradition and the doctrines Catholic education instills in its students. The Mass culminated a week-long, Catholic Schools Week 2009 observed nationally and throughout Dewane’s seven-county Diocese of Venice.
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Retired without relatives in any of the schools, Naples resident Peter Barry, 81, attended Mass because he is a firm believer in Catholic education.
“I am a product of Catholic education,” Barry, a retired businessman said. “I graduated from Fordham Prep in New York and Manhattan College a (Christian) Brothers’ school. Catholic schools give an education rooted in firm values. And I came because the bishop is here.”
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Barry, Peter [MC1951]
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Dear John,
I believe that Peter is a member of the Class of 1951.
Mike
[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated. ]
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